Drake's mixtape IYRTITL first album released in 2015 to sell 1M PURE (no streams) copies.

[RiffRaff]

The Coli universally hates Drake, which basically means he's going to keep winning

 

[TheBeigeBomber]

The Coli universally hates Drake, which basically means he's going to keep winning

anything thats actually poppin in real life the coli hates. and anything that nobody bumps in real life the coli loves.

ive never one heard another human being bumping kendrick in real life.

 

[meth68]

Because I enjoy listening to drake, don't get it twisted and assume I don't listen to 90s hip hop, I do enjoy some of that boom bap shyt but I'm tired of nikkas with dust in their ears letting their nostalgia cloud their judgement.


Nikkas are seeing everything with rose-tinted glasses and fail to realise drake studied the game to the letter, and he's not doing it the same man he's doing it better

As for the ghostwriting, Drake is already an established songwriter, it's like some of yall are a bunch of children who look up to these 90s nikkas as heroes who can do no wrong when nikkas in the industry have already established ghostwriting is very prevalent in hip hop and it's not even ghostwriting, QM was credited

So again, can we call him a hitmaker and not a lyricist? can we take him off the sprite quote cans as they might not even be his own quotes, and no fukkin way should he be associated with Rakim, Nas and Biggie in any way shape or form?

If thats your stance, then i respect that, and I agree. Drake makes VERY good music...

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I love how before miller is known, people said drake is wack and takes all his flows from other rappers. Now all of a sudden quentin is nice because he cowrote songs most of yall said were wack

Quentin makes bangers tho.

 

[Lucky Me]

Went plat off a mixtape. And didn't need a Taylor Swift co-sign like Duckworth :wowzer:

The Coli universally hates Drake, which basically means he's going to keep winning

 

[CrimsonTider]

The coli's worst enemy

 

[Ronald]

if you are just giving someone one or two lines, you don't go through the trouble of recording reference tracks for two lines.

kendrick did that for kanye with the all day ref track

 

[Remy Danton]

In to this sully the thread with QM Jokes.

 

[No1]

The coli's worst enemy

True. Also, how much did he do including streams? Another thing, Kendrick and Cole are near platinum this time WITH streaming. So as much as I like Cole, he did not really increase his audience that much from Born Sinner. He sold his usual 700,000-800,000 and streams took him over. Drake does not appear to be falling off at all even if the ghost-writing sits poorly with me.

 

[Zero]

You're right; I'm probably a dude.


Since it's hard to believe that anyone woman would ever give you the time of day...even online.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

The dude is listed in the credits so at no time did Drake try to take credit for someone else's work.

And to be quite honest, on most of the songs that QM contributed to, he simply provided a bare bones outline/concept. Drake did most of the work and filling in.

Are you suggesting that Aubrey does this "filling in" on "mixtapes" only but not "albums"?

 

[Jen The Prude]

Are you suggesting that Aubrey does this "filling in" on "mixtapes" only but not "albums"?

Please let us know when you find any reference tapes for his albums.

 

[DillaTUDE]

I like his music, but Drake's got to be the most overrated "pop-star" ever. The only thing really preventing Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole from ascending to his level of popularity is the lack of support/backing that they receive from the media (e.g. all those transnational companies tweeting their support for Drake when he dropped 'Charged Up' and 'Back to Back').

How does it take one of the biggest acts in music today seven months to go platinum when Taylor Swift's last two albums went platinum within the first week of them dropping? That's appalling...

How come all his albums always stale out at 1-2 million sold when Adele's last album sold 10 million in the US and 30 million globally?

I give Drake props for going Gold in a short week, but when you grow up with The Massacre selling 1.14 million on a Thursday, Eminem's Encore selling 710,000 copies when it was a Friday release and Kanye basically selling a million in his first week with Graduation when it was released in the same week as 50 Cent's Curtis, you start to realise that Drake really isn't "running" shyt like the media/his fan-base are trying to make it seem...

 

[Triangularbirds]

(who's credited and barely a presence on the mixtape)

how are you barely a presence when you have 2 or more songs entirely to yourself on another artist's album ?

 

[No1]

I like his music, but Drake's got to be the most overrated "pop-star" ever. The only thing really preventing Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole from ascending to his level of popularity is the lack of support/backing that they receive from the media (e.g. all those transnational companies tweeting their support for Drake when he dropped 'Charged Up' and 'Back to Back').

How does it take one of the biggest acts in music today seven months to go platinum when Taylor Swift's last two albums went platinum within the first week of them dropping? That's appalling...

How come all his albums always stale out at 1-2 million sold when Adele's last album sold 10 million in the US and 30 million globally?

I give Drake props for going Gold in a short week, but when you grow up with The Massacre selling 1.14 million on a Thursday, Eminem's Encore selling 710,000 copies when it was a Friday release and Kanye basically selling a million in his first week with Graduation when it was released in the same week as 50 Cent's Curtis, you start to realise that Drake really isn't "running" shyt like the media/his fan-base are trying to make it seem...

Because Drake is a rapper and not a pop star. Even if you are a commercial rapper, very seldom will you sell more than a popular white artist of another genre. Adele makes music that people of all ages can listen to (same with Swift and she appeals to young women who buy music and their parents). Go look at the top selling albums of the 90s and wait how long it is until you get to a rap album. Eminem, Nelly and 50 were anomalies and 50's sales were partially off the strength of the Eminem affiliation. Even then Nelly was getting out sold by the N Syncs and Britney Spears of the world.