Speaking from my own white suburban upper middle class perspective, I think I understand why Drake does this. When you grow up listening to art from people who've survived unimaginable physical and spiritual turmoil you start to associate good art with pain. This assumption forms that in order to be a great artist, you have to have a determination that can only be born in you when you come up from nothing. And when you've never worried about where your next meal will come from, or if you even have a future at all, you get insecure. You feel like you don't have anything meaningful to contribute. To deal with this you can either do as Drake does, dress yourself in traditions you don't know anything about while leaning on tenuous connections to your culture of choice to essentially steal valor, or you can recognize the truth about art which is that the secret ingredient is not pain. It's *truth.* The reason the great rappers from the streets are great isn't because their childhoods were violent and painful, it's because they chose to express their experiences in ways that provide entertainment, meaning, and peace to others. Being a rapper who sings isn't the problem. Being soft isn't the problem. Being half-white isn't the problem. Dishonesty is.
This comment was so well thought out, insiightful, and really appreciated, by someone who grew up 16 years in a housing project. In that environment, you have to feed your dreams every day, with no days off, till freedom comes. Thank you for being open to ancestral guidence, in your comment ❤😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Bravo
@@mobilelegendspublicenemyxo4315 i always wondered who popularized that phrase…that’s scary the fact that Drake of all people said it. The dude’s fan base is made up of mostly underage girls
@@MYNAMACHEFhe wasn’t handed that. He earned that spot while his mom was working several jobs to keep him in a good environment as a single parent. Then he became the biggest rapper when nobody thought an “actor” could. Drake has never said he was from the hood. That doesn’t mean he still had to work to get to where he is now
Torontonian here- Drake grew up in an area called Forrest Hills. Thats not just any regular suburb of toronto, thats one of the richest areas in the entire city to live in, its not even close, its the UBER rich area. The only thing close to it in cost would be the downtown core area penthouses. The houses there are 30k+ sq ft / 100 room mansions, right in the middle of the city. Its where the CEOs and star athletes live
yeah there's some rough areas of toronto its not all good here, but like i'm 99% sure aubrey's never been in one before putting on this fake persona unless he was driving through it in a car
@@PinkDomina25 lmfao weston road from wilson or finch to woodbridge too, which is funny cuz his songs always brag about being on the hood parts of weston, but his first house before the embassy was in the billionaire area of weston 😂
@@PinkDomina25 Drake's the kinda guy to have beef with someone around there and instead of dealing with it himself he'll wait in his limo tweeting how tough he is while the 6'6" dude he pays actually does something
@@ivanthaboiI can’t say for sure but I’d guess he bought that house once he got his Degrassi money. He was already famous for years in that video. We don’t know much if anything about his life before fame other than he lived with his single mom in Toronto
No, a culture vulture is someone who takes from a particular culture without giving credit to said genre, culture, or its people. Drake has not only embraced multiple scenes/genres in music, he’s put on its people and made these already popular cultures more easily accessible to the public. UK: Dave, Headie, Giggs, Jorja, etc are prime examples of embracing a culture and putting on its people.
@@kamfisher1714 drake uses the culture to further his own agenda, leeches what he can then moves on to the next best thing while claiming he built their carreers, wayne himself said drake needs to stick to rapping what he knows about not, he doesn't understand the culture and uses other people to give him insider info
I love my nickel bacc Kurt Cobain.. slipknot papa roach ECT I even listen to marylinn Manson in the 90$ 🎉 ND I'm from the hood Drake just weirdo be you my ninja you not like us ✊🏾
"I don't want you to rap about what I rap about. Rap about your little TV show, rap about Canada, just don't rap about how you're a hardcore gangster that kills people." - Lil Wayne
This was a truly succinct definition of 'cultural appropriation'. It's not about race as much as life experience. Eminem is all white and never tried to say he wasn't. But it was his genuine life experience that made him relatable from the start.
Exactly that, Eminem tapped into lower/working class white kids that liked rap. We don't gangbang or represent colours but we are poor as shit too, surrounded by drugs, alcohol and abuse
I’m a light skin dude, not hood, introverted and use big words sometimes. I have been called “white boy” accused of “acting white”…didn’t grow up around white people btw….so I was a little sensitive to some of the criticism towards Drake because I did that thing where people put their own experiences in front of shit that is truthfully none of your business…I never ran my mouth about shit I didn’t know…good thing I didn’t because all you had to do was look a little deeper to realize shit wasn’t right all the way with Drake. I never….NEVER saw him as a hood dude and I did think he was just performative….I didn’t realize how toxic he was about it though
@@aferg76It's not really about complexion, it's about attitude and respect. I like reading the dictionary like Malcolm X did, as well. But no one has ever called me wyt, even tho I'm light, (Bars) Because even tho I use a wide variety of words to express my ever expanding thoughts, the hood accent is beautiful to me, and I am irritated by high pitched nasally sounding voices, just like everyone else around me is.
I’m mixed never been a fan of him because I actually saw him on degrassi growing up, by the time I was a high schooler myself I was a felon and going to juvinile growing up in that environment by 2010 when he came out I already knew he was a clown
I thought my mom was white…the whiteness level of Drakes mom made room for his spoiledness. My mom wouldn’t make me get a switch but she sure as hell wouldn’t let me act like that. And the fact there were people and cameras there…you could tell he was holding back
@@gifi11yeah and Drake can rap ...the middle instrumental on family matters he's really good . But against seasoned rappers ...he can't box at that level
@michaelcorleonelfc2407 That 2nd beat on Family Matters, he killed it lol that was the one verse Drake really rapped on the whole battle tho. This was all bad lol
"Started From the Bottom was about his career as a rapper" 1) Already being a famous teen actor with money and connections in the entertainment industry automatically disqualifies his claim of starting from the bottom in his rap career. 2) Lil Wayne, the most popular rap artist at the time and now arguably considered one of the best, took Drake under his wing, signed him to his label, and mentored him. He didn't start from the bottom even in terms of his rap career.
Drake grew up rich, in a white, Jewish family. For Drake "blackness" is a costume he puts on. "Drake" the rapper is character similar to the character he used to play as a teenager.
Drake is cosplaying a black rapper. This is why he adopts so many aspects of other cultures. It some respects it could be considered cultural appreciation but it crossed over into appropriation years ago
@@kamfisher1714 j cole and Jay z grew up within an inner city in the black culture. Drake did not. Dude grew up a Jew in a very well off neighborhood. He’s not from the streets. He’s out here creating baby mama’s and not claiming his kids when he knows better.
@@Dudewhatno Jay z actually does that’s how he got so powerful and hold up, ya’ll call Obama the first black president yet his white momma raised him and he code switched
This was the PERFECT analysis from a Black American perspective. It's like we all understand the unspoken rules of the culture without having to meet each other.
@@unclericosfootballcamp2854 If you're not from the culture, its hard to understand the nuances. A LOT of his base missed a lot of points because they didn't have the context and had the audacity to double down on their claims and be vile about it because they buy his music. That's why appropriation and appreciation must be scrutinized going forward. A LOT of his fans have been delusional, downright disrespectful and very entitled.
There’s a lot of hypocrisy and issues in black culture that we never wanna acknowledge. That’s the real issue and when it comes to hating on drake that’s a perfect example of this. Your comment describes what it SHOULD BE. but people like Kendrick constantly move the goalposts about what it means to be “black” whenever it’s convenient to tear someone else down. Then wanna preach about black power and inclusiveness when everyone who’s black don’t go through the exact experiences. And just because they don’t, doesn’t mean they should be outcasted.
I have a similar experience to Drake, but on the inverse (in my case, black mother, white Jewish father). I have issues with my momma but you can bet your ass I'd never treat her like this over a damn sandwich!
Yea cuz Drake is the only teenager to ever complain to their parents. Y’all make up new shit to hate on him every day lmao Look at what you’ve done and you and the 6 are thank you letters to his mom
Because his appeal that time was very to girls and teens and he was kinda teen star and a lot of people was kinda joking about that. Ain’t nobody had problems with bieber when he did songs afterwards, songs that were engaging to almost everyone. He was a pop star and nobody has problems with popstars. Even when he came to the hoods and did pushups with niggas ain’t nobody had problems. He was respectful and modest. There’s difference.
@@ilayben-simchon7688nah that Beiber hate was real back in the early 2010s. Prior to his album Purpose, he was loved by his fan base, but he got a lot of hate and cyber bullying every where else.
@@Godaerentalos yeah and than grew out of it. Don’t get me wrong I ain’t a bieber fan but the dude is likeable. Despite being a white boy Canadian and dies a good job on features ass well. That feature on Travis album is still goated
@@GodaerentalosBieber was hated in the early 2010’s for two reasons. First, the obnoxious amount of hip hop stars that were featuring on his tracks, people knew damn well the only reason for those features is because Usher wanted to build Justin into an RnB/Hip Hop star and use his connections to make more cash off Justin’s success, and the majority of people weren’t having it (myself included, that’s not Justin’s lane, he’s a pop star and a damn good one, but he’s not Usher, The Weeknd, etc.). Second, his early relationship with Selena Gomez was extremely public, especially their breakup; his entire life was shoved into people’s faces, but the relationship in particular became such a recurring obsession in the media that it created problems between the two, and it damaged both of them mentally and emotionally. The difference here is that Justin and Drake are entirely different. Justin never tried to be something he wasn’t, even with all those features he still only made pop tracks. He didn’t act like he was some champion of the less fortunate, or pretend that he endured the same struggles and experiences of those he featured with. Drake did. Justin isn’t perfect, never has been, he was raised in a shitty industry that used and abused him for profit, but for the most part he’s honest, about himself, his upbringing, his past and mistakes. Drake isn’t. As Kendrick said in MTG, Drake lies, he lies about everything, his personality, career, all of it is fake.
I'm white, from an upper middle class background. Culturally, that "where's my sandwich" could be from my childhood. Down to the way the mom is talking, the stuff that's out on the counter. And obviously the room itself. It kind of shocked me
@@SeattleScottyyeah its looking bad for drake its crazy how hes falling from grace (musically) it was a good run im always gonna play those old nostalgic songs from 2009-15 tho thats the real drake to me💯 2016 after 6 god album he became to corporate
Of course hes has some hits after 2015 but what im sayin is it didnt feel like the real drake every thing hes put out since 2016 has felt like its being chosen by the corporate label
@@DellBlackberry22 jlo has been going on for years saying that she grew up in the bronx and that they used to call her Jenny from the block, which is cap
@@kalijahdaley7866correct, she grew up in a middle to upper class family that could afford sending her and her sister to prep school. Both her parents worked and sent them to school fully funded. Jenny from the Preps.
@@DellBlackberry22on top of what everyone says she went to a rich private school and doesn’t even know any popular slangs from NY or even what’s our most famous deli sandwich 😂
🎯 EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARSSS! That's why he's been able to get away with the bs for so long. He's an ACTOR FIRST! LMAO it's what literally made him famous 😂😂😂
For a moment I was about to correct you by pointing out that he sucks at acting..... but you didn't say he was good, you just said "well connected" So on point %100. I'd be shocked if he ever solved a problem in his life without paying it to go away.
Ironic when Kendrick is the one with an identity crisis. He doesn’t know when to act like the black messiah preaching against anything white, or switch to the selling out to the whites for more popularity and awards, or cheating on his wife with whites women😂😂
That same uncle taught drake a lot about jazz, soul, and the culture at a young age. So what’s the argument to hate on him gonna be? Is it He’s had a few successful family members so he’s a culture vulture, or he’s not “in tune” with black culture so he’s one? Y’all gotta pick one a stick with it😂😂
No the argument would be that he wasn’t raised by his uncle or his father. So he wasn’t raised up in a black family. He visited his black family members for a few summers in his childhood.
“What's the matter dawg? You embarrassed? This guy's a gangsta but his real name's Clarence And Clarence lives at home with both parents And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage” head aszz
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No kidding - I’m white and your explanation of why the black community needs outlaws to balance power kind of blew my mind. Never heard it explained that way, but it makes a lot of sense.
Kendrick has the ultimate victim complex. He thinks he has the ultimate struggle and anyone who didn’t have it as hard as him doesn’t matter. When in reality every person has their own struggles😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406 I'm sorry but no... When you have never feared for your life, been afraid and helpless, homeless, or abandoned you have gone through nothing. Going hungry and not getting your favorite bagel for your tuna sandwich are not comparable
You hit the nail on the head, its not that he's not black enough. It's that he's inauthentic. He puts on different personas to be cool and make hits but none of it feels real. Can't go against a true artist when that's your M/O.
I remember when drake straight up changed the meaning of what a freestyle is. He had a freestyle years ago it was one of his first radio show appearances, where he literally rapped with the blackberry out reading it. And everyone just let it slide, and from then now a “freestyle” is just a verse over a beat you’ve never heard. He literally took the talent aspect out of being an artist
He got made fun of for that and then niggas started doing it. It’s like the call for fame is too strong for people to double down on skills worthy of such attention. They want it now.
A lot of people called that out at the time. Drake has always been a fake ass swaggerjacker, a walking meme and an obvious industry plant / nepo baby for a while now, Kendrick just reminded people lol
That wheres my sandwich clip is so fucking funny man. That was his biggest struggle man and the mom is so nice and sweet still trying to make him happy LMAOOO
My daughter watched Degrassi, and I watched it with her. When I saw "Jimmy" from Degrassi rapping, I thought it was a joke. I never, at any point, stopped thinking it is a joke.
@@johnolson2216 Same! I'm also 36, and I remember when Drake first blew up and his name was all over the place. I hadn't actually put a face to the name yet and when I finally saw "Drake" I was like "You mean wheelchair Jimmy?! THAT'S who everybody's talking about?!" I really thought he was going to be just another flash in the pan. I've never been able to take him seriously.
@@faith4657 is not that bro, is the fact even the diss itself he didn't write it himself, how do you go to have beef with someone and the diss song wasn't written by yourself
@egilthefrog4549 How, do you know it wasn't written by himself. You can't just say stuff and coin it as facts when even you can't prove it. Unless Kendrick has a mole in the enemy lines, I highly doubt it's fact.
"What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed? This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence And Clarence lives at home with both parents And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage"
@@DruggyP I see your point, but I think it has more to do with Clarence just being a nerdy "white" name......and I can't say that 8 Mile Marshall was wrong lol!!
his cringe would then follow him unfortunately. Like saying he has to "smoke out ____'s", in reference to possibly having a mole in his camp, and then backtracking and saying he fed people fake info.....cringiest thing ever😂😂
Why are y’all taking a clip from a moment of him as a teenager when he’s written several letters of gratitude in his songs to appreciate his mom and apologize for the times he was acting ungrateful
As a middle class white kid that fucking sandwich thing was brutal. Bro, I didn't even have that. My mom would've smacked my head and tell me to eat it and like it. What the fuck is this lol
Funnily enough the role he is known the best for is playing Wheelchair Jimmy, which apparently he hated because he didn't like playing a disabled guy because he thought it made him look weak. He couldn't separate the character and himself which any normal actor is able to do. So he had trouble being an actor as well.
@@bunndumm isn't this a sign of histrionic personality disorder? Theater-like expression of emotions, need to be in a spotlight all the time? Sounds like it.
“The bottom is not the hood. That’s just not how the world works. A lot of people have to work for a lot of things in life. That’s just what the song is about it’s about being focused on a goal which at times can feel like the bottom because you haven’t achieved it yet. And somehow attaining that goal. Where I’m from has nothing to do with it. It can be if you want it to be, if that’s your story. Everybody has a unique story” drake in 2013 talking about the song. Yet y’all somehow created a fake narrative he’s tryna act hood😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406It is!! For the type of music he’s pushing. Rap didn’t start in middle class If you really understand rap you would know it started by describing black peoples experience. Rap just like reggae was/ is the way we speak out against injustice. You must be whyte cause no black person will write this mess.
As a white dude who grew up in the hood in the US, it's infuriating to hear this dude act gangster and use ghostwriters. I grew up writing graffiti, running fades, getting arrested, having homies get killed etc and that shot fucked me up. I hate when fools glorify shit they haven't even been thru. It's a slap in the face to those of us who survived with all the scars and trauma to prove it smh.
I’m white, but I grew up in very ghetto areas. We had people breaking into our house or sleeping in our laundry room and backyard, constant roach/rat infestations, no electricity sometimes, depending on school food for most meals, ect. I’m honestly grateful for how good I had it because I know my dad had it much worse. Meanwhile Drake was getting sad over not having a sandwich already made for him, and dude thinks he came from the bottom.
@Hanysseus fr bro. Could you imagine talking to your mom like that? I woulda got my ass whooped lmao. I never bitched about what we were eating, I was just grateful to be eating! We ate free lunches at schools all summer.
@@chekz3520 Those summer lunches came in clutch. Obviously I didn’t like them sometimes because it wasn’t the healthiest, but the only other option was being hungry.
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I remember a decade ago when "Started from the Bottom" was Drake's biggest song, my friends and I would make fun of it every time by singing "Started from Degrassi now we here!"
This is why white rappers like Eminem still have respect. He was secure enough in his talent to never fake any street cred, and he kept his beef with mostly other white rappers. He appreciated the culture but never tried to claim it as his own. Respect. Be yourself.
The fact being black is always associated with being poor and struggling is the real issue in this whole race baiting argument Kendrick brainwashed y’all into thinking
I have met and know white people less white than Drake. "I hate the way that you talk. I hate the way that you walk. I hate the way that you dress." I feel that shit now.
What makes me so sick is that Drake knows better. He’s out here creating baby mamas and out of wedlock kids when he has all the resources to be better man that his dad. So many black boys would have given so much to grow up with the way he did.
I am one of those white people. My friends joke about their "other" black friend, and then I walk in. But it's just how and where I grew up, and who I was around the majority of the time because of where I lived. People can tell when you're "faking the funk" as we used to say.
“Only became ‘black’” -how do you become black? His father is African American 🤔 you are super ignorant and obviously doesn’t know what culture vulture means. Also, the identity crisis line is over used. His music identity has remained the same. He has experimented with styles of music but that doesn’t mean he does not know who he is. If he was having an identity crisis, we would not associate a sound to his name.
Wait, you're telling me a child actor from Canada on a children's TV show grew up and started acting like someone he's not? What a shock, I never would have guessed. Next you're gunns tell me he's never been a gangster! (/s)
The kids that were between ages 3 and 8 when he dropped probably didn't know about his past the way we did. I was in my 20s when he dropped. Even some of us didn't connect the dots. I had never seen nor heard of Degrassi, but when I learned he was a child star, I knew he didn't have time to be in the streets like us. I'm from Dekalb County (Zone 6). I knew there was no way he wasn't a sucka, but he played us good. We can't keep letting mess like that happen. He's not like us. He doesn't care about us. I'm glad he's out tbh.
Those of us that are older remember this bout Drake. It’s why a lot of us old heads don’t really like Drake but I’m glad you’re doing the work and posting it for others to view.
Yeah, i was born in 2000 and i only knew about drake when i was like 11 or 12 years old. Used to love him until high school at 15 years old and finding out he doesnt even write his raps, and thats the time i started listening to West Coast classics(NWA, Kurupt etc.), Underground rap (Beast Coast, Odd Future) and D12 instead of Trap and all that... the time where i became a huge fan of Black Hippy too... But boy, i did not know Drake was an even bigger fraud than i had previously thought. Im literally only finding out right now at age 24 during this beef lol
Idk I grew up pretty poor and seen non white friends act like drake with their mom. I don't think that's a "colonizer" thing some people are just disrespectful no matter how much they're corrected. Usually it was the ghetto ass kids at school that were extremely disrespectful to other people. It was rare a ghetto ass kid at school had any manners.
Let’s be honest, the hip hop community stopped caring about a rapper’s origins after 50 expose Rick Ross for being a former CO and Ross kept pushing it. Drake’s like the ultimate byproduct of that.
Thing is alot of good people get jobs are co it literally one the most corruption filled positions out there Ross being a co isn’t even that embarrassing it just 50 cent is a mastermind at beef and made it seem bad
Yeah I believe that was the moment right there, or maybe the Source vs Em situation. It's the Art that armors certain artist and protects... as long as they provides the hits
whats wrong with being a CO...its just a job. its not like rck ross was a cop or prosecutor like our vice president who made sure black people with marijuana crimes would go to jail so she could statpad black people being locked up
I never understood how people call Eminem a culture vulture, yet those same people have given Drake a free pass, especially after he paraded around in BLACKFACE.
How did someone consider him as culture vulture? He literally grew up in the hood and knows what it be like even tho he's white. And he's not really talk abt it in his songs unlike drake
They both are July Rev 2:9, 3:9 All the music, entertainment, money etc is own by July very own. Taylor Swift too They put their own on top because it's their own business. Everyone else is pawns in a game chase. If they want riches, they must give up a lot . Drake draconian Dracula Started from the bottom wasn't talking about his career 6th god... 6 is falling, unlike 9 is rising Toronto is cold....... That's the opposite of jungles aka heaven Toronto raptors... Drake is old as dinosaurs aka Draconian wanna be dragons. Get his some of his tweets now ?
@@tdup191yall gotta work on that man. Out here stanning frauds. Us "haters", or more recently any form of "kendrick glazers" been tryin to say it and just get called names lmao. Atleast you're seeing finally.
@@InAmberClad00it don’t matter what you call it. Drake has connections to the streets. When you’re dominating the hip hop industry and made hits for the culture for so long that’s bound to happen. It don’t matter where he started or grew up in.
He comes from music royalty, his uncle is Larry Graham, one of the most influential and successful funk musicians of all time, and his other uncle was in Al Green's band. He was always gonna have a way into the music industry.
It's funny to contrast Drake to Snow (the guy who did the song 'Informer' in the 90s). He was a white Canadian who grew up in the projects around overwhelmingly black Jamaicans, joining a gang and beginning to speak in patois - before going to prison several times for gang related assaults. A Canadian guy with a stage name that literally refers to how white he is, is a more legitimate gangster than Drake.
Even Snow clarified this in the song informer: ..." People dem say ya come from Jamaica But me born an' raised in the ghetto that I want ya to know-a Pure black people man that's all I man know.." - Snow.
I’m a white guy from a working class neighborhood, if i talked to my mom like drake did in this video my mom would be like “this is what we have, shut the fuck up”
@@leultrainstinct406if you’re at you’re friends house for the first time and they yell, talk back or give attitude to their mom , yes it’s normal to assume that’s normal for them but of course it’ll be weird and stand out to you because you know not to do that because their are consequences. if they have the grapes to act bratty and disrespectful at their big age , it’s safe to say that’s been the norm for their relationship because they don’t suffer any real consequences from their behavior and it shows . And yes if they act that way towards their mom , also again at their big know better age . they’re prom to act the same if not worse towards people who aren’t her as they get older .
@@leultrainstinct406also this comment is about drake being 6 years older than the 17 year old girl at the time , kissing her and saying “ your breast feels great against my chest “ . Aka Creep
In an alternate reality, she gets him the tuna sandwich, he sticks with acting, and we never hear his corny music and see his “cool guy” memes/advertisements. He’d prolly still get a BBL tho.
@@Chasewimerxoxo no he apparently got ab sculpting surgery or something, that’s why Kendrick was criticising him for taking shortcuts instead of working out and telling him to do push ups. But ppl like to joke that he got a bbl lol
No one’s hating on the fact that he comes from a nice home and perceived positive environment. It’s that he portrays that he is not
Yeah that’s why I stopped listening to future lol
@@codercrisYT idk about future. Hood culture in the south is encourage no matter where you are. They turn suburbs into hoods. It's crazy
@@codercrisYTfuture went to jail multiple times for selling crack 😭
@@codercrisYTbro future grew up in Atlanta hoods what?
We like real and if he presented who he really Loy was , we would respect it but the fake hardcore ….weird
“This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence” type vibes
Aubrey’s parents have a real nice marriage 😅
I thought that little clip was a degrasy episode. But it was Drake’s family home video.
@@ChrisTopher-vh8tunaw his daddy abandoned his momma when he was real young though
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I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought of this lmao
Bro this nigga Drake is real life Papa Doc!!! Like I’m mind blown!! How tf did this happen?!?!
Speaking from my own white suburban upper middle class perspective, I think I understand why Drake does this. When you grow up listening to art from people who've survived unimaginable physical and spiritual turmoil you start to associate good art with pain. This assumption forms that in order to be a great artist, you have to have a determination that can only be born in you when you come up from nothing. And when you've never worried about where your next meal will come from, or if you even have a future at all, you get insecure. You feel like you don't have anything meaningful to contribute. To deal with this you can either do as Drake does, dress yourself in traditions you don't know anything about while leaning on tenuous connections to your culture of choice to essentially steal valor, or you can recognize the truth about art which is that the secret ingredient is not pain. It's *truth.* The reason the great rappers from the streets are great isn't because their childhoods were violent and painful, it's because they chose to express their experiences in ways that provide entertainment, meaning, and peace to others. Being a rapper who sings isn't the problem. Being soft isn't the problem. Being half-white isn't the problem. Dishonesty is.
That's a fantastic comment
very true
"Stringer Bell eats beans for breakfast??"
This genuinely needs to be pinned
This comment was so well thought out, insiightful, and really appreciated, by someone who grew up 16 years in a housing project. In that environment, you have to feed your dreams every day, with no days off, till freedom comes.
Thank you for being open to ancestral guidence, in your comment ❤😊👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 Bravo
“If she’s 16 I’m 16” is something else
Is Drake the one who originally said that phrase? I never knew who first said that phrase?
@@patrickgroening5664 he actually posted it. he did lol
@@mobilelegendspublicenemyxo4315 i always wondered who popularized that phrase…that’s scary the fact that Drake of all people said it. The dude’s fan base is made up of mostly underage girls
@@mobilelegendspublicenemyxo4315 Yeah, the predator tweet is fake though
@Westblader he def has predator tendencies tho 😂
drake bitching over the tuna sandwich while his mom is a sweetheart
trying to accommodate and still hes ungrateful
i feel like Daves whole character in the show Dave and his love of Drake was just a huge Drake Diss
Even on the family matter song the first quote was from his mum saying he shouldn't say the n word, and he proceeded to disrespect her and double down
@@Mr_turner-m1s that was his mom????????
@@KingFrazzz yes
To be fair he was younger and childish....but boy it def looks bad hahaha
Drake didn’t start from the bottom, he started from 75% up💀
Well damn 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Jewish wealth
Facts, his life was Boosted With XP
@@ToastyChud bruh what
"Living with my momma, we would argue every month"
What horror....
I haven't lived with my mom in 30 years and we argued 17 times, this morning! And I love that lady!!
An argument every 30 days. How did he do it
Struggle≠being from the hood
Kendrick got y’all brainwashed into thinking that’s the only way. Then has his suburban fans repeat it😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406 the child actor struggle
@@MYNAMACHEFhe wasn’t handed that. He earned that spot while his mom was working several jobs to keep him in a good environment as a single parent. Then he became the biggest rapper when nobody thought an “actor” could.
Drake has never said he was from the hood. That doesn’t mean he still had to work to get to where he is now
Torontonian here- Drake grew up in an area called Forrest Hills.
Thats not just any regular suburb of toronto, thats one of the richest areas in the entire city to live in, its not even close, its the UBER rich area. The only thing close to it in cost would be the downtown core area penthouses. The houses there are 30k+ sq ft / 100 room mansions, right in the middle of the city.
Its where the CEOs and star athletes live
yeah there's some rough areas of toronto its not all good here, but like i'm 99% sure aubrey's never been in one before putting on this fake persona unless he was driving through it in a car
Anyone who’s driven from Eglinton W to Eglinton E can see the exact point where Drakes personality splits 😂
@@PinkDomina25 lmfao weston road from wilson or finch to woodbridge too, which is funny cuz his songs always brag about being on the hood parts of weston, but his first house before the embassy was in the billionaire area of weston 😂
@@oso1165 exactlyyyyy, nobody seen Drake at Jane and Weston lmaooo
@@PinkDomina25 Drake's the kinda guy to have beef with someone around there and instead of dealing with it himself he'll wait in his limo tweeting how tough he is while the 6'6" dude he pays actually does something
His "STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM" is most people's "NOW WE HERE"
Fr Drake's "bottom" is literally ABOVE my now we're here. Like damn bro a whole ass basement to yourself???
that was always the most cringe song by drake.. like the dude was on GLEE lmfao.
@@ivanthaboiI can’t say for sure but I’d guess he bought that house once he got his Degrassi money. He was already famous for years in that video. We don’t know much if anything about his life before fame other than he lived with his single mom in Toronto
@@ivanthaboi STARTED FROM THE BOTTOM (of the house)
He prob was referring to his parents’ basement 😭
"Started in the upper middle class now I'm here"
I think someone told him the basement was called the bottom...
Started in the richest neighbourhood in the entire country. Well above upper middle class.
No, a culture vulture is someone who takes from a particular culture without giving credit to said genre, culture, or its people. Drake has not only embraced multiple scenes/genres in music, he’s put on its people and made these already popular cultures more easily accessible to the public.
UK: Dave, Headie, Giggs, Jorja, etc are prime examples of embracing a culture and putting on its people.
@@soldat-kun What? Lol he was already popping before that
@@kamfisher1714 drake uses the culture to further his own agenda, leeches what he can then moves on to the next best thing while claiming he built their carreers, wayne himself said drake needs to stick to rapping what he knows about not, he doesn't understand the culture and uses other people to give him insider info
I've known white people who didn't grow up as white as Drake.
😂😂😂 the most savage comment about BBL Drizzy
That's a bar rigth there😂😂😂
Underrated comment 😭💀
What does “growing up white” mean exactly.
I’d love to read the mental gymnastics behind this one given that 48% of all homeless/poor are white.
💯
so having a stable home life is white ?
I used to think Drake was the Nickleback of rap, but now I think that's a bit insulting to Nickleback.
Idk why Nickelback gets so much hate
@@LifesAJokeSoAreYoume either
🎉heck yeah m from South Central LA didn't do nickel BAC like dat .. This is how you remind me of who I really am ... 🎉🎉🎉🎉 that part 〽️ lol
I love my nickel bacc Kurt Cobain.. slipknot papa roach ECT I even listen to marylinn Manson in the 90$ 🎉 ND I'm from the hood Drake just weirdo be you my ninja you not like us ✊🏾
@@LifesAJokeSoAreYou lots of overplay in the 2000s from what i heard
"Did it all without a Drake feature"- RIP Mac Miller
I remember that song 🔥💪🏾
Damn RIP MAC MILLER fr
Drake is where mac should've been
You're def white
@lostfound8764damn
"I don't want you to rap about what I rap about. Rap about your little TV show, rap about Canada, just don't rap about how you're a hardcore gangster that kills people." - Lil Wayne
what song is that please?
@@DarkHorizonEOS I think it's spoken advice, according to an interview with drake i saw a snip of
@@TEAMGETHELP thanks man, I saw the same interview bit where he says “keep it Canadian”
@@DarkHorizonEOSyep that’s the one .
But dude was rapping about girls and his emotions that's what blew him up
can't lie, i never liked drake, but his grandma is a G
Why would you even attempt to lie about something so stupid lmao
Why is his grandma a G?
@@masteronion1128 She seems like a chiller based on the footage. Classic nice grandma
I thought that was his moms
Maybe Drake isn’t the biggest culture vulture maybe people are the biggest haters
I need Kendrick to make a diss song called "Tuna Sandwich".
Followed by "Sit Down Jimmy" 15 minutes later.
It would be so funny if that's where the snippet in the Not Like us music video is from
and people dead arguing for this man that he lived in a "basement" his basement way better than anything i ever lived in
His basement bigger than some apartments
Started from the bottom as a child actor, living in the richest neighbourhood in all of Canada.
That basement was about twice the little 600 square foot my whole house is…. I don’t understand how he wasn’t exposed straight from the jump honestly
Maybe he meant the lyrics literally 🤣
He started down in a basement and is now on some upper floor
@@DDCC35 😂😂😂 yooo u made my day
This was a truly succinct definition of 'cultural appropriation'. It's not about race as much as life experience. Eminem is all white and never tried to say he wasn't. But it was his genuine life experience that made him relatable from the start.
Good point!
Eminem has more street cred than white boy Drake
yep.
This. What I've been telling people.
Exactly that, Eminem tapped into lower/working class white kids that liked rap. We don't gangbang or represent colours but we are poor as shit too, surrounded by drugs, alcohol and abuse
“That’s my grandson 🥺🥺🥺” is so freaking sweet he should rap about how sweet his grandma was
Drake would rather glaze his exec friends
"I like Drake with the Nan raps, I dont like Drake when he curses"
How would his ghostwriters know what she was like?
Lil Dicky or Macklemore really would
Yeah, but he's a sellout. Probably don't even call his family anymore
I’m a light skin dude, not hood, introverted and use big words sometimes. I have been called “white boy” accused of “acting white”…didn’t grow up around white people btw….so I was a little sensitive to some of the criticism towards Drake because I did that thing where people put their own experiences in front of shit that is truthfully none of your business…I never ran my mouth about shit I didn’t know…good thing I didn’t because all you had to do was look a little deeper to realize shit wasn’t right all the way with Drake. I never….NEVER saw him as a hood dude and I did think he was just performative….I didn’t realize how toxic he was about it though
I’m lightskin as well but even I can see Drake is sick man.
At least you were aware of your faults. That already makes you better than most celebrities.
@@aferg76It's not really about complexion, it's about attitude and respect. I like reading the dictionary like Malcolm X did, as well. But no one has ever called me wyt, even tho I'm light, (Bars) Because even tho I use a wide variety of words to express my ever expanding thoughts, the hood accent is beautiful to me, and I am irritated by high pitched nasally sounding voices, just like everyone else around me is.
I’m mixed never been a fan of him because I actually saw him on degrassi growing up, by the time I was a high schooler myself I was a felon and going to juvinile growing up in that environment by 2010 when he came out I already knew he was a clown
Sorry to hear people said that about you that’s fucked up.
That clip with the sandwich is the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever seen holy fucking shit
I want to weep hearing him call Pharrell one of his idols.
@@Trixiethegoldenwitcha side effect of too much cap 😂 you say shit that you either don’t truly mean or that’ll bite you in the ass later on 🤷🏽♂️
2:58 Aubrey!! The inner workings of a spoiled only child 😂
Im a white millennial man and that sandwich clip made me sick. The cringe is universal. Thank God I can't identify one Drake song.
I thought my mom was white…the whiteness level of Drakes mom made room for his spoiledness. My mom wouldn’t make me get a switch but she sure as hell wouldn’t let me act like that. And the fact there were people and cameras there…you could tell he was holding back
Unrelated but his mom genuinely seems so sweet 😭
True
Right? I honestly feel kinda bad for her 😬
Yea, XXTentacion said that his mom can get it, and I agree wit him
I’m wishing her the happiest of Mother’s Day along with my mother and your mother and anyone’s mother
@@IHNMAIMS123😂😂😂💯💯
Drake is basically Jake Paul. Very big, Delusional about how good he is, Good at boxing but you can't beat actual boxers. Stop
Great analogy. Jake certainly has skills but he ain't beating no real boxer
@@gifi11yeah and Drake can rap ...the middle instrumental on family matters he's really good . But against seasoned rappers ...he can't box at that level
I think Obama said it best "drake is a great entertainer "
@michaelcorleonelfc2407 That 2nd beat on Family Matters, he killed it lol that was the one verse Drake really rapped on the whole battle tho. This was all bad lol
@@gifi11I agree bro. Mostly his raps are cheesy and soulless but on that beat he cooked
"Started From the Bottom was about his career as a rapper"
1) Already being a famous teen actor with money and connections in the entertainment industry automatically disqualifies his claim of starting from the bottom in his rap career.
2) Lil Wayne, the most popular rap artist at the time and now arguably considered one of the best, took Drake under his wing, signed him to his label, and mentored him.
He didn't start from the bottom even in terms of his rap career.
"one of the best" ugh
Drake grew up rich, in a white, Jewish family. For Drake "blackness" is a costume he puts on. "Drake" the rapper is character similar to the character he used to play as a teenager.
TY!!!
Yuuuup
It took yall 10+ years to realise
Correct
All rappers are characters
Drake is cosplaying a black rapper. This is why he adopts so many aspects of other cultures. It some respects it could be considered cultural appreciation but it crossed over into appropriation years ago
Then j cole and jay z are not black.
@@kamfisher1714 j cole and Jay z grew up within an inner city in the black culture. Drake did not. Dude grew up a Jew in a very well off neighborhood. He’s not from the streets. He’s out here creating baby mama’s and not claiming his kids when he knows better.
@@aferg76 J Cole mom is white and he’s from the Carolinas, stop capping
@@kamfisher1714 Jay Z and Cole don’t code switch.
@@Dudewhatno Jay z actually does that’s how he got so powerful and hold up, ya’ll call Obama the first black president yet his white momma raised him and he code switched
This was the PERFECT analysis from a Black American perspective. It's like we all understand the unspoken rules of the culture without having to meet each other.
It's not limited to black Americans
@@unclericosfootballcamp2854 If you're not from the culture, its hard to understand the nuances. A LOT of his base missed a lot of points because they didn't have the context and had the audacity to double down on their claims and be vile about it because they buy his music. That's why appropriation and appreciation must be scrutinized going forward. A LOT of his fans have been delusional, downright disrespectful and very entitled.
There’s a lot of hypocrisy and issues in black culture that we never wanna acknowledge. That’s the real issue
and when it comes to hating on drake that’s a perfect example of this. Your comment describes what it SHOULD BE. but people like Kendrick constantly move the goalposts about what it means to be “black” whenever it’s convenient to tear someone else down. Then wanna preach about black power and inclusiveness when everyone who’s black don’t go through the exact experiences. And just because they don’t, doesn’t mean they should be outcasted.
@@MindfulMoments1444, what do you mean by "appropriation"?
This was a perfect analysis in general. Guys on point with my own opinions
The way he's talking to his mother is DEFINITELY not the way a Black boy would talk to his mother. No way.
I have a similar experience to Drake, but on the inverse (in my case, black mother, white Jewish father).
I have issues with my momma but you can bet your ass I'd never treat her like this over a damn sandwich!
Lol nothing funnier than white dudes trying to educate black dudes on how black dudes talk to their mother
As an African, I'll be six feet under if I ever talk back to my mum hell no 💀✋🏽
a newborn baby born in the hood got more respect then drake is a crazy statement lmao
😂😂😂😂
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😂 wild
The baby got more stripes tho
that baby one of the hoods own and not a fraud
The temper tantrum about his mommy not getting him the right sandwich is UNREAL LEVELS OF CRINGE
The struggle is real.....
i only love my bed and my mama im sorry 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
It's just a spoilt only child.
Yea cuz Drake is the only teenager to ever complain to their parents. Y’all make up new shit to hate on him every day lmao
Look at what you’ve done and you and the 6 are thank you letters to his mom
@@leultrainstinct406 bro is drake paying you to defend him full time? I see you in all these replies goddamn get a job or something
"Nobody has a problem with Justin Bieber, everyone loves him"
Bro that mf was like the antichrist in the early 2010's
Because his appeal that time was very to girls and teens and he was kinda teen star and a lot of people was kinda joking about that. Ain’t nobody had problems with bieber when he did songs afterwards, songs that were engaging to almost everyone. He was a pop star and nobody has problems with popstars. Even when he came to the hoods and did pushups with niggas ain’t nobody had problems. He was respectful and modest. There’s difference.
@@ilayben-simchon7688nah that Beiber hate was real back in the early 2010s. Prior to his album Purpose, he was loved by his fan base, but he got a lot of hate and cyber bullying every where else.
@@Godaerentalos yeah and than grew out of it.
Don’t get me wrong I ain’t a bieber fan but the dude is likeable. Despite being a white boy Canadian and dies a good job on features ass well.
That feature on Travis album is still goated
😂😂😂 very true I love Justin
@@GodaerentalosBieber was hated in the early 2010’s for two reasons. First, the obnoxious amount of hip hop stars that were featuring on his tracks, people knew damn well the only reason for those features is because Usher wanted to build Justin into an RnB/Hip Hop star and use his connections to make more cash off Justin’s success, and the majority of people weren’t having it (myself included, that’s not Justin’s lane, he’s a pop star and a damn good one, but he’s not Usher, The Weeknd, etc.). Second, his early relationship with Selena Gomez was extremely public, especially their breakup; his entire life was shoved into people’s faces, but the relationship in particular became such a recurring obsession in the media that it created problems between the two, and it damaged both of them mentally and emotionally.
The difference here is that Justin and Drake are entirely different. Justin never tried to be something he wasn’t, even with all those features he still only made pop tracks. He didn’t act like he was some champion of the less fortunate, or pretend that he endured the same struggles and experiences of those he featured with. Drake did. Justin isn’t perfect, never has been, he was raised in a shitty industry that used and abused him for profit, but for the most part he’s honest, about himself, his upbringing, his past and mistakes. Drake isn’t. As Kendrick said in MTG, Drake lies, he lies about everything, his personality, career, all of it is fake.
I'm white, from an upper middle class background. Culturally, that "where's my sandwich" could be from my childhood. Down to the way the mom is talking, the stuff that's out on the counter. And obviously the room itself. It kind of shocked me
The only motion that Drake ever had in his life was sliding chocolate to his Grandma 😂
lol that part was so wholesome love his grandma, so glad she ain't around to see his downfall. He should have just been genuine and sang pop music lol
This comment 😂😂😂
@@SeattleScottyyeah its looking bad for drake its crazy how hes falling from grace (musically) it was a good run im always gonna play those old nostalgic songs from 2009-15 tho thats the real drake to me💯 2016 after 6 god album he became to corporate
Of course hes has some hits after 2015 but what im sayin is it didnt feel like the real drake every thing hes put out since 2016 has felt like its being chosen by the corporate label
That part was so sweet.
Drake Is the male version of Jennifer Lopez
How so? I'm not too familiar with Jlo background
@@DellBlackberry22 jlo has been going on for years saying that she grew up in the bronx and that they used to call her Jenny from the block, which is cap
They dated some years ago too, that’s what makes me laugh😂😂😂
@@kalijahdaley7866correct, she grew up in a middle to upper class family that could afford sending her and her sister to prep school. Both her parents worked and sent them to school fully funded. Jenny from the Preps.
@@DellBlackberry22on top of what everyone says she went to a rich private school and doesn’t even know any popular slangs from NY or even what’s our most famous deli sandwich 😂
He's an actor. A well connected one. That's why he's so good at adopting styles, cultures, accents, and behaviors.
🎯 EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARSSS! That's why he's been able to get away with the bs for so long. He's an ACTOR FIRST! LMAO it's what literally made him famous 😂😂😂
THANK YOU!!!! People act like they don't understand that. He was a actor first, then started "acting" like a rapper 😂
For a moment I was about to correct you by pointing out that he sucks at acting..... but you didn't say he was good, you just said "well connected"
So on point %100. I'd be shocked if he ever solved a problem in his life without paying it to go away.
In simpler terms he’s a chameleon 😂😂😂
right! he acted DOWN on degrassi!!
An actor cosplaying a struggle rapper dang 😂😂
Logic looking like the blackest man alive compared to drake.
Logic is light skinned af and only appeal to white ppl but he’s lived a fucked up life
remember he’s biracial, he dropped an entire album just to say that the entire time and let us know.
Naaaah don't do that😂😂
Yeah bro he grew up in the hood
@@GucciPastayou black guys in america are not black enough.
Bro said Pharrell was his idol. Today he disrespects Pharrell, Kanye, and everyone else he looked up to.
Fornicated with Wayne’s girl while he was in prison. The man that put him on.
Bro has no loyalty in his DNA
Kanye might of deserved it, but Pharrell didn’t.
That’s wild 😳
Exactly😂😂
One thing I wanna point out is when he’s with the 17 yr old on stage, he says I can’t go to jail YET! That yet is skipped over.
THANK YOU!!! Cause tf!!
He even said “I can’t get carried away again”Nigga how many times have you gotten carried away??
I thought that's what he said! 😒
No one skipped over that 10 years ago
I knew i wasn’t the only one that heard that sh**🤔😂
Drake the typa guy to say
"BUT MOM!" whenever his mom told him they aint getting no McDonalds
"The skin that you livin' in is compromised in personas"
- Kendrick Lamar
This has got to have more likes
Ironic when Kendrick is the one with an identity crisis. He doesn’t know when to act like the black messiah preaching against anything white, or switch to the selling out to the whites for more popularity and awards, or cheating on his wife with whites women😂😂
"My uncle worked with al green" is such an understatement. Larry Graham is probably the most influential bassist in popular music history.
6:16 was a al green sample that kdot got cleared for streaming. the irony.
That same uncle taught drake a lot about jazz, soul, and the culture at a young age. So what’s the argument to hate on him gonna be? Is it He’s had a few successful family members so he’s a culture vulture, or he’s not “in tune” with black culture so he’s one? Y’all gotta pick one a stick with it😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406this whole was fucking stupid and essentially if you ain't poor you're not black.
@@leultrainstinct406 boths
No the argument would be that he wasn’t raised by his uncle or his father. So he wasn’t raised up in a black family. He visited his black family members for a few summers in his childhood.
Ngl young drake not getting his tuna sandwhich is pretty funny
fr that clip is taking me out
On a bagel lol is crazy
@@kanopatterson9128✡️ 😉
On a bagel
That shit is funny
Drake is the kind of person to get bit by a zombie and hide it from the rest of the group.
LoL
“What's the matter dawg? You embarrassed?
This guy's a gangsta but his real name's Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage” head aszz
Francis’s story is CRAZY. His journey from Cameroon to Europe is nuts. It’s amazing he even survived. The guy he was traveling with didn’t.
RIP HIS SON BTW
Drake didnt start from the bottom, he started from the UPPER MIDDLE
A lot of other rappers are from a middle class household, guys like wiz, travis scott and more.
@@marks.9387But they didn't make songs literally called "Started From The Bottom".
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He is better than those who start from the bottom 😂
No kidding - I’m white and your explanation of why the black community needs outlaws to balance power kind of blew my mind. Never heard it explained that way, but it makes a lot of sense.
When Kendrick said "at first I felt bad for you because you ain't never been through nothing..." WHOOOOOOOOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kendrick has the ultimate victim complex. He thinks he has the ultimate struggle and anyone who didn’t have it as hard as him doesn’t matter. When in reality every person has their own struggles😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406 I'm sorry but no... When you have never feared for your life, been afraid and helpless, homeless, or abandoned you have gone through nothing. Going hungry and not getting your favorite bagel for your tuna sandwich are not comparable
@@leultrainstinct406Lebron James and Goku pfp, yeah you should keep quiet
@@leultrainstinct406Nobody is taking you seriously anymore
You hit the nail on the head, its not that he's not black enough. It's that he's inauthentic. He puts on different personas to be cool and make hits but none of it feels real. Can't go against a true artist when that's your M/O.
So being black means you have to be ghetto? I don’t understand there’s no way to be “black enough” that sounds hella you know what.
Especially trying to act like he from hood hoods in the us. He brave for that lol
Then why aren't white people mad at him for making shitty pop songs that top the charts when he's not Black like Mike, Jack?
I remember when drake straight up changed the meaning of what a freestyle is. He had a freestyle years ago it was one of his first radio show appearances, where he literally rapped with the blackberry out reading it. And everyone just let it slide, and from then now a “freestyle” is just a verse over a beat you’ve never heard. He literally took the talent aspect out of being an artist
Bruh 😂😂😂😂 I remember that I was straight out of high school.
He got made fun of for that and then niggas started doing it. It’s like the call for fame is too strong for people to double down on skills worthy of such attention. They want it now.
A lot of people called that out at the time. Drake has always been a fake ass swaggerjacker, a walking meme and an obvious industry plant / nepo baby for a while now, Kendrick just reminded people lol
Eminem did that shiii too, not with a blackberry Buh how you memorize something and call it a freestyle?
Exactly bro
That wheres my sandwich clip is so fucking funny man. That was his biggest struggle man and the mom is so nice and sweet still trying to make him happy LMAOOO
My daughter watched Degrassi, and I watched it with her. When I saw "Jimmy" from Degrassi rapping, I thought it was a joke. I never, at any point, stopped thinking it is a joke.
This. There will forever be qay porn in drake's locker.
Lmao when u realize that even jimmy had a rougher life than Aubrey💀💀💀
I'm 36 and watched Degrassi some when I was a kid. I remember coming home from college and seeing Jimmy on BET and I thought it was some sort of joke.
OMGGGG. 💀💀💀💀
@@johnolson2216 Same! I'm also 36, and I remember when Drake first blew up and his name was all over the place. I hadn't actually put a face to the name yet and when I finally saw "Drake" I was like "You mean wheelchair Jimmy?! THAT'S who everybody's talking about?!" I really thought he was going to be just another flash in the pan. I've never been able to take him seriously.
Now i realize that Weezy's "Keep it Canadian" was a precious piece of advice
Lil Wayne said “become the ultimate artist” because he noticed how versatile drake was before he decided to sign him. and that’s exactly what he did.
He took a little too literally and became a chameleon. Drake is an actor and pretty good at it too
Just the fact that drake doesn’t even write his own lyrics is already proof that he’s lost this fight even before it began
And when he did write his own shit, it was wack 😭
Not every rapper writes all the time, you acting like it's a crime.
@@faith4657 is not that bro, is the fact even the diss itself he didn't write it himself, how do you go to have beef with someone and the diss song wasn't written by yourself
@egilthefrog4549 How, do you know it wasn't written by himself. You can't just say stuff and coin it as facts when even you can't prove it. Unless Kendrick has a mole in the enemy lines, I highly doubt it's fact.
@@faith4657 bro the push ups literally write by bunch of people the fuck you mean
Putting bbl drizzy as the outro is diabolical
"What's the matter, dawg? You embarrassed?
This guy's a gangster? His real name's Clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence's parents have a real good marriage"
fr fr, there ain't such things as Half Way Crooks
This Drake guy don't wanna battle, he's shook
Cause ain't no such thing as halfway crooks
;)
lol @ "how are you a gangster if your name is clarence" are your parents supposed to name you bloodbath or something?
you do know drakes parents divorced when he was 5? 😂
@@DruggyP I see your point, but I think it has more to do with Clarence just being a nerdy "white" name......and I can't say that 8 Mile Marshall was wrong lol!!
“Started from Degrassi in a chair, Started from Degrassi in a fucking wheel chair”
Hahahaha 😂😂
Don’t forget the “nigga” at the end. It really adds the credibility and the struggle the audience needs to hear
😂😂
I read this comment as that song was playing in the video now i cant hear anything else 😂😂
Lmfao
ik he's still young but that video of drake disrespecting his mum over a tuna sandwich is so awkward to watch 😭
his cringe would then follow him unfortunately. Like saying he has to "smoke out ____'s", in reference to possibly having a mole in his camp, and then backtracking and saying he fed people fake info.....cringiest thing ever😂😂
Why are y’all taking a clip from a moment of him as a teenager when he’s written several letters of gratitude in his songs to appreciate his mom and apologize for the times he was acting ungrateful
@@leultrainstinct406 don talk with your cringy ass pfp, don talk
Describing drakes basement mansion as a teenager as “middle-upper class”…
As a middle class white kid that fucking sandwich thing was brutal. Bro, I didn't even have that. My mom would've smacked my head and tell me to eat it and like it. What the fuck is this lol
😭😭😭
Spoiled rich kid shit
Oh no fs, same with me
Real talk
ydinugemmiasannich
Remember Drake is an actor. An actor imitates life and people around them. Hang around an actor for awhile.
Facts thats why he chilled with Yachty
Yep
Funnily enough the role he is known the best for is playing Wheelchair Jimmy, which apparently he hated because he didn't like playing a disabled guy because he thought it made him look weak. He couldn't separate the character and himself which any normal actor is able to do. So he had trouble being an actor as well.
@@bunndumm isn't this a sign of histrionic personality disorder? Theater-like expression of emotions, need to be in a spotlight all the time? Sounds like it.
Started out in a wheelchair seems he goin' out in a wheelchair.
his "started from the bottom" basically means "i wasn't as rich as i am today"
😅
Giving Trump vibes. Father started him off with a small loan of a million dollars
“The bottom is not the hood. That’s just not how the world works. A lot of people have to work for a lot of things in life. That’s just what the song is about it’s about being focused on a goal which at times can feel like the bottom because you haven’t achieved it yet. And somehow attaining that goal. Where I’m from has nothing to do with it. It can be if you want it to be, if that’s your story. Everybody has a unique story” drake in 2013 talking about the song. Yet y’all somehow created a fake narrative he’s tryna act hood😂😂
@@leultrainstinct406It is!! For the type of music he’s pushing. Rap didn’t start in middle class If you really understand rap you would know it started by describing black peoples experience. Rap just like reggae was/ is the way we speak out against injustice. You must be whyte cause no black person will write this mess.
To be fair, cheering for the Maple Leafs is a struggle.
As a white dude who grew up in the hood in the US, it's infuriating to hear this dude act gangster and use ghostwriters. I grew up writing graffiti, running fades, getting arrested, having homies get killed etc and that shot fucked me up. I hate when fools glorify shit they haven't even been thru. It's a slap in the face to those of us who survived with all the scars and trauma to prove it smh.
Orale vato loco
I’m white, but I grew up in very ghetto areas. We had people breaking into our house or sleeping in our laundry room and backyard, constant roach/rat infestations, no electricity sometimes, depending on school food for most meals, ect. I’m honestly grateful for how good I had it because I know my dad had it much worse. Meanwhile Drake was getting sad over not having a sandwich already made for him, and dude thinks he came from the bottom.
@@Hanysseusnobody cares y’all was still white which means even in the hood you still had a lot more privilege than the black ppl there
@Hanysseus fr bro. Could you imagine talking to your mom like that? I woulda got my ass whooped lmao. I never bitched about what we were eating, I was just grateful to be eating! We ate free lunches at schools all summer.
@@chekz3520 Those summer lunches came in clutch. Obviously I didn’t like them sometimes because it wasn’t the healthiest, but the only other option was being hungry.
I hope this is a reminder to all of us.
Being fake no matter tha benefit's will always come back to haunt you
And that is the Truth
Yup he sure did fake it till he made it smh
Briii boom boom boom boom boom BOOM
Kendrick ain't so innocent tho. You really care more about Drake's acting for economic gain more than that he's a pedophile? Like what
i’ve heard drake mention driving that acura “back in the day” acting like acuras aren’t luxury level cars💀💀💀💀
They’re not.
@@LoganT ???? what would you call it then? upscale honda??? is that not borderline luxury??
@@LoganT "Is Acura a Well-Respected Luxury Brand? The answer to this question is yes. Your Acura vehicle will offer the best in comfort, exterior style, and performance. However, you can get all of this for a lower price tag than some other luxury brands like Mercedes-Benz or Audi." I copied this from their website
@@Sixth_SSense it’s like calling lexus non luxury
@@LoganTacura’s are a luxury brand for honda
I remember a decade ago when "Started from the Bottom" was Drake's biggest song, my friends and I would make fun of it every time by singing "Started from Degrassi now we here!"
This is why white rappers like Eminem still have respect. He was secure enough in his talent to never fake any street cred, and he kept his beef with mostly other white rappers. He appreciated the culture but never tried to claim it as his own. Respect. Be yourself.
Eminem also grew up in a trailer so he understands struggle and hardship.
Benizo Ja Rule
@@gearup2967 That's why I wrote "mostly". We are well aware of the beef with the D level rappers.
@natalyd9674 ja Rule at the time had the radios spinning all his tracks. Ja became, a Z level Z festival scammer
Eminem tweaking out during interviews and going to award shows with a kevlar vest on
I’ve known ultra white people that don’t live as white as Drake.
The fact being black is always associated with being poor and struggling is the real issue in this whole race baiting argument Kendrick brainwashed y’all into thinking
yet none of them became the biggest rapper in the world because they didn’t understand the culture enough or have the skill and talent
Usually drake fans are lower middle class
Drake didnt even grow up Lower middle class and could probablt have a debt and work free college experience.
Kenny sleeps with girls whiter than Drake to boost his self-esteem.
@@leultrainstinct406🤓
I have met and know white people less white than Drake.
"I hate the way that you talk. I hate the way that you walk. I hate the way that you dress."
I feel that shit now.
What makes me so sick is that Drake knows better. He’s out here creating baby mamas and out of wedlock kids when he has all the resources to be better man that his dad. So many black boys would have given so much to grow up with the way he did.
Bruh fr
I am one of those white people. My friends joke about their "other" black friend, and then I walk in. But it's just how and where I grew up, and who I was around the majority of the time because of where I lived. People can tell when you're "faking the funk" as we used to say.
@@Gottiline_Ace"faking the funk" yea this nigga really black😂
Unfortunately he stole all his lines from battle rappers and tweets lol
Predator was weak as hell in this movie. Put me in there I'll show em a real predator" Lmfao. This drake guy is unhinged.
So many people forgot where Drake really came from. This hard persona hes been flaunting for so long is just comical.
“Only became ‘black’” -how do you become black? His father is African American 🤔 you are super ignorant and obviously doesn’t know what culture vulture means. Also, the identity crisis line is over used. His music identity has remained the same. He has experimented with styles of music but that doesn’t mean he does not know who he is. If he was having an identity crisis, we would not associate a sound to his name.
Wait, you're telling me a child actor from Canada on a children's TV show grew up and started acting like someone he's not? What a shock, I never would have guessed. Next you're gunns tell me he's never been a gangster!
(/s)
@whenimmanicimgodly4228 no. He's just saying people forgot.
The kids that were between ages 3 and 8 when he dropped probably didn't know about his past the way we did. I was in my 20s when he dropped. Even some of us didn't connect the dots. I had never seen nor heard of Degrassi, but when I learned he was a child star, I knew he didn't have time to be in the streets like us. I'm from Dekalb County (Zone 6). I knew there was no way he wasn't a sucka, but he played us good. We can't keep letting mess like that happen. He's not like us. He doesn't care about us. I'm glad he's out tbh.
@JusFnKevn I grew up watching degrassi and I've ALWAYS thought drake was creepy and I didn't even know he was the degrassi kid for a while.
"Not Like Us" is rap's version of "You cant sit with us!"
🤦🏾♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣 damn!
As a struggling middle class Western European Drake’s message of starting from “nothing” really resonates with me
Drake said himself the song isn’t about poverty. It’s about achieving goals from a time in your life where he never accomplished anything
@@leultrainstinct406 quit glazing he aint reading
Megan tried to tell y’all in HISS but y’all didn’t wanna listen
Those of us that are older remember this bout Drake. It’s why a lot of us old heads don’t really like Drake but I’m glad you’re doing the work and posting it for others to view.
Yeah, i was born in 2000 and i only knew about drake when i was like 11 or 12 years old. Used to love him until high school at 15 years old and finding out he doesnt even write his raps, and thats the time i started listening to West Coast classics(NWA, Kurupt etc.), Underground rap (Beast Coast, Odd Future) and D12 instead of Trap and all that... the time where i became a huge fan of Black Hippy too... But boy, i did not know Drake was an even bigger fraud than i had previously thought. Im literally only finding out right now at age 24 during this beef lol
That's a good point. I'm old enough to have remember Degrassi and when Drake hit the scene. I always thought he was weird and corny.
I always thought of him as the "safe rapper" for mainstream West.
Meet the Grahams is going to age EXTREMELY well….
"Started from the suburbs now we're here" 😂
Upper middle class suburbs that neighborhood was the richest neighborhood in Canada
Started as a jew now he here
Not just any suburbs. The two richest suburbs in the Whole of Canada.
@@kamwalker6296 don't.
@@TheRealHaloLover 🙄
I swear this is the best video I’ve seen on the beef great job bro 🫡
That sandwich clip would be a nice fun clip to play at a graduation, but after "you a fucking colonizer" it really feels eerie
Wait he said that? In the sadwitch clip?
@@hahathatisfunnybrothat's what Kendrick said about him
Idk I grew up pretty poor and seen non white friends act like drake with their mom. I don't think that's a "colonizer" thing some people are just disrespectful no matter how much they're corrected. Usually it was the ghetto ass kids at school that were extremely disrespectful to other people. It was rare a ghetto ass kid at school had any manners.
@@noraneko4848 is one of the songs? Which one
@@hahathatisfunnybronot like us ! OV-HOOEEEEEEEE
Let’s be honest, the hip hop community stopped caring about a rapper’s origins after 50 expose Rick Ross for being a former CO and Ross kept pushing it. Drake’s like the ultimate byproduct of that.
Thing is alot of good people get jobs are co it literally one the most corruption filled positions out there Ross being a co isn’t even that embarrassing it just 50 cent is a mastermind at beef and made it seem bad
Drake was making music before rick ross
@@sheffburger69 You completely missed the point, but ok.
Yeah I believe that was the moment right there, or maybe the Source vs Em situation. It's the Art that armors certain artist and protects... as long as they provides the hits
whats wrong with being a CO...its just a job. its not like rck ross was a cop or prosecutor like our vice president who made sure black people with marijuana crimes would go to jail so she could statpad black people being locked up
I never understood how people call Eminem a culture vulture, yet those same people have given Drake a free pass, especially after he paraded around in BLACKFACE.
Em is cool. Drake is not. I've never heard anyone like Drake over Em in the hood. They don't always play Em in the hood but we they don't hate him.
How did someone consider him as culture vulture? He literally grew up in the hood and knows what it be like even tho he's white. And he's not really talk abt it in his songs unlike drake
@@WaltrPnkmn he considers himself a vulture. He's compared himself to elvis in that regard
They both are July
Rev 2:9, 3:9
All the music, entertainment, money etc is own by July very own.
Taylor Swift too
They put their own on top because it's their own business. Everyone else is pawns in a game chase. If they want riches, they must give up a lot .
Drake draconian Dracula
Started from the bottom wasn't talking about his career
6th god... 6 is falling, unlike 9 is rising
Toronto is cold....... That's the opposite of jungles aka heaven
Toronto raptors... Drake is old as dinosaurs aka Draconian wanna be dragons.
Get his some of his tweets now ?
@@shinyyoungstar931 Take your meds
“I’m the new version of Fresh Prince”
Bruh 😕
If you know, you know
Off topic but drake got that default grandma
lol, Fisher-Price "My First Grandma"
😭😭😭😭bye yo LMFAO
I’ve always said “Started From the Bottom” was a farce.
Future gave him that song too 🤦🏾♂️
Depends what you define as the bottom. If the bottom is upper middle class Canadian suburbs then here it is 😂
@@armed_but_blind2768not even a suburb Forest Hill is a legit neighborhood rather than an outlying town.
@@gingerkid1048it is the richest neighbourhood in the entire fucking country. His neighbours were CEOs and politicians. ‘The bottom’ of what??
That was the SONG that made me started looking at him funny, I was HOW???
This put things about drake into perspective for me...he FAKE ASF!!
How did it only hit you now? But atleast you see it now
His first ghostwriter was back in 09 as well
@@andytran1220 like he said in video, Aubrey put out some slappers so we overlooked it 🤷🏽♂️
@@tdup191yall gotta work on that man. Out here stanning frauds. Us "haters", or more recently any form of "kendrick glazers" been tryin to say it and just get called names lmao. Atleast you're seeing finally.
@@ja9145ignorance is bliss.
I’ve been watching a bunch of these, and this one is SPOT ON! Great job with the explanation. And great sense of humor!
Their street cred is non transferable 😂😂😂😂
Kendrick said 21 Savage gave him street cred 😂
@@aferg76"false street cred"
Expect the cartel you would NEVER disrespect any cartel boss kids or family y’all in the states no better lol 😂😂😂🤣 🇲🇽🦅🦅🦅
The smoke detector with no batteries was hilarious. I hate that sound.
@@InAmberClad00it don’t matter what you call it. Drake has connections to the streets. When you’re dominating the hip hop industry and made hits for the culture for so long that’s bound to happen. It don’t matter where he started or grew up in.
“ion LIKE Drake when he ACT tough”
He comes from music royalty, his uncle is Larry Graham, one of the most influential and successful funk musicians of all time, and his other uncle was in Al Green's band. He was always gonna have a way into the music industry.
Interesting angle everyone is ignoring
@@sillybilly346I’ve been saying for a decade that he’s a plant. Like bruh.
@@chedisLoL yeah and in group preference from his Jewish side made it a no brainer for the big money to get behind and promote him
Drakes "bottom" higher than my current life damn 😭😭
Definitely 💯😁
This isn’t just a Drake issue. The culture/society has an integrity issue and it just wants to be entertained.
Yes!!!
It's funny to contrast Drake to Snow (the guy who did the song 'Informer' in the 90s). He was a white Canadian who grew up in the projects around overwhelmingly black Jamaicans, joining a gang and beginning to speak in patois - before going to prison several times for gang related assaults.
A Canadian guy with a stage name that literally refers to how white he is, is a more legitimate gangster than Drake.
yes sir
Even Snow clarified this in the song informer:
..." People dem say ya come from Jamaica
But me born an' raised in the ghetto that I want ya to know-a
Pure black people man that's all I man know.."
- Snow.
Facts
Yet has no money
SNOW > DRAKE
You know you grew up with a silver spoon when a sandwich can crush your entire world 😂
Yt was in shambles🤣😂
I’m a white guy from a working class neighborhood, if i talked to my mom like drake did in this video my mom would be like “this is what we have, shut the fuck up”
That video with the 17 year old is crazy
Let’s take a moment from you as a teenager acting ungrateful and use it to define your entire relationship with your parents
I'd heard of it, but I hadn't seen it before; and OMG, IT'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN I'D IMAGINED 🤦🏾♀️
@@leultrainstinct406 you're talking about a different vid lol
@@leultrainstinct406if you’re at you’re friends house for the first time and they yell, talk back or give attitude to their mom , yes it’s normal to assume that’s normal for them but of course it’ll be weird and stand out to you because you know not to do that because their are consequences.
if they have the grapes to act bratty and disrespectful at their big age , it’s safe to say that’s been the norm for their relationship because they don’t suffer any real consequences from their behavior and it shows .
And yes if they act that way towards their mom , also again at their big know better age . they’re prom to act the same if not worse towards people who aren’t her as they get older .
@@leultrainstinct406also this comment is about drake being 6 years older than the 17 year old girl at the time , kissing her and saying “ your breast feels great against my chest “ .
Aka Creep
In an alternate reality, she gets him the tuna sandwich, he sticks with acting, and we never hear his corny music and see his “cool guy” memes/advertisements. He’d prolly still get a BBL tho.
even in alternate reality , he would get his bbl 😭😂
He really got a bbl? 😂 that’s hilarious
@@Chasewimerxoxo no he apparently got ab sculpting surgery or something, that’s why Kendrick was criticising him for taking shortcuts instead of working out and telling him to do push ups. But ppl like to joke that he got a bbl lol
@@sourlimerick every time I hear that bbl drizzy song I crack up lol
It's crazy how that blackface photo is basically accurate ☠️
exactly. and really think about it, what street dude is willfully doing that? cmon now🤦🏽
Really insightful video and really insightful comments- I love that we’ve all gathered here to discuss