Let's be honest, if drake was dark skin he'd still be a mixtape rapper.
He's the image people want on the product.
He's the image people want on the product.


I disagree. Drake doesn't really capture feelings. He just gives surface level perspectives based on his relationships. I mean, he'll name drop women as reference points for moments in his life, but it leaves you like "why is this important to the story you're telling". I mean, he's name dropping real women meanwhile, Sasha Thumper and ol girl from "Undying Love" had more depth as fictional women than Erica and Jade.
I'm not saying Drake has to be Andre 3000 or Nas, but he cited them as influences for his early albums, but when they talk about relationships (even fictional ones), I feel it more than when Drake talks about his real relationships. It's crazy because Drake is closer to my age than Nas or Andre, yet I find a song like "Spottieottiedopalicious" or "You Won't See Me Tonight" more soulful than Drake's relationship songs because of the imagery. They don't even have to drop names of the women, but it feels realer than any Drake song. Even when Nas or Andre are vulnerable on songs like "Drunk By Myself" or "Jazzy Belle", it's felt.
Drake makes dope musoc, but as I have always maintained, he lacks depth. It isn't because of the writers either, because Puff and Dre have songs with depth even with somebody else's pen.
I don’t know any rapper who’s quoted on social media as consistently as Drake.
And somehow Ducktales, a rapper that's dropping 'classics' left right and center, and has no quotables, is better 
Common was making songs about the complexities of relationships and other "regular nicca shyt" in his 20's.
So was Phonte. So was Kanye. So was Andre and Big Boi. So was Pac.
Drake was the first to do it at a level so feminized that females were actually relating more than dudes were.
So Drake has become the soundtrack for millennial women who can listen to 'How Bout Now' and relate to changing themselves for a man because they loved them or 'Fake Love' and relate to the bytches at work/school being two faced to them.
Drake isn't doing something that hasn't been done...his content and delivery is just really accessible to young women. It's shallow and surface level, but that's part of what makes it so accessible to this generation.




Let's be honest, if drake was dark skin he'd still be a mixtape rapper.
He's the image people want on the product.![]()
Who is Zoey and why are you citing her as if she speaks for a billion people?
I think the big dudes of that generation all capture many different aspects of the feelings of the millennials
those being people like Drake, Meek, Duckworth and Cole. Idk too much about Drake anymore though, 22 songs and shyt and only gives us one Do Not Disturb. He use to drop that shyt on the regular![]()
Respectfully speaking,the thread is about Drake can you stay on topic please. Thanks.I guess that’s why Kendrick, Migos and Future are all superstars
The deliberate lack of "depth" and details is intentional, because he speaks in a way everyone can relate or (pretend) to relate to....That is why his music lacks the dark and twisted edges of Nas confessionals, or any of the other rappers we hold up to a standard. Everything with him is usually calculated to a one size fits all, broad brush, so everyone from
Mark working at Chase as a financial advisor
to
Tiffany who serves drinks at a strip club while attending CC classes
to
Josh who just graduated from UCLA and will take over his Dad's law practice
to
Ashley who works as a receptionist
feels like Drake speaks to THEM.
Part of music's appeal is the ability to connect, but I think Drake does it in such a way that it lacks any real depth, that said, I am not immune to throwing on Teenage Fever or Take Care when the mood is right, it's good pop, but that is where it stops.
Puff and Dre have songs with depth even with somebody else's pen.

where are these deep songs that you speak of by them??