This. If Drake were to get Vanilla Ice'd it would have been ten years ago.

But 1991 was damn near thirty years ago. Authenticity been out the window. No one cared Rick Ross was a CO. Nobody care that Weezy and Chris Brown are fake Bloods who basically grew up in front of our eyes on TV. If anything, the hood is a key part of Drake fanbase and has been since day one. The hood always keeps up with the latest mainstream rap music. Even underground artists from the hood been emulating Drake for ten years. And to say Drake is done is some 1979 Disco is dead cac shyt. Every nikka rocking a skin fade and beard trying to look like this nikka. If anything most black folks respect Drake for being himself.

And Drake is much less corny than Logic, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator or Hopsin. Y'know the artists that cacs love to overrate because of their innate suburban corniness.

Drake had a huge year last year and had a mega hit with Bhris Brown this past summer. If anything, Drake has become an effigy to corny hipster cacs as the antithesis to "real Hip Hop" *cringe* just like Lil Wayne was ten years ago. Regular non-hipster cacs love Drake because they also listen to mainstream music.

Drake is a tragic mulatto in being too black for white folks (i.e. He mess with mostly black women and black women are huge component to his fanbase and Drake been associated with black tastemakers since day one) but too white for black folks (i.e. He look lost in videos where he in the hood with other rappers like "100" feat Game). But he ain't as tragic and corny enough as Logic to appeal eighteenth century stereotypes to completely win a cornball white audience.
If u get play at the boost mobile spots in 2019, u super good in the hood. That mean urban pop like rihanna, beyonce, and drake, along with those with street records like meek, future, and wayne.
But the hood is the hood. You wrote that whole dissertation and i enjoyed reading it, but it wouldn’t make sense in the hood because it’s so self explanatory.
It makes sense on the internet, because we got cacs from the burbs on here and the internet pretending to be from the hood and swearing up and down u don’t hear drake there.
These cacs don’t know what a normal day in the hood is like and deadass make it up based on what they read. No respect for empirical knowledge.
They hate drake cause he proves that they can’t rap because they’re simply not cultured enough (hence eminem all technical/clown raps, but no cool). Drake is from where those OF fans are from.
The only difference between them and him is he’s black. That’s it. He’s from the same ass rich neighborhoods as them but he doesn’t have to listen to rap to experience the world of the others. He can go there and just be one of them.
On top of that, he can also make music we love and be super good out here.
Since rap they developed this idea that blacks get their culture from being poor.
But Drake grew up just like them, is even corny like them, but him being born into african american music royalty just made him super different than them despite growing up relatively rich like them.
I was drake in college. White kids saying “man, you’re so smart, why do u talk like that?”
They think we talk and move the way we do because they were told black culture is poor and stupid culture.
But when they see a nikka who’s smart, and from where they’re from, but still has all that swag they’re jealous of, it fukks them up.
They try to token you. But they can’t token drake. He aligns himself with nothing but hood artists and never does music with their indie favorites.
Kanye will at least collab with francis and the lights or katy perry or some shyt. None of that from drake. Straight hood/r&b black art and they feel left out especially since pop punk, their last genre, died last decade.