DJ Vlad Backtracks After Facing Backlash For Trying To Get Black Professor Fired Over Drake Vs. Kend

Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:30 AM

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DJ Vlad Backtracks After Facing Backlash For Trying To Get Black Professor Fired Over Drake Vs. Kendrick Lamar Comments

Well-known media personality DJ Vlad apparently had no ill intentions when he tried to get a Black woman fired over the weekend.

The ongoing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar has garnered much attention. On May 4, Kendrick Lamar released his latest record amid the beef, "Not Like Us," where he continues to call Drake and his team pedophiles. He also builds on his previous statements that the Toronto native is a culture vulture "colonizer" who has made his career by copying his peers.

Kendrick Lamar, Drake

The song went viral moments after its release, as many weighed in on its message and mentioned allegations. One critic of the record was DJ Vlad, real name Vladislav Lyubovny. However, with a song called "Not Like Us," some questioned why the interviewer (of Russian descent) would feel comfortable interjecting himself into a hip hop beef between two Black men.

Kendrick Lamar, Drake

Princeton University professor Morgan Jerkin, who also happens to be the niece of Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, was among those who took issue with DJ Vlad's commentary, telling him,

"This is a BLACK FOLK AFFAIR."

From there, things got a little interesting. DJ Vlad proceeded to directly @ Princeton University multiple times, in hopes of getting Morgan Jerkin fired for what he labeled "ignorant & bigoted comments." In one of his posts directed at the Ivy League school, he wrote,

"Good luck being a professor at @Princeton again. I doubt the university supports their faculty telling non-black students to shut the fuck up about anything Hip-Hop related because of their skin color."

DJ Vlad's posts on X prompted countless users of the app to slam him. Despite threatening to call the university on Monday (May 6) to make a formal complaint, DJ Vlad seemed to have a change of mind. He wrote to his account this morning,

"Since it's Monday, let me clear the air and state that I never had any intention of filing a complaint to Princeton for former professor Morgan Jerkins saying that white people aren't allowed to comment on Kendrick Lamar's music. She trolled me and I trolled back. At the end of the day, it created an interesting discussion about race relations in America. I will be discussing it further in my future interviews."

Unfortunately for the Ukraine native, the damage is already done. Reacting to his backtracking, Morgan Jerkin said,

"A lie. He tagged my employer multiple times with the intention to professionally harm me. I didn't troll. I centered Black people in a discussion on hip-hop and told him to stand down bc it's not his space."

She added,