kingjones29
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i guess you just woke up from a very long sleep
Has Drake already fallen off???
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Coli nikkas must live in caves because he one of the few rappers actually buzzing. Its like him, j cole, kendrick lamar, jay-z and nikki minaj. Well see if meek mill can join that list with his next album because of what he did with dreams and nightmares did decent numbers hopefully he can build off that.
The coli where being like mixed like drake and j cole means you not black when black is their dominate features smh. When the police pull them over they not calling them whites so what that mean?1) drake ain't black
2) you must not be black if you believe he represents the average black man for this generation.
3) dude is wack
You must not get out much
Labadi_Mantse
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Shut up bro. If you're a black man, you're lost. I don't conform with the one drop rule. Do you know it's origins? Nor do I allow a larger society steeped in white supremacy to dictate what black is. Those guys are biracial. You cannot simply deny someone's biological DNA. They are 50 percent white but because, people like you want the white race to remain pure, they are 'black'. Both were birthed and raised by white women. That makes them biracial. Black people should have some pride. We are not slaves anymore. Jim Crow is no longer in existence. Why are you continuing to operate with the same methods of thinking?
No, they're black because that's what side they identify with. Michael Jackson was pure black but identify with whites so being all black don't make more of a black man then somebody who is half with black dominant features.
Labadi_Mantse
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Thanks for addressing what I wrote.
What you wrote makes no sense.
Send me a verifiable link to an article in which Michael Jackson says he identifies as a white man.
his career won't last yet he has been around since 2008 and has been the hottest nikka on the planet since 2010-2011
this is the coli where logic doesn't exist.
Sunalmighty
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I'll be watching Stevie Wonder play REAL MUSIC with a LIVE BAND ...Songs in the Key of Life tour.
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
I would say his music is far from soulless it definitely triggers emotion that people of all walks of life can feel. He doesn't really have fake gangsta music, whenever he says something "tough" it's in reference to the rap game the catch a body line that he gets heat for was never literal. Drake has never made a gangsta track. He's not a great singer it's a lot of studio magic which makes it work at the end of the day. But he is a good songwriter in terms of R&B. He's ghostwritten for R&B artists and has R&B songs that objectively speaking are not poorly written.
"I'm hoping Western Union doing currency exchange
Cause my dad called me got me feeling guilty and ashamed
Like how I had a Rolls and when and copped a Range
And he paying for his cigarettes with dollars and some change
Damn and I could only feel his pain cuz in Memphis, Tennessee there's only so much to attain"
"Me being the closest thing to black and guess what rap music I was into
The rest of the kids was sheltered, I never liked to fight but when someone called me nikka I'd punch them I couldn't help it"
I wouldn't call those lines above emotionless. That's legit Drake has just blown up and indulging in fame while his father is living in inner city Memphis struggling economically. Any nikka with divorced parents could feel some shyt like that. That's Drake talking about his nikka wake up call.
Drake don't compare to Nas, KRS or 2Pac that don't make him wack though. Nas thinks Drake is dope, and is actually doing a show with him soon. KRS thinks Drake is hip hop. I've seen him hop on tracks with guys like Jay-Z, Bun B, Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Phonte, Jeezy, Elzhi, Rick Ross, Fabolous, prime Lil Wayne all guys that are dope to me and he has held his own or outrapped them in some cases. To me he's got many flows, his wordplay is above average, he has good introspective songs and does the braggadocios thing well, his voice isn't annoying I've heard far worse. He is superficial though but that can be said about many brag rappers that came before him. You are right about him not being great conceptually. But a wack MC can't write songs like The Calm, The Resistance, The Ride, Too Much they can't pull a double time flow like Drake on HYFR and they can't get the co-signs Drake has gotten.
Drake ain't a tough guy, Diddy sucker punched him it's whatever that's B.S. I'll let TMZ talk about shyt like that.
OneManGang
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Damn this website turning into more of a parody of itself everyday.
Labadi_Mantse
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Woodwerkz
R.I.P. King Bean #8 #24 and Little Deuce #2 Gigi
Thank Me Later 1,551,000+ (US)
Take Care 2,042,000+ (US)
NWTS 1,624,000+ (US)
To answer your question directly:
That's actually pretty telling. Actually he sold 2.6mil of Take Care.
To gain a million album sales from the first album to the 2nd means people took notice to your previous work and you added fans. To lose a million after that is very troubling because it does show people outside of your fan base have checked out.
Look at Nicki's numbers.... she debuted selling nearly 2mil shyt dropped to barely a mil the next go around and she's still not at 500k with her current joint. And all we hear is that people are tired of her and etc.
The same is happening with Drake and this is why this next album is very important for him. The consensus is that Drake is a good artist that can make a hit record but that's it. He's not the type of artist that will inspire anything other than simping. i mentioned a long time ago that Drake and Rihanna are the type of artist that have to keep dropping music nonstop because they're shyt is monotonous, hollow and forgettable.
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