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i think it's pretty obvious.
Before Drake blew, rappers in Toronto felt like you had to have sound American to get noticed.
TBH a lot of Canadians looked down on artists with there legit Canadian accents, becuase of canadian content rules on radio, it was like "oh you only on the radio cause they have to play you."
you can tell in all Drakes early stuff he's rocking this vague unspecific region fake American accent. and over time he's actually sounds like a Toronto dude again.
Overtime he's made Americans more comfortable with jamican/toronto vibes and now he's a big enough artist to go full bore with it. but the carribean vibes been in there from jump look at the Find Your Love video,.
Obvious as hell . I don't even know what ***** were arguing about in here. Peeped the last few pages....it was a mess.
I think the album is cool. I won't actively look to play it in its entirety.....but if it comes on again, I'll let it rock. Really dig the 80s pop sounds, and 90s night at the Roxbury type joints on this album. It's a vibe
***** jacked the hell outta 21 Savage's flow on that one song though. Even tried to sound like him .
I'm not mad at all at Drake infusing different GLOBAL genres in hip hop. Hip hop is global now. From a US perspective....Drake is an international artist...and his music represents that lately.
I mean that Madiba joint (FLAMES ) is clearly an Afro-beat, South African type song. I don't consider that wave riding....I consider that opening up our ears to different sounds. I'm not a fan of U.K. Rapping....but I get why he's doing it. I see the play.
The accent thing is funny to me though. Like dude really did turn up the Canada x 100 . I can't take any more "ya knows". **** is cringy. Canada ***** be on a different type of time. Man dem man dem