Yeah years ago you had a lot of drake "clones". Almost as many as Thug does today. There's no denying drake shifted rap, but that was years ago. Very unlikely he can do it again

nah f*** that can you believe damn was almost 5 years ago

Definitely do so! cause it's fire and honestly it's held up

people just still on those dusty cole memes lol

idk if were being totally real I still think we’re in the drake era

Still in a drake era.

He introduced the singing rap style that's gone on for more than decade essentially. He was one of the most influential for that.

Nah... We're in the Thug era imo

But thug definitely birthed all these guys like Keed, Gunna, Baby

i honestly dont see drake losing his spot unless he gyves it up

if Drake went Indie and did everything based upon an artist - consumer formula through self promotion/ social media

the ENTIRE Industry would follow

Especially looking forward to a new Drake & Kendrick album.

J Cole is great but he hasn’t dropped a ‘classic’ since 2014. His early output is up there though. So I’ma still listen.

But Kendrick & Drake are gonna shift the paradigm 4 Real

Bone thugs, Nelly, and many others say hello

yeah but they werent on that dark s***

Lol Drake has literally dropped generic and uninspired trap music for the past few years and every single feature he's done is same vein, good or not. He's clearly not interested in any "artistic innovation" or change. Nobody else in music/rap can alter the general sound of the genre but him. No need to mention anyone else. Kendrick can't do it, and neither can Cole.

just say you didn’t listen to DLDT

What u mean by dark?

Nelly wasn't ever considered a "rapper" like that and Bone Thugs wasn't at the absolute top and had everyone focused on them.

Roddy rich, carti, uzi, we can keep going

sorta that etheral late night strip club sound that 40 and drake made w sfg

obviously its evolved a lot but i still think its influence is being felt to this day

Carti hell no wtf lmfao

Uzi??? what? that's definitely keef and roddy maybe

Exactly. Drake was getting s*** for being "soft" for years cause he was one of the first "guys to talk about emotion" that went mainstream in rap like that

@Allen_Iverson

Name your rap line-up right now then for top trending artists

literally the two most respected conscious rappers of the 2010s...

Uzi's break out hit WDYW was originally called "Thugger Voice" look it up. And carti was keef influenced too but he got his baby voice and slime lingo from thug

drake might honestly be spitting at the highest caliber he ever has

TC drake wasn’t dropping it on them like THAT :whew

lol what. Pain 1993 is a wave riding attempt on Carti's vibe, so much so that nobody even thought it was Drake's song... Just Carti's featuring him. DLDT is the most "of the moment" music Drake has ever made... Wave rode drill, wave rode plugg beats, wave rode tik tok tailored rap... Ya'll stay d***riding. Nothing changed with any of his singles either. He dropped three songs that nobody is checking for now and that are nothing more than solid.