Was Drake really signed before "So Far Gone"

[The_King_of_Everything]

I saw a video of Big Sean in the studio
With kanye before graduation came out he was helping write one of the songs with some big time female writer.

I was like

If I can find it I'll post it.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

you must be an a&r because i call bullsh!t. drake had a deal before so far gone.

it's common sense. you just can't have some big names on your mixtape if you're unsigned. don't care how you look at it. you're not going to have kanye or 50 cent on your sh!t if you're not signed and to top it off, the record label has to sign off on the collabo too.

but this is in itself is some a&r type sh!t where they create stories about things that didn't happen to cover up things that did happen so it makes things look like how they're not.

you know, don't know what everybody's beef with drake is but what i don't like is how you got these so called "unsigned" mixtape rappers and the labels basically selling dreams to people that are trying to get signed and etc. you know, it's almost like you got people out here that are trying to get put on and they use people like wiz khalifa, drake, kid cudi and etc as inspiration to put out mixtapes hoping to get noticed when all of that sh!t is just a lie. that's my issue. don't try to tell the world that drake was some unsigned rapper that put out a bunch of songs and worked his way to the top when he didn't even do that. you know, quit frauding. it's like they basically are forcibly trying to change the sound of the hip hop sh!t. that's what i don't like. you basically are shoving drake, mac miller, kid cudi and all these spacetron, futuristic, little whatevers down our throat and having these kids dressing all silly and the hip hop sound poppy to the point where you're going to basically make it into the new pop. that's not right.

it's like they're programming us to like the music they want us to like. they did it with hot 97 with the payola, now they're forcing these jokes down our throats with fake stories about how so and so is unsigned and accidently stumbled onto a record deal. TERRIBLE.

when are people going to pull these marks cards and take em to the cleaners. this is why you'll never catch me supporting these new rappers at all.

Nobody who has *EVER* gotten a deal hasn't had either a moneyman, resources or management with relationships behind them...

Cats beef with Drake is him simply saying he did a lot without a deal... that's it... & it leaves a bitter taste in their mouth because they feel he had money & connections because of his TV roots, it's that simple...

All this conspiracy bullshyt nikkaz on the internet make up is because they don't know shyt about the music industry & what goes on behind the scenes. You are right as far as labels are now using the underground as a base to make fans feel that artists are more real because they have an organic come up... there's no lie in that at all but it's not some conspiracy it's just a different way to market artists these days to make fans feel like they can relate. They want to push "Spidermans" instead of "Supermans" to fans... credibility & struggle has always been the backbone of artists come up stories & they're going to push those angles to make the artists seem more human.

All artists get pushed... there's no point in a label signing without trying to make max dollar... this is a business first...

And yet no one has still been able to answer that if Drake was "put together" by a label... how come they don't just do with every artist since all they gotta do is "push" them right? Why isn't Kid Cudi & Meek Millz as big as Drake? Why is Asher Roth missing in action? Where is Charles Hamilton?

 

[NigerianDonDada]

I saw a video of Big Sean in the studio
With kanye before graduation came out he was helping write one of the songs with some big time female writer.

I was like

If I can find it I'll post it.

2:56 mark

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

I saw a video of Big Sean in the studio
With kanye before graduation came out he was helping write one of the songs with some big time female writer.

I was like

If I can find it I'll post it.

Sean been with Kanye for years... who do you think birthed that whole saying the word after the punchline style?

 

[Wacky D]

he is

they sure did a good job sweeping that one under the rug.

Sean been with Kanye for years... who do you think birthed that whole saying the word after the punchline style?

that style has been around for AGES. and its most synonymous with sean price & camron, but it was around long before them too.

thats why ludacris smacked big sean, drake & their fans down. did yall not learn anything from that track?