Tilia

2y

Who has?

Prez

2y

it has the quality to be a major hit. it's so good and the video is so good.

but objectively it was not a "major" hit

Valentine

2y

He just gonna lock it cause he don’t like chat threads without new information unless it’s tied to an upcoming album or something

Tilia

2y

Who has?

Bro0o0ses

2y

I would also give Drake 75% of the credit for not like us

That song wasn't going anywhere if it wasn't about him

Kojimbo

2y

Do u know what a diss track is

Bro0o0ses

2y

Yeah people diss for attention all the time

I support the decision it worked out really well for him

thegreatdivine

2y

I don't think Drake has stopped being influential because the music industry, like most other industries, is based on seeing what the major acts do and then copying them.

Even on Scorpion, Drake was still inspiring other artists. Bounce was a very massive sound in New Orleans and has always been but Drake was the first artist to bring it to the forefront of mainstream music like he did and he did it with not one but TWO major number one smash hits. After those songs, it was mad artists like Chris Brown trying their hand at bounce music (to no success). But that's just another example of how he continues to inspire.

People will ALWAYS try to mimic and copy what they see someone else try and be successful at. That's just how the world works.

And while I don't think Drake is the driving creative force in rap anymore, it doesn't mean people still don't look to him and what he does. As for Drake, I think he spends more time trying his hand at already established sounds now and is less concerned with spear-heading new s*** but that's okay because he's spent more time than anyone else being the creative leader of the genre. It would be ridiculous to expect him to continue being that for the rest of his career and he's still making great music regardless.

BRAVE

2y

Yeah bless his heart with that reply shoutout to him but anyway, Drake never brought a mass of new hiphop fans. This isn’t even something slow burning or hidden when it happens: not when NWA did it, Kanye did it, Em did it, Kendrick did it. It was pretty f***ing obvious that they brought in new hiphop fans with certain projects - often to them being berated for the ‘demographics’ they brought in

This has never happened with Drake. And you really know too cause, well…young niggas never went “oh I wanna rap like Drake” either lol

LongLiveHipHop

2y

Thread got me

Thøm Björk

2y

So much revisionist history in here knife talk
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Jimmy cooks
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