Such a fun time man.

He has several

Drake stole the houston sound anyway

He’s kinda right

Drake has a sound but you can’t really say it’s regional. Melodically and structurally beats like Push Ups or First part of Family Matters (which is what you think of when you think of Drake type beats aside from the softer s*** i get to below) are just dark/menacing southern rap beats maybe faster tempos

They kinda have that dark moody winter sound but thats also just a modification of Da Bassment/Timbo/Devante Swing/Aaliyah/Jon B era 90’s r&b

Everything else he’s known for originated somewhere else

But that’s why he’s Drake. Kanye doesn’t sound like one singular region. Cole was a NY sounding rapper who only happened to be from the south.

Lmao people naming projects from 5 years ago in the thread

KNOW YOURSELF

That was his "running in the 6ix with my woes" anthem

Exactly. Drake started off one way and it was respectable.. But then he switched it up and now it's like who is this guy? What does he stand for? We all know you are not a gangster/mobb boss.. You were on a TV show and Drake himself said he grew up in a good jewish neighborhood. Why are you trying to act different now?

he’s right and wrong

i think Drake’s earlier albums where 40 was on like every track so have a distinct and unique sound that a lot of people from Toronto and elsewhere ran with. the dark, woozy, almost nostalgic underwater sound was and still is very distinctive - there are songs on Take Care and IYRTITL that nobody else could’ve made

not to parrot the kendrick talking points but I think around Views or so once Drake started working with more Atlanta/trap rappers that his overall sound got a lot more generic, this is also when 40 started taking more of a notable backseat and producing less. he always had Boi-1da in his back pocket for more mainstream sounding stuff but once he opened Scorpion with a tay keith beat that was the beginning of the end i think

drake definitely has a sound but i think it peaked in 2015 and he’s been in another pocket for almost a decade now. a drake type beat then and now mean entirely different things

Nah I’m sorry more life was dude doing his best burna boy and vybez Kartel impression

One dance and Controlla does not sound like Canadian music to the rest of the world that’s just crazy talk

Yes and his wanna be down fans will deal.

Most niggas now dont have a regional sound. Even New York drill is just philly / jersey club beats and philly drill is just detroit beats

im guessing you missed the part where i said "our RnB is very dancehall/afrobeats inspired"...

Most of iyrtitl, views and more life is that Toronto sound.

Toronto sound is more similar to London to me tho

Whether his point is correct or not, him saying "I don't think a lot of people have discussed" the geographic nature of hip-hop is stupid lol
That's been like half this beef

both are rooted in the same cultures and draw from the same influences (carribean, west african, east african, MENA) since we have virtually the same diaspora (jamaicans, somalis, and arabs predominantly)

One of the goat songs of life

To say Drake hasn’t cultivated a distinct sound musically is ignorant on Ebro’s part.

The Lo-Fi/Night sound him and 40 created is evident from So Far Gone to Nothing was the same.

After that, Drake done what most artists with longevity do and immersed himself in different sounds regionally.

Ebro’s comments are clouded in his attempts at labelling Drake an outsider.

What Ebro is saying is ludicrous, drake definitely has Toronto and has a specific sound. I’m not up on the history but it seems as though drake and his cohort created the sound. Where niggas popping off in the 90s that’s what I wanna know. Who was torontos do or die.

If Jungle is an example of Toronto sound then y’all lit

I’m so tired of the different variations of the “Drake doesn’t belong” conversation

The nigga has been here for 15 years playing on every radio station, at every party, every club, every cookout and everyone has known the entire time exactly who he is and where he’s from

Also did Biggie speak on/rap about social issues? No that was Pacs lane. What about Lil Wayne? Barely, and when he has he definitely hasn’t come off as very pro black. Not every rapper has to be an activist man

Its loose compared to some of the other examples, but for sure has elements

He's not wrong

none of the origins of the music on these tracks are from Toronto