🦉The Official Drake Thread6️⃣ - Drake & PND Album Fall 2024

[wavycrocket]

Maybe. I'm just not losing sleep over it when it's always the "filler" ones and allegedly almost everyone does it. Not like I would care anyways. If this same thing happened to one of the hippity hoppity people I would feel the same.

Not saying “lose sleep over it” (why would you ) It’s fine if you enjoy the music. He got some bangers. He’s undefeated in Karaoke.

Just sating his credibility as a rapper/writer has truly been shot. That is ok, if you simply just enjoy the music.

We can’t call it filler, when it’s proven he has writers. And hold Drake only to “timestamp songs” as him being such a great rapper (when we don’t even know if he wrote those too , yall thought mob ties was him).

All I’m saying.

 

[antidope]

Ehhh it's not just those. Those are just the examples I gave. I would still wager that the majority of stuff is sole Drake penmanship. Is it 100%? At this point obviously not, but the main thing that's happening is using the small minority to discredit everything

 

[MVP]

Well that's a huge part of the art form. It's akin to plagiarizing in media or passing off a theory or idea as your own where it's clearly not.

The claim that he makes along with the masses where he's the best in "the game" in the form of rap; he's not qualified to make or be in that space.

Ye never made the claim to be the best rapper which Aubrey does time and again and when you have a preponderance of evidence that you don't write your stuff, that's a bad look no matter how you slice it.

 

[dacomeup]

Maybe. I'm just not losing sleep over it when it's always the "filler" ones and allegedly almost everyone does it. Not like I would care anyways. If this same thing happened to one of the hippity hoppity people I would feel the same.

The Quentin Miller tracks are filler now?

 

[antidope]

The Quentin Miller tracks are filler now?

I am 100% sincere when I say idk what tracks these are. I just went on YouTube and saw RICO and 10 Bands though.

 

[jape]

honestly seems like a pop star to me and that’s perfectly fine. i listen to a lot of pop too. my daughter loves it. and its no surprise that a pop artist would appeal to everyone in this way especially with a team of writers and artists creating his music.

i just think its ridiculous when people want to put him in any conversation with any other rappers. like i dont think you seriously listen or have listened to rap music if you really put him up there (not saying you do this).
and that’s why i dont gravitate towards his music especially with the braggadocios rap stuff. it’s insulting my intelligence.

 

[dacomeup]

I am 100% sincere when I say idk what tracks these are. I just went on YouTube and saw RICO and 10 Bands though.

Know Yourself and Used To as well. I would not consider these filler tracks.

 

[jape]

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

sound up

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Y'all not gonna convince none of these Drake fans to be honest. They already bought in.

 

[da r entertainment]

This record has PND written all over it!

 

[D StaXX]

honestly seems like a pop star to me and that’s perfectly fine. i listen to a lot of pop too. my daughter loves it. and its no surprise that a pop artist would appeal to everyone in this way especially with a team of writers and artists creating his music.

i just think its ridiculous when people want to put him in any conversation with any other rappers. like i dont think you seriously listen or have listened to rap music if you really put him up there (not saying you do this).
and that’s why i dont gravitate towards his music especially with the braggadocios rap stuff. it’s insulting my intelligence.

Well said. Just had this convo in one of my group chats.
It really is insulting to the culture by mentioning him with guys like Jay, Kendrick, etc.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

honestly seems like a pop star to me and that’s perfectly fine. i listen to a lot of pop too. my daughter loves it. and its no surprise that a pop artist would appeal to everyone in this way especially with a team of writers and artists creating his music.

i just think its ridiculous when people want to put him in any conversation with any other rappers. like i dont think you seriously listen or have listened to rap music if you really put him up there (not saying you do this).
and that’s why i dont gravitate towards his music especially with the braggadocios rap stuff. it’s insulting my intelligence.

Ya'll remember this

For the people that call him a industry plant this would be exhibit A

 

[FtwrDsgnr]

This song was and is terrible Drake’s legacy keeps getting undone the more reference tracks come out IMO, and I’m a Drake fan. Post 2015/Views era, the quantity output sped up a lot and we started getting a lot more filler IMO. I appreciate what Drake does for music but he’s oversaturated himself in exchange for “living on the charts”.

I think at a certain point it became less about legacy and accolades within the culture, and more about business/numbers. Hard to say what a lot of artists would do in that position but Drake has definitely reached a point where you can break up his eras and notice the shift in what the focus is within the music.

Who are we to say anything though, the formula has worked all this time, if ain’t broke don’t fix it

 

[FtwrDsgnr]

Random as hell but I would have loved to lead the creative direction for the Honestly, Nevermind videos. There was a lot to build on from that album and I guess cause of the initial reception, the legs for it came and went. Sticky deserved a Matrix-esque video IMO

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

How can he be one of the top 10 even, if he doesn’t write his own raps?

He’s an actor/entertainer.

His entire career has been manufactured.

 

[Peep Game]

Ya'll remember this

For the people that call him a industry plant this would be exhibit A

Lmaooo this is like that dragon meme floating around are the two dragons on the left are looking at the goofy one on the right

 

[FtwrDsgnr]

 

[cragmatic]

I honestly don't care. I think I'm supposed to care,. but I just don't. I probably take music a little less seriously now than I used to, but I really just want to hear good songs, at this point. I don't care how they get made.

Related aside: I've always hated Mob Ties.

Unrelated aside: Honestly, Nevermind might just be my favorite album from him--not the best but my favorite to listen to.

Copium

 

[frankmatthews]

If you're a drake fan you embrace inauthenticity in every sense of the word. Its despicable.

 

[antidope]

 

[antidope]

I've heard one song by this woman and I hate it.

 

[checks mcgee]

losing a battle and diving straight into diva tracks is such a zesty look man

 

[daruma]

it was rumored that this track was scheduled to drop around the same time as the diss tracks were released, but the label called it off because drake would look soft as hell.. so she dropped the track with lil nas x first

 

[checks mcgee]

idk how now is any better