Oui c’est vrai :)

pause but we know how sticky it gets

Who has?

He don’t challenge himself to make new waves anymore when it come to the mainstream stuff

HNVM was it if he rapped. Time for him to get weird man

And on that note I’d personally say Sticky but im sure it wasn’t that big if im first nigga to say it. And being fair that is another issue its just not 2011-2016 anymore Kendrick aside

Lets do Kanye and Wayne next lol hell Kendrick pre NLU

I said it 5 minutes ago

How did you hear it public spaces in April 2020 when it dropped

It’s probably rich baby daddy

Are you saying drake never inspired others to make music nor bring new listeners?

Toosie Slide is the closest thing to a cultural hit he has had

It’s interesting that love him for it or hate it he had a large hand in blowing up dancehall type of music for the mainstream I.e American audience and has pretty much completely moved on from it since beyond HNVM’s mix of house and Afro beats

Any other artist woulda rode that wave into the sun especially since it’s bigger than it was when he kinda “put it on” for a wider audience. Wonder if he returns to it on the next project/ the PND joint. I could def see a song like that being a smash hit for them two

I mean...people still went outside.

We just masked up and socially distanced.

How did you go outside when lockdown was March 2020 and people weren’t let back outside unless it was for essential jobs? I didn’t see anyone until June when I was let back to work so unless you went to a speakeasy…which doesn’t speak for outside

I think this is the closest in recent years

Organic sleeper hit

Kendrick hasn’t had a hit in the vein im talking about since 2017-2018 ish until NLU lmao it’s easier to measure for him since he went on hiatus and it’s not shade. He hasn’t dropped as much

Easier to discuss it with Drake since he’s dropped soooo much music comparatively

Kanye would be a good thread tho could argue Carnival maybe

That song was big big everywhere

Tell me the time, since you know. With the artists and how Drake was the trigger. Even Ak couldn’t do this so I’d love to be proven wrong

This is a stupid post. Steph Curry wasn't the first basketball player to shoot the 3 but to argue that he didn't revolutionize the 3 and take it further than anyone else before him ever did is being disingenuous. That's what Drake did for melodic rap.

Kanye’s last hit was Famous and pt. 1 before carnival

Imagine saying this while Kanye, Future, Thug, T-Pain and Wayne are right there. Even today Drake doing his best Yachty/Durk impressions

I can say it because Drake did it on a much bigger scale and for much longer. He's STILL doing it. You can be disingenuous all you want. The reason So Far Gone and Take Care were so impactful is because it has Drake using rap and melody in a way NO ONE else had before him. By 2012, he'd completely changed the sound of rap. It was niggas rushing to use his producers to mimic his sound and it was niggas trying to rap like him. Even some R&B singers started singing like him despite being much more capable singers because that style of singing (his style) was what was captivating audiences at the time. Y'all not about to change the literal history we all lived through.

Y'all love to be disingenuous when it comes to Drake and take away from all he's done but y'all have gotta stop. This man has been a culturally dominant force for almost 2 decades and got a huge chunk of that time, he was also the leading creative force.

Laugh now cry later

Carnival was huge i mean first number 1 in like 20 years is something else

Would you argue against the idea that his grip/ influence in the way you’re describing here ended with/ after More Life?

Put Dancehall/ Afro beats on for wider (and whiter) audiences, kinda started the playlist 20+ song throw every sort of song on the album and let people take what they like thing that a lot of hip hop does now, had everyone glued to Apple Music radio (really fun era honestly) etc.

Scorp was a bigger album ofc but I don’t think it was culturally influential in the way Drake was before it. Had his biggest hits ofc tho which is why I made the thread questioning if he’s had anything similarly big since

Again, this is the best way to understand Drake's impact on the sound of rap and r&b. You don't have to be the first to do something to completely revolutionize something for an entirely new generation of people. The same way Steph revolutionized the three and now has the entire league shooting way more threes than ever before because he was the most dynamic, popular and impactful player with the three as his go-to move is what Drake did with melody in rap.

It doesn't matter who you mention before Drake who also used melody because none of them were as massive and as impactful as he was and none of them have had a run at the biggest, most visible act at the forefront of a genre the way he has.

They worked for that #1 yeah but it also fell off super quick. Definitely a hit tho not backed by labels either iirc Kanye was independent by V1?