Is Drake really losing favor from the public? He last three songs have more dislikes than likes.

[WhenWeWereKings]

Ehhh, let's see how he charts when he actually releases his own regular music. I would not jump the gun on either side.

 

[cyndaquil]

Numbers looking funny

Drake hate bots is nasty work but it is what it is when you at the top of the mountain

Yeah cuz it could only be bots doing this right? Not actual human beings?

Drake is not paying your bills seek help

 

[Piff Perkins]

I don’t think it’s bots. It’s just temporary backlash IMO.

I’m sure things will go back to normal by the fall. He should take the summer off but I think he has to churn out weedplate after weedplate due to his record deal.

I disagree. Taking off the summer is the last thing he needs He certainly needs to gauge audiences, I just think this was the worst way to do it. He needs to get back to himself, get back to collaborating instead of purchasing tracks, bring in different writers, and find something to say while also crafting a summer hit. Riding waves isn't going to help right now, nobody really has a wave that can save him IMO.

 

[DoubleClutch]

Drake ain’t cool with the kids no more. Even the Jewish community turned on him. He’s done. Basically a meme at this point

 

[JustCKing]

BP is considered a classic

But with BP2 and onward he was breaking new ground commercially

And The Black album, which was a great album and featured some of his best work, dropped the following yr ...2003

All depends on how you define "stronger"

BP2 wasn't him really breaking new ground commercially. He completely switched up with the singles. He NEVER came out the gate with female friendly songs before that. There is a reason why "Excuse Me Miss Again" exists.

BP2 was a disappointment compared to the original BP.

 

[JustCKing]

I disagree. Taking off the summer is the last thing he needs He certainly needs to gauge audiences, I just think this was the worst way to do it. He needs to get back to himself, get back to collaborating instead of purchasing tracks, bring in different writers, and find something to say while also crafting a summer hit. Riding waves isn't going to help right now, nobody really has a wave that can save him IMO.

Who is to say he hasn't ALWAYS been purchasing tracks. There isn't a wave to ride because Drake and his team was the wave.

 

[Buggsy Mogues]

The Drake/Sexy Red song peaked at 7 on Apple Music which is unheard of for a Drake feature or single, they will usually get up to the top 2 or 3 spots at least.

 

[Rasille]

That he can’t read the room at all.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Who is to say he hasn't ALWAYS been purchasing tracks. There isn't a wave to ride because Drake and his team was the wave.

I think he's had ghostwriters and purchased hooks from the beginning. He certainly CAN write songs and has done so before; even Kanye admitted Drake wrote songs for him, in the studio with no help. But he also operates like a pop/r&b star who purchases tracks and has others written for him to complete his albums.

He signed that 4batz dude thinking it would be the next wave and that shyt didn't work. And now it seems like he may have milked all use out of SexyRedd. His label is bombed out creatively so they can't give him anything to hop on. All that being said all you need is the right song. How he finds it, I don't know. But I won't rule it out.

 

[bigde09]

Yall nikkas rewriting history, Ether definitely did its thing and shook up hiphop, but when BP2 dropped nobody cared anymore and it was back to normal. Bonnie & Clyde and Excuse me miss was getting play everywhere. BP2 was a double plat album. The commercial falloff didn’t happen until Kindom Come and by that time he had already signed Nas to Def Jam.

Those were female friendly songs that had Pharrell and Beyonce…two of the hottest artists of the 2000’s. That album was looked down on and he even released a revised version of it later on because reviews were mixed. Beyonce and the fake retirement kept his run going when it looked like he was running out of steam. He went from selling five mil with vol.2 to barely going double plat. With BP2

 

[Big Boss]

"Excuse Me Miss" and "Bonnie & Clyde" was Jay Z's most female friendly songs at the time. This was after one of the claims in "Ether" where Nas said "you only concerned with dissing women". He had a point because before BP2, Jay's songs definitely fell in line with "you only concerned with dissing women".

BP2 going double platinum is neither hiere or there. It was a double album. It only had to ship a mill to go double platinum. That was half of what the original Blueprint did.

Facts

 

[Busby]

It’s over, and it’s never going back to normal, anything Drake raps or sings about will have whatever Kendrick said on his 4 diss tracks looming in the background , even whatever features he chooses, people will think about what Kendrick said calling him a culture vulture yall still don’t understand what Kendrick did to this man, this wasn’t just a quick domination it’s a slow burn poison created to destroy Drake forever by using his terrible UMG contract against him, Drake can’t just take a break and work on a great project to win the public back, he’s stuck dropping terrible rushed music for the forseeable future and constantly putting himself in the public’s eye

He screwed up big time

Exactly that.

No matter what he drops right now, Kendrick wins. He drops a record that makes us dance, it proves Kendrick’s point. He drops a tough guy record, it proves Kendrick’s point. He drops a feature with a lessor known artist, it proves Kendrick’s point.

No matter WHAT. K. Dot has won.

That man is going to be dropping music these next few months hoping something sticks. He MIGHT catch one…not gonna doubt that.

But if Kendrick drops an album this year and he has ANOTHER smash?

 

[Big Boss]

Yall nikkas rewriting history, Ether definitely did its thing and shook up hiphop, but when BP2 dropped nobody cared anymore and it was back to normal. Bonnie & Clyde and Excuse me miss was getting play everywhere. BP2 was a double plat album. The commercial falloff didn’t happen until Kindom Come and by that time he had already signed Nas to Def Jam.

Then why did Jay release Blueprint 2.1 months after BP2

 

[TheNig]

The more I think about it, it seems like Sexxy Red was on some parody type shyt. It's still a really bad record from a really bad artist. But I think it this does better with 21 or someone else.

Anything associated with Drake that isn't a bonafide smash hit, is going to get trashed. He should really go on vacation but I don't think his ego can handle what happened.

 

[Standing on business]

Then why did Jay release Blueprint 2.1 months after BP2

Yall got it, Jay was completely ruined and had no success after Ether, I forgot what site I was on