And if so, do they actually like the bangers vibe or they just like the idea that Drake can play in the streets without being too street on some National Geographic shyt?
Pull up your
This shyt's a bit long but that SirBiatch quality you love 
Aight, let's get to it:
I was revisiting "Started From The Bottom" and seeing all these views is wild to me. It's straight up one of Drake's biggest songs ever.
I remember clear as day when this track hit the net. NONE of the Drake fans I knew were fukking with it or even sharing it. How I found out about the joint was through a cat on Facebook who couldn't stand Drake, never posted anything Drake but all of a sudden posted this track. Naturally, that had me
I heard the joint and was like
"This is the hardest Drake shyt I've ever heard." I shared it. Other heads I knew shared it.
Everyone else (the Drake fans - and I know plenty in Toronto) were genuinely
and "I dunno about this". While heads like me who were so used to dissing Drake were
Sometime between the video dropping (and I've always said it's Drake best video, and certainly his most 'street'), cacs I knew adopting 'yeah I started from the bottom, too' as some kind of hipster joke, and Hold On We Going Home (which was fluff, went over super well with his usual audience but has less views than Started) -- Started became a monster record. It's more likely to hear Started now anywhere than Hold On We Going Home.
Same shyt happened with 0 to 100. nikkas I know who don't even check for Drake were the ones like "yooo, this song GOES". I was surprised at how tough Drizzy sounded. I live on the edge of Scarborough. First time I've heard/seen man dem RINSE a song. Outta beat-up cars. Hood nikkas driving around blasting Drake. Again, lukewarm response from the RnB hardcore Drizzy stans. Then at some point it just took off.
The ultimate experience is If You're Reading This It's Too Late. My brother is a big Drizzy fan. He downloaded the mixtape the day it came out and flat out told me it mixtape sucked. I'm hearing from Drizzy fans I know that the mixtape is trash.
But my DJ breh (from that late 80s era) was like: "yo, tape's alright. There are some joints." He wasn't super enthusiastic about it but he wasn't dissing it either. I thought maybe he was getting soft in his old age. After all, if my brother says Drizzy fell off, and he's a fan, that means Drizzy really done?
Then I hear "10 Bands" at a party one time and was genuinely like "This is Drake?
Holy shyt! 
Drake goes on to have arguably his biggest year ever. Makes more bangers with Metro Boomin and rides that street support into shyt like Hotline Bling. My brother's quoting "No Tellin" and talking about "take a blade with me when I check a bytch, aint no tellin". and how Drake is the realest out. Lovin the goon talk.
yet when I'm in the crib bumping Royal Flush or Mobb, he's like: "aint no one trying to hear that thugged out shyt anymore"
What's really going on here?
Do y'all really fukk with the hard shyt or not?
Is this proof yet again that for you to be the biggest rapper (unquestionably) in your era, the 'streets'/serious hip hop fans have to believe in you on some level? Which means that you'll always have to play up the goon talk at important, convenient times even if your image is Disney?
Will there ever be a completely squeaky-clean rapper that never embraces any goon talk and dominates for as long and completely as Drake?
Were people around your way, even casuals/pop fans in love with the "bangers Drake" from the get-go? Let's talk about it.
Pull up your
This shyt's a bit long but that SirBiatch quality you love Aight, let's get to it:
I was revisiting "Started From The Bottom" and seeing all these views is wild to me. It's straight up one of Drake's biggest songs ever.
I remember clear as day when this track hit the net. NONE of the Drake fans I knew were fukking with it or even sharing it. How I found out about the joint was through a cat on Facebook who couldn't stand Drake, never posted anything Drake but all of a sudden posted this track. Naturally, that had me
I heard the joint and was like
"This is the hardest Drake shyt I've ever heard." I shared it. Other heads I knew shared it.Everyone else (the Drake fans - and I know plenty in Toronto) were genuinely
and "I dunno about this". While heads like me who were so used to dissing Drake were Sometime between the video dropping (and I've always said it's Drake best video, and certainly his most 'street'), cacs I knew adopting 'yeah I started from the bottom, too' as some kind of hipster joke, and Hold On We Going Home (which was fluff, went over super well with his usual audience but has less views than Started) -- Started became a monster record. It's more likely to hear Started now anywhere than Hold On We Going Home.
Same shyt happened with 0 to 100. nikkas I know who don't even check for Drake were the ones like "yooo, this song GOES". I was surprised at how tough Drizzy sounded. I live on the edge of Scarborough. First time I've heard/seen man dem RINSE a song. Outta beat-up cars. Hood nikkas driving around blasting Drake. Again, lukewarm response from the RnB hardcore Drizzy stans. Then at some point it just took off.
The ultimate experience is If You're Reading This It's Too Late. My brother is a big Drizzy fan. He downloaded the mixtape the day it came out and flat out told me it mixtape sucked. I'm hearing from Drizzy fans I know that the mixtape is trash.
But my DJ breh (from that late 80s era) was like: "yo, tape's alright. There are some joints." He wasn't super enthusiastic about it but he wasn't dissing it either. I thought maybe he was getting soft in his old age. After all, if my brother says Drizzy fell off, and he's a fan, that means Drizzy really done?
Then I hear "10 Bands" at a party one time and was genuinely like "This is Drake?
Holy shyt! Drake goes on to have arguably his biggest year ever. Makes more bangers with Metro Boomin and rides that street support into shyt like Hotline Bling. My brother's quoting "No Tellin" and talking about "take a blade with me when I check a bytch, aint no tellin". and how Drake is the realest out. Lovin the goon talk.
yet when I'm in the crib bumping Royal Flush or Mobb, he's like: "aint no one trying to hear that thugged out shyt anymore"
What's really going on here?
Do y'all really fukk with the hard shyt or not?
Is this proof yet again that for you to be the biggest rapper (unquestionably) in your era, the 'streets'/serious hip hop fans have to believe in you on some level? Which means that you'll always have to play up the goon talk at important, convenient times even if your image is Disney?
Will there ever be a completely squeaky-clean rapper that never embraces any goon talk and dominates for as long and completely as Drake?
Were people around your way, even casuals/pop fans in love with the "bangers Drake" from the get-go? Let's talk about it.
Yea because I didn't wanna read this long thread about Drake means I'm a non reader
