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Canadian R&B artists like Drake and Justin Bieber complicate ideas of race, music and nationality

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By Amara Pope (Special of BHN) https://youtu.be/r7qovpFAGrQ Drake and Justin Bieber are among the biggest popular music stars in the world. Part of their appeal has been blurring pop, hip-hop and R&B — music genres the music business has traditionally segregated along racialized lines. My doctoral research has examined how Drake, Bieber and Jessie Reyez

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