Meaghan Garvey From PitchFork Goes In On Drake

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So she basically wrote an article saying Drake is fake because he wasn't cool growing up, but became cool due to the maturation process of his personality that he experienced during his rise to superstardom.

Just a pseudo-intellectual fluff piece that doesn't really say anything substantial about...anything related to Drake as a person, his music, his location in the contemporary pop culture framework, or is career. And she need to stop using big words she doesn't understand well enough to recognize that they don't go well together.

"Drake, you weren't cool before so that gives you no right to be cool now that you're famous!" That's basically what she's saying in her article. She even goes on to admit that her life story is similar. So why she so mad? Maybe because Drake was able to transform into a cool person more successfully than she has. Sounds like envy to me.

She acting like most people aren't awkward in high school and become cooler once they become successful in their careers. This is a common narrative for most working professionals in the West.

Basically what I mean to say is fukk this bytch and her bullshyt article.

this is the coli, if you arent the same person you were when you came out the womb you aint a real nikka

that being said, if "the tides are turning" as some posters are saying, does this mean the corporations secretly backing drake are now backing meek? :ohhh: :troll:
 

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i dont even know what her problem is. if the dude said he started at the bottom and now he's here, that conforms to her saying he was not cool until he became cool later. if you liked his music a couple weeks ago, that shouldnt really change it

the atlantic piece is much better. it actually has a point and it does hit drake hard on the thing that matters: he figured out how to avoid dealing with the ghostwriting accusation
 

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What's wrong with her article is she's slamming Drake for a maturation process that she admits to going through herself. Her opinion on the matter also assumes that rap artists are cool, should be cool, and always have been cool.

Then she goes on to say that it doesn't really matter because she's going to bump his music anyway because the music is what matters most (which I agree with). So if that's the case, then why go at Drake, accusing him of manufacturing an image of coolness, and why act like that's a bad thing? It's what most people do growing up through adolescence and young adulthood. Why should Drake be held to a different standard because he's a pop/rap artist?

She's all over the place.

If you want to go at Drake, talk about him being over-emotional, a terrible boyfriend, trying to be tough when he's not, claiming streets and blocks he's never been on, etc.

But instead she wrote a piece castigating the dude for GROWING UP.
 

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John Mayer is fukking racist you fukking piece of shyt CAC. Negged you fukking c*nt ass stupid ass fakkit.

No, he's not. Dude was trying to be controversial and interesting. You're acting like those SJW bytches who can't judge intent.
 

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No, he's not. Dude was trying to be controversial and interesting. You're acting like those SJW bytches who can't judge intent.
That nikka wasn't trying to be controversial he's just like alot of white people who enjoy black art and culture but don't really fancy the folks that make it. He's not the Jon B white boy with the chin strap who fukks with the sisters and has black friends he's more of a tourist.
 

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That description of Drake from HS to now is scarily accurate (substitute a few specifics) to myself and a lot of people i know

This is the case for a lot of people here at the coli and all across social media which is why there's a lot of seemingly irrational stanning for Drake, but when you consider that many of these people relate to him so much so that they think they are an extension or reflection of Drake, it becomes painstakingly clear why so many people can say "so what if he got pissed on, what's the big deal", how they can pretend like they've known all along that rappers have outside people writing their verses.

:francis:

Yep.

And you know who else it describes? Kanye.

Said the same thing (but a lot less wordy) about him in a thread here before...
 

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No, he's not. Dude was trying to be controversial and interesting. You're acting like those SJW bytches who can't judge intent.

That's like saying if you call someone a n***** but you mean it in a hateful way and not a racist way it's not racist. :mjlol:

Intent doesn't have shyt to do with racism

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You nikkas are something else. Entertaining read and she did kinda spazz out on Drizzy but....it really isn't anything that anyone else does. Do people not change after high school? I know maybe a handful of people who are generally the same as they were in HS. Those people are childish and immature. You change after HS and, generally, you do become "cooler". You have new experiences and do things on your own a lot more, emboldening you and effectively changing who you are.

Do you really expect a Canadian rap artist to be the same person and talking about the same shyt some 5-6 years after becoming a superstar and being homies with people like Lil Wayne and Ye? You don't expect that person to stay the same do you? That's just foolish. More or less the exact same transformation happened with Kanye. Early in his career you could have described him as humble. Now...? I think this is truly a stupid article. No, I'm not saying I disagree. I'm saying it's dumb.

Come at Aubrey from a hip hop standpoint all you want. I will never fault anyone here for that shyt. Most of these people here arguing against Drake aren't even really Meek fans. They do it for hip hop. This bytch is mad because he's not wooing her anymore or some shyt. I don't get it,
 

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She stomps freely through Bed Stuy it seems though...or have they taken over there, too? :mjpls:
Idk what nikkas think goes on in NY but being a Brooklyn nikka let me explain something to you brehs.. NOBODY BOTHERS WHITE PPL, EVER. We'll kill each other all day but nobody just going out slapping up Jews or bothering white bytches, I mean a little but not for real for real.

shyt is bewildering if you really think about it. White ppl run thru BK all day like it's nothing, this hoe gets no daps from me. Living somewhere and actually being a part of that community are two different things entirely pleighboi :birdman:
 

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That's like saying if you call someone a n***** but you mean it in a hateful way and not a racist way it's not racist. :mjlol:

Intent doesn't have shyt to do with racism

:camby:
fukk outta here with that shyt. He wasn't calling anyone a ******. He was exposing very honestly his own ingrained racial hang ups with regard to attraction/dating and dumb motherfukkers who can't see nuance or humor go "He said the word ******, he's a racist!!! It's the height of infantile to have that kneejerk response.
 

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Drake does get a gang of passes from these tumblr activists, but gtfo. I don't give a fukk about their opinion on rappers even if it is the 6 fraud :camby:
 

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fukk outta here with that shyt. He wasn't calling anyone a ******. He was exposing very honestly his own ingrained racial hang ups with regard to attraction/dating and dumb motherfukkers who can't see nuance or humor go "He said the word ******, he's a racist!!! It's the height of infantile to have that kneejerk response.


Ingrained racial hang ups are still racist even if not explicitly. The height of infantile is the fact you have no clue how nuanced racism is.
 

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don't really care about her but she made some points.

this battle has always been a snake/emotional dude vs a cornball lame. but Drake has been getting props cause he kept it hip hop within this battle.
 
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