Yasiin Bey(Mos Def) says Drake's music is pop and is compatible with shopping at Target.

[Nomad1]

I bet they play Mos Def's music at funeral homes.

nikka is dusty and washed why would anyone care what he thinks?

 

[Yecht]

What the hell are you doing? This is the Coli, there is no apologizing on here. Even when you are wrong you deflect and double down.

Ngl, I'm drunk and thought I imagined that post

 

[maxamusa]

I bet they play Mos Def's music at funeral homes.

nikka is dusty and washed why would anyone care what he thinks?

exactly......its like those old heads who get lit n think what they did 2 decades ago gives them stripes. nah.

 

[maxamusa]

It’s not his fault. He makes music for the mainstream. He makes music with the hope it will reach the largest audience possible, Target included. He has no artistic integrity, for him it’s all contractual and about money making

this for CACs

 

[Stress Welker]

So many SKUs.

 

[Renegade47]

Drake being a good rapper does not mean he isn't also Pop rap btw.

I have no clue why his rap skills keeps getting brought into this when Yasiin didn't say Drake couldn't rap.

Doja Cat can rap too, she is a pop artist

Drake can rap and is a pop artist. One does not make the other invalid

because people are stupid.

 

[up in here]

He's Hip Hop now. The original Emcee's use to get the crowds hype. The first 15 years of Hip Hop, the Emcee's were on some: Hip Hop Hibbity Hip Hop you don't stop type rhymes. People act like snobs now trying to say some people are Hip Hop and some people aren't. Drake is pop, but he's also Hip Hop.

Early hip hop being party music and modern hip-hop being pop music aren't the same at all.

Early hip-hop was from the street and for the people in the street. Those parties were block parties in the PJs. The music was the soundtrack of the NY ghetto.

Early hip-hop wasn't getting advertising placement, and definitely wasn't getting played in shopping malls. White folks was calling it jungle music. They was scared of hip-hop.

The early rappers wasn't rich kids from Toronto, they was poor kids from the PJs. They might have been kicking cat in the hat ass rhymes but they was from the street, they was from the block, they was part of the neighbourhood. They wasn't trying to kick shyt to make white folks happy, they was just kicking shyt that was gonna be fly in they hood. It was relatable for people in the hood.

It ain't the same as making non-threatening crossover music for the pop crowd to vibe to.

 

[TripleAgent]

Sounds about right.

 

[blah]

Pretty much how I feel. When people make top rapper lists I don't even think of Drake cause he's just pop to me

 

[Mugenight]

Mos def is correct.

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

You definitely gonna hear those artists in shopping centers

Rap music has assimilated into mainstream American culture, it’s a reflection of it.

None of them are pop artists. Drake is. Theres a reason nobody questions his accents, his basic ass lyrics, or bad singing. People don’t see Drake like they see Cole. People see Cole as a rapper people see Drake as entertainment. I’m sure that’s how Drake wants it to.

 

[Houston911]

Ehhh

Semi valid, but sounds like some slight hate in there

The facial gestures and shyt we’re extra

Drake is pop, but he’s hip hop too

 

[GunRanger]

You know how we look back at the Eminem era with disdain? It'll be the same thing with Drake, but much worse lol

It's been 15 years. With how rappers are going, people will be begging for more drake instead of these mushmouth zoomers

 

[Mr Clean]

Mos being the type of dude he is, this is completely unsurprising. Drake doesn't love it in a way he does, it is what it is. At the same time, at least 90% of the known and popular rappers are out chasing a bag and would make whatever type of music to get it. You can't say Drake ain't been real for time to time in his own way.

 

[904]

One of life’s mysteries to me will be how such a lame individual like Drake managed to become the reference for cool for millions. Boggles the mind. Are people not seeing what I’m seeing? Like a black Ross Gellar but yet Ross seemed to have more swag

Bruh I was in VA working last year before he dropped his last album

I ended up working with these two dudes who were the biggest Drake fans I've ever seen in real life..

They were so excited he was dropping an album

They were talking to each other and I was just onlooking in amazement

Went just like this

Dork 1 - "So what Drake do you think he's going to give us?"

Dork 2 - "I think it's going be Views Drake"

Dork 1 - "What if we get nothing was the same Drake"

"Brooooooo I'll lose my shyt if we get nothing was the same Drake"

"904 what Drake do you think we're going to get"

904 -y'all some dorks man