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If you've been anywhere near the internet over the past 24 hours,Fulwa (2025) Hindi Short Film chances are you'll have heard about Pusha T's Drake diss track "The Story of Adidon" — and the controversy over the video's featured image, which appears to show Drake in blackface.

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Shortly after the video's release, Pusha took to Twitter to claim the photo is "a REAL picture".

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Well, according to Drake, the photo is indeed real — it's from a project he worked on in 2007, which he said aimed to "represent how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment."

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Here's the full explanation he shared in an Instagram Story on Wednesday night:

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"This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast," wrote Drake.

"[...] This was to highlight and raise our frustrations with not always getting a fair chance in the industry and to make a point that the struggle for black actors had not changed much."

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