Sep 27, 2015 So much uninformed opinions on Drake. What else could i expect from his fans.. Drake is a marketing PRODUCT.
Sep 27, 2015 yes. drake is personal the way drunk texts from frat bros are personal. other than the "look what you've done"s and a handful of other songs, he's confessional only in a way that's designed to appeal to a wide swath of people. he isn't scarface. let me stop you right there. we'll get to the why in a minute, but no one was "hesitant" to sign drake. there was a huge bidding war that took place before So Far Gone. he was courted aggressively by all four major label parent companies and essentially given his choice of imprint beyond that. he was the hottest boardroom commodity since the six-month window when 50 cent got hot post-columbia and pre-interscope. this is simply, flatly wrong. 808s was out. kid cudi was out. College Dropout had come out a half-decade before. wale had a major deal. t.i.'s single was "whatever you like." t-pain was huge. mainstream rap had moved almost fully into skinny-jeans-and-emotional-vulnerability territory. drake was perfectly engineered to be a star at the end of the decade. he was offered it and turned it down, because he was already too famous for it.
Sep 27, 2015 LOL! Fear, Successful, The Calm, Say Whats Real, Look What You've Done, The Resistance, The Ride, You & the Six. You might not like his particular style.... but to suggest Drake isn't one of the more personal rappers in the entire industry, and hasn't been willing to be open and emotional since his come up....you're just being obtuse. I'm going off of your words that he is a completely industry made individual with no depth. That was your claim, not mine. The fact that you acknowledge a song like Look What You've Done already bodies your own argument. And since you're arguing about perceived intent to touch mainstream audience on a feaux-personal level, instead of using an argument you can actually substantiate is kind of telling. Just don't be so hyperbolic and you won't have to try to go out and prove yourself with black under your eyes and a football helmet when someone points it out. Okay, I'll rephrase. The industry, and fans in general, were apprehensive to support Drake from his inception like you are trying to say. He wasn't the Drake he is today instantly. He had to take his lumps and have everyone call him soft, a wannabe, simp, light-skinned and all the stereotypical things that come with that, etc. He was encroaching into an industry that he felt pressured him to pick. Rap, or sing. He didn't and that's what made him successful, which he has gone on record to say was the advice of his father. So while labels may have recognized his marketability, like they do with countless artists, that doesn't mean he was widely accepted as who he was, and was just willing to allow the industry to mold him into whoever they wanted him to be. That's r-----ed. College Dropout? Are you serious? No one considered Kanye a singer-rapper. That's why 808s was such a big controversy. ANd Drake was making music before 808s. I know for a fact comeback season was out well before that, and I'm fairly certain So Far Gone was, as well. If not, its kind of moot considering Comeback Season was. If you're going to try to say that Drake's personal style has no impact on the industry at all right now you are simply lying through your teeth, there's no way you can believe that. Kanye himself disagrees with you, and has said as much. I mean you can make the argument that other people paved the way for him to be him. But what is your point exactly? YOu can say that for literally any artist and make a legitimate argument. You're hating. In no way does that make him a completely industry formed drone with no personal tracks or depth. Your salty retort and legion of groupies doesn't make you right. Also, you literally need to review the definition of the word literally.
Feb 22, 2017 In an era where "rap" artists release crap on Worldstar and consider it be "I made it", Drake is truly a success. Times have changed.
