"Drake's Views from the 6 needs to be a classic or else"-Charlamagne

[TEH]

It won't be. It will be forever difficult for Drake to make a "classic". Almost all hiphop "classics" have had a theme and typically focused around street/hood shyt. Nothing Drake does will really fall into that, especially with the singing.

Looking at the classics lists (in general) and finding the least street artists on these lists - I see that you are right ... The least 'street in their music' of the artist's with classic albums Beastie Boys, Outkast, Jungle Brothers, Biz Markie, Slick Rick, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Kanye, Common, The Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, Eminem, Lauryn Hill etc all had street and hood shyt in their albums.

 

[reserved_one]

Not trying to knock anyone's opinion but I don't think Drake has any classics or a "classic" in him. His music is too disposable and shallow for it to age gracefully years from now. Take Care is the only good-great album he's ever made and that was mostly due to Weeknd's presence/fingerprints over the record.
Rest of his albums besides that one were either or or . Nothing that'll make you go unless your a die hard stan.


So I agree with Charlmagne...He needs this album to be a classic, a walk off homerun to silence the critics because if he doesn't....its a wrap. Talks about him being washed, a fraud, etc will go from whispers to screams

 

[Ms. Elaine]

at people thinking Drake is trying to impress an industry he's owned for a decade (How you let me run it down here/ I'm not even from around here). The boy has higher ambitions - he's going international.

 

[Professor Polo]

Drake has no classic albums and probably wont ever have any...history will show he's straight Ja Rule/Nelly status

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Kanye has no classics. Not even close. And Drake has a better discog. Drake is a better version of artist Kanye (not producer Kanye, obviously)

So if Drake has no classics (and he's nowhere close), neither does Ye.

You done lost your mind

 

[SirBiatch]

You truly believe the shyt you saying is true lmao

First the Kendrick hate, now Kanye got no classics

Seek help my friend

Still no hip hop reasoning

 

[Nature's Fury]

Take Care's classic status was only in its omnipresence...album was everywhere when it dropped, but there were a lot of underwhelming tracks on it and that slow section from Cameras to Look What You Done was over 20 minutes long of milquetoast crooning...album was overdone for no reason...

Drake has no classics...NWTS was the closest he's come, but even that fell short...

 

[SirBiatch]

Take Care's classic status was only in its omnipresence...album was everywhere when it dropped, but there were a lot of underwhelming tracks on it and that slow section from Cameras to Look What You Done was over 20 minutes long of milquetoast crooning...album was overdone for no reason...

Drake has no classics...NWTS was the closest he's come, but even that fell short...

See that's the trick of the last 10-15 years: omnipresence.

if you can convince the weak-minded that an album is everywhere, then they'll call it classic.

Nevermind the GOAT contenders were never omnipresent like that. They weren't totally overlooked either. Just a comfortable in-between.

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Drake is either in the Blueprint 2 era or Sammy Sosa post PEDS exposal, either way I can't see Views not being wack-mediocre.

Take Care's classic status was only in its omnipresence...album was everywhere when it dropped, but there were a lot of underwhelming tracks on it and that slow section from Cameras to Look What You Done was over 20 minutes long of milquetoast crooning...album was overdone for no reason...

Drake has no classics...NWTS was the closest he's come, but even that fell short...

Correct. NWTS was a disappointment to a lot of people when it dropped, TC was elevated to forced classic status when NWTS dropped and it became apparent that Drake was consistently mediocre.

 

[THE MACHINE]

Drake is either in the Blueprint 2 era or Sammy Sosa post PEDS exposal, either way I can't see Views not being wack-mediocre.


Correct. NWTS was a disappointment to a lot of people when it dropped, TC was elevated to forced classic status when NWTS dropped and it became apparent that Drake was consistently mediocre.

 

[Randoug]

Drake has made safe music all his career..its catchy in the moment stuff that you forget about the next year..He has cleverly jumped from wave to wave much like HOV but he hasn't made anything that stands out à la Blueprint or Reasonable doubt which leaves his legacy rather murky.

 

[cKondomsucK6]

carlamagne better get his original skin back or else

 

[GeeEffKay]

Fraudrey been the definition of average his whole career, lol at even thinking he's capable of it now.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

Imo he's yet to deliver on the promise of SFG which still remains his boldest work. he got there again on take care but only in bits and spurts.

since then I feel he's gotten worse with each passing year.

 

[Woodrow]

It won't be. It will be forever difficult for Drake to make a "classic". Almost all hiphop "classics" have had a theme and typically focused around street/hood shyt. Nothing Drake does will really fall into that, especially with the singing.

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