Drake isnt hip hop - Yaasin Bey

[BlackMajik]

Black on Both Sides is better than anything the piss colored mutt has ever done in his life

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Who is this nikka?

 

[br82186]

Crazy how both started out as actors before getting into music...

Drake obviously has Degrassi while Bey has You take the Kids...

 

[levitate]

He’s right.

Never understood his appeal, except to women and gay dudes I guess.

Imagine me listening to “hip-hop music” by a Canadian halfer who grew up with a silver spoon

 

[Nabs]

What are the chances that Drake has a reasonable, grown up reaction to this?

 

[br82186]

What are the chances that Drake has a reasonable, grown up reaction to this?

Slim, all these current n-gga's are more thin skinned than Trump

 

[Phitz]

thread turning into a Gen-erational war/debate

 

[Suge Shot Me]

Why does Mos Def sound like a gay cac now?

 

[kt773]

Here we go again with pop rap vs real hip hop shyt, mos if you not gonna drop a project to feed real hip hop fans then shut the fukk up

 

[MajesticLion]

That’s a lazy criticism to call Drake “pop”. I remember when the Jordan Brand centered their whole commercial marketing campaign around Mos’ “Umi Says”. Ms. fat booty could definitely bump in a Target store.

Umi Says, yes. Ms Fat Booty, not a chance. The politics of self esteem and inadequacies would squash that idea early.

Folks just feel some type of way over Drake’s success. Bro got pop sensibilities, but he can also hop on a preemo track and tear it up.

He's not about to "hop" on anything. He's not walking into any studio by himself and making anything. He'll get sent tracks, and his 2-3 people will sit with it for a day or so, have him voice whatever they come up with and send the results back. That's the difference.

 

[CodeKansas]

He's right.

Little fakkit half-a-jew industry plant was never hip-hop.

If this was marvel, he'd be the chameleon.

Bars.

 

[Cᵣₐₛₕ&ₜₕₑCₒᵤₚ]

Drake is Hip-Hop's first corporate superstar. As a baton carrier for the genre I dislike almost everything he represents tbh. I feel Mos on this.​

 

[Black Mamba]

Once again the haters in here creaming and still are somehow angry at 6god probably hyperventilating

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Mos Def is right but at the same time Drake has his own lane which is fine with me.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

This is such a disingenuous take.

Does Drake make pop songs? Yes. But for every Hotline Bling and In My Feelings he has plenty of traditional rap songs. It’s 2024 not 1993. If that’s the case any rapper post 2008 is a pop artist. Rap is popular music now so expecting artist to move the same way they did 30 years ago is ridiculous. You either adapt or find yourself coming across as an out of touch hater.

This is who you jumped out the window for

“You got my mind in a terrible place
Whipped and chained you like American slaves”

And yes he learned it from Weezy
Mos point still stands
Do better champ