Ebro says Drake doesn't have a regional sound and identity and is out of touch ; UPDATE : BOI-1DA Puts His Cape on & Responds

[Patrick Kane]

Kendrick is only on the hook and doesn’t make records using traditional west coast beats like this. This is what we wanna hear Kenny on but he don’t make records like this until he dropped Not Like Us

Drake “sound” is what 40 and Boi-1da cook up for him. It’ll always sound different because they evolve as producers but it’ll always be distinctly their sound

shyt you could hear Drake “sound” on the Heart Part 6 beat. That is the Drake “sound” if you wanna keep it a buck and beats like that go all the way back to his Thank Me Later days

But nikkas gonna argue that Kendrick who on every album has a different sound using Drake’s main producer for most of them Has a distinct West Coast sound now?

 

[Biscayne]

normal for a Toronto nikka? Ummm, actually yeah…the whole mixing Jamaican and UK slang is kinda their whole thing…

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The angle here would be to lean on Drake using Memphis or Houston or ATL regional influences…but then you may start to realize he is more in tuned with black musical contemporary sounds than probably any one artist of the last decade plus…and had he not been the definitive artist of his generation could’ve made for a GOAT level A&R…it’s not an accident Kenny randomly is going to his in house producer looking for “hits”

Having an ear to the streets and hopping on waves would indeed make you a great A&R. But again, it's not hard to see what's bubbling and then running to a region. Fat Joe, Jim Jones, and others have been mocked for doing the samething.

 

[Biscayne]

How much a much a dolla, hell that whole TPAB sounds like some shyt pharacyde would put in 1993. West coast with a contemporary jazz sound. Drake came out the gate with houstonlantavegas shyt. You couldn’t tell where he’s from on any given album. Memphis, UK, Atlanta?

They forget The West had their own alternative sound. So anything non-gangsta is "Non-Westcoast" to some of these ppl.

As if Pharcyde didn't exist.

 

[987654321]

Kendrick is only on the hook and doesn’t make records using traditional west coast beats like this. This is what we wanna hear Kenny on but he don’t make records like this until he dropped Not Like Us

Drake “sound” is what 40 and Boi-1da cook up for him. It’ll always sound different because they evolve as producers but it’ll always be distinctly their sound

shyt you could hear Drake “sound” on the Heart Part 6 beat. That is the Drake “sound” if you wanna keep it a buck and beats like that go all the way back to his Thank Me Later days

But nikkas gonna argue that Kendrick who on every album has a different sound using Drake’s main producer for most of them Has a distinct West Coast sound now?

That’s not the “traditional” west coast sound lol. This style came along relatively late.

Most of boi1da’s style is region-less, generic, contemporary. 40’s shyt is more unique, less contemporary though. I respect it. It’s just as if somebody took the heatmakerz shyt and made it cute and friendly.

 

[Consigliere]

He’s right. I said the same thing.

Not Like Us was the money shot. Called Drake out for stealing styles and capped him with a homage to his home base.

 

[Patrick Kane]

That’s not the “traditional” west coast sound lol. This style came along relatively late.

Maybe traditional isn’t the right word but “modern”. That sound is heavy amongst the young LA/Bay are rappers

 

[987654321]

They forget The West had their own alternative sound. So anything non-gangsta is "Non-Westcoast" to some of these ppl.

As if Pharcyde didn't exist.

They probably only know “g-funk”. It’s like saying lil Jon and DJ Montay are the quintessential Atlanta sound. They’re a facet but not THE sound

 

[BlackXCL]

Dumb fukk Americans lol
He owns Toronto
He does that for Toronto

 

[Consigliere]

Dumb fukk Americans lol
He owns Toronto
He does that for Toronto

It over dog, take it like a man.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Dumb fukk Americans lol
He owns Toronto
He does that for Toronto

Word? Mr. "Houstalantavegas" owns Toronto? He reps the "Toronto" hip hop sound huh?

 

[BlackXCL]

Word? Mr. "Houstalantavegas" owns Toronto? He reps the "Toronto" hip hop sound huh?

Just like “I’m going back to cali” owned Brooklyn

Not hard nikka

 

[Not Crodie]

Kendrick drops one song using a mustard beat and all of a sudden he’s known for making regional LA sounding music…meanwhile the biggest singles from his last album were produced by noted west coast legend Boi1da, hailing from (checks notes) TORONTO CANADA …who rose to fame as “an in-house producer for Drake's OVO Sound label” according to the first sentence in his wiki bio

Boi-1da - Wikipedia

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this shyt has been in firmly in post-facts territory for a while now

wtf are you talking about, Kendrick has regional sound on multiple songs...you thought the west was only known for bop or what

TPAB is FULL of them
Thats where Ebro and others are right, Drake AND his fans lack musical knowledge and cultural awareness

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Just like “I’m going back to cali” owned Brooklyn

Not hard nikka

Much like Toronto

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Listen to sleezBro brehs…. Funny comin to from a nikka from the west coast but posing like he a nikka from NY… the fukkin audacity

But rea talk who was the biggest “rapper” to come out of Toronto before Drake? If anything Toronto benefits from proximity to NY state, Detroit and Chicago

 

[NYC Rebel]

Ebro doesn't have a regional identity and is out of touch as well

The damn irony

fukker attacked NY Hip Hop once he got here, playing a role in its destruction and he has nerve to talk?

This is why hip hop hasn't been shyt to me going on decades. The people involved are awful.