He sounds like Def Loaf and even you know it. And you can be melodic and not sound the same. Even Akon's high pitch voice and melodic singing doesn't make him sound like Dej Loaf.
It's not just the production with these guys. It's the cadence. It's the flow. The song structures. The slang. The styles. That doesn't mean bubble jackets and timbs but it certainly doesn't mean looking like the Dyke version of Kevin Gates ala Young MA with flow and style to match.
Low riders and gold teeth with lean and slurred speech is not New York. Being bloods and crips is not New York. I don't live there so you tell me what is going on in New York that isn't copied from another region right now.
If he sounds like her it don't mean Dej influenced him or he's copying her his biggest influence is Drake. He does R&B hybrid rap music. Y'all gotta stop thinking that these young nikkas go in the studio with the intention of sounding like anyone. Akon is another dude he's been compared to just because he's melodic.
Now, Young M.A. is biting Kevin Gates?
Gold grills is not NY? That started in NY all the rappers here in the 80's had 'em. Search up Eddie Plein he moved to Atlanta from NY and got grills popping in Atlanta.
I have never seen a low rider in NY and I don't see any of the young rappers in them. Bloods and Crips been here since the 90's. Lord Tariq and Capone-N-Noreaga was talking about Bloods in '97. Bloods and Crips are everywhere, you got Bloods in Atlanta.
Lean is being used nationwide. The slang
we're copying like thot is used nationwide we have our own slang as well. Y'all gotta accept that regionalism is dead. The youth literally does not give a fukk about the shyt y'all talking about. They make what sounds good to them.