Pickett2PickensGG

1y

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

BRAVE

1y

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”

TIIIMMMY BURNER

1y

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

Dino

1y

Idk but I just found a prime weezy feature from him

browser

1y

Yes but not how you’re implying

Nigga just picked his character outta nowhere lol

BRAVE

1y

Drake is hiphop. Drake is also a***ogous to Madonna. One does not cancel out the other just cause niggas wanna emasculate Drake and strip him of his blackness by making underhanded comparisons to white female popstars and claiming he isn’t a part of hiphop

Zero

1y

Theres nothing black about him, hes a white jewish boy that does cosplay

He was saying the n word wrong for years, you see his real self in interviews. Using slang is unnatural to him, he couldn't even explain his own f***ing song title spin bout u

Zero

1y

Theres nothing black about him, hes a white jewish boy that does cosplay

He was saying the n word wrong for years, you see his real self in interviews. Using slang is unnatural to him, he couldn't even explain his own f***ing song title spin bout u

Zero

1y

Theres nothing black about him, hes a white jewish boy that does cosplay

He was saying the n word wrong for years, you see his real self in interviews. Using slang is unnatural to him, he couldn't even explain his own f***ing song title spin bout u

browser

1y

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

slime wrld

1y

The only video about drake that could actually make you think twice as a fan. Honestly i get it, he influenced some of the worst we get today not just music, but the business. And it’s why he truly is a Jay-z disciple. He’s like oppenheimer. His science used for the worst

browser

1y

And since 2009 he’s had the perception that he’s more of a singer than rapper which is the root of this convo lol

He’s not the only light skin rapper to where people only do that (you’re not hip hop because you have a white mother) to him lmao. J Cole has a white mother and niggas would never say he’s not hip hop. Because he f***in raps way more than he dabbled in melody which again is what “Drake isn’t hip hop” is rooted in lol

That’s not even getting into the weird s*** Drake has done and said regarding race unprovoked if you wanted to take it there fr lol

overcast

1y

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.

RalphFolarin

1y

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.

BrickellBayside

1y

While I understand this, I'm not rolling.

So you're saying unless you have nigga hair, eat nigga food, and exist in urban environments you can't be of Hip-Hop culture? I guess man.

There's a video of him as a teenage with a CD folder full of OG hip-hop records.

By this ideology though, I suppose he and a lot of other people aren't Hip-Hop.

browser

1y

And since 2009 he’s had the perception that he’s more of a singer than rapper which is the root of this convo lol

He’s not the only light skin rapper to where people only do that (you’re not hip hop because you have a white mother) to him lmao. J Cole has a white mother and niggas would never say he’s not hip hop. Because he f***in raps way more than he dabbled in melody which again is what “Drake isn’t hip hop” is rooted in lol

That’s not even getting into the weird s*** Drake has done and said regarding race unprovoked if you wanted to take it there fr lol

BrickellBayside

1y

This is just not true.

His catalogue is more Hip-Hop than any other genre by far.

overcast

1y

nigga food? nigga hair?
I could be wrong but I'm going to assume you're from the suburbs and feel personally attacked a bit.

BrickellBayside

1y

Man what are you talking about

I asked what Hip-Hop was since Drake not hip-hop and you talking about some billboard s*** gang lol

Dino

1y

Idk but I just found a prime weezy feature from him

Black Smoke

1y

i see why niggas be calling drake "white" now. i also understand why he dont think its a big deal that he put on blackface