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

[Trap Soul]

Drake the type to drink pinacoladas with a gay ass pink umbrella. Sassy ass rapper.

While your fruity ass stands in the corner watching like this

 

[Trap Soul]

if you think he's hip hop thats fine,
i consider him hip hop to a degree as well.
I just dont understand how someone couldn't see why some ppl think he isn't. Its a pretty reasonable opinion lol

he even got mad when he was nominated in a rap category instead of a pop category.

If you make hip-hop music, you are hip-hop. Even if only 1 song per album from Drake is hip-hop, that makes him hip-hop. To say he isn't hip-hop is pure hating

 

[Consigliere]

How would you know

Do you get paid to defend this man?
Cuz if not…

 

[Trap Soul]

Do you get paid to defend this man?
Cuz if not…

I'm just asking how you know what kind of music plays while you loufa shopping? Do you need me to open the closet door for you so you can answer?

 

[BK The Great]

While your fruity ass stands in the corner watching like this

fukk outta here with that gay shyt

 

[BK The Great]

 

[knickscrusaderm]

The shade room comments covering Drakes reaction kept it more hip hop than a “hip hop forum” you can’t make this shyt up

Even the hoes are smart enough to know drake ain’t a hip hop artist, yall grown ass nikkas ain’t catch up yet?

 

[seemorecizzy]

If you make hip-hop music, you are hip-hop. Even if only 1 song per album from Drake is hip-hop, that makes him hip-hop. To say he isn't hip-hop is pure hating

Dumbest shyt i ever heard
So Tyrese can make an all rb album and have 2 hip hop songs on it as black TY rapping, and he's hiphop?

 

[Long Live The Kane]

The ultimate irony of this is that at his core Drake is a post-soulquarian hip hop/neo soul hybrid that in a slightly different timeline could’ve easily been a frequent collaborator of Mos…mos would’ve fit right in on one of those Little Brother/Phonte, Elzhi, Dwele tracks on Comeback Season

 

[Trap Soul]

Dumbest shyt i ever heard
So Tyrese can make an all rb album and have 2 hip hop songs on it as black TY rapping, and he's hiphop?

Tyrese can rap and has rapped on songs, so yes, he IS hip-hop. His R&B songs are R&B, but that doesn't make him not part of the hip-hop culture. How short was the bus you rode as a kid and how close to the radiator did you sit

 

[SilverSamurai]

Drake getting so emotional over this comment

Mos Def wasn't even trying to diss him too. Goddamn I wish someone completely Ja Ruled Drake's corny azz

 

[EastsideRio]

Drake is 100% hip hop, for better or worse, so no, Mos Def is not right.

 

[BK The Great]

Might be recording something

 

[TripleAgent]

Might be recording something

 

[gluvnast]

Mos acts like Hip Hop didn't start off as party music. When them nikkas made Rapper's Delight, were they addressing global issues?

Since you brought it up, hip hop culture in its inception stages and the inorganic formation of The Sugar Hill Gang and the song Rapper's Delight is quite the parallel to hip hop culture and Drake. Being that the four principles of hip hop since birth been "peace, unity, love and having fun", hip hop at the time wasn't thinking about having a global message because hip hop culture was mostly a Bronx youth culture that was spreading across the boroughs. They were dealing with escapism of what they had to go through in terms of the poverty and gang violence. So, those park jams and functions for the b-boys & girls were a way to escape from the bullshyt.

Sylvia Robinson heard about this then-new sensation brewing and wanted to make a NOVELTY SONG from it and collected people who WEREN'T OF THE CULTURE for this song Rapper's Delight. So, you have a novelty song and a group who weren't from the hip hop culture which blew up nationwide. What this have to do with Drake? Drake wasn't ever from the culture. There're no so-called earning stripes, or his early stages among a circle of young hip hop emcees & b-boys. He was a privileged biracial child actor NOT from the United States with Jewish industry connections due to himself being Jewish. The only thing that got his the supposed "street cred" was linking with J. Prince, but Drake isn't and never was from the STREETS. And hip-hop entire DNA is the streets. Drake never had that authentic connection. Even Eminem had that authentic street connection due to how he was brought up. Drake is a NOVELTY who ended up blowing up despite that. The Sugar Hill Gang ended up being the biggest rap group at the time, but their peers did not see them as hip-hop. They made a generic watered-down version of rap and people ate it up. That's what it is with Drake.