While Sean Paul’s NPR Tiny Desk performance had many taking a trip down memory lane, jamming to their favorite tunes such as “Get Busy,” “Gimmie Di Light,” and “Temperature,” the dancehall king’s ethnicity also became a topic of discussion.

Jamaican-born dancehall singer/rapper Sean Paul dropped his first album in 2000. However, it was his sophomore project, “Dutty Rock,” that gained him international popularity in 2002. He released four singles from the album, collaborated with Busta Rhymes and Beyonce, and went three-time Platinum in the United States.

Following Sean Paul’s May 31 Tiny Desk performance, an X user wrote, “Any time Sean Paul comes up, I feel it important to point out that I couldn’t wrap my head around the concept of a non-Black Jamaican as a child so I just thought he was faking the accent and no one cared for the longest time.”

The tweet sparked a conversation across the X and Instagram platforms about the dancehall artist’s ethnicity, with one fan in The Shade Room’s Instagram comments referring to the platinum-selling artist as the “Jamaican Drake.”

“SEAN PAUL THE JAMAICAN DRAKE,” they wrote.

“The disrespect,” a fan clapped back. “Sean Paul is Sean Paul. He was around before Drake even knew what Jamaican culture was.”

“It’s like ppl don’t know that Jamaican isn’t a race. Sean Paul is Sean Paul. Not a fake like Drake,” another person said, referencing the “God’s Plan” background, which includes a Jewish Canadian mother and an African-American father.