Wouldn’t it be accessible rather than maximalist then?

Sure

white ppl hate popular things for the most part not that deep

Yeah maximalist not the word for that. But I see what ur saying.

But to ur point It's because he's the most popular artists out, which cause people to unnecessarily classify anything he drop as just generic pop rap.

He also gets unfair criticism like the people that call him a culture vulture or says he wave rides just to turn around and say he does the same thing over and over

It’s a really weird point in his career to be having this take

this is the entire problem w what youre saying though

if music is subjective and x style is just as valid as y, then this whole idea of grouping artists into tiers and saying drake deserves to be at a certain tier is meaningless

if we're using something objective like how "complex" the production is or how "abstract" the songwriting is then yeah he isnt on their level lol

youre basically saying people who value certain things in music should respect drakes music like frank oceans because he does other things really well, which makes no sense

Feel like there was a lot more pushback 2013-2017 which is when he was putting out his best music

i think he's made at least one groundbreaking album (take care) and some other classics (nwts, iyrtitl) but otherwise, i wouldn't say he only cares about numbers. he seems to have some passion for music but i think his problem lies with indecisiveness

Mans has been making the same song for like 4-5 years atp

Facts

Yeah I’ve been having this realization too. Specifically with Kanye because they’re so similar as artists, it’s not like a Drake/Kendrick where you can really see the polarization

He makes algorithm music

take in, scorpion was heavily inspired by life after death and drake in general is heavily inspired by biggie and this nigga still put out scorpion i dont think it was because he was chasing hits, but because i dont think drake is confident. he lost it just like rocky. i blame rihanna

how does drake make similar music to kanye? drake never made an 808’s, yeezus, ksg or any other slightly ‘weird’ album.

You say Drake makes similar music to what music virgins listen to but really it's the opposite lol. Kanye/Frank as you mentioned experiment a lot and always sound different when they drop. CLB dropped and sounded like a bot auto generated a Drake album

Drake good in my book. He’s given me enough good music at this point idrc if his output ain’t straight

I gotta wonder whether he has any ambition left in that regard

Last time he clearly tried was Views

Barely promoted clb but somehow all he cares about is numbers

F***ing legend if CLB is his worse

he def tried on CLB and it really showed in the production and some of the bars

I just think hes kind of cooked songwriting wise + he slapped a bunch of filler on there too

Whats filler to you is another mans fav song

Yall just be talking fr

CLB is a classic.