Serious Question: How do we grade Drake as an MC now?

[10:31]

What we have with him is very unprecedented in Hip Hop. He's gonna create his own place in history, unfortunately.

I aint mad at it though.. I fukk with his music hard


He's clearly the number one artist in the genre now.... I just wonder what kind of precedent this sets lol.....

 

[RichYung]

yeah that's it..

Is it?

 

[Self_Born7]

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

Its crazy what Meek's accusations did to his legacy even my homies that listen to Drake had the when they realized breh was a fraud

Red flags shouldve gone up when people found out he straight up bought Started From the Bottom off someone else. Bars, production and all.


And as bad as Meeks accusations were, they werent as damaging as Drake's own OVO dudes going on Hot97 and talking bout writing sessions in tents & Drake plugging a USB into his car on the drive home & selecting ready-made songs for himself.

 

[SunZoo]

We don't.

 

[xelp]

I rank him between Weird Al and Dora the Explorer. Musically Dora is probably better but since we're talking about MCING

 

[ridedolo]

drakes team makes decent music. its quiet for any mc accolades though. he's been disqualified since meek exposed him imo.

 

[B!tchuoffendingme]

This nikka Drake commissioned starving artists in his city to come up with dance moves he could jack, yall remember Moe G?


He'll go down as one of the greatest hiphop/pop curators of all time, no question.

 

[TheAnalyst504]

As an emcee he's like C/D grade, because you just don't know what percentage of his catalog is his. Under half maybe?

shyt, even with the Gillie accusations Wayne still had Lights Out, 500 Degreez, Squad Up, etc.

 

[The Ruler 09]

1 of worst artists of all time, don't really consider him an MC either, just a puppet that's fraudulently acting.

 

[deleteuser101]

Drake to me is like Will Smith in Rap....
Not comparing em but that's how i look at him now...

 

[Still Benefited]

nikkas got mad at me when i graded his ass with a disclaimer,acknowledging i am aware of the ghostwriting...nikkas dont want you to talk about him as a emcee but cant stop bringing his name up.

He was never a threat to the all time greats anyway in the minds of rational people....i reject him as being a credible emcee,but im almost inclined to judge him among these new nikkas until they all collectively decide he's a fukkboy and not credible....so far they still doin songs or wanna do songs with him,allowing him to talk shyt like he writes his own shyt freely

Except Meek of course who nikkas turned on,guess yall back now

I judge him with an asterisk like Barry Bonds,yeah u hit homeruns but we all know what it is,better get humble quick lil nikka,or cross all the way over

Really thats enough to me.

 

[TheAnalyst504]

Got the smoothest alley oop of all the 08-09ers (Wale, Cole, Kendrick, etc.)

Lets run down a few:

2 formulaic flows ✔
Major Cosign ✔
100 features with said artist ✔
Constant burn on terrestrial radio ✔
Untrained ear of audience ✔
White people ✔
non-aggressive content ✔
100 tents ✔

 

[FRIED MASON]

Overrated pop star with an average body of work.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

The ship has sailed.

He isn't a rapper.

He's a label created pop act.