Who paved the way for Drake musically?

[Mikael Blowpiff]

Phont-Ye. That's his style.

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

His mom.

/thread.

 

[The God Poster]

The fact we 40+ posts without mention of Budden is shameful. Early drake and even now was a Budden clone from emo rap to his flow specifically on comeback season.

Now he still has bits of budden rap wise. But his sound is strictly fathered by Ye 808's

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

All of them but kanye directly

 

[Da King]

Craig David

Track still classic

 

[The God Poster]

Track still classic

Ima listen to that album before night. From what i remember shyt was on point

 

[Mac Casper]

You could say Kanye but we were entering a new decade and it was the changing of an era the paved the way for him

 

[MaccKing]

kanye west, andre 3000, and phonte of little brother

 

[verhonggen]

Andre of course

 

[ShaDynasty]

40 said he had used the say whats real (Kanye beat) as a blueprint for his production sound.

As far as Andre, I think The Love Below influenced both Ye and Drake.

 

[GeeEffKay]

Drake has said Kanye, Jay, and Andre are his biggest influences