What I find so baffling is that -- despite everything we know about how deceptive and manipulative these industries can be -- people _still_ believe that sales = talent. Drake won the popularity contest, not the talent show.
He probably wrote the first demo song himself, if you watch older videos before he was commercially rapping, his lyrics were really corny. Which makes sense given his upbringing.
Most rappers are actors. I often compare the music industry and rap in particular to professional wrestling. The wrestlers are actually physically throwing each other around, they can still get hurt, it's not a easy thing but...it's a show, it's entertainment. Same with the "rap" industry, sure, some of these guys come from the hood but everything is staged and driven by executives just to make money and in part socially engineer a target audience.
It’s Drake’s fault he isn’t celebrated as a “black” artist by Afro people. J. Cole is also biracial but he goes out of his way to uplift the community, celebrate the community, and critique the community. So he is celebrated more for his blackness. I don’t think it’s fair for Drake to complain when Drake rarely talks about the community unless it involves hip hop
He addressed ur exact point in his recent interview acknowledging that him not speaking up enough plays a role but he also said that he’s always been someone that prefers actually doing things instead of posting about it. Also that he prefers talking about these issues amongst his close friends. I agree with u but I also understand that it’s not for everyone to b outspoken on social media about things yk.
Emmanuel Crepin yeah I’m okay with him not being outspoken and putting in action but to try to throw black people under the bus like we’re not just accepting just because is not cool.
You guys do know that it’s supposed to be a mix of music like his old albums right? He literally put a video of what CLB is supposed to be in December of last year guess everyone just forgot since they’re so ignorant
@@tshepomkhumbeni1595 You should go asked them and find out WHY. Like you should go asked them right now. LIKE GO ASK THEM RIGHT NOW. NNOOWW!! L🙃L Just making an observation just like you foo, but go aske them....... now
The crazy part is not about the thumbnail change, the crazy part is that this man called Drake an actor portraying a rapper, the same thing Kendrick accused him of in this recent beef.
Drake has been called a fake and an actor portraying a rapper since the beginning, it's no surprise Kdot took that angle as people already knew deep down it's kinda true
@@louisf2654Drake fans are still in denial and are trying to deflect it by spamming propaganda about Drake winning "game 2" and they (especially Fatademiks) would try to spin a narrative to make Kdot look bad and Drake look good. His fans are calling Drake the new "Tupac" or even better.🤦🏾♂️
Fake written all over you Hate written all over you Smiling faces Sometimes pretend to be your friend Smiling faces show no traces Of the evil that lurks within (Can you dig it?)
Fr I always wonder especially with artists like say Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish.. is their music blowing up cos people love it - or is it because they’re there to “Stan” an artist?
@@ChaceBonanno Yes being fan means sending death threats to people who don't have the same opinion as you do. I don't think you quite undertsnadt what a stan is. Listen to the song again and maybe you'll get it lmao
I think Drake doesnt realise he speaks as if he's isnt of a black background, No fault of Drakes his mother brought him up and he wasnt around anyone "black" His father .But Drake falls on the side of his African American father to suit his agenda , that is problematic as hes not Genuine as he changes styles accents and has no real sound as he does jump on the next hot artist or on the next feature. His Ego Clouds his need for staying relevant as hes nit as big as Yes men tell him sadly. Lies on his own father so ,he said in a song only one I love is" my Mom and my bed" . He is Unauthenyic and it's trying to stay on top and its breaking him internally.
@Onouphrios honestly i didn’t even hate it, from his perspective its really just fucking hard to make good music period. but it was a far cry from something like Nothing Was The Same or IYRTITL.
@Onouphrios yeah I hear you. I haven’t been a Drake fan since his earlier work, but it’s Drake so you’re going to hear it eventually so might as well. I was super underwhelmed, even with the catchy bars, and you can tell he just wanted to put out major hits for sales and such. It was just…typical. Expected
artists who get big whilst not actually arranging/producing their own music should be seen as part of a team rather than solo. the army of people that work hard to actually write the music don't get enough recognition. rapping is still an impressive skill but it's more genuine when they can make their own tracks too.
@@froogsleegs The artist is the star, but yeah you have a point. Some hip hop engineers have also started putting tags on their productions. Usually in hip hop songs, 2-3 people, are involved in the creation of a song…
I think he’s struggling to find himself again because his current star power kind of strips him of his humanity. He’s become more of a brand than a person and it fucks with him. I’m not a Stan or anything but I feel like he’s just trying to please the fans because he can’t take the criticism he receives imo
Yeah and i cant imagine the type of canadian politicians drake moves with, rappers talk about how theyre on a no-fly list due to associated with gangs/ murder its crazy drake in an instant gets people cleared. Thats type of reach means you gotta watch what you say. Dude can be canceled for anything at this point but still remains. Interesting video and top comment!
Drake is the Michael Jackson of this generation of hip hop. Im not saying hes that good. Im saying this generation is that fake exploited remade unoriginal and terrible. Nobody on top of this era is living out what their spittin out. Money is the only credibility. What young male artist is making concious struggle music defining an era as a poet? Is the story we tell in 30 years about this era of hip hop really Drake was the one bad apple in a half way decent original genre altogether? Listen to the song 'The city is mine' one more time. Jay was being belittling about his only use for those collaborations and the top spot as a brand. The video was actually quite clever.
unlike people like Kendrick he has to alter is stylistic ability to become commercial however Kendrick had always been that way and after he became popular, and had not lost his train of consciousness
@@hmmaaa Lmao that song is okay, but it still falls victim to the same issues that most mainstream music does. Very repetitive and lyrically simplistic. I think you need to broaden your musical horizons if you think that's the pinnacle of music. Go listen to other genres as well. Maybe some jazz, classical, metal or rock.
@@hmmaaawasn’t half of Take Care taken from The Weeknd? Some of his early stuff was good, not great. He made simple shit, and he still does but at least back then it had some quality and he wasn’t pretending to be an actual weirdo
I'm ole school. With that being said not that much into drake, but I do know who Larry Graham is. Never knew they were related, but looking at his dad. It makes sense. Thanks for sharing bruh!!!💪👍✌
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way! I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
I don’t listen to Drake but I don’t hate on him nether… Drake’s biggest force is his voice. Most of his song are just his voice, a single track with no adlibs. He’s a singer, a rapper and girls like his face. So that’s it. HE SELLS
@@softlifesarah Not movies, he means their entire life is an act (which would also be true of Eminem not so much Pac). Professional wrestling and rap are basically the same everyone is an inflated version of a fabricated character.
It’s crazy how easy his come up actually was lmao A classmate basically got him an agent, the agent immediately gets him on a television show & he gets 7 seasons out of it, then he puts out a couple mixed tapes….& boom, J Prince’s son discovers him on social media 😂😂 No struggle AT ALL
@@isitoveryet9525 You thinking that J Prince just discovered him by random is the funny part. You people didn't do enough studying because that's the public story. You see the nice guy look on him and it makes you think he didn't have a street life prior to hip hop. Also, he wrote for Dr Dre before he got signed by J Prince and Cash Money sooo. Just because you're in a tv show doesn't mean that you won't be in the streets. The mafia played that card well
I think it's crazy that when Drake first started he was viewed as somewhat unique but now all of his music is viewed as some of the most generic music from the last 15 years.
@@Pyrohawk Where you get this lie from?? He the biggest stealer of them all from flows to dances, and the signing rapping wasn't his he not the first to do anything, jumpstart off popular shit
@@quizzyquandadon9289 that line is cap, but I would argue that Drake did introduce a “different sound” compared to the rappers around him at the time he blew up. He spoke audibly, and annunciated his words, and he was doing R&B singing, while also rapping. Drake has fallen far but we still need to get him the credit he deserves for the good stuff.
i honestly feel bad for people who are made to feel bad for having an “easy childhood” people don’t need to have an extremely difficult past to be creative or excepted… even if you don’t have a super hard childhood, everyone has their struggles.
@@likeandsharedeeznutsbruh2845 divorced parents with absent dad. Identity crisis, not black enough nor white enough. Not exactly cushy suburban life is it 🤷🏻♂️
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way! I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
@@cIiffe Oh so I guess its subjective, cause I feel like Drake is fine dining and Kendrick and Cole seem more like a Fat Burger or Mcdonalds. More down to earth
the saddest thing is being a total Drake Stan, relating unbelievably to his early work, the vulnerability, the self-awareness, and then seeing the artist you idolize slowly fade way and give rise to this EveryMan Global SuperStar Grifty TrendHopper Forever Young type of dude. It's a mind fuck and heartbreaking, but a great lesson in maturity I guess
You know what’s so funny bro drake is literally the only person that gets deemed for helping Afro beats uk beats and hopping on styles and putting rappers on. But anytime Jay z did that with kanye rihanna etc and kanye would do that when Travis Scott cudi came up ppl look that in a good way of putting ppl on. Especially Hear in the UK when we don’t get recognized as much for our artist when drake came to section boys concert with skepta instead of being at the brits when he was notimayed is literally a cultrual moment for us. Or when he put on giggs on his album twice . Or when he did a song with headie or Dave 4 years ago before he was famous man eveyeone in the uk actually fw drake for that but ppl in the US get mad at him for putting uk artist on and then get mad when drake says he likes to perform in Uk the most cuz the fans are way more lit which is actually a fact anytime a US artists actually go oversees they get way more love then where they actually stay at .
@@Kofi419_in this day and age people find hating on anything popular, cool and being different. The more hate the popular thing sees, the cooler it is to hate
@@Kofi419_ The same can be said about indulging in the lives of their idols. I like Trippie Redd's music, but I'm not scouring the internet for his life story or following him on any single social media platform. How grown men obsess over other men baffles me. But these the same dudes who pay an arm and a leg to watch a bunch of dudes play with a ball, and go back and forth about strangers they'll never even meet. Idolatry.
The Weeknd* (Yes I know, but that's how we XOs do) I mean, without him, Drake would die in the beginning (I mean he wouldn't blow up as much and start to write and sound a bit better) and vice versa. Without these Take Care features he wouldn't be AS known (he was still making quite some fuss with the mixtapes)
Wow I never thought about it like this. Drake is so good at acting that he's playing the role of a rapper in real life? Geez...mind blowing. Give this man an Oscar for his biggest role! Good content right here, I gotta subscribe. Thanks for posting keep up the good work.
jake i just gotta say, i absolutely applaud you for quitting your job and being your own boss. the videos you create are so good and i can tell that you put tons of effort into them. keep on hustling, you WILL make it (in my opinion you already have!)
@@fuziontonygaming I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way! I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
Yea money like that brings a lot of power wether people like it or not. And we know for a fact that Drake does keep some goons around him. Chubbs, Preme, Baka Not Nice, Fif who was gunned down a few years ago. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
Yea I think he needs to reconsider what being a rapper means to him, his latest project doesnt really stand out and it seems he just wants to make money nowadays, so I hope he can come back later with a new perspective on things and a project that actually means something
@@lethalspecter I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way! I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! #aComedybyec Dating app
There's also the OVO factory technique. He's basically the strongest and most controlling toronto musician. You have no idea the absolute influence he has in Toronto. It's damn near messed up.
You're Completely right...Roy Woods, Majid Jordan, DVSN, Popcaan, Baka Not Nice & the latest edition Smiley (Makkonen 2.0) He signs all the Toronto/GTA Talent...features on 1-2 singles for them but then never promotes or pushes their projects to the forefront. It Seems like Aubrey collects these artists under his OVO Sound roster so he can keep them in his back pocket for when he needs them / doesn't have any competition to deal with when he's back home in the "6ix" (48 laws of power move) ++ The new up and coming Toronto Rappers are dying to get noticed and approved from "Drizzy" or by the main OVO crew, which is pretty fuckin sad to say the least - no one is willing to go against the grain...to reject the "Sound" and forge a new musical force within Toronto. That's why I fuxked with Tory Lanez & his 1 Umbrella Movement but that shit fizzled as soon as Aubrey neutralized that so called "beef".
Drake is the Apple of the hip-hop scene: it's not that there's anything particularly innovative about him compared to similar artists, but his music is well packaged and regardless of what enthusiasts think about his music, he still gets the most listens when he drops something new, and likely will for a while.
@@simonbright2975 Because there was a gap in the market with Intel's chip performance sucking, so Apple took advantage of the opportunity/had no choice, depending on who you ask. There's probably a drake parallel there, but I don't listen to enough of his music to tell you what it'd be lmao
@@tedpiano Yeah, but... the end result is still a disruptive force that innovates💡! Drake has an open field to do what he wants, but maybe that's what is holding him back.
Bro I want to celebrate YOU in this video. This was an absolute masterclass in video essays. You made the video feel 5 minutes long with how well you kept weaving the story through each part. You nailed it brother. Absolutely nailed it!
I don't think he's a copycat he has an appreciation for different areas of Black music & culture (e.g. from the Caribbean, the UK) and is able to reproduce that sound with his own mark imprinted on it I don't think that's a bad thing, that's talent & adaptibility. He is lifting up people from those scenes as well.
@@arshavin85 I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way! I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! #aComedybyec Dating app
@@arshavin85 he literally stole songs and flows lol sweeterman is a stolen song. the weeknd gave him "take care" and there are plenty other googleable songs and verses drake has stolen.
No he's not. Especially not before 2016. Dude's sound was the most original up until that point. People like you literally just go along with narratives they see on social media.
mike media inc. dude change is inevitable. And how did he not provide valid points. It’s expected that he is not as hungry as once was but what about the interview of his dad being in his life. What about the fact that in the beginning of his career he was seen as soft and not thuggish but now he’s all hard. Like his dad said, it’s because it sells. And there’s nothing wrong with using inspirations in your art. Drake ain’t bad bro but like the title said, this is his “best role yet.”
I think there is no way someone would not change after 12 years of being the biggest artist on the planet. The industry is tough and drake probably just grew with his success, but I won't deny we definitely need old drake back
True but he hasn't changed recently. It wasn't explicitly stated in this video only implicitly but his last few albums have all been about him party and hooking up with models/pornstars and how that's affecting his life. As someone else put it, he hasn't grown up these last 5 years or so and that's starting tk show more and more the longer it goes on for
@TheMilk Trafficker I think the reason Drake has been the biggest artist over the last 12 years , is not because his music is fantastic, it is just incredibly inoffensive. Someone like Kendrick Lamar makes better and more thought provoking music, but you can not just play his music anywhere. This does not invalidate the amazing music produced over the last decade making it "forgettable", it just means Drake makes music that appeals to a much wider audience
@@colebanville3372 true everyone readily accepts the weak ass, sensitive, ain't gone do 💩, doesn't look threatening black man. That's the only way "they're " going to accept it.
This is why I could never get behind Drake he has amazing music without a doubt but he just always seemed so fake to me. You can see his demeanour change and him take on a new persona depending on who he’s around. He comes across very insecure and not sure in himself. I do think he gets a hard time tho, everyone clowns him & it always seems like he’s trying to prove himself while trying to act like it doesn’t phase him. I also think the whole situation with Pusha T deffo had a effect on him...that track broke him imo. He just needs to find himself because he IS talented but being honest and bearing your soul goes hand in hand with making a good work of art. He should use his next project as therapy and not as a money grab or something to hide behind...
He is very insecure. He was very active in strip clubs and was your typical stereotypical insecure customer. Who wanted a convo and your attention versus a dance and what you usually come to the club for. I knew of Drake when he was still on Degrassi so I watched him kinda blossom into the artist he is today, and you can definitely see that he just wants to fit in, especially since with his brand he can become the leader of the trend he is copying
I dont think there's anything even remotely wrong with the way Drake handles his career. Sometimes, it just doesn't have to be that deep. "Pushing boundaries of artistic expression" and all that yada yada doesn't make a musician. Drake handles music like a job,a fun job,not like a public diary. It works for him, and I personally don't see him "not being artistically authentic" as a problem,because he gets the job done. From my viewpoint, it just doesn't always have to be that deep. More or less shallow music, but thrived throughout decades of the ever changing hip hop genre, and you can always count on some drake in your playlist for a fun time.
This is a great perspective. I think Drake and Lebron’s careers run parallel due to the fact that they found out what works for them and what allows them to be consistently successful for over a decade. Sure, a lot of purists don’t appreciate it but one could argue that they set the market value for their respective professions and many artists/athletes wouldn’t be getting the same looks without them.
I agree, you are entitled to make make music that is simple to digest. Not everyone has to be Kendrick or Kanye in their aproach to writing music, if everyone did music as an art form would get really boring really fast, the vastness of genres and moods of music is definately one of its strengths. But here's a thing. There's a difference in making light and simple music, but is strong lirycally nad sonically and in making music that is light and simple, but is a throwaway garbage written on a knee 15 min before and sth that noone will remember about in a couple of months. Since IYRTITL, I feel like Drake just figured out that he is on such a level of fame that he can do whatever and it will still hit the top of Billboard 100. And I have a question: how often you come back to his older projects and mixtapes and how often you come back to stuff like Care Package or Dark Lane Demo Tapes?
Konrad Pachel I mean Care Package is literally a collection of his old work 😂. You can probably attribute Drake’s recent lack of effort to the fact that he is uninspired. He’s gotten all of the accolades. He’s beefed with everybody. He’s rich as fuck. I saw someone say he’s completed the main story and he’s just doing side missions for fun. I assume his main source of income comes from music sales so he HAS to put something out. Why not just put something that’s fun and catchy out instead of stressing over putting out a critically acclaimed project?
@@NoHandlzz Im not saying that he needs to put sth critically acclaimed, i like listening to his recent singles. But albums are a completely different cup of tea and you van have albums that can be catchy and fun AND good
I was so glad to hear this man mention Kanye and 808 bc people were on his a** about singing and rapping etc and he was the first to really do that (male rapper bc Nicki Minaj has been doing this since 2006.)
@@Ezcape0interesting that u need proof for that it’s proven on several occasions how rigged the industry is it’s mindblowing all that went over your head you must be livin under a rock
You did a tremendous job of really digging down to the core of the disconnect/dissonance of drake -- you have an artist who essentially built his brand on the premise of being vulnerable and not fitting in -- yet his execution of these songs waters that down SO hard that the result is, as you put it, the least vulnerable choice one could make during pregaming, the choice perhaps most guaranteed TO fit in, and ultimately, speaks to nothingness. well done.
I remember when drake first came on the scene I thought he was a fucking legend. Now it just seems the older I get, the more annoyed I get with Drake. Recently found some shit that seems really sus about his character
@@KingMagic06 yea..but there's videos out there shedding light on the sus activities of Kevin gates, bow wow, Soulja boy, asap Rocky, etc etc so it's not just drake, this video is about Drake.
Tbh I also think it’s possible that the shy, insecure, confidence lacking kid we saw back in ‘08 just grew up & through his success & consistency; largely considered the greatest of his generation - he’s no longer insecure, no longer shy. He’s confident, often coming off as cocky. I think you would be a *FOOL* to think that *anyone* having the success that he’s had/having would still be the same person they were 12 years ago. That shit would *DEFINITELY* go to your head. Idk, I don’t think he should be crucified for it.
Was waiting for this fuckin comment!!!! YES YES YES!! The people that hate on him for changing like any human being exposed to that kind of spotlight would, is ridiculous! Much respect to you for spittin the facts my guy!
Exactly man. People act like you cant evolve and change through experiences. We all do and we cant act like we know what he's been through. Drake is valid, no one is perfect. He kicked some ass too.
I personally never felt Drake ever truly found himself. He might still have some soul searching to do. Many people don't realize that a person's COMMERCIAL and financial success DOESN'T indicate that they are secure within themselves! Adequate personal development work is needed to be completed by a person to have that strong secure feeling of self. That strong AUTHENTICITY that comes across EASY to people when they observe you. Observing Drake for many years, I NEVER felt AUTHENTICITY from him! That's why I avoided buying any of his albums. I brought some songs of his yes. I do enjoy some of his songs. But as a complete artist, I never felt he had the "IT factor". It's the media that PUMPS him up as a major artist and many people can't see through that. But the homey who made this video and narrating it does see through Drake's facade lol! Awesome video!
Shame there's no coverage of: Nickelus F teaching Drake how to rap Aristo beef The co-opting of Phonte's style along with Kanye Drake and 40 writing for Dr. Dre pre So Far Gone As he grows a lot of his story is only getting remembered by those of us who were listening since 06.
People don’t truly listen to What Drake says the only listen to what Drake haters say. These same people would tell you to pay their haters no mind about what they have to say because they make shit up.
Drake is the ultimate actor and has been one shive degrassi. He’s been caught contradicting himself several times saying he never experienced racism until after fame in the states then just two year later saying the infamous Blackface photo that Pusha -t used to diss him was because of early racism from his acting days. He doesn’t stand for anything, just recently he only spoke on Black Lives Matter because it’s trendy now, but prior to that nothing. Drake will align himself with anyone and anything to wide that wave, which is why certain people have a disdain for him because those are snake characteristics, you can’t please everyone. He honestly is like cypher from the matrix who wanted to be inserted back into the matrix as a famous star. Let’s be honest, who would have believed that the same guy from the degrassi show would turn out to be the biggest pop star of all time?
bruh he's always felt lost and separated since childhood days due to being biracial and then entering the music scene where he sings/rap and expresses vast personal emotion. He's always felt separated maybe this is his way of feeling connected
As a biracial person i can say this, we never fit in and thats our burden. We are always gonna be stuck between two cultures and very few people will ever understand.
@@lifegoeson1007 yeah but there's people that are just mixed with white people , or just mixed with Asian, or just mixed with black. I think that's not the same as when you are mixed with two very different peoples. In that respect then their languages have almost no overlap, food with no overlap, dance with no overlap. For exame, I know someone that speaks korean, german and English knows all this and other cultural things (history, dance) fluently. That person is like a god between the Korean and German peoples. I know another person who speaks Croatian and Serbian because of their background. While it's political between those Yugoslav people's, this is not a big difference in cultures. Same food, same history sane ideologies but still hate each other. Biracial makes life so complicated because everyone's racist
I thought Drake's dad sharing his limited phone time to have inmate teaching his son is just as wholesome as prisoners training service dogs. It hits me in the feels.
Drake is a double edged sword for me. This man is goated in all aspects to me because of his music and the moments he created for me, but the way he goes about life and where he’s at musically is frightening.
@@kan50805 The crazy thing is even Logic talked about how stupid the fandom is for hating Drake for Singing & Rapping about Women and relatable shit when they praised Tupac for doing the exact same thing. Lmao Y'all are a bunch of buttheads for that
Imagine recording all these songs, perfoming all these live shows, hosting awards show such as nba, going to meet all kind of different celebrities (even Obama) and several interviews. You gotta be mentally strong to be as big as Drake. Imagine living as Drake and all the things he have seen. You gotta be some kind of super human to be as big and handle it well. Drake defintly fullfilled his potential. It wouldnt make sense if he had a fake persona all the way through his career, that would be hard.
Putting euphoria in the thumbnail 3 years after upload is a crazy TH-cam cheat code.
Bro, he even says the title of the album at 15:33 🤯
Everything on TH-cam is a cheat code. Green screen, AI narration, click bait title and thumbnails. All that. This shit because a septic tank of fckery
He got me too🤣🤣
lol facts
Nah fr 😂😂😂😂
Changing the thumbnail 3 years later... I respect it lol
right😂
😂😂😂 I thought he was a from the future for a bit
It tripped my out when I saw it was made 3 years ago 😂
He knew what time it was 😅
The thumbnail got me too
After this recent public beef with Kendrick this video couldn’t have aged better
Aged like fine wine lol
what changed after the beef
Drake have always been like this his attack was inevitable
It's awesome!
Check 15:34
His dad's prison mate rapping to him on the phone was Drake's first ghost writer
LMAOOO
underrated comment LMAO
I don’t even believe that story. They record those damn phone calls. Proof or gtfo. 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
how do you expect him to find prison call recordings from the 90s?@@tavern2468
Don't worry, Drake found his true self now. He said he's lesbian now.
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What I find so baffling is that -- despite everything we know about how deceptive and manipulative these industries can be -- people _still_ believe that sales = talent.
Drake won the popularity contest, not the talent show.
I'm For Talent The Ability...
YES!
Agreed!
He’s clearly talented as well as popular.
@@RapRants But hes not the best. and its known that he uses ghost writers.
Changing the thumbnail is crazy😂😭
i specifically came here to see how many others noticed lol
It’s a fire 🔥 cheat code, I clicked knowing I’ve watched this before
It’s clever
Thats what vultures do
It’s crazy that with the beef going on this video was actually ahead of its time. Jake you’re a creative genius.
"Yo bro, he sucks, don't ever play that shit to me again"
Lil Wayne's first instinct was the correct one
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Wayne should’ve stick to it 😂😂😂😂😂
I never understood Drake’s success but it is obvious that most of life success is about connections, opportunities and not talent or skills.
Bro I fw Kendrick but to say Drake as an overall artist isn’t talented is a reach 😂
He probably wrote the first demo song himself, if you watch older videos before he was commercially rapping, his lyrics were really corny. Which makes sense given his upbringing.
This video age like fine wine 😂😂😂 it just gets better and better every year
Yeh
Everyone seems to forget he's an ACTOR.
He's ACTING like a rapper and it's working.
Ding ding ding!!!!!!!!!!!!🤝😭😭😂😂😂😂
Most rappers are actors. I often compare the music industry and rap in particular to professional wrestling. The wrestlers are actually physically throwing each other around, they can still get hurt, it's not a easy thing but...it's a show, it's entertainment. Same with the "rap" industry, sure, some of these guys come from the hood but everything is staged and driven by executives just to make money and in part socially engineer a target audience.
Actually incredible that you thought about this and actually made sense in your head,
Bro just cause someone had a part in a tv show does not mean everything they do is fake.
Someone gets it.
Bruh this video has aged like fine wine
It’s Drake’s fault he isn’t celebrated as a “black” artist by Afro people. J. Cole is also biracial but he goes out of his way to uplift the community, celebrate the community, and critique the community. So he is celebrated more for his blackness. I don’t think it’s fair for Drake to complain when Drake rarely talks about the community unless it involves hip hop
Why do you need musicians to lift up your community ... you should be able to do that without the voice of a millionaire
people support rappers who talk about the community only if they agree with the rapper's opinion. Otherwise they just drag his name through the mud.
He addressed ur exact point in his recent interview acknowledging that him not speaking up enough plays a role but he also said that he’s always been someone that prefers actually doing things instead of posting about it. Also that he prefers talking about these issues amongst his close friends. I agree with u but I also understand that it’s not for everyone to b outspoken on social media about things yk.
Nah cus he's Canadian
Emmanuel Crepin yeah I’m okay with him not being outspoken and putting in action but to try to throw black people under the bus like we’re not just accepting just because is not cool.
With the new album out this video is just a cherry on top
Just here to see ppl’s reaction to drake’s latest album that couldnt have been more generic.
When I heard man say, “I hope it’s different.” I was thinking that aged like milk.
I just thought the same thing. lol
You guys do know that it’s supposed to be a mix of music like his old albums right? He literally put a video of what CLB is supposed to be in December of last year guess everyone just forgot since they’re so ignorant
@@Evolutionbandit1 lolol calling us ignorant but cant even spell they’re correctly
This video aged well after CLB
Woah it's you
thats why kanye better
@@anuclearbomb3522 harry mack is better than both of them
King lil g tops them all
its one year old lol
Y’all went and changed your Cover Photo for this vid? Smart 😂
But why didnt they change the tittle too?
@@TH-cam-ADMlN do I own the channel? How tf should I know?😭
@@tshepomkhumbeni1595 You should go asked them and find out WHY. Like you should go asked them right now. LIKE GO ASK THEM RIGHT NOW.
NNOOWW!!
L🙃L
Just making an observation just like you foo,
but go aske them.......
now
@@TH-cam-ADMlN oh no cringè ☹️😬
@@TH-cam-ADMlNyou're better off deleting this sorry @ss attempt at a funny comment😂
I definitely think Lauryn Hill was the first one to properly combine singing with rapping…
Hi my name is kanye
I agree
🎯🎯🎯🎯
Lauryn Hill did both at a high level. With powerful writing too. I'm always reminded of her song Lost Ones.
@@faizeak4272 wtf Lauryn was way before kanye
The crazy part is not about the thumbnail change, the crazy part is that this man called Drake an actor portraying a rapper, the same thing Kendrick accused him of in this recent beef.
Yes the spell is finally wearing off.. haha.. peep game homie
That’s not even crazy lmao. People knew drake was playing a facade
I just realised that drake have a really weak chin lol
Drake has been called a fake and an actor portraying a rapper since the beginning, it's no surprise Kdot took that angle as people already knew deep down it's kinda true
@@louisf2654Drake fans are still in denial and are trying to deflect it by spamming propaganda about Drake winning "game 2" and they (especially Fatademiks) would try to spin a narrative to make Kdot look bad and Drake look good. His fans are calling Drake the new "Tupac" or even better.🤦🏾♂️
“We don’t trust him” aged so well lol
Fake written all over you
Hate written all over you
Smiling faces
Sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within (Can you dig it?)
Changing the thumbnail 3years later is diabolical.
seems like drake is no longer putting effort in his work anymore.. anything he puts out automatically becomes a hit because of streaming services.
Fr I always wonder especially with artists like say Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish.. is their music blowing up cos people love it - or is it because they’re there to “Stan” an artist?
@@firstlast9846 billie is better than drake xd
@@bogdanadzic9305 you missed my point by a mile
@@bogdanadzic9305 ⁉️⁉️
@@ChaceBonanno
Yes being fan means sending death threats to people who don't have the same opinion as you do. I don't think you quite undertsnadt what a stan is. Listen to the song again and maybe you'll get it lmao
Noah "40" Shabib. The key in Drake's biggest moves.
Cold Hard Facts!
Yep
W out 40 drake wouldn't be good lol
The true genius behind the sound.
When he croaks Drake is fucked
TH-cam decided to recommend this to me after kendrick lamar's euphoria
Hearing him say my blackest friends is wild 😅
I think Drake doesnt realise he speaks as if he's isnt of a black background, No fault of Drakes his mother brought him up and he wasnt around anyone "black" His father .But Drake falls on the side of his African American father to suit his agenda , that is problematic as hes not Genuine as he changes styles accents and has no real sound as he does jump on the next hot artist or on the next feature. His Ego Clouds his need for staying relevant as hes nit as big as Yes men tell him sadly. Lies on his own father so ,he said in a song only one I love is" my Mom and my bed" . He is Unauthenyic and it's trying to stay on top and its breaking him internally.
"Numbers don't lie" doesnt mean anything anymore when you can buy album sales/streams.
No way you think drake buys streams
Man really think drake buying streams 💀
There's always been someway to influence and scam. Nothing is new.
"Numbers don't lie - But they can be manipulated..." - ME!
Even when he outselled a billionaire still yy
“career’s going great, but the rest of me’s fading slowly” - Drake, ‘Champagne Poetry’
@Onouphrios honestly i didn’t even hate it, from his perspective its really just fucking hard to make good music period. but it was a far cry from something like Nothing Was The Same or IYRTITL.
@Onouphrios yeah I hear you. I haven’t been a Drake fan since his earlier work, but it’s Drake so you’re going to hear it eventually so might as well. I was super underwhelmed, even with the catchy bars, and you can tell he just wanted to put out major hits for sales and such. It was just…typical. Expected
@@acomedybyec1437 why the hell did you share this with me?
Champagne poetry really stands out in the sea of meh that is clb
@@jajlertil fr i need a whole album of jazz beats
Drake wouldn’t be where he’s at without his producer. There’s a reason he’s stuck with him for this long.
artists who get big whilst not actually arranging/producing their own music should be seen as part of a team rather than solo. the army of people that work hard to actually write the music don't get enough recognition. rapping is still an impressive skill but it's more genuine when they can make their own tracks too.
You can say that about every artist
@@froogsleegs Most rappers aren’t producers. But the ear is what counts
@@froogsleegs The artist is the star, but yeah you have a point. Some hip hop engineers have also started putting tags on their productions. Usually in hip hop songs, 2-3 people, are involved in the creation of a song…
Um no. There are other deciding factors. Producer is just one.
"My blackest friends" is crazy 💀
LOL Man said his blackest friends make him feel excluded. Maybe that's cos you refer to them as your 'blackest friends"
@@diplamatikjuan3595literally. Friends are friends. Not white, not black, not brown, not yellow, not nothing, nothing but friends at least
@@Poopdedoop2 Facts! Drake is a certified weirdo - in many different ways. I always thought that dude was off. I'm glad he's finally being exposed
@@diplamatikjuan3595 so he just says "hey black friends!" I'm sure he's not doing that
@@Poopdedoop2I've had my white friends tell me.... "I'm blacker than you!" People say it all the time
I think he’s struggling to find himself again because his current star power kind of strips him of his humanity. He’s become more of a brand than a person and it fucks with him. I’m not a Stan or anything but I feel like he’s just trying to please the fans because he can’t take the criticism he receives imo
Well said 💯
Yeah and i cant imagine the type of canadian politicians drake moves with, rappers talk about how theyre on a no-fly list due to associated with gangs/ murder its crazy drake in an instant gets people cleared. Thats type of reach means you gotta watch what you say. Dude can be canceled for anything at this point but still remains. Interesting video and top comment!
Drake is the Michael Jackson of this generation of hip hop. Im not saying hes that good. Im saying this generation is that fake exploited remade unoriginal and terrible. Nobody on top of this era is living out what their spittin out. Money is the only credibility. What young male artist is making concious struggle music defining an era as a poet? Is the story we tell in 30 years about this era of hip hop really Drake was the one bad apple in a half way decent original genre altogether? Listen to the song 'The city is mine' one more time. Jay was being belittling about his only use for those collaborations and the top spot as a brand. The video was actually quite clever.
@@rhyno8644 you giving him way too much credit. He's not the MJ of anything. He's just Drake
unlike people like Kendrick he has to alter is stylistic ability to become commercial however Kendrick had always been that way and after he became popular, and had not lost his train of consciousness
Pusha-T won the feud by bullying Drake into being a father
I wonder how many crack babies and broken families pusha T supposedly made and now he wants people to be fathers
Micah S People who champion women empowerment*
Considering that drake was planning on being in his kids life already and was doing shit for him
All pusha did was revealed it to the public
@@RanMaru144 I mean, Drake was gonna keep his kid a secret for a long time if Pusha T didn't expose the fact that Drake had a child with a stripper
@@patrickracer43 he wanted to keep his kid out of the limelight
People feel like they're entitled to know his life but they don't.
Legend has it that Aubrey Graham went deep into a role and never came back
He's the proof that little talent and a lot of luck can take you further than just pure talent. It's all about who you know in this vapid industry.
after listening to take care, nothing was the same, if youre reading this its too late. u cant say his career is 'luck' ur just a hater
@@hmmaaa Lmao that song is okay, but it still falls victim to the same issues that most mainstream music does. Very repetitive and lyrically simplistic. I think you need to broaden your musical horizons if you think that's the pinnacle of music. Go listen to other genres as well. Maybe some jazz, classical, metal or rock.
@@leoalphaproductions8642 ok sorry for trying to argue
@@hmmaaawasn’t half of Take Care taken from The Weeknd? Some of his early stuff was good, not great. He made simple shit, and he still does but at least back then it had some quality and he wasn’t pretending to be an actual weirdo
@@MaximusR93 no it wasnt made by the weeknd only some songs😂
Can’t believe you didn’t mention that his uncle is Larry Graham, the bass legend that invented the slap technique
David 504 owes his livelihood to drakes uncle. Epico
I'm ole school. With that being said not that much into drake, but I do know who Larry Graham is. Never knew they were related, but looking at his dad. It makes sense. Thanks for sharing bruh!!!💪👍✌
Larry Graham, the bass legend who, unfortunately, converted PRINCE into the cult of Jehovah’s Witness?!! I did not know that.
@@iamcasihart interesting, I didn’t know that either
Right????
I was waiting for that
The editing and the amount of research in this video is crazy.
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way!
I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
Incredibly well built
Seriously 💯
Well edited but research not so good. Drake took the southern gangster rap sound and gave it a mainstream "face".
This aged so well ….
Crazy how bro says Drake can't be trusted cause of the persona and how Metro and Pluto dropped 'We don't trusted you' like three years later
This video will always speak truth, Drake be stealing beats flows accents and even his persona
So what?
He still be winning
Literally stealing shit too. Dude really a millionaire being thief smh
@Ronan Whittaker every single artist has stolen flows? Na you’re just listening to a bunch of dudes with no originality that all sound the same.
@Ronan Whittaker Great comment.
Well said.
I don’t listen to Drake but I don’t hate on him nether…
Drake’s biggest force is his voice.
Most of his song are just his voice, a single track with no adlibs.
He’s a singer, a rapper and girls like his face.
So that’s it.
HE SELLS
we can never forget that he’s an actor.
A not so good at that! Thank god for Americans
@Chadwick Jordan i agree with all of this
uh so were eminem and 2pac but they are still a thousand times more talented than drake
@@softlifesarah em started acting after & one could argue acting is what did pac in.
@@softlifesarah Not movies, he means their entire life is an act (which would also be true of Eminem not so much Pac). Professional wrestling and rap are basically the same everyone is an inflated version of a fabricated character.
This man is an ACTOR.. remember that
😂😂facts
One of the greatest actors ever being able to maintain the Drake character for so long
he cast himself as "Drake"
2Pac was an actor too what's your point? Ice t, ice cube, Snoop dog, ll cool j etc
@@universalontology that would take a lot of energy....
"You think I didnt have to struggle?? Didn't you hear about the time that I asked for a tuna bagel sandwich and my mom brought home chicken salad??"😂😂
Wait who said this Kendrick which song ?
It’s crazy how easy his come up actually was lmao A classmate basically got him an agent, the agent immediately gets him on a television show & he gets 7 seasons out of it, then he puts out a couple mixed tapes….& boom, J Prince’s son discovers him on social media 😂😂 No struggle AT ALL
@@isitoveryet9525 You thinking that J Prince just discovered him by random is the funny part. You people didn't do enough studying because that's the public story. You see the nice guy look on him and it makes you think he didn't have a street life prior to hip hop. Also, he wrote for Dr Dre before he got signed by J Prince and Cash Money sooo. Just because you're in a tv show doesn't mean that you won't be in the streets. The mafia played that card well
@@SpeakerBoxXx805Trying to convince people Aubrey was in the streets is crazy
@@KExKE people being so against it is the crazier part. 4 months out of the year he was in memphis. People don't know how bad memphis lol
The idea of drake going to see his dad in prison and his dad having him talk to a random ass dude is hilarious to me.
What bullshit!
I feel like his dad was just trying to toughen him up. This man is the softest person I swear.
Dad: "Aubrey, I want to introduce you to a rapper."
*Calls over the first guy he saw freestyling.
I don’t believe this story at all.
@@EtalviaC he’s talked about it on records more than once. No one’s called his bluff on that yet 🤷🏾♂️
Everyone is being really hard on drake but she's trying her best
And she is lol
💀💀💀💀😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂🤌🏼😫
Why is it funny that you're calling him a woman? what's the joke, that he's sensitive?
I think it's crazy that when Drake first started he was viewed as somewhat unique but now all of his music is viewed as some of the most generic music from the last 15 years.
Its cause he dominated the scene; the other musicians followed his style, making it generic.
@@Pyrohawk Stop the cap lmfao
@@Pyrohawk Where you get this lie from?? He the biggest stealer of them all from flows to dances, and the signing rapping wasn't his he not the first to do anything, jumpstart off popular shit
@@Pyrohawk lol dude I’m a fan of drakes music and even I know that line is complete bull shit 🤣
He just sold out bro
@@quizzyquandadon9289 that line is cap, but I would argue that Drake did introduce a “different sound” compared to the rappers around him at the time he blew up. He spoke audibly, and annunciated his words, and he was doing R&B singing, while also rapping. Drake has fallen far but we still need to get him the credit he deserves for the good stuff.
Bro predicted euphoria 💀💀
i honestly feel bad for people who are made to feel bad for having an “easy childhood” people don’t need to have an extremely difficult past to be creative or excepted… even if you don’t have a super hard childhood, everyone has their struggles.
It’s miserable people making them feel that way.
Yea but the problem people have with drake is that he likes to pretend he did have a difficult past when he didn't.
THIS!!!..
@@likeandsharedeeznutsbruh2845 divorced parents with absent dad. Identity crisis, not black enough nor white enough.
Not exactly cushy suburban life is it 🤷🏻♂️
What constitutes a hard life? Lmaoo there more struggles to life than hood shit plus his dad was in jail that’s pretty significant
I like drake's early work.. it brings alot of nostalgia
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way!
I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
Lil Wayne wrote all his early shit
For me More Life is Drake last project
Leave Her alone - Sacrifice agenda. Industry style 👹
Drake is the McDonald's of the hip-hop cuisine.
Kendrick is fine dining
Cole is the good home cooked meal
@@cIiffe But they all cost 9.99 ?
@@pastelboys9281 talking about experience not cost
@@cIiffe Oh so I guess its subjective, cause I feel like Drake is fine dining and Kendrick and Cole seem more like a Fat Burger or Mcdonalds. More down to earth
@@pastelboys9281 interesting way to put it
subjective for sure yeah
the saddest thing is being a total Drake Stan, relating unbelievably to his early work, the vulnerability, the self-awareness, and then seeing the artist you idolize slowly fade way and give rise to this EveryMan Global SuperStar Grifty TrendHopper Forever Young type of dude. It's a mind fuck and heartbreaking, but a great lesson in maturity I guess
You know what’s so funny bro drake is literally the only person that gets deemed for helping Afro beats uk beats and hopping on styles and putting rappers on. But anytime Jay z did that with kanye rihanna etc and kanye would do that when Travis Scott cudi came up ppl look that in a good way of putting ppl on. Especially Hear in the UK when we don’t get recognized as much for our artist when drake came to section boys concert with skepta instead of being at the brits when he was notimayed is literally a cultrual moment for us. Or when he put on giggs on his album twice . Or when he did a song with headie or Dave 4 years ago before he was famous man eveyeone in the uk actually fw drake for that but ppl in the US get mad at him for putting uk artist on and then get mad when drake says he likes to perform in Uk the most cuz the fans are way more lit which is actually a fact anytime a US artists actually go oversees they get way more love then where they actually stay at .
@@ttg8966I don't get why people love to hate on Drake so much damn
@@Kofi419_in this day and age people find hating on anything popular, cool and being different. The more hate the popular thing sees, the cooler it is to hate
@@youngfish1370 People must be super bored with their own lives have that constant energy to be focused hating on someone else's life like that
@@Kofi419_ The same can be said about indulging in the lives of their idols. I like Trippie Redd's music, but I'm not scouring the internet for his life story or following him on any single social media platform. How grown men obsess over other men baffles me. But these the same dudes who pay an arm and a leg to watch a bunch of dudes play with a ball, and go back and forth about strangers they'll never even meet.
Idolatry.
drake's best ghost writer is a artist that goes by the name "the weekend"
The Weeknd* (Yes I know, but that's how we XOs do)
I mean, without him, Drake would die in the beginning (I mean he wouldn't blow up as much and start to write and sound a bit better) and vice versa. Without these Take Care features he wouldn't be AS known (he was still making quite some fuss with the mixtapes)
Also got his sound from Mr Partnxdoor
@@Abrahamfelix7 lol the weekdn has actually talent unline dr(f)ake
@@DjIceCnS hate some more
@@Abrahamfelix7 the weeknd has been fire since the trilogy came out almost a decade ago. Are you dumb?
Wow I never thought about it like this. Drake is so good at acting that he's playing the role of a rapper in real life? Geez...mind blowing. Give this man an Oscar for his biggest role! Good content right here, I gotta subscribe. Thanks for posting keep up the good work.
Haha so funny😐
@@costa7583 😐
This is exactly what I thought at first because I knew him as Jimmy first.
Sounds like or of sort of 'Milli Vanilli ish'
@@sylviasylvia8551 true
jake i just gotta say, i absolutely applaud you for quitting your job and being your own boss. the videos you create are so good and i can tell that you put tons of effort into them. keep on hustling, you WILL make it (in my opinion you already have!)
It’s hard making it on TH-cam and I’m glad he’s getting recognition, I’ve watched this video like multiple times already.
@@fuziontonygaming I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way!
I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! I mean #Drake #aComedybyec Dating app
“We Don’t Trust You” @ 15:30
Was dead looking for this comment b4 I posted mine but didn’t run across it til afterwards lol but yea that part
That’s actually crazy
i feel the money he has made plays a big part in his newer “persona”. A lot of other things we will never know about.
Yea money like that brings a lot of power wether people like it or not. And we know for a fact that Drake does keep some goons around him. Chubbs, Preme, Baka Not Nice, Fif who was gunned down a few years ago. We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
Yea I think he needs to reconsider what being a rapper means to him, his latest project doesnt really stand out and it seems he just wants to make money nowadays, so I hope he can come back later with a new perspective on things and a project that actually means something
@@lethalspecter
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way!
I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! #aComedybyec Dating app
There's also the OVO factory technique. He's basically the strongest and most controlling toronto musician. You have no idea the absolute influence he has in Toronto. It's damn near messed up.
I live in Toronto, he only has influence on suburban wannabes from Mississauga and Brampton, what are you saying.. 😂😂
@@essgee4225 WOW!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You're Completely right...Roy Woods, Majid Jordan, DVSN, Popcaan, Baka Not Nice & the latest edition Smiley (Makkonen 2.0)
He signs all the Toronto/GTA Talent...features on 1-2 singles for them but then never promotes or pushes their projects to the forefront.
It Seems like Aubrey collects these artists under his OVO Sound roster so he can keep them in his back pocket for when he needs them / doesn't have any competition to deal with when he's back home in the "6ix" (48 laws of power move)
++ The new up and coming Toronto Rappers are dying to get noticed and approved from "Drizzy" or by the main OVO crew, which is pretty fuckin sad to say the least - no one is willing to go against the grain...to reject the "Sound" and forge a new musical force within Toronto.
That's why I fuxked with Tory Lanez & his 1 Umbrella Movement but that shit fizzled as soon as Aubrey neutralized that so called "beef".
#ToniDaley shows us. Had she not, we wouldn't have known.
I wanna ask her about the late #BadNewsBrown's influence there?
Well, I live in England & know zero about him.
Drake is the Apple of the hip-hop scene: it's not that there's anything particularly innovative about him compared to similar artists, but his music is well packaged and regardless of what enthusiasts think about his music, he still gets the most listens when he drops something new, and likely will for a while.
Even Apple has gone and done a bit of innovation now with the new M1 line.
@@simonbright2975 Because there was a gap in the market with Intel's chip performance sucking, so Apple took advantage of the opportunity/had no choice, depending on who you ask. There's probably a drake parallel there, but I don't listen to enough of his music to tell you what it'd be lmao
@@tedpiano Yeah, but... the end result is still a disruptive force that innovates💡! Drake has an open field to do what he wants, but maybe that's what is holding him back.
@@simonbright2975 I agree with that 👍
What 😡 top 5 🤬 you smoking on 🤨 kendrick 😐 because my top 5 😎 is drake 🥵 Drake 👹 Drake 🔥 drake 🤪
Bro I want to celebrate YOU in this video. This was an absolute masterclass in video essays. You made the video feel 5 minutes long with how well you kept weaving the story through each part. You nailed it brother. Absolutely nailed it!
Good point. This was a really good vid. People are really evolving with video making and media making in general.
Your videos always look like they were made by a multi million dollar corporation its amazing the quality you achieve
Never cared for Drake but I can't deny the success he's accomplished is astonishing. I think people are finally seeing for what he is, a copycat.
I don't think he's a copycat he has an appreciation for different areas of Black music & culture (e.g. from the Caribbean, the UK) and is able to reproduce that sound with his own mark imprinted on it I don't think that's a bad thing, that's talent & adaptibility. He is lifting up people from those scenes as well.
@@arshavin85
Honestly, I must admit that is very true. well said.
@@arshavin85
I’ve been watching porn since what feels like forever ? sometimes I’m mad at myself, sometimes I just stay the fuck out of my way!
I’m a human and finding balance is apart of our experience , just imagine when there wasn’t any porn! #aComedybyec Dating app
@@arshavin85 he literally stole songs and flows lol sweeterman is a stolen song. the weeknd gave him "take care" and there are plenty other googleable songs and verses drake has stolen.
No he's not. Especially not before 2016. Dude's sound was the most original up until that point. People like you literally just go along with narratives they see on social media.
my man updated his thumbnail with KDot dropping his diss track Euphoria is CRAZY
It's funny that Meek called him out for having ghostwriters, Drake then uses another ghostwriter for both Charged Up and Back 2 Back.
shoutout jake zeeman fr he never disappoints
Never
this was a disspointment all his points about drake are dumb and hes not changing he just using inspired flows to make better art
mike media inc. dude change is inevitable. And how did he not provide valid points. It’s expected that he is not as hungry as once was but what about the interview of his dad being in his life. What about the fact that in the beginning of his career he was seen as soft and not thuggish but now he’s all hard. Like his dad said, it’s because it sells. And there’s nothing wrong with using inspirations in your art. Drake ain’t bad bro but like the title said, this is his “best role yet.”
cache well said, this guy is just a wanna be Anthony Fantano watch his vids😂
Luesick how is being a music reviewer make me like Anthony fantano he didn’t invent music criticism
You should watch the episode of Atlanta titled “Champagne Papi” where they make the point that there is no Drake…
Yooo brooo I always knew everything that Donald put in ATLANTA has meaning what a genius
So that's what that Episode was trying to say??!!!!! 😨🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was just to explain that he was actually mexican
Lmao the one where all the girls take pics with his card board cut out
There is no Drake actually. Just a few dudes who play him as he is a character. I think Craig David is one
"Drake had the best decade as a musical artist"
Michael Jackson: Hold my fedora
Prince: Man, Give me back my Fedora!😂
😂my man that is superb
😂🤣
@@wb3213 😂🤣👏👍👌✔💯®
The Beatles: hold my every decade since the 60s
Changing the thumbnail?
Diabolical 😂🤝🏾
I think there is no way someone would not change after 12 years of being the biggest artist on the planet. The industry is tough and drake probably just grew with his success, but I won't deny we definitely need old drake back
True but he hasn't changed recently. It wasn't explicitly stated in this video only implicitly but his last few albums have all been about him party and hooking up with models/pornstars and how that's affecting his life. As someone else put it, he hasn't grown up these last 5 years or so and that's starting tk show more and more the longer it goes on for
@TheMilk Trafficker I think the reason Drake has been the biggest artist over the last 12 years , is not because his music is fantastic, it is just incredibly inoffensive. Someone like Kendrick Lamar makes better and more thought provoking music, but you can not just play his music anywhere. This does not invalidate the amazing music produced over the last decade making it "forgettable", it just means Drake makes music that appeals to a much wider audience
I hate when people wish for somebody to return to their old self like were not allowed to grow
@@colebanville3372 then he's not the biggest "artist"... Just the biggest product
@@colebanville3372 true everyone readily accepts the weak ass, sensitive, ain't gone do 💩, doesn't look threatening black man. That's the only way "they're " going to accept it.
This is why I could never get behind Drake he has amazing music without a doubt but he just always seemed so fake to me. You can see his demeanour change and him take on a new persona depending on who he’s around. He comes across very insecure and not sure in himself. I do think he gets a hard time tho, everyone clowns him & it always seems like he’s trying to prove himself while trying to act like it doesn’t phase him. I also think the whole situation with Pusha T deffo had a effect on him...that track broke him imo. He just needs to find himself because he IS talented but being honest and bearing your soul goes hand in hand with making a good work of art. He should use his next project as therapy and not as a money grab or something to hide behind...
Everything you mentioned is because he's *an actor* . lol He's been an actor playing a rapper for over a decade.😂
Exactly, well said. He’s stuck in this duality that wants to please these teenage fans and stand vs true artistry.
But don’t you do that when you’re at work or around strangers?
@bobshreder huh
He is very insecure. He was very active in strip clubs and was your typical stereotypical insecure customer. Who wanted a convo and your attention versus a dance and what you usually come to the club for.
I knew of Drake when he was still on Degrassi so I watched him kinda blossom into the artist he is today, and you can definitely see that he just wants to fit in, especially since with his brand he can become the leader of the trend he is copying
I dont think there's anything even remotely wrong with the way Drake handles his career.
Sometimes, it just doesn't have to be that deep. "Pushing boundaries of artistic expression" and all that yada yada doesn't make a musician. Drake handles music like a job,a fun job,not like a public diary.
It works for him, and I personally don't see him "not being artistically authentic" as a problem,because he gets the job done. From my viewpoint, it just doesn't always have to be that deep. More or less shallow music, but thrived throughout decades of the ever changing hip hop genre, and you can always count on some drake in your playlist for a fun time.
This is a great perspective. I think Drake and Lebron’s careers run parallel due to the fact that they found out what works for them and what allows them to be consistently successful for over a decade. Sure, a lot of purists don’t appreciate it but one could argue that they set the market value for their respective professions and many artists/athletes wouldn’t be getting the same looks without them.
I agree, you are entitled to make make music that is simple to digest. Not everyone has to be Kendrick or Kanye in their aproach to writing music, if everyone did music as an art form would get really boring really fast, the vastness of genres and moods of music is definately one of its strengths.
But here's a thing.
There's a difference in making light and simple music, but is strong lirycally nad sonically and in making music that is light and simple, but is a throwaway garbage written on a knee 15 min before and sth that noone will remember about in a couple of months.
Since IYRTITL, I feel like Drake just figured out that he is on such a level of fame that he can do whatever and it will still hit the top of Billboard 100. And I have a question: how often you come back to his older projects and mixtapes and how often you come back to stuff like Care Package or Dark Lane Demo Tapes?
Konrad Pachel I mean Care Package is literally a collection of his old work 😂. You can probably attribute Drake’s recent lack of effort to the fact that he is uninspired. He’s gotten all of the accolades. He’s beefed with everybody. He’s rich as fuck. I saw someone say he’s completed the main story and he’s just doing side missions for fun. I assume his main source of income comes from music sales so he HAS to put something out. Why not just put something that’s fun and catchy out instead of stressing over putting out a critically acclaimed project?
@@NoHandlzz Im not saying that he needs to put sth critically acclaimed, i like listening to his recent singles. But albums are a completely different cup of tea and you van have albums that can be catchy and fun AND good
Konrad Pachel that’s very true. I just think the lines between playlist, album, and mixtape are kind of blurry nowadays.
"the evil u know is better than the evil you don't". That's powerful
there hit a point where his music wasn't topping the charts because it's good, it was topping the charts because it's drake
hmm...
Facts! 💯
Man you are so right. His latest album is so meh
2016 imo.. views and the songs he released that summer
@@Lazyfoal it’s house music man, not for everyone. Just like Kendrick’s new album, not for everyone
His best album is "If your reading this it's too late " for sure.
Its more of a mixtape/LP rather than a studio album
Mixtape, LP, Album who cares, its all a collection of songs and a project regardless. And i agree. Definitely his best followed by NWTS
1000%
His artistic integrity and commercial success seemed to be synced up at the time.
@@emberducati9237 quinton and 40 wrote it he performed it....
He's the Megaman of the industry, capturing everyone's essence as his own.
OG gamer
Naw, he is more like Kirby bro
(Just kidding I got your reference)
@@Ettrix well he does eat'em up and steal their power, so you're right lol
@@crosswiz6 you already know
he said hes better rapper LL KOOL J THIS DUDE IS A IMPOSTER AND WILL NEVER A PIONEER IN THE RAP GAME
This video aged beautifully. Everyone's saying now what you said years ago.
Yea, he put it together and saw right through it
Anyone who was around when Drake first came out, know he made a career off bootlegging 808s and Heartbreak.
Wrong
I was so glad to hear this man mention Kanye and 808 bc people were on his a** about singing and rapping etc and he was the first to really do that (male rapper bc Nicki Minaj has been doing this since 2006.)
Nope
@@StarBoy-bb7wu right.
@@producedbykhireyakeem4340 wrong
"If you go platinum, it has nothing to do with luck,
It just means that a million people are stupid as fuck" - Immortal Technique
It's been common practice for years for the investors in a artist to pay for top billboard spots. It's all rigged, don't believe the hype.
@@BrandonOfJapan interesting, proof ?
Kendrick fans are smart enough not to listen to his music enough 😂😂
And a bunch of industry people want this man to keep going cause when he makes hits, they all eat. Never seen a dude get pushed on the masses so hard
@@Ezcape0interesting that u need proof for that it’s proven on several occasions how rigged the industry is it’s mindblowing all that went over your head you must be livin under a rock
Drake is like McDonald's. The most popular burger spot in the world but nowhere near the best.
They got fire fries, though 😉
@@TLOExodia nah bruh even the fries trash
Stolen comment
The point is you had to get to that point, and then stay on top for years is the art in it
Stolen comment lol
You did a tremendous job of really digging down to the core of the disconnect/dissonance of drake -- you have an artist who essentially built his brand on the premise of being vulnerable and not fitting in -- yet his execution of these songs waters that down SO hard that the result is, as you put it, the least vulnerable choice one could make during pregaming, the choice perhaps most guaranteed TO fit in, and ultimately, speaks to nothingness. well done.
Idk id say Drake has had some genuinely vulnerable content in his old shit but recently I…think I understand what your saying? Lol.
True, for an artist that makes music about not fitting in, his music is the most generic.
Abel is a way better artist than Aubrey ..
This is good shit, even though I'm gonna say "so what" when it finishes.
🤣Right!!! Why they mad🤷🏾♀️
😂
@@VySharieff ain't nothing about being mad it's called criticism something nowadays world is tryna get rid of...
Miss yall DBZ videos
exactly this is so unnecessary
I remember when drake first came on the scene I thought he was a fucking legend. Now it just seems the older I get, the more annoyed I get with Drake.
Recently found some shit that seems really sus about his character
Very sus 😂
There’s some sus shit about all rappers tho bro🤣, y’all just wanna sit here and pick a part drakes whole past and lifestyle
@@KingMagic06 True, there is..but you just want to defend Drake's whole past and lifestyle 😂🤣
@@kadekeyz8431 nah it’s just a fact like all rappers have done some hella sus shit
@@KingMagic06 yea..but there's videos out there shedding light on the sus activities of Kevin gates, bow wow, Soulja boy, asap Rocky, etc etc so it's not just drake, this video is about Drake.
“And maybe that’s why we don’t trust him.” aged like fine wine 😅 15:29
Tbh I also think it’s possible that the shy, insecure, confidence lacking kid we saw back in ‘08 just grew up & through his success & consistency; largely considered the greatest of his generation - he’s no longer insecure, no longer shy. He’s confident, often coming off as cocky. I think you would be a *FOOL* to think that *anyone* having the success that he’s had/having would still be the same person they were 12 years ago. That shit would *DEFINITELY* go to your head. Idk, I don’t think he should be crucified for it.
Agreed
Was waiting for this fuckin comment!!!! YES YES YES!! The people that hate on him for changing like any human being exposed to that kind of spotlight would, is ridiculous! Much respect to you for spittin the facts my guy!
If you think he’s no longer insecure, you’re not actually listening to his music.
He’s the most insecure rapper in the game.
@@iNostraD maybe not as insecure
Exactly man. People act like you cant evolve and change through experiences. We all do and we cant act like we know what he's been through. Drake is valid, no one is perfect. He kicked some ass too.
I personally never felt Drake ever truly found himself. He might still have some soul searching to do. Many people don't realize that a person's COMMERCIAL and financial success DOESN'T indicate that they are secure within themselves! Adequate personal development work is needed to be completed by a person to have that strong secure feeling of self. That strong AUTHENTICITY that comes across EASY to people when they observe you.
Observing Drake for many years, I NEVER felt AUTHENTICITY from him! That's why I avoided buying any of his albums. I brought some songs of his yes. I do enjoy some of his songs. But as a complete artist, I never felt he had the "IT factor". It's the media that PUMPS him up as a major artist and many people can't see through that. But the homey who made this video and narrating it does see through Drake's facade lol!
Awesome video!
This comment is spot on!
@@saltykindalife2611 Thank you very much. 👍
I'd feel secure with hundreds of millions laying around.
@@yhakud4 maybe financially, but artists would prob emphasize more on their craft and legacy, in which a lot of insecurity could stem from
Shame there's no coverage of:
Nickelus F teaching Drake how to rap
Aristo beef
The co-opting of Phonte's style along with Kanye
Drake and 40 writing for Dr. Dre pre So Far Gone
As he grows a lot of his story is only getting remembered by those of us who were listening since 06.
that aristo diss was lethal
Cause they the only ones recording that wanna hire you
People don’t truly listen to What Drake says the only listen to what Drake haters say. These same people would tell you to pay their haters no mind about what they have to say because they make shit up.
@@bdmgbronze For real
Right it’s sad people don’t dig deeper in their research. It’s almost like everyone starts at So Far Gone and goes right from there.
my mind broke seeing the thumbnail with timestamp 3 years ago
Hes a chamelion and genius in terms of marketing, but theres always something off about him overall.
Sick initials btw.
Jesse Zesseu yup. Feel the exact same way about him!
Boy you two's senses are strong to say the least. I just don't like him.
He's not authentic, not real
@@spero360 wym
YourPlug the fact that he’s a fake gangster and bite up and coming artists sounds
Drake is the ultimate actor and has been one shive degrassi. He’s been caught contradicting himself several times saying he never experienced racism until after fame in the states then just two year later saying the infamous Blackface photo that Pusha -t used to diss him was because of early racism from his acting days. He doesn’t stand for anything, just recently he only spoke on Black Lives Matter because it’s trendy now, but prior to that nothing. Drake will align himself with anyone and anything to wide that wave, which is why certain people have a disdain for him because those are snake characteristics, you can’t please everyone. He honestly is like cypher from the matrix who wanted to be inserted back into the matrix as a famous star.
Let’s be honest, who would have believed that the same guy from the degrassi show would turn out to be the biggest pop star of all time?
bruh he's always felt lost and separated since childhood days due to being biracial and then entering the music scene where he sings/rap and expresses vast personal emotion. He's always felt separated maybe this is his way of feeling connected
All these musicians and people who stay at the top are actors. Drake is just the greatest actor of them all
@@Flwr4L You can't convince guys like this. He obviously hates drake from the beginning.
the hate is talking
Drake always said he experienced racism before fame, and he says it multiple times in the video if you actually watched it
As a biracial person i can say this, we never fit in and thats our burden. We are always gonna be stuck between two cultures and very few people will ever understand.
and you constantly got other people tryna tell you what you are and aren't.
i understand
There’s a lot of mixed people out there
@@lifegoeson1007 yeah but there's people that are just mixed with white people , or just mixed with Asian, or just mixed with black. I think that's not the same as when you are mixed with two very different peoples. In that respect then their languages have almost no overlap, food with no overlap, dance with no overlap. For exame, I know someone that speaks korean, german and English knows all this and other cultural things (history, dance) fluently. That person is like a god between the Korean and German peoples. I know another person who speaks Croatian and Serbian because of their background. While it's political between those Yugoslav people's, this is not a big difference in cultures. Same food, same history sane ideologies but still hate each other. Biracial makes life so complicated because everyone's racist
@@lifegoeson1007 or I should say that people still believe in racism to divide rather than unite.
I thought Drake's dad sharing his limited phone time to have inmate teaching his son is just as wholesome as prisoners training service dogs. It hits me in the feels.
That’s a great analogy seeing as Drake is basically a service dog for the execs.
As a big drake fan I completely agree with everything you said. His best album was nwts but I can’t lie I loved scorpion and views
I love your videos man and this should tell you something because I never comment
Scorpion and Views weren't for me, I admire your honesty. My favorite was Take Care but I know a few men that swear by NWTS.
Nwts was great 👍 and nobody really brings it up if anything the only cool thing on take care was marvins room and that rick Ross just blaze track
He could’ve had some okay points in this but he would say events out of order
Views is goat
Drake is a double edged sword for me. This man is goated in all aspects to me because of his music and the moments he created for me, but the way he goes about life and where he’s at musically is frightening.
Aren’t we lucky we don’t have to have our every move under a spotlight while we try and figure our shit out?
Goated in all aspects???? LOL
Drake so trash Tupac would come back to live just to diss him
@@kan50805 The crazy thing is even Logic talked about how stupid the fandom is for hating Drake for Singing & Rapping about Women and relatable shit when they praised Tupac for doing the exact same thing. Lmao Y'all are a bunch of buttheads for that
U just called drake the goat of rap? 💀 he a pop singer
lol Drake. the artist that everybody loves to love and hate. this man has no rest from yall
Every artist
Kanye
He’s constantly in our face, so why wouldn’t we discuss him
@@christinapaterno5585 he is mainly laid back though. Lil Nas x is the one that needs publicity to stay relevant
@@RigginTheRod010 and it seems to have worked bc you brought him up unprovoked!
It’s crazy how he’s evolved and morphed into something so sinister and way different than when he first started.
‘You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain’.
Drake goes from "valley girl" to "blaccent" 0 to 100 real quick.
Valley girl loooool
Straight up lol
Drake went from nothing was the same to everything is the same
Good one.😁
Hahahaha
exactly, i feel a fake persona vibe from drake. thank you for this
Watched this like a year ago and I had to come back today
My buddy has a theory that this man never stopped being an actor, just changed his role to a rapper for good LOL
Bingo!
Lol wow...
99 percent of the rappers are living a fake persona.
Exactly
Imagine recording all these songs, perfoming all these live shows, hosting awards show such as nba, going to meet all kind of different celebrities (even Obama) and several interviews. You gotta be mentally strong to be as big as Drake. Imagine living as Drake and all the things he have seen. You gotta be some kind of super human to be as big and handle it well. Drake defintly fullfilled his potential. It wouldnt make sense if he had a fake persona all the way through his career, that would be hard.
“His father was a drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis”...
That explains soooo much lol 😂
I don't get it
@@noir269 jerry lee lewis was one of the most influential rock and roll musicians of the last century
@Energetic Coach doesn't relate to topic
You're just trying to start shit
@@peacauve he’s saying that’s why Drake is attracted to young girls.
@@Artersa drake's a reptile. Draconic. Drake's. Dragon. Dracon.
Yet we have authentic rappers like Joey Bada$$ who can’t get the recognition he deserves
Thumbnail change, you thought we didn't notice 😂😂😂😂😂
thought he was slick with it😂
The most overrated rapper of all time and it’s not even close. Drake is not a true rapper. He’s an actor pretending to be one.