Sep 21, 2015

Drake critics always paint him as a meme and it's annoying/childish as h---. I can see (and sometimes agree with) where the critique comes from, but it's usually highly exaggerated. Just how I see things.

Don't quote this cuz I don't care enough to have an in depth discussion about music taste and why/why not Drake is good/bad. It's weird getting emotional and having heated discussions cuz someone likes something that u don't.

 

Sep 27, 2015

yes. drake is personal the way drunk texts from frat bros are personal. other than the "look what you've done"s and a handful of other songs, he's confessional only in a way that's designed to appeal to a wide swath of people. he isn't scarface.

let me stop you right there. we'll get to the why in a minute, but no one was "hesitant" to sign drake. there was a huge bidding war that took place before So Far Gone. he was courted aggressively by all four major label parent companies and essentially given his choice of imprint beyond that. he was the hottest boardroom commodity since the six-month window when 50 cent got hot post-columbia and pre-interscope.

this is simply, flatly wrong. 808s was out. kid cudi was out. College Dropout had come out a half-decade before. wale had a major deal. t.i.'s single was "whatever you like." t-pain was huge. mainstream rap had moved almost fully into skinny-jeans-and-emotional-vulnerability territory. drake was perfectly engineered to be a star at the end of the decade.

he was offered it and turned it down, because he was already too famous for it.

 

Sep 21, 2015

what a clown, lol. drake is being siphoned money from brands and major corporations left and right. he's the first rap star to be concocted entirely by the industry and corporate sponsors. what a disingenuous line. and yeah, meaghan's piece is phenomenal, as are these:

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-pillage-why-drake-is-bad-for-hip-hop

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/drake-madonna-coachella-review-2015

 

Sep 21, 2015

I'm not being dismissive - at all. I love hearing others discuss the things that I like and the things that I dislike. There's no better way to broaden the mind about media than listening to someone else' perspective and interpretation of things. All I said was that Drake is often displayed as some type of caricature while being critiqued...you don't know me, don't tell me what I'm doing.

 

Sep 21, 2015

oh

so wait, is this what happened to Em?

 

Sep 21, 2015

ok u can leave this thread.

 

Sep 21, 2015

People turning on him left and right.

@Narsh
@WPG

When the higher ups have all come together as a collective
With conspiracies to end my run and send me a message
40, did you get the message?


http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/865-op-ed-im-breaking-up-with-drake/

http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/865309-Drake-OVO-and-Jay-Z-Tidal-Tea-Droplets

http://www.complex.com/music/2015/01/mia-khalifa-catches-drake-instagram-dms


borrowed some from Viet

 

Sep 27, 2015

WPG is catching bodies this week. Logic fans aren't safe.

 

Sep 21, 2015

I'm just playing bruh

I really do hate LeBron though, it all started back in 08' when I was a Dwight Howard fan and my friend was a LeBron fan, Magic-Cavs rivalry started and then there was that one buzzer beater

I know Magic made it to the Finals but after LeBron moved on and got his rings my friend wouldn't shut up about it. Then he always tells me Dwight's never getting a ring

 

Sep 21, 2015

This is like when people decided to start hating LeBron when he went to South Beach to link up with D Wade. Just give it time we'll see who's still around a decade from now.

 

Sep 27, 2015

literally none of what you wrote is true.

 

Sep 23, 2015

'Know that I don't make music for n----s who don't get p----
So those are the ones I count on to diss me or overlook me'

 

Sep 22, 2015