Drake wouldn't be as hot as he is if he'd signed to a different label..

[Jahbarri]

JAY Z signed J.cole

DR.DRE COSIGNED Kendrick

And are you fukking retarded? your saying drake didnt build his fukking fanbase? the guy had AMERICA buzzing and hes canadian


every other hour of the day people making threads to try and discredit the guy. hes fukking multi-talented. focus your time and energy on YOURSELF and do something productive to SUCCEED and PROGRESS . fukking clown


And im not a drake stan

 

[Nobodyknows]

comparing them is a waste of time. Too many variables, and variables that can't be measured accurately.

How can you say Jay-Z was washed when he put Cole on BP3, which had his biggest single ever? Cole had tons of looks. so did Drake and Kendrick.

You know who didn't though and blasted into the game outta nowhere strictly off the strength of his music? that's right.... that avi y'all love to hate

By washed I'm talking about not being on top. BP3 was a shytty album to me anyway

But what I'm trying to say is, Drake had a significant bigger push than Kendrick and Cole. I don't see how that's deniable. Just look at the features and co signs he got to begin with. All of them artists Drake had are much larger than Kendricks/Cole's up until the point they're at now put together.

The only people Kendrick's been with that are huge is Taylor Swift and Eminem, and he's not as by as he was..(correct me if I'm wrong on this)
J Cole had Jay-Z. That was it.

Drake had Wayne, Rihanna, Nicki, Jay, Kanye and Eminem as features.

Can you honestly tell me that Cash Money didn't give a much better push than Aftermath and ROC?

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

Wayne saw Drake getting hype and called HIM bruh

Drake was the only one singing and rapping in 2009 without auto-tune ,actually making love songs n shyt, he was risky to sign cause people said his sound wasnt gonna work dude was in his own lane.

Yall going out of yall way to discredit the guy

Negative

Drake was with wayne before carter 3 dropped....Drake was with him in 2008.

Drake recorded so far gone while in ymcmb

 

[666 ReVeNGe 666]

Wayne is only on one song on Thank Me Later

Wayne was on 4 or 5 songs on so far gone and Wayne did so many throw a ways suck as take your girl, ransom, forever (first version) etc...

nikkas was laughing at drake when they saw him pictured with weezy.

 

[Nobodyknows]

This wasn't even supposed to come off as a hate thread

All I was trying to point out is that Drake had bigger advantages

 

[Prince Luchini]

I don't think it would've mattered where Drake went he was buzzin heavy back then and the people loved him. Sure the wayne cosign helped but to me even if he didn't sign with wayne he still would've blown up regardless.

 

[wingstop]

Lmfao breh you realize there was a bidding war to sign him right
we got fools who just got into rap hating on drake smh it ain't just old heads anymore

multiple labels obviously wanted to sign him but they made it seem like so far gone was independent and he wasnt already signed to wayne. They acted like labels wanted him because of the success of so far gone when in reality he was signed before that.

 

[Anti-Anime]

i can see why u have a j. snore avatar since you've only been listening to hip hop 4-5 years

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Drake been in the game 5-10 years longer than Kendrick/Cole

 

[Grano-Grano]

He's a blood suckin jew. His bani Israel cuzzos got him. Ask the big homie, Young Lyor, the High Priest of keeping it 300

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

Of course Drake wouldn't be as hot as he is if it wasn't for Cash Money

Wayne had the vision

Baby and Slim handled business

The rest is history

 

[Kilgore Trout]

He's a blood suckin jew. His bani Israel cuzzos got him. Ask the big homie, Young Lyor, the High Priest of keeping it 300

Nope Lyor tried to sign Drake , they had a verbal agreement but baby came through and crushed the buildings.


Lyor is still salty about that

 

[Grano-Grano]

Nope Lyor tried to sign Drake , they had a verbal agreement but baby came through and crushed the buildings.


Lyor is still salty about that

Damn baby out jewed a jew sheesh... Pleighboi aint playin

 

[bordeaux]

then he played this track


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god, this is awful. Aubry has improved greatly...
i dunno i definetly think the wayne cosign helped but was makin quality music w/o him.

 

[Shadow King]

OP didn't say Drake wouldn't be hot...he said AS hot so

He would've been legit either way but I do think the Wayne consign helped. Wayne's stardom around that time was insane, but it's not like he was pushing Gudda Gudda or some shyt, Drake was about to pop off anyways.

Drake said himself on mad songs that labels passed him up before, and how could signing to the hottest most influential rapper of that time NOT have shaped his career now. Drake wasn't on songs with nikkas like Em and Kanye before Lil Wayne and even nikkas like Gucci only fukked with him because of Cash Money, if it wasn't for their street cred at the time there's no way he would've had the same impact. You nikkas brazy, as usual

tune gave aubrey a good amount of his swag

before tune and ym he was heading in that jcole pseudo backpacker direction

it's just the passing of momentum from the most popular rapper at that time to the current one

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...these are the correct answers.

Drake been in the game 5-10 years longer than Kendrick/Cole

Kendrick dropped a tape at 16 years old and if you don't wanna count that his next one was like 2007. Cole dropped his first tape in 07 also.