Kanye brought alot of good things to the game too. I can't blame him for Drake. On College Dropout he did an incredible job of telling his own story. It was totally Hip Hop. He wasn't killing people or selling drugs or gangbanging, but that didn't make it soft. There's 1,000's of nikkas that can rhyme that could have made an album like CD with the same circumstances. Most nikkas that listen to hip hop aren't doing all that violent shyt anyway. Kanye was just one of the first guys to tell his story without feeling the need to add anything that wasn't about his life.