Drake isnt hip hop - Yaasin Bey

[RickyDiBiase]

You can deny it if you want to.

Dudes really think the average person is checking for Benny The Butcher or that mfer Open Mic Eagle.

 

[TEH]

We had article after article published in the first half of last year about how there hadn't been a single hip-hop song or album to go #1 on the Billboard charts.

The only hip-hop artists to have a #1 single were Doja Cat, Drake and Jack Harlow.

The only hip-hop artists to have a #1 album were Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Drake, Nicki Minaj and Rod Wave.

Drake is the only hip-hop artist to have both a #1 single and #1 album in 2023.

Drake saving the genre. Argue with the wall.

And I say this as somebody who hasn't liked a single Drake solo project since If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

Charting is not saving the genre. All types of trash has charted.

Making quality music is saving the genre

 

[Suge Shot Me]

I would rate Drake's best verses much higher than Mos Def's.

 

[Methodical]

Who is this nikka?

Negged!

 

[Methodical]

He's right. Drake isn't hip-hop, he's pop-hop

 

[Methodical]

This is blasphemous.

Drake isn't even a real MC, yall don't remember his attempts of freestyling on radio. He don't even write his shyt.

Mos Def verse on Thieves in the Night >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drake's entire catalog

Exactly!

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

hip hop always been ass to me and I am the same marsupial that begged his mom for Wu Tang Forever as a joey.

Why would you beg for something you thought would be ass?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Why would you beg for something you thought would be ass?

Because I'm me

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Because I'm me

Buy why for real?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Buy why for real?

Like wrestling. I hate that I love it

No different from folks buy Madden every year and the game continues to be asscheeks.

Sometimes, we all have a hate/love vice that is apart of us that will never go because it's what makes us.

 

[Solo_87]

Can't say I disagree

At the same time their values, or lack thereof, created Drake and the space for him to exist as a brand

The "culture" was put up for sale

Drakes lack of authenticity was never seriously questioned and or has been an afterthought by any major hip-hop figures and platforms...

Remember when he then got away with “freestyling” off of a Blackberry…. If that was anybody else they would have gotten roasted…. the bar was lowered for him

And the accusations he uses ghostwriters never stopped most of hip-hop from singing his praises, begging for a feature

Now it's too late

 

[jadillac]

Nah, Drake has somd serious bars.

I've had to come to terms with that.

 

[Uchiha God]

He's saying nothing wrong, but brehs will get homotional

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Like wrestling. I hate that I love it

No different from folks buy Madden every year and the game continues to be asscheeks.

Sometimes, we all have a hate/love vice that is apart of us that will never go because it's what makes us.

I can't relate

I don't buy things I don't like

 

[Ohene]

he's right