Grantland: Generation Drake The Canadian MC becomes the defining millennial hip-hop superstar

[Digga38]

Im not sure he got the new school on lock...Kendrick is right there with him....

 

[AB Ziggy]

Im not sure he got the new school on lock...Kendrick is right there with him....

So we gonna forget about Ye and Hov still running shyt here?

Hell, even Wayne still relevant and don't forget whose style Drake started biting with in his early career.

 

[Non Sequitur]

This is such a bullsht, "in the moment" opinion. thehe "defining millennial superstar", and not cats like Kanye, Nelly, Wayne, Jay, Em who have experienced higher peaks as artists since 2000, and have sustained their run for longer (and except for Nelly much longer).

Couldnt we have crowned 50 as the 'defining millennial superstar" in 2006, when he had been dominant for 3 years to that point? Where is he now?

I like Drake's music, but this article is as corny, and inaccurate, as it gets. If they said he was the safest millennial superstar, I'd agree with that.

He was saying Drake is the defining superstar for millenials (aka Generation Y)
, not the superstar of the millenium

 

[NvrCMyNut]

The defining millennial hiphop superstar part is strecthing it, dude wouldn't even exist without Kanye or Wayne & has not even come close to meeting their level of success & influence. But if yall stop catching feelings purely off the basis of Drake getting some recognition & actually look at it 'Generation Drake' is pretty fair imo

An overrated, priviledged, feminine, emasculated, self pitying artist embodies my generation.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

GOAT RAPPER IN MY GENERATION

 

[Mike Otherz]

i like grantland, but those cats never know wtf they talking about. drake album is 4/5 though so good for him.

 

[Icantspell]

#NWTS AOTY​

 

[Mike Otherz]

amazing how many people have got sick of jay though. everyone sick of his braggar rap ishts.

 

[MINT]

this ain't an official review, ALL these kind of reviews will always praise an album when it leaks but the official reviews will kill the album

Can't wait for nwts to have only 60 or 70 on metacritic

 

[MINT]

and there is this kind of article for every single mcee out there <.<
Drake stans are so desesperate that they have to copy/paste one of them

Even has something like that written about him

 

[How Sway?]

this article is a bigger reach than a fat mafuka trying to scratch his own back.

I mean yeah Drake is probly the one of if not the biggest rappers AT THE MOMEMENT but be real folks, he aint really done anything that mind blowing or innovative or groundbreaking. Plus dude came out in like 08/09/10. Well after the Mellinium.


I'm not hatin on drizzy but a REAL defining millennial SUPERSTAR would be a toss up between KANYE ( who HEAVILY influenced Drake and the rest of the newer generation in general), Em, or Wayne (who also HEAVILY influenced drake)

I will say though that drake is definitely "that nikka" when it comes to mid 90's babies. Even my generation (late 80's early 90's) looks at him as "that nikka".

 

[MINT]

Spin just gave it a light 7/10, and that review was accurate as fukk

 

[mr.africa]

if this is true, than it's lights out for hip hop i grew up loving as far as i'm concerned. HOPED IT COULD MAKE A COMEBACK!!!

and i screamed:
she's dead and everybody took out on nasty
i was just looking out for my music family
wasn't tryna have her to myself she's yours
you can have her, she's a motherf.. whore
I FU&K HIP HOP

 

[RAX 010]

Good Read

 

[JerseyBoy23]

this article is a bigger reach than a fat mafuka trying to scratch his own back.

I mean yeah Drake is probly the one of if not the biggest rappers AT THE MOMEMENT but be real folks, he aint really done anything that mind blowing or innovative or groundbreaking. Plus dude came out in like 08/09/10. Well after the Mellinium.


I'm not hatin on drizzy but a REAL defining millennial SUPERSTAR would be a toss up between KANYE ( who HEAVILY influenced Drake and the rest of the newer generation in general), Em, or Wayne (who also HEAVILY influenced drake)

I will say though that drake is definitely "that nikka" when it comes to mid 90's babies. Even my generation (late 80's early 90's) looks at him as "that nikka".

That's actually what the writer was talking about, for some reason the media likes to call people born in the late 80s to mid 90s Millennials and it's just stuck. Kanye/Em/Wayne/Jay are of course the big dudes from the last decade but they are more appealing to Generation X (besides maybe Wayne).