I have a love hate thing with this Toronto rapper who has happened to take over the hip hop industry with his soft lady lyrics. I mean time from time he makes a track that a hip hop purist like myself could tolerate a few times around but then he reminds me of Kanye West and Lil Wayne with his similar voice. Haven't we had enough of these rappers coming out and sounding like the guy who signed him or singing 95% of the time on a rap song? I mean don't get me wrong he can put a song together very well but is he a rapper, singer, or a pop star? Well he gets 99% of the radio play in America because of the funding he gets from Young Money but why does it have to be Drake, Drake, Drake, when we turn on the radio? Now you got people who label him the "best rapper" but how so? Just because he gets all the burn on the radio don't mean he nice. Look at all these down south rappers making the hip hop charts with there ring tone songs. All Im saying is i can name many rappers right now that would eat drake alive from the likes of Buckshot, Joe budden, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Royce da 5'9, Crooked I, and Joell Ortiz. Now thats just a quick 7. You people have to wake up and realize there are artist that can actually spit that aren't getting the praise that Drake is getting. Well this is the route hip hop has taken all us hip hop fans can do is wait in the emergency room. This isn't me hating on Drake this is me speaking the truth and if you don't agree then leave a comment!~!Tuesday, June 1, 2010
*DrAKe*
I have a love hate thing with this Toronto rapper who has happened to take over the hip hop industry with his soft lady lyrics. I mean time from time he makes a track that a hip hop purist like myself could tolerate a few times around but then he reminds me of Kanye West and Lil Wayne with his similar voice. Haven't we had enough of these rappers coming out and sounding like the guy who signed him or singing 95% of the time on a rap song? I mean don't get me wrong he can put a song together very well but is he a rapper, singer, or a pop star? Well he gets 99% of the radio play in America because of the funding he gets from Young Money but why does it have to be Drake, Drake, Drake, when we turn on the radio? Now you got people who label him the "best rapper" but how so? Just because he gets all the burn on the radio don't mean he nice. Look at all these down south rappers making the hip hop charts with there ring tone songs. All Im saying is i can name many rappers right now that would eat drake alive from the likes of Buckshot, Joe budden, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Royce da 5'9, Crooked I, and Joell Ortiz. Now thats just a quick 7. You people have to wake up and realize there are artist that can actually spit that aren't getting the praise that Drake is getting. Well this is the route hip hop has taken all us hip hop fans can do is wait in the emergency room. This isn't me hating on Drake this is me speaking the truth and if you don't agree then leave a comment!~!
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ReplyDeleteYou said it yourself, "He can put a song together well." That is the key to music. At the end of the day, like it or not, Hip Hop is MUSIC and people want to hear something they can sing along to. Most people buying albums and actually supporting the artists (NOT BOOTLEGGING) are not necessarily DIE HARD "lyrical" hip hop fans. A lot of females actually BUY albums and they could care less if you spit deep and lyrical, they want LOVE, sing along melodies and swagga, that's it!
ReplyDeleteEVERY and I mean EVERY style of music is generally surface material, meaning lyrics really don't matter. Again, i'll reiterate, hip hop is MUSIC. Let's think about all genres, rock, pop, dance, trance, country and blues, most of the hits are simple and catchy. Think about Queens "We Will Rock You," or KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's the Way," "Shake, Shake, Shake" and "Get Down Tonight." All these songs were SUPER SIMPLE but FUN and HUGE HITS! No one wants to hear some down in the dump song, or CrAzY deep lyrical track ALL the time.
I do agree that the amount of swaggalicious, get money, get chicks, club and thug it out music being played is out of control. There should be a nice medium where all styles of hip hop can be in circulation on radio stations around the country. I feel there is room for both Drake and Joell Ortiz on the radio, or room for both Lil Wayne and Jay Elec. You have to look at it from the perspective of film. There are Comedies, Thrillers, Action, Suspense, Horror and Dramas, all which are movies, yet all are different styles. No one wants to watch Dramas ALL THE TIME! or Horror movies ALL THE TIME! We all go through mood swings and we all need different types of movies and music to help us through the day. The world is big enough for all of us.
That's more than a comment but that's my take. Peace.
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