It's complicated. All 3 rappers have plenty of Black fans.

But I think their styles sound wise and look wise aren't as easy to replicate or capture the essence of compared to Future, Thugger, and Keef.

Wayne, Keef, and Waka lowkey brought dreads back in style in the early 2010's. And Wayne's bars were very direct punchlines that you could get off the bat whereas Kendrick/Cole's lyrics are more abstract and Drake himself said that his way of delivering punchlines was inspired by Wayne.

And Future basically controls nightlife in many parts of urban America, in many cases more than Drake. 21 Savage even directly said this in his interview with Akademiks. And AK was shocked that people in Atlanta listened to Future more than Drake and kept doubting him.

People have to understand that many people in the streets listen to music passively. There's passionate music fans but, a lot of times, people just listen to whatever resonates the most. There's parts of the South where people feel Boosie and UGK are better than Jay-Z and the Wu Tang Clan and it's all because their music just resonates with the South more.

It's hard to explain like I said but it's not that serious cause they still have a major Black following.

Cause we largely haven’t aspired to sound or look like the big 3 since they’ve been the top dawgs. Drake obviously pushed melodic rapping and rappers doing their own crossover effort hooks farther than any other rapper in history, and that’s a huge impact on the creative approach to the game we still see today. But in terms of clear stylistic influence? The black male youth that represents the culture fr don’t look to the big 3 like that

But we all listen to them and love them anyway so it’s all good

Edit: read your question wrong, so the reason why they don’t is simply cause their branding and production are too adult and understated to have such appeal (Drake is more fun presenting and youthful than the other two in this regard but still not to the point he’d really have this appeal either). We’re gonna be inspired by more colorful and expressive sounding and looking s***. Bigger personalities, rebellious energy, youthful abandon, exciting fashion, bouncy production - the antithesis of the big 3 as we’ve come to know them. Something interesting I’ve observed tho is that our sistas in music take more direct influence from Drake and Cole

Damn you’re counting down the days huh? If his output from 2022-23 are anything to go by he has to have at least double that

counting down the days for what? and I think he'll slow it down a lot now so that his albums become events again. just a guess man idk

7 more for the record so he can get the bigger than Michael/Beatles flex

i wanted to troll but ill answer this seriously

he has none

Pretty sure his next album will be similar to views and hopefully starts teasing this summer. Having another one dance and controlla song on there. Album name who knows

drake an audio terrorist at this point

True true.

Scares the hoes too

he gonna drop atleast 20 albums this decade

the promotion for every album is gonna be "the old drake"

Idk but if he does continue dropping albums which he most likely will I hope he really steps away from trying to appeal to casuals because they don’t respect him or appreciate him. He’s basically a meme to most people and the industry pretty much uses him for clout and clickbait

He needs to focus on feeding those who actually appreciate his talent, his output in 2022 was a good example of that

Man can’t believe that HNM and HL will be 2 this year

he’s about the same age kanye was when yeezus dropped

he still has many more great years to offer

you think 13 albums in 5 years thats a little wild

i’m gonna say 2 more studio albums and then he’s gonna come back with a collab album

Views was the last good Drake album if we’re keeping it real.

For… him making music. You seemed firm on the number 4 at first so I was just curious.

Well he’s dropped 2 albums a year the past 2 years so that would be at least 10 in the next 5 years but that’s a very rigid estimate and if he were to stop making music it would probably be much less than that comes to think of it.

I said probably not firm on that number at all

I think in general people overestimate how invested the average person is in listening to music. It's an extremely casual and mostly social experience for a lot of people, and I guess if the market is showing that it's way easier for someone following Thug/Keef/Future's blueprint to find commercial success than a Kendrick or Cole, then that won't help either

3

I say he got another 15 years in him. Maybe another 10 to 15 projects in that time span.

minus 2

Great response

I’ll also add onto this that futures aesthetic has timed well with rise of the red pill movement and MGTOW, and hoodville culture