most pathetic excuse for wordplay in Young Money's "Bedrock"

is there a single person on ilx who stans for this worthless facebook whore?

I thought Jordan S was down with his "R&B" vocals?

a continued list of people who currently rap better than Drake:

Jaleel White as Steve Urkel and Bea Arthur - "Do the Urkel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642NoVnqWfo&feature=related

Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson - "Do the Bartman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6iFw-TkVM&feature=related

hecandoitshecandoitsocani

i generally like his r&b songs/hooks a lot, yeah

for real and for serious: weird al is a better rapper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Zc9NyYH-k

i'm an 808s & hb stan tho!

ban me.

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:58 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney have you heard "find your love"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg

Better than Drake:
souljaboytellem
asher roth
Tech9
Rob Base

On a Par with Drake:
Travie McCoy

yeah i think he is pretty good at doing hooks etc

i don't mind him on shit like 'i invented sex'

He's fine on that timbaland track until he gets off the hook

so basically he is a male Ashanti, is what you're saying

let's say a taller ashanti

i think there's a place for him but i just don't understand how he's just waltzed to the top of the rap industry

is there another rapper that has got to this position putting in as little work?

he put in a lot of work social network famewhoring for the attention of 16-year-old girls via MySpace and then music industry people and critics are forced to legitimize his shit "music" to maintain the illusion of a "industry"

He actually put in a lot more work than, say, Yelawolf or whatever, it's just that his music sucks balls

well yelawolf has one amazing mixtape that i know of and up until now drake has one terrible mixtape so?

i'm an 808s & hb stan tho!

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:59 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah just checkin in to say keep up the hate and lols and i'm not sure i see the linkages between this and 808s

xpost

from what I understand, drake had an unprecedented online hustle, actively using all of social networking, reaching out to fans, basically building a working brand on the internet before wayne snatched him up, no?

yelawolf makes music

Yeah, Drake seemed huge on last.fm even before "Best I Ever Had"/So Far Gone.

Now point your fingers up to the sky
And talk through your nose way up high
Spin and dip and jump and cavort
And finish it off with a laugh and snort

i don't even get the kelsey grammar thing

grammer

Kelsey Grammer was the executive producer of the UPN show "Girlfriends"

is there a single person on ilx who stans for this worthless facebook whore?

― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:55 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

reading that vv article and it's like, this is the rest of the internet's chance to out popist ilx, pretty hilarious that everyone here is just standing back and laughing.

is that seriously the reference

now that I understand the kelsey grammer line it is making me lol

whiney have you heard "find your love"?

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:00 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see to me that's just kind of shitty even as an R&B song...those weak-ass "hey hey hey"s in the background and that cheesy chorus. that's what gets me, he's not even a great singer, he's just a good-for-a-singing-rapper singer, 3rd best voice in a boy band singer. you might as well buy a Howie Dorough solo album.

I was thinking maybe there was some television reference in the surrounding lines that would explain why mentioning Kelsey Grammer at the end of that would make a lick of sense, but no

i want to think that "getting the Kelsey Grammar joke" is like a litmus test for something but i'm not exactly sure what

"knowing something superficial about black American culture"?

He might as well go all out and say "I'm a bitchy old grandmother: TYLER PERRY"

scrambled eggs all over my face, what is a boy to do

yeah just checkin in to say keep up the hate and lols and i'm not sure i see the linkages between this and 808s

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:20 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

well... "find your love" is totally an 808s rip off -- it was even prod by kanye -- it's pretty blatant

i like wes anderson basically but i hate drake! i'm so complex :)

btw... drake wasn't exactly plucked from nowhere cuz he had a pretty face. he actually had a failed single with trey songz -- i remember him talking about seeing it on 106 & park & then it never getting played again or something. he certainly had some sort of... online "hustle" -- i don't think it's up to what whiney is saying, and it always seemed to me that he was being pushed by blogs more than he was pushing himself, but it wasn't straight to rap stardom for him -- altho the young money affiliation certainly didn't hurt

well... "find your love" is totally an 808s rip off -- it was even prod by kanye -- it's pretty blatant

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i guess i'm speaking more about the approach/intent and like where kanye was coming from vs. where drake is coming from but point taken

see "Find Your Love" doesn't sound that 808s to me (or at least not any more than lots of Drake's stuff), has kind of a bright '80s R&B sample sound, although I have no idea what the sample actually is. if anything sounds like that lame Consequence single from last year.

yeah some people will go a little too far with the "oh he had these connections, he was being pushed all the way" thing...it's not like every other Young Money flunkie or Canadian TV star or nephew of someone from Sly & The Family Stone is a rap superstar too.

I f/w "Find Your Love"

tbh I am happy that I live in a self-defined bubble where the most I have ever heard of Drake is like the 5 seconds it takes for me to identify his voice and change to another channel

most people don't realize this, but B.o.B's uncle is Jerry Martini

for grocery bag completeness i should note that some random ass brisco song features the line

i'm in my own lane... BOWLING BALL

which rivals his own "i'm not about that britney spears initials/ that's BS" or whatever the hell he says on the "all i do is win" remix

for worst line of the year

but is brisco's delivery laser-guided enough to turn those into automatic catch phrases??