He’s a GOAT hip hop act/character. He’s been a gravitational center upon a lot of this last era of rap has orbited for the past decade plus. The music and hits and all that speaks for itself…but shyt extends all the way to cultural fringes around it…there are social media personalities that base their entire followings on being “Drake critics” on some Skip Bayless/Lebron shyt..:these content merchants like Joe Budden dead ass owe a chunk of their platforms being what they are because of Drake segments going viral…Look at this forum, this bastion of learned hip hop experts and connoisseurs …if we ran an AI prompt that was tasked with summing up “who is the main character of the booth since it’s inception”, what do you think the answer comes back as
…you muhfukkas are singularly obsessed with Drake…if an alien civilization somehow stumbled upon these servers a thousand years from now they might mistake Drake as some kinda malevolent yet omnipotent deity that consumed the daily thoughts of men…
even this year with the battle and the hoisting of Kendrick on the collective rap commentariat’s shoulders…like he’s Cody Rhodes “finishing his story”
It was really just about propping up some babyface to put over the comic book supervillain caricature Drake has been built up to be…Cody finishing his story and winning at Wrestlemania was really just another chapter in what really’s been the main event storyline the entire time, Roman’s….Drake is Roman Reigns
…This Super Bowl performance is the biggest moment of Kendrick’s career, and most of the discourse around it is what it means to Drake…
Literally look at the first page of the booth right now, every other thread is about drake somehow…
