Drake pushes the unconsciously rockist button inside critics--the one that puts an emphasis on authenticity, struggle, and unpolished talent.
ilxor has a lot to answer for
― sites.younglife.org:8080 (history mayne), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Drake pushes the unconsciously rockist button inside critics--the one that puts an emphasis on RAPPING IN A WAY THAT IS NOT GODAWFUL FUCKING TERRIBLE
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's kinda sad how his Canadian/actor/whatever background has become such an easy line of defense, oh you just don't like him because he's not street enough, that's the only reason you could possibly dislike him!
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Who thinks Drake's talent is polished? Does he mean autotune?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I mean, that Zach Baron piece is some very good blogging and I agree with alot of what he says, but like my response is like pretty much rich or poor, just about anyone raps better than Drake
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0S5zS8jSE4
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd be more curious about baron's take on classism if he realized how badly dombal bends over backwards to praise Drake's douchebaggery.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
like Paul Barman was str8 ivy fuckin league and I'll take his awkward nerd ass over Drake on the worst day of the week
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
people who rap better than Drake:ra the rugged man (poor)usher (rich)
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
usher DESTROYS drake on Fed Upand he's USHER
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
is there a single person on ilx who stans for this worthless facebook whore?
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought Jordan S was down with his "R&B" vocals?
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hecandoitshecandoitsocani
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i generally like his r&b songs/hooks a lot, yeah
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
for real and for serious: weird al is a better rapperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Zc9NyYH-k
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm an 808s & hb stan tho!
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
ban me.― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:58 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:58 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney have you heard "find your love"?
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Better than Drake:souljaboytellemasher rothTech9Rob Base
On a Par with Drake:Travie McCoy
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i think he is pretty good at doing hooks etc
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't mind him on shit like 'i invented sex'
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
He's fine on that timbaland track until he gets off the hook
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
so basically he is a male Ashanti, is what you're saying
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
let's say a taller ashanti
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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"
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
He actually put in a lot more work than, say, Yelawolf or whatever, it's just that his music sucks balls
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
well yelawolf has one amazing mixtape that i know of and up until now drake has one terrible mixtape so?
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yelawolf makes music
Yeah, Drake seemed huge on last.fm even before "Best I Ever Had"/So Far Gone.
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― stfü (crüt), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't even get the kelsey grammar thing
― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
grammer
Kelsey Grammer was the executive producer of the UPN show "Girlfriends"
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
is that seriously the reference
― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
now that I understand the kelsey grammer line it is making me lol
― stfü (crüt), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to think that "getting the Kelsey Grammar joke" is like a litmus test for something but i'm not exactly sure what
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"knowing something superficial about black American culture"?
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i like wes anderson basically but i hate drake! i'm so complex :)
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link