Who paved the way for Drake musically?

[Shade]

Phonte was a major influence for him.

 

[hex]

Father MC.

Fred.

 

[FloorGeneral]

No mentions of K-Os. Disappointing.

 

[JustCKing]

There's several:

Love Below era Andre 3000

808's & Heartbreaks

Da Bassment & Aaliyah (if I had to pick a rapper, it'd be Missy since he not only sampled one of her songs on So Far Gone, but she was also a rapper who straddled the fence between R&B and Hip Hop while still being considered a rapper).

Sade

 

[Not Crodie]

andre paved the way for kanye who paved the way for drake

so andre.

 

[Anti-Anime]

He's a Phonte clone.

With only a fourth of the talent.

 

[Wacky D]

max b

drakes like a homofied version of the boss don

basically that.

hes a bad mix of max b & phonte. and the phonte thing is no secret. now hes shouting out max.

these dudes didnt even have either listed as an option.

 

[Plexxx]

I would guess somebody without any talent like drake himself

 

[Heelish]

PM Dawn

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/so-we-just-going-to-act-like-pm-dawn-didnt-birth-drake.153298/

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

PM Dawn

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/so-we-just-going-to-act-like-pm-dawn-didnt-birth-drake.153298/

was just about to post this

 

[Doome]

Oh shyt ya'll 4got to mention The Dream...on the surface it's Kanye 808's..on the back end (pause) it's ya boy radio killer

Listen to The Dream - Fancy

THAT IS SINGLE HANDEDLY DRAKES CAREER

 

[Max Goonberg]

kanye made it possible for all these nikkas to exist. wale j cole kendrick kid cudi drake are all kanyes sons. basically if your a rapper and nikkas think they can fukk u up kanye most likely birthed your style

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

Kanye, who got his style from Phonte.

 

[FreshAIG]

Aaliyah

 

[ML29]

shyt doesn't that mean we could throw in Cee-Lo too lol?

True. That would also work,saying Lauren was funnier to me.