Pop is an insult in Hip Hop.

it does tho

The man has been flooding the market with back to back albums till this day

Clb 2021
HNM 2022
Her Loss 2022
FATD 2023

& there’s nothing wrong with that but for him he‘s constantly dropping because he constantly wants to be in the conversation

That’s the formula of a pop artist

Nostalgia

Drake’s music thematically is about nostalgia which is one of the reasons he’s as popular as he is today

Dunno why people act like you gotta have some super conscious meaning behind every single track you lay. Drake has plenty of relatable and inspirational music from his come up and although a lot of that is gone now (which makes complete sense considering his stature) there’s nothing wrong with good music for the sake of being good. Not everyone wants all their music to be deep some people just wanna put some s*** on that sounds good while chillin, goin to the gym, working, at a party whatever and Drake got tracks for all of it

Nah. Wayne was dropping all the time and there’s no world where he’s pop

True he should disappear for 5 years and train thaiboxing in brazil as a real rapper

Drake has good music but Mos Def is right. Lol

Wayne definitely dove into the pop realm

Anyone saying he wasn’t at his peak don’t understand what it means to be pop

Like yea Drake doesn’t have the old stereotypical rapper background, and from that perspective very early on the odds were stacked against him, but pretty much after YM signing he skyrocketed and stayed up. He’s definitely been the guy or at least top 3 in any discussion since like 2013-2014 at this point. So that underdog angle is just a moot point in 2024.

He was trying to be shady. Even the sarcastic way he said “likeable”

No cap this would be awesome

He could come back and fight Push

Yeah he's stopped caring about getting props from legends. I think Hov subs and Ye being self-destructively competitive player a part in that.

Yup thatd make him hiphop

Were niggas calling Wayne pop and acting like he wasn’t hip hop?

No rapper wants to be in the BTS Ariana Grande bracket 😭

This is an insanely disrespectful thing to say about a rap legend wtf

change this site to Drake To The at this point

Drake is easily above Andre and Lauryn to me, I consider them group members and don’t even ever say their name outside of a group context

I’m fine with being the minority opinion. I know this s*** better than the majority and I’m not going to fall in line with overrating people without solo material, and also can’t pretend drake is really “hip hop” like that anymore. And I think it’s mostly because he’s canadian, idk if I’ve ever heard actual hip hop made outside the US

Wayne definitely had a pop era, are you serious?

he said y'all boys out here banging pom poms lol

that being said drake prob gonna fry him up lol

His opinion must be true because he’s a dusty old head who’s music I used to enjoy

So when he was flooding the game with mixtapes and taking peoples beats he was pop? I can’t get behind that.

Drake not really pop either tbh. He’s hip hop through and through but the real reason a lot of people are reluctant to call him hip hop is because of his background tbh

Not true at all lol

Lotta rappers under 25 are okay with it and they're the ones actually innovating instead of worrying about how real they look to oldheads