Drake Is Pop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Yasiin Bey talking about Drake: • Yasiin Bey on Drake
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Drake the type of guy to say “I’ll have the usual” to a waiter who has no idea what he’s talking about
Nice one
Omg this is great
As a waiter I feel very seen by this
well played. giggles were had
I actually laughed at this
He’s gonna send you another vegan recipe for this one
LMFAO
Came here to post this and was just as pleased to see it already here 😂
He’s gonna give him a second light 1 rating
🤣🤣🤣
HA! 😆
Drake is hip hop in the same way that a tomato is a fruit.
it's technically true, but it might as well not be. you wouldnt eat that shit like an apple
This is too accurate.
Speak for yourself, tomatoes are delicious
You don't know how I eat my tomatoes
This is too perfect an analogy lol 😄 You sir, are a gentleman of scholar.
Great analogy
this isn’t even opinion, this is fact. he brags about topping the charts, he’s a pop artist
Absolutely he is a pop star, buuuuut i feel like mos’s point gets skimmed over in that he is still a rapper. But he does make pop too. He’s stepped his foot into a ton of genres which makes him hard to classify.
@@blaghgames5050 In that way Drake has also been an innovative and eclectic artist, of course in the field of POP. He goes across rap, contemporary r n b, alternative rnb, and has experimented with dancehall, drill, house and southern rap. Also Drake has been influential and innovative in rap for challenging macho hardcore rap sterotypes
Hes both. Its not rocket science
EXACTLY @@SamuelMills-ez4jo
@@blaghgames5050so u telling me tuscan leather pop ?
Alot of his biggest fans are drake fans as opposed to rap fans. The way they’ve disrespected Mos Def who is a certified legend in hip hop after his comments is so cringe
Mos Def is a litmus test rapper.
If you wanna know if someone loves the artistry of rap and hip hop culture or if they're just consuming blackness and cashing in on cool-by-association, ask them about how they feel about a rapper like mos def.
This is pretty much it. Everytime I talk to a supposed Drake fan they seem to be openly hostile to the notion that hip-hop is an art form and double down that they only really like him because he posts numbers.
Hell they like him “because” he’s mid.
@@Mighty_Atheismo70% of people in the IG comments had literally zero idea who Mos was. Kinda don’t blame them. I’m 32, 100% of these comments HAVE to be people under the age of 22
tf r u on, all i see are people glazing at what mos def said. I would say the way people have disrespected Drake's music and pen game is just flat-out disrespectful
@@ShaneGillisownedSchulz I hear ya but also at that age I was on the search for classics, in addition to being on trendy shit lol... the kids have that option too!
Drake the kinda type of fella who constantly says he's the best in a genre he isn't even part of
Rap and Hip Hop isn't real music anyways 90% of the "artists" have zero music theory knowledge let alone know how play a instrument or compose a song that doesn't consist of plagiarism (yes that's what sampling is).
@@VocaloidEnjoyer1 Didn't you just plagerise that Ben Shapo nerd with your comment?
@@VocaloidEnjoyer1nice bait ben
@joghurt143 Yeah, sorry you wrote a whole paragraph of failure to prove that you are a failure. Please don't try again.
@@VocaloidEnjoyer1damn 💀, I can’t even think of a statement about music being more wrong than what u just said
Drake is 100% target music
Thats a good thing some of hes songs are rnb or pop kind with no bad language. mj, adale , Beatles are also played at target. Drake is everything, its not rocket science lol.
some of his music yeah but songs like 8am in charlotte and tuscan leather and many other hip hop performances say otherwise, you could say he makes some target music but a lot of his catalogue is also hip hop
100%? A song like lord knows would never be played at Target
@@martinwalters8677 he said the artist is 100% pop, not that 100% of his discography is pop
@@berrybullet4654 yes but most of his hip hop songs are still hip hop pop songs. He makes club/shopping/background music made for easy consumption irrespective of what genre he chooses. That’s what mos def says he’s pop. Like melon said, he doesn’t make hip hop for the heads like a Kendrick or a Freddie gibbs or even a JID or J Cole. He’s thoroughly in the mainstream pop rap category (and that’s ok)
Drake basically said “Only people that know absolutely nothing about poetry should review my poetry book” 😂😂
That's ableist of him. I only hear in Braille sorry.
Like why would he say Instagram girls give him rap props? Like can he be fr
I don't really understand why Drake fans or Drake himself would be upset about this. His fans say he's the GOAT purely based on the number of hits and album sales he has. They definitely can't point to any specific music he's created to make this claim. That's the definition of a pop artist.
Exactly lol every point to the argument they try to make always resorts to numbers and hits
Yes!
Drake the type of dude to put "😂" in a text after taking a dig at someone
This comment is funny 🤬
I don't know why this comment is so funny and totally what Drake would do...
@@franklingoodwin 5:06 It is not what Drake would do. It's what Drake actually did
@@bonzo4394 Really? 😂
😅
Im a popstar not a doctor
This song was tongue in cheek. Drakes literal last project is a rap ep
Doctor doesn't mean rapper😂
@@emann_music_ okay, then why is Drake's music like an anesthetic?
@@kayeezycopis it 😭 Like half the back end songs are 100% singing
@@DylpiqkleSTier red button, stories about my brother, the shoe fits, wick man and evil way are all singing??? Only song that has some singing on it is you broke my heart but even on that Drake is rapping too
Mos Def's comments were non-controversial and not negative in any way. Drake is pop and it doesn't take anything away anything from Drake's music to say so. People can enjoy different things for different reasons.
To me, the comments about shopping _did_ come off dismissive, there was a tone of mockery. There’s also a history in hiphop of labelling certain artists “Pop” to discredit them as rappers. The history is there, so you can’t blame people for feeling like he’s throwing shade.
@@nameisamineI think you can still blame people when that comment is immediately followed up by saying that it’s fine.
I don't get how people can say that he isn't hip hop, though. If trap and crunk are considered sub genres of hip hop, then how is Drake not hip hop? Is Lil Jon not hip hop then? Are the Migos and Travis Scott not hip hop? Like how far does this go?
@@ariel-y-e-mit’s cause they don’t like his style or focus so they forget what the definitions are to hate
Aubrey’s Angels 😂
bro really attracting all the drake stans after the whole beef and making them cry 😂
Drake is a pop artist that can rap. While he may have started out as a rapper, some of his biggest hits are either full out background pop songs, or "rap" songs that are easy and catchy but they are known for the pop oriented hooks anyway. His rap ability is fine but as of right now he has more pop appeal then anything. Which is fine because he's making bank, another case of people being so attached to something any sort of criticism about it is taken as hate. And in Mos Def's case it wasn't even criticism, buddy was just answering a question and responded the way he thinks.😭😭
Hotline Bling is drakes perfect song for this rlly. Very slow, catchy flow, easy chorus, pretty much broadly relatable because it genuinely applies to such a wide variety of situations and vibes. Otherwise, I think he's corny af for first pretending to be Jamaican and then English and then... Whatever he's gonna be next. Just because you're in London doesn't mean YEW KNEAD TEW TAWLK LIYKE THIS GUVNOR ygm. Not everyone in England even sounds like that, so you're just doing a bad English accent because you're Aubrey Drake, actor turned rapper. Not grafter turned rapper.
its more the other way around, He's a Rapper that can make Pop music
@@johnwhalley8270Drake won’t ever see this bro…you hate drake just say that lil bro😂
Drake is a rapper that has made pop music. That doesn't make him not a rapper or invalidate any of the rap/hip-hop music he's been making for 15 years.
Nah, dude can't rap, like at all.
He did not need to apologise for saying the truth
Yeah I get why he did it. Dude does not deserve this shit. But he shouldn’t have had to apologize for being right.
Honestly only the most delusional Drake stans think otherwise.
Prolly Mos has heard the rumours of Drake´s "gangster" side and the accusations (X tentacions). Myself I am a fan of Pusha T though
@@TheSkaOreoI don’t even hate the guy because of his music, it’s just gross that he’s a pedo and a groomer.
“shopping with an edge,” yep, so like at a footlocker. he’s shoe store music.
He writes the songs of a generation. Name another artist that so perfectly captures the suburban ennui of the self checkout
Frank Ocean?
@@xwexarexbulletsxu joking
Don’t let LosPollos see this
LMFAO, the next debate is gonna be wild
The chicken 🐔 no wonder melon has beef with the dude.
@dyinginfashion2558 chickens. plural.
@@xXxzAAa0aAAzxXxthank you for the correction. Hugs and kisses 😘
@@daniellavaladez7820 He should debate with Mos Def
“Drake is Target music” is the most succinct description of Drake ever.
aged perfectly
I don't even think pop and hip hop are mutually exclusive, I think its possible to be both at the same time. pop is more of a description rather than a genre in most cases anyway imo
Beyoncé does both at the same time
@@mamacita1170Beyoncé is barely hip-hop, I’d say a better example would be JID
Yeah I don't understand... Hip-hop is pop to me... Maybe it's more modern terminology, but I consider all the "Pop"-ular music forms to be pop. I think you can group all the music forms into the umbrella groups of classical, blues and jazz, folk music and pop, with each tying together a wide variety of music forms that are characterised more by their cultural significance. I think it's completely wrong to tie pop to just whatever is in the charts right now, because there's clearly some modern country and folk music getting into the charts right now. So is that the same as "pop" music? Some might even say jazz belongs in the pop group.
@@joshwhite5730 Nowadays yes, but her early work is
@@mamacita1170 Beyonce is absolutely not, in ANY way, hiphop. Is this a joke?
I hate social media. Bey shouldn't have to apologize for his opinion
I love that people are talking about Mos Def again, its just annoying that THIS is why
Yasiin looks outright depressed talking about Drake.
If Drake and Ed Sheeran are both pop stars who can rap, does this give Ed the advantage since he's the one with a REAL British accent? Gonna make some vegan cookies and mull this over
Holy fuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
10 Bands - Written by Quentin Miller
Jumbotron Shit Poppin - Written by Lil Yachty
Mob Ties - Written by Vory
It would be different if he wasn’t pretending he didn’t lean on ghostwriters so heavily, but he really lets other people take the wheel more than any rapper should, even for a pop rapper.
A huge amount of modern hip hop is pop, to be fair
And some would argue Drake is the reason that's the case
@@BacchusAurelius-yj4mb*kanye
@@martinwalters8677 ...and Puffy
"SHOPPING WITH AN EDGE (in certain instances)" 💀
"Your existence is pop"
Joey Bada$$ still criminally underrated
Yes, I wish Yasiin Bey had not felt the need to apologize for his words while many of us agreed with his first assessment. I wish interviewers stopped asking lazy questions like "What do you think of XYZ?" Because it always puts the interviewee in a tough situation. They do not bother doing any research so to fill the time, "Who is the next best rapper for you? What do you think of drake?" And she was not even a good listener.
Gotta love how absolutely no one calls him Yasiin Bey without clarifying that hes Mos Def😂
Mos Def also an underrated actor…dude seriously can act.
Be Kind, Rewind!
16 blocks was cool
Be kind, rewind. definitely underated good flick@@mattd1659
I still like him in Next Day Air and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I love Mos Def as a hip-hop legend. But his performance in Be Kind Rewind was pretty terrible.
drake basically had his swifties bully def into apologizing. if that aint pop...
Not the youtube algorithm recomending me this today of all days 💀💀
Melon kind of said this in his video but not outright- if he’s constantly bringing up his numbers, brings up that other rappers don’t like him, and stood the test of time against his critics, why should he care? If you held a gun to his head and asked him if he could beat Yasiin Bey in a rap battle he would have to admit he couldn’t. He’s successful and likes the lane he’s in, Drake just loves being petty. It’s like he’s addicted to being corny to his critics.
I've been following Drake since 2008. He acts like an immature female. Him and Nicki fell off music wise.
He's the most petty dude in rap history when you consider his level of success. His antics shouldn't appeal to anyone who is no longer in high school.
People say “Old Drake is better than New Drake” - rappers from Bey’s generation didn’t like “old Drake” either. They never embraced him, said he wasn’t hiphop for singing, and tried to gatekeep him out of the conversation. They’ve been doing this for 15 years. Drake thrived regardless and went on to shape modern hiphop in his own aesthetic rather than adopting theirs. Now a new generation of rappers grew up on Drake and carry _his_ influence, not theirs. Let’s be honest…a lot of purists don’t like that fact but we are where we are.
I wish there was this much energy about human rights.
Yup.. a place that reviews music is the perfect platform for what you ask. Absolute genius!! 🤯
I don't think he apologized. I think he stood by what he said and made his stance and intentions more clear. He just added the point of "let's focus on what really matters", cause he IS real Hip Hop.
I hope he did. I say this as a person who has been to multiple Drake shows. I have all of Mos Def's projects, was blessed to be able to attend his New York performance, and if he so did another exclusive show type stuff, wouldn't be looking at the price tag, I'd be going due to how much it means to me due to what hip hop has meant to me over the years and my understanding of the world. I'd look at it like an experience, something money is meant to create if possible but can never replace.
Drake makes the marvel movies of music and noone can convince me otherwise
The marvel formula had a clear start and a end to its hype. Drake’s music hasnt had that so far.
Drake is to hip-hop what Laufey is to jazz.
True
clever!
Drake more like the Kenny G if I'm honest 💀
Kenny G
The thing about being the most popular artist in any genre, is that your music is going to be “poppy”. Like by definition you have to have a lowest common denominator sound.
I just don’t understand when Drake and his fans constantly talk about his numbers and how he’s at the top. But then simultaneously get mad when you acknowledge what has to happen to become the most popular anything
People are more pointing out how disingenuous it is to ONLY call him pop. Pop isn't mutually exclusive from any genre only up to a certain point, which acts as more of a sub-category of whatever genre it's respective song fits into. Drake's music still heavily falls into the rap genre overall, but can still be categorized as pop-rap, like how you'd categorize something like emo-rap from classic hip hop. He simply makes the Pop music for the genre of music he does. Why are people being daft about that shit, no punk?
@@KatSpicert 90% pop
8% R&B
2% rap
@@anony-moon Stop being disingenuous. You know he's still just as much rap as he is pop, this just comes across as nitpicking. Pop isn't just a genre most of the time, he simply makes the pop music for rap and r&b, how is that hard to understand? You're saying, you CAN'T tell me what genre most Drake songs can fit into in the same vein as Bruno Mars songs...someone who _literally_ makes 90% *pure* Pop and 6% r&b?
@KatSpicert nah he's right tho, if you even look at his discography at least 5 of his albums are more pop/rnb based
It’s all a spectrum. Drake isn’t fully pop or fully rap.
But let’s not act like Drake is majority rap at this point. FATD has a couple rap songs like FPS. It’s not really his main jam if you look at the whole album.
And it’s not even as negative of a criticism as I think you’re taking it. As Drake has gotten bigger his sound got more pop focused.
Is Slime You Out a rap song in the same way The Motto is? Of course not
Your average drake fan's knowledge of hiphop history only goes as far back as 2010. Thats why they had no clue who mos def was, or why he was saying what he said. Its really common with most modern rap fans tho 🤷♂️. Its not that drake is pop, rap as a whole is pop now.
Rap as a whole? Fuck no.
@@seanyoung9014 It's the biggest genre of music on the planet so yeah at that point you are quite literally "popular music". obviously there's still underground hiphop and rap artists, just like any genre.
@@OPdbx Okay but that's rap music not hip hop culture. People conflating the two has been a problem since the 90s but now it's to the point where people will actively argue that they are the same thing. They are not the same thing.
Drake isn't HipHop, he just plays one on TV
He didn’t say “internets’s busiest music nerd” at the start of the video. That is breaking the 10 commandments of needledrop
Drake, “I’m a pop star”
Fans: 😊
Yasmin Bey, “Drake is Pop”
Fans: 🤬
I didnt know Drake was considered a rapper, i thought he was known as the main Pop/R&B guy
are you dumb? lol
Brain dead take🤣biggest rapper of the last 20 years / all time
@dakota.7617he's very popular. But then, so is Ed Sheeran
@@willywonka7812 This is the one, right here.
You can be a rapper without being hip-hop
Drake fans are a mf cult 🤣 he's definitely pop
I've been waiting for you to weigh in on this shit, and man, you did not disappoint. As always, you are the voice of reason in the social media reality of unreason. This right here is why I fucks with you and always will. Kudos to you, Melon, my favorite like-minded left-leaning vegan music nerd.
"Drake Is Pop if you call him that don't stop"
- Q-Tip
Drake is not rap, if you call him that step back
Got the opps calling me pop
Ladies love my sound, credit clean like a mop
Money and women, two areas thatll never flop
When u a kid from the 6ix who had to wheelchair ur way to the top 🦉
-Drake's ghostwriter, 2024
Wasn’t the ghostwriting thing in 2015
@@blaghgames5050 you think it stopped?
stale meme @@BeautifulEarthJa
@@BeautifulEarthJa still it’s a dumb joke Drake haters use as some sort of leverage to make their corny ass jokes
Even if he wrote it himself these bars are mid af. Mops aren't even clean. 😂
Yasiin Bey forever indeed. Not just a magnificent artist but a wonderful humanitarian. I saw one TH-camr (whom I otherwise respect) say that Bey's comments stemmed from jealousy. Y'all really believe that a man who turned his back on his movie and music career at the height of his fame to preserve the integrity of his work would be jealous of Drake? C'mon guys, stop the nonsense and just go listen to The Ecstatic.
I heard drake once in a dunkin donuts. I was feelin that ice coffee too. So I looked at her and said, "guuuuuuuurl blast some whipcream on that". as I assume Drake would say in a dunkin donuts.
I think saying that Drake actively goes out of his way to not appeal to the “heads” is a bit disingenuous. That would be more fitting to say about someone like Flo Rida or something. If you listen to enough of Drake’s music, you would gather that the guy obviously cares about the art of spitting. He does have a penchant towards wordplay and metaphors and double entendres and some of the other ingredients associated with purist Hip Hop music
Yea Flo Rida and Pitbul pretty much stopped doing regular hiphop once they had pop success, Drake is activity trying to stay relevant in rap /trap crowd and drop pop songs too. Drake is hiphop and pop ,he's consistently charting on pop and urban radio and he's one of the last true crossover artists. Saying Drake isn't hiphop is like saying 50 cent isn't hiphop, In da club went pop but it's still a rap song .
Yasiin was speaking truth. Drake has a very specific formula tailor-made for pop chart success and he's been riding on that for years, now to his detriment. If he was truly hip hop, his time in the sun would've faded away years ago - he would've never lasted as long in the spotlight with how repetitive his music has become.
Yasiin knows his stuff and I appreciate his takes on anything he speaks on.
Slightly off screen in the mos def apology video you would see J Prince standing with his arms crossed
We all knew Drake was too insecure to handle this gentle flick of an attack
I think he was just going off the community’s reaction and didn’t see the clip himself
It wasn't even an attack tho. It was merely an observation, if not an axiom.
@@jovanreid6782 yeah that was what I meant with the gentle flick part, it’s the kinda thing that really shouldn’t bother a person much
" I would have so many friends
If I held back the truth and I just gave out compliments
I would have all of your fans if I didn't go pop
And I stayed on some conscious shit "100 by game fr. Drake... the man's own words
"Stayed"?
As if he ever dipped his toes in it lmao
@@CRL_One what about on Over my dead body?
@@CRL_One Drake 1st mistape was hiphop only. Why do people like you make comments without actual research?
@@martinwalters8677the exception doesn’t make the rule can Korn call themselves hip hop if they make one or two hip hop records When the majority of their discography is metal?
@@Kirbystare1992 The other guy I replied to said he didn't dip his toes in it. His 1st album was backpack rapping so that probably was his original passion. I can also point out multiple songs from each of his albums that are hiphop only
There’s nothing wrong with what Mos Def said
It certainly is fascinating how many people say they don’t like and don’t care about Drake but as soon as something like this happens, they are eager to pick up the scraps. Mos is one of my fav artists who has produced some of my fav albums. Is Drake pop? Yes. Is Drake hip-hop? Yes. Hell, is Drake r&b? Yes! He’s a lot of things which Yasiin sort of all-encompassed in his “pop” statement. That’s it, end of discussion.
Because it’s funny. It’s funny watching both Drake and his stans get into their feelings whenever their light skin god receives even an ounce of criticismZ
@@TheSkaOreo I guess but idk. The man made Nothing Was The Same, Take Care, Thank Me Later, and IYRTITL. It’s just hard for me to see people who constantly hate him because he’s so popular and ignore the fact that he used to and still does make great music (FATD Scary Hours Edition)
@@TheSkaOreodrake being in his feelings about this based on one comment on his insta story is a mad stretch. You writing your comment is about the same amount of time drake spend on this situation.
Drake and Usher and closer to eachother than Drake and Kenderick.
What people aren’t grasping is the fact that Drake’s most “Hip Hop head” style verses aren’t as popular or get as much recognition/attention as his music that typically appeals to everyone. Drake can make all styles music effortlessly, which he has proven for over a decade. However, just because “Hotline Bling” is the more popular song across cultures of music, that doesn’t mean “Lord Knows” doesn’t exist.
Shopping with an edge
in the intervew he already look so uncomfortable with the question and he's trying to answer it as honest and as nice as he could. i cannot believe how soft a guy must be to see that and got insulted from it. i feel really bad for mos def
Mos Def is definitely in my top 5. Some don't know nor learn from history, dude is a beast
shopping with an edge is funny
I was pretty agnostic on Drake before the beef and everything else, a popstar. But after him poppin' shit at Kendrick and Pharrell, Drake just alienated someone who wasn't even against him.
I've never thought of Drake as a rapper. He's a pop artist who does pop hip-hop designed to appeal to everyone.
He is Hip Hop's version of Greenday or Blink 182, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Drake is so all over the place musically it’s hard to tie him to one genre, His music is pop, hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, bounce, etc.
Couldn’t agree more with the analysis here. Well said.
“Aubrey’s angels” 😂😂
“It happens to every genre and subculture during their commercial peak.” This is why turnstile and militarie Gun scare me
cmon theyre not that poppy
Hardcore and hardcore adjacent bands have been pop for a while now. It's not been underground or arguably even counterculture for years
Aubrey is a sad boi who uses Ghost writers.
Yes Anthony. I recall the online tussle, with the back and forth and back and forth. You are very important and Mos Def knows it.
Fantano Is Melon
Totally agree. Hip-Hop is one thing and rapping is another. Beyonce raps, Doja Cat raps, Taylor Swift raps but they are still pop artists. Drake is far more similar to a pop girl than 50 Cent or even Kanye. Very Canadian BTS about the situation.
true
Even Rodney Dangerfield rapped once.
Right because Taylor Swift & Beyonce are definitely the bar for determining what’s hip hop or not lmaoo stupidest take I’ve ever heard in my fucking life lmaoo.
Taylor Swift doesn't rap at all 😭💀
That's right Anthony, ever since Pusha T told him to take care of his kid, Drizzy been a father
Drake is to hip hop and what the Olive Garden is to Italian food.
Drake has been my favorite artist since 2009 and I agree 100% with Yasiin Bey. 😂 Anyone who doesn’t is goofy. Drake has his rap/hip-hop moments but let’s not kid ourselves.
Mos Def said a classic "great gowns, beautiful gowns" but male, rapper version😂 love that!
I think something can be pop and hip hop at the time time."pop" can be applied to musi of any genre of said music is primarily designed to have mass appeal vs artistic depth
"I'm a popstar, not a doctor, watch her say she rep a whole different block so I blocked her" - popstar, drake
Why can't people just accept that Drake is a RAPPER who ALSO sings and makes pop music, like Flo Rida, Pitbull, and Macklemore. Drake has countless rap songs, songs where he's actually rapping, unlike the 3 artists I just named and others like them. Yes, he makes commercial/mainstream hip-hop and pop, but he's also still a RAPPER. I don't know why people fight so hard to fence him out and discredit him. The hate for Drake has always been otherworldly.
lol. I think those comparison is probably something Aubrey wants to avoid.
Yeah he’s a rapper-like Flo Rida😂
@@TheSkaOreo I'm not trying to say they're the same because they both sing and rap. Drake quite clearly has a different style and sound than those three. If you were to compare him to them most people would say that Drake's music is more hip-hop/rap oriented than the majority of their music.
Flo Rida is a pop artist that makes pop-rap/dance music, but most people wouldn't say he's not a rapper because he does rap in his music. Drake has made lots of pop music but has also made or been on countless songs that are undeniably hip-hop/rap but people are calling him a pop artist. Drake's main style/sound is hip-hop
Stories About My Brother is my FAVOURITE pop song of 2023!
Drake on 100 said himself “I would have all your fans if I didn’t go pop and stay on some conscious shit”
"Why are you doing this to me?" kills me🤣🤣
Yeah. He's pop. He's got a lane for himself. Him and Conductor should do an EP or something. Would be cool to hear bro rap again.
Somebody hasn’t listened to FATD
@@Jettz2x Look fam I just wanna hear him and conductor do an EP. That's all. I am not a Drake fan generally.
: Drake doesn't have the fortitude or the capacity to have a bare bones or raw approach to making music - I think that's what needs to be said here. He can't help but sound quite manufactured, even when the recording mixing and mastering is utter ass. Drake is a pop leaning artist, 100% - yet I don't think that contributes to why he's mid as hell right now. It's just his manufactured sounding music happens to sound like hot ham water right now.
Literally the most accurate interview and he still had to apologise. So many popstans are ridiculous
Just about every mainstream rapper, R&B singer, Rock Band, etc, is POP!! POP=Popular or Popular Music. The days of hardcore, in your face, rap, is long-gone from the mainstream and also mostly absent from the underground in 2023/2024!
Ye is 10 times more hip hop than Drake could ever be
Calm down lol.
Kanye made the pop lane in the 1st place. Or was it Lil Waynr or Outkast?🤔
@@martinwalters8677 Lowkey andre might've made the strongest and earliest push in that lane cause speakerbox/Love came out in 03
I’m a Drake but I have profound respect for Yasin Bey. However, I hate this kind of commentary so much. Whether we like it or not, Drake IS one of the biggest artist in the rap/hiphop genre from 2010s to now. Is Drake boring/too formulaic, maybe suffering from complacency syndrome? Sure. But I feel like objectively if you know Drakes catalog, he samples, pay homage, and makes conventionally known hip hop music. I just feel like if we fast forward 10 more years - Drake will be known as one of the major figures in Hiphop. So in hindsight, Mos Def will just look like a hater.
People talk about gkmc and 2014 forest Hill drive. Drake albums come and go and no one gives a fuck. Ten years from now. No one will care about drake
The weird thing about Drake is he deliberately makes music to appeal to the masses in a pop way but gets mad when people point it out. He doesn't make music for the hip-hop heads but when the hip-hop heads say "its not for me", he throws a fit
all that can be true, but Drake still hip hop tho
I’m stoned to the bone scrolling through TH-cam and I misread the title as “Drake is poop” and it made me choke on chips I was laughing so hard
How is Drake not hip hop? He’s not only hip hop but you can’t tell the story of hip hop 30 years from now and skip over Drake. Drake is clearly a part of hip hop culture.
Nope
drake is so hated right now that people didn't know he used to make good shit, nothing was the same, if you're reading this it's too late.
Its been almost 10 years since IYRTITL
I mean, he was hated during those times too.
Drake is just gonna receive hate no matter what. All I can ask as a fan is that he delievers stuff like Scary Hours 3 where he actually cares about quality and not the numbers or the bag.
Its like Wayne said, he’s popular and he’s lightskin. Of course people are gonna want to tear him apart
I mean, does it matter? I feel like this is the kind of discussion that only exists to start arguments. I feel like if you were to ask pop fans they wouldn't consider Drake pop. Does he have pop songs in his discog? Absolutely, every artist does. It's what puts food on the table. And how come you never see this discussion with other genres? Lots of pop artists team up with rappers on songs but you don't see people questioning if they're hip-hop. Genre discussions are so weird, brings me back to the days when everyone would argue what genre of metal a certain band was in. Nu Metal, Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Post-Punk, like just enjoy it nobody cares.
Drake was a Rapper from 2006-2011... 2012-2024, Drake became a Reggae Artist, R & B Singer & Pop Star, who happens to Rap.
Mos Def/Yasiin Bey wasn’t wrong here. Drake does make pop music. How often did you hear anything from Mos Def being played at Target? You didn’t, but you definitely hear Drake at Target. Like you said, he tried to be as eloquent and respectful as possible, but Cutting Room floor was looking to start shit and make Mos look bad.