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    The Canadian, biracial, Jewish, middle-class, former child actor has reshaped rap, pop, and the masculinity wars.

    vox.com/culture/23785854/drake-rap-21-savage-it-all-a-blur-tour-poetry

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    Damn papi really paying for positive articles

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    Quite simply one of the most important musical figures of all time. It’s just that simple

  • Jbreezyondeck

    Quite simply one of the most important musical figures of all time. It’s just that simple

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    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

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    Jul 18, 2023

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    Vietbrah

    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

    That book sounds good…

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    TTU

    That book sounds good…

    Yeah it was pretty informative when I read it a decade ago, worth a read

  • We won

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    Vietbrah

    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

    imagine if he was triracial w a lil asian in him..

    bts would be working at lotte burger right now

  • Jul 18, 2023
    Jbreezyondeck

    Quite simply one of the most important musical figures of all time. It’s just that simple

  • CKL TML 🌺
    Jul 18, 2023

    The rapper’s mainstream success has always hit a nerve within the hip-hop industry.

    This is why they keep dissing him for no reason @Miltdawg

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    Vietbrah

    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

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    PAPI NIGGA DAVE

    Damn papi really paying for positive articles

    gotta keep that same energy for K. dot

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    thewb39

    gotta keep that same energy for K. dot

    We talking bout papi now boo

  • CKL TML 🌺
    Jul 18, 2023

    “We’ve seen him reinvent himself sometimes even on the same album. He’s always evolving, even as a current project rolls on,” says journalist and former Essence features editor Brooklyn White. ”It’s easy to become stale and complacent as a creative, and he hasn’t done that.”

  • Jul 18, 2023

    Great

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    Vietbrah

    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

    The Shohei Ohtani of the music industry.

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    “If you do forensic audits of all of these women he’s name-dropping who he’s dated, who he’s had flings with — it’s all Black women. There’s something to be said about that. Black women to a point probably take in his music as if he’s singing directly to and about them.”

    forensic a***ysis levels of cockwatching
    puts ktt2 users to shame

  • CKL TML 🌺
    Jul 18, 2023

    Great read

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    proper

    imagine if he was triracial w a lil asian in him..

    bts would be working at lotte burger right now

    Lotteria

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    krishna bound

    “If you do forensic audits of all of these women he’s name-dropping who he’s dated, who he’s had flings with — it’s all Black women. There’s something to be said about that. Black women to a point probably take in his music as if he’s singing directly to and about them.”

    forensic a***ysis levels of cockwatching
    puts ktt2 users to shame

    This is so crazy saying “that’s crazy” doesn’t even do it justice

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    TTU

    This is so crazy saying “that’s crazy” doesn’t even do it justice

    auditing the women a man sleeps with

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    krishna bound

    auditing the women a man sleeps with

    Serious sack watching a*** ysis

  • Vietbrah

    “It would be next to impossible for another musician from anywhere in the world to mimic or copy what Drake has done,” says Dalton Higgins, a Toronto Metropolitan University professor and author of Far from Over: The Music and Life of Drake. “He’s the textbook definition of a ‘unicorn.’ When you tick off all the boxes — Canadian, biracial, Jewish, grew up middle-class, a former child actor, and so on — you can’t deny his inherent ability to appeal to the widest swath of humanity.”

    Adonis gonna become president of the world