Drake‘s father Dennis Graham has come out in support of his son’s decision not to comment about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.
In a sit-down with TMZ, which dropped on Sunday (October 15), the elder Graham felt that celebrities are in a “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” situation if they speak out on geo-political affairs.
“I’m sure it affects everybody, you know what I’m saying?” he said to the outlet. “But just stay out of it, especially if you’re somebody that’s well-known.”
He continued: “But be a celebrity and favor one against the other, and it’s going to come back on you. Stay out of it.”
Check out the interview with Dennis Graham below.
The elder Graham’s comments come just two days after popular Hip Hop personality DJ Vlad doubled down on his opinions about Drake and DJ Khaled‘s failure to comment about the crisis in the Middle East.
The popular media personality stopped by The Breakfast Club on Friday (October 13), where he told co-hosts Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy that he meant what he said about the so-called “radio silence” coming from Drizzy and Khaled.
“You sort of see what’s been happening, when you look at the Gaza-Israel situation. It’s horrific,” he said. “And I put out a statement about that myself. I said, you know, that I feel sorry for all the citizens from Israel and Palestine that are caught up in what their leaders are choosing to do.”
He continued: “It’s a serious topic. And when I sat back and looked at it, I was like, ‘Drake is the most famous Jewish person on Earth’ … and Khaled is the most famous Palestinian in the world. But neither one of them has said anything about this at all.”
“Drake is doing this whole thing where he’s literally writing paragraphs about Joe Budden because his feelings were hurt about an album review,” he concluded. “So it’s not like they don’t have time. This shit runs deep.”
On Saturday (October 7), Israel declared war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas after an unprecedented attack that left more than 1,000 dead in Israel. Retaliatory Israeli airstrikes and tank fire on Gaza have since killed at least 2,200 people.
“I support my son’s bitch ass nature to remain silent. He’s following in the footsteps of his mother and me.”
He probably should have remained silent on his son remaining silent.
They should feel free to say a few things if someone asks in record deals this kind of thing gets outlined like you can’t get upset with a fan you can’t ride a skateboard you are needed physically able to do shows etc………. in the record contract there may be things you can’t do and you agree to them there is the notion of silence because it is true speaking out donating money rapping about it is something i think can be helpful but no
Trash incoherent response. Must be drake’s publicist/lawyer/father.
So let me get this straight when Joe Budden critiques him as an artist he can spam Joe Budden’s DM’s. But when something real pops off that affects the community he’s apart of then he should remain silent. He’s a true poster child of cowardice.
Drake daddy don’t speak for Drake. Drake speaks for Drake
Drake is not an intellectual. He thinks, speaks, and raps like a teenager even though he’s pushing 40! Meanwhile his dad strives to be Don Magic Juan!
So Vlad is outraged that Drake and Khaled aren’t expressing their outrage regarding a geo-political nightmare that neither of them likely have the brain capacity to understand and neither could do a thing about to change the results…. does that sum up this irrelevant compliant? Can we also contact Lil Yatchy to hear his thoughts about how the Darfur conflict ended?