so why are we condemming drake for being succesful at it when we know goats have tried it before but were unsuccessful due to how the music industry was set up. Drake is a hip hop artist, the difference is he is a hip hop artist during an era where hip hop can technically be #1 instead of just culturally. Hov's first #1 hit was Empire state of mind, if he had streaming numbers his entire career he woulda went pop after vol 1

we aint talking about mos def

I signed a NDA I can't say.

man shut the f*** up dumbass

chord progressions, song structure…

The whole discussion of is drake pop or not came back up because of mos def, no?

No one took that mos def s*** seriously. It’s more about the jokes. His wording was funny.

Imagine thinking Drake doesn’t bar up. Just about the only artist who gives you immaculate 4 minute no hook 100 bar verses as promo for his upcoming album.

since Drake is on hiatus for the year, should KTT follow suit with making threads about him? what would the repercussions be? will there be peace amongst the land? would the forum just be completely f***in dead? and i wonderrrrr........

im talking about as a whole tbh

No Kev post yet

<3 Drake

@Kev

bro this is what im saying

who tf else is doing this at his level?

drake stands apart from the rest of hip hop for more reasons than being the biggest star longer than anyone else. no one has gotten the fame drake has specifically because he went pop among some other reasons

he's also not threatening at all, drakes whole image fits snuggly into what american culture wants. and don't even bring up his rebrand into a thug, no one actually thinks drake is dangerous. the people around him are dangerous and thats completely different

It's all just because he got really popular and then focused on music to make him more popular, that's it

I grew up with Drake, was early on his s***, and loved it all till views. I will say he was a b**** for the delays and then just dropping that, I don't like it at all I legit hate it more each listen

The Heart Part 5 didn’t drop before Mr. Morale?

Then what’s the point of the thread?

People hate on Drake, people love Drake we know

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stay on the topic nigga

i don’t understand how Drake is the greatest and most popular artist ever and simultaneously the underdog that everyone picks on and no one respects

it’s like a new narrative depending on the day

That’s not what niggas know him for or go to his catalogue for

Yeah Kendrick is the epitome of hip hop.

I said “just about the only”

There are others. Drake learned that from Wayne.

Just saying that Drizzy has been giving us album level loosies since day 1, consistently, year after year. Very hip hop.

drake being family friendly is one of the reasons he's labeled pop

why do we constantly discredit arguably the purest rapper of our time just cause he be singing

if anything him incorporating rnb is beyond important to hip hop

so jcole (who is deadass just drake with dreads) and kendrick lamar's approachable ass aint family friendly?

niggas def go to future to be in they feelings as much as they do to turn up....

his best album is a rnb project lets not f***ing do this rn

It’s obnoxious, like which one is it lmao