I’ve always wondered what 2023 G Malone thought about this.

Drake fans prolly more upset than Drake over this

bro been saying this for years too

Well he more white than black but people say the 3/5 rule. I vote no because he being raised as a white child. And that's fine but who the f*** am I to decide.

It has nothing to do with blackness and more to do with his albums not having the requirement of being mostly rap music because “he gotta make da hits”. FATD was objectively like 5-7 rap songs out of 20+ songs before we get into any subjective opinions about it

But it’s telling that you instantly jumped to race here lol. Drake and racial ambiguity/his fanbase empathizing with aspects of that and how that directly correlates with them having a sweet spot for breaking “#da #rules” of the culture is a whole nother thread tbh

It’s so funny when they jump to the “blackness” arguments for Drake cause they’re really doing the opposite of what they think they are

Right right

Idk man

Yes but not how you’re implying

Nigga just picked his character outta nowhere lol

The idea that Billboard hits and first week sales mean more than lyrical quality is #not #hip #hop

And that’s okay. But why do y’all want to have your cake and eat it too. Lmaoo niggas love “fuck that old head lyrical bullshit” until niggas start saying s*** like this

Hip-Hop culture is 5% teachings

Good question, I said it earlier in a post above but hip hop culture to me is how you speak (slang and colloquialism), carry yourself (swag, bravado), your environment (specifically urban), your community, your style (hair and fashion) and things that are local to a specific region or city. I also think a big part of it is having historical knowledge of hip-hop, the music, the break dancing, graffiti, rapping, etc. and also being around people who grew up in it and it's a lifestyle and not something that you just discovered on the internet. You really had to live it. And hip-hop was birthed in the hood, it obviously has moved out to the suburbs but the intent of hip hop was to better people in urban environments. It came from struggle so its hard to say someone in the suburbs is true hip hop. Just my opinion, you don't have to agree. Drake saying he thought Toronto slang was ignorant to his white friends (there's a clip you can google and find) speaks volumes to me on why he isn't hip hop from a cultural standpoint.

You gone hate when you find the actual theme in these

S***s really ironic

See, this just hate

Drake is beyond Hip Hop now. He makes the occasional Hip Hop song, but he caters to a popular audience.

What he does, he does not do for hip hop culture. Not anymore.

And thats a fact.

That being said we still love Drake, but lets keep it a Kobe Bean Bryant

The last dash

But let me also keep it a bean:

How many "hip hop artists" are really doing it for hip hop culture?

All these street rappers doing it for a popular audience too. Its just the state of the culture now. Its too big now, and hip hop culture represents a much bigger mainstream popular culture now.

Classic

This has been a thing since 2009 the dogwhistling to undercut Drake’s black masculinity has always been a thing. It’s literally a key part in understanding how he’s perceived, it’s not a “race card”

How is it a dog whistle when it’s a fact that he is biracial and was raised in a white household, also talked down on the way black kids from his city spoke? These are just facts about his upbringing lol.

It’s okay to acknowledge that he doesn’t have the same experience as a black person who isn’t biracial. No shame in it and it doesn’t make him a lesser artist

Being compared to madonna is a blessing

Y’all are both slow af if you think Drake and racial ambiguity being a thing in one area cancels out his blackness being doubted in another - that area being hiphop spaces

Drake makes hip-hop
But he’s not a full fledge hip-hop artist. It’s just something he dabbles in but his heart is in singing and making R&B/pop and genre bending songs and that’s fine but its difficult for me to just label him a hip-hop artist. He’s just given that label because he’s black.

2023 and people still think it's trendy to hate Drake

that room too small for 6 people man