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
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
― 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
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.
― 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
― 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
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I f/w "Find Your Love"
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
most people don't realize this, but B.o.B's uncle is Jerry Martini
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
for grocery bag completeness i should note that some random ass brisco song features the line
i'm in my own lane... BOWLING BALL
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
for worst line of the year
but is brisco's delivery laser-guided enough to turn those into automatic catch phrases??
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I really tried to do a song with Andre 3000, but I think it was meant for my second album. Dre is one of those people that needs you to do a little more. He’s one of those people that believe in his craft so much that he needs you to do more than just be over hyped or just famous. In his mind, I have to prove myself and the truth is, I do. That’s just being real. I have a lot of work to do, so I actually respect him for that. I think on the second album I’ll probably only have two features. I have a few people in mind and Dre probably will be one of them.
http://rapradar.com/2010/06/15/drake-on-denied-andre-3000-feature/
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
all is forgiven
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127834096
It's the lynchpin of the Drake marketing model, in which important rappers introduce listeners to the next important rapper as he raps about how important he is.
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:50 (fourteen years ago) link
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Hahahahahahaha.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i was impressed by noz listening to some of the songs on the album 15+ times before reviewing it
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite thing that he's ever written about drake, is this: punchlines like "I really can't complain, everything's kosher/ Two thumbs up, Ebert and Roeper" may not be terribly complex, but Drake's laser-guided delivery turns them into automatic catch-phrases.which, as i pointed out on so many shrimp, makes no sense, because EBERT AND ROEPER TURNED THE PHRASE INTO AN AUTOMATIC CATCH PHRASE, HENCE THE WHOLE FREAKIN REFERENCE― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:41 (7 hours ago)
punchlines like "I really can't complain, everything's kosher/ Two thumbs up, Ebert and Roeper" may not be terribly complex, but Drake's laser-guided delivery turns them into automatic catch-phrases.
which, as i pointed out on so many shrimp, makes no sense, because EBERT AND ROEPER TURNED THE PHRASE INTO AN AUTOMATIC CATCH PHRASE, HENCE THE WHOLE FREAKIN REFERENCE
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:41 (7 hours ago)
rip gene siskel― max, Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:42 (3 months ago)
so i guess no one alerted ebert back when bloodhound gang used his name as a punchline?― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 March 2010 08:58 (3 months ago) probably because Siskel's name got dropped first....― Ballistic, Monday, 8 March 2010 09:02 (3 months ago)
probably because Siskel's name got dropped first....― Ballistic, Monday, 8 March 2010 09:02 (3 months ago)
― dyaon't (sic), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
re "find your love" & it's 808s-ness
"[Kanye] had scratch references. I think the hook was in place"
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
the beat is almost more like a dancehall riddim tbh (there's another beat on the album that rips off that riddim that serani did "no games" over) but those "hey, hey, hey"s are cribbed pretty much wholly from 808s & i think in the context of drake as an artist it's kind of hard not to connect the two
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link