“Drake is faker than those bootleg Grape 5’s on his feet”
– NikeTalk commenter
So supposedly there is a multi-million dollar bidding war for the Canadian rapper Drake. This is part of the brand new day in the urban music record offices based here in New York City. You would think that these clowns never heard any good music ever in their life. Sure, they listen to G.O.O.D. music which can be pretty good, but certainly you would need more than that to have a complete sonic diet.
I’ll never forget how people uncovered the Daft Punk sample from the ‘Graduation’ album but didn’t take the time to go deeper and listen to the song that Daft Punk stole to make their track. Peep Edwin Birdsong’s ‘Cola Bottle Baby’ when you are stealing your music off the internets. That track is some funky crack right there.
I find it hard to believe in some respects that the industry is so enamored with Drake. Sure, he’s lightskint with good jig hair and he has no mustache so that makes him more, eh, versatile. Ha. But what label has that kind of money to piss away on an internets celebrity? I am an internets celebrity and that shit has yet to get me a free meal. Let alone a Ghetto Big Mac.
This is not 1995 when you could give a deal to Nelly type dude who at least was moving CD’s on the bootleg scene. Drake is moving downloads and selling out hole in the wall spoken word venues. You don’t give $2millies to someone who isn’t stadium status. The record industry is no longer into the A & R develop an artist for the long haul shit. If you sign your deal in the morning they want their money back this afternoon.
There have been dudes that have debuted and I have recognized that they are going to be monster artists because they were bringing something very new or missing from the music business. Drake reminds me of a Britney Spears – Justin Timberlake type of industry construct. Someone that can act and lipsync really well like a modern day matinee idol, but without the substance to move the level of music up. Maybe that is what the labels are paying for in the first place?
These new 360 recording deals mean that labels even own the deuce you left in the hotel toilet. I imagine that Drake can be used to sell all kinds of other shit other than CD’s so that will help bolster the bottom line of the label that signs him. Bol said that jig haircare products are saving the jig magazine industrial complex. How about some Drake wave cream and du-rags? Eminem would def buy those. I can even see Drake acting in the after school movie, ‘The young Obama years’.
This dude Drake certainly does have a bright future in front of him.
I just don’t know how much of that future will be in making music that I want to listen to.
That 360 deal is exactly why they would throw that kind of money at him. If he can’t move music; he’ll be starring in the next MTV produced (p.o.s.) movie. He’s bankable either way; ugly artists don’t have a place in the music industry anymore. Sorry to tell anybody who cares but, pretty boy rap is here to stay.
drake selling wavecaps > drake selling albums? i can dig it. he could be the next billy dee williams.
Drake is hot because of one reason. This is the same pretty boy light skint dude that sistas been running from for the last 15 years. The last one was co-signed by Quincy Jones. Everybody said he couldn’t sing, but damn if he didn’t sell records and now real cats is sampling his shit….Al B Sure. What legend is co-signing Drake?
I never even heard dudes work, I remember seeing a post from Marvelous Mo a few months back, then he just kinda ended up on MTV like we’re supposed to know who this dude is. I caught him @ the House of Blues and this dude failed miserably. But best believe, put him and Asher Roth on the same bill, the women will come outta them curlers & bunny slippers right quick. Word Is Bawn.
LOL @ the fake J’s! & this negro posin’ like his shitz is official! HA!
Good call on the mustache. Those are a must.
I get annoyed when people call my discerning opinion “hate”. If Drake becomes bigger than the Empire State Building God bless him. I still have shit I prefer to listen to from young and older artists.
True story, just a few hours earlier I was driving on Atlantic Avenue in Fort Greene. A car was BLASTing Drake ‘Best I ever had. I saw that the driver had mad hair so I assumed it was a chick. I pulled up alongsode the BMX X5 to see who the Drake stan was and it was some mulatto dude with a riderk afro.
I’m sure I looked at him with disdain because he was really into the Drake song, singing along and the whole nine. When sonn seen me peeping his Car-aoke he turned down the radio and stiffened up. He then resumed puffing on a cigar he had in the ashtray.
Sonn was prA’li my age too. A black dude who more than likely works for Universal and he uses the Drake mixtape to get his swerve back. God bless fruitbags like that driver. I couldn’t be mad. I was dying laughing.
not sure why the buzz about this guy but when he came down here to the atl at the loft (club size = 500 people max) the show sold out. AT $25 A TICKET. not only that, but people like polow da don, jermaine dupri, and greg street came out to show support.
contrast that to another local show at the same club with krs-1, and there were maybe 300 people there with no celebs except davy dmx and he came with me since i had told him about the show the week before.
smh at the current state of cRAP.
if mens listen to this shit then something is wrong here, pussy music is for pussys.
and to dallas make a diet you´re fatfuccc-.-
I am totally fat, but you’re a dude from doucheland that dickrides a rapper.
I can go on a diet but you’ll always be a dickriding douche.
Hah! And fuck the Drake “street team”: busted on Atlantic Ave.
On the other hand, I was seeing the Duck Down promo van around parked on 3rd Ave near Wyckoff Houses a bunch last year, just a few blocks from Atlantic but this reminded me I’ve not seen it this year at all.
Maybe if I got out to Coney I’ll find someone riding with the new Torae?
I hope!
I don’t understand the Drake phenomenon. But I do understand lightskinned dudes who can’t grow any real facial hair (it’s not our fault).
But the new Mos Def is pretty dope. And the new Torae/Marco Polo is also a beautiful piece of boom bap.
This drop wins on multiple levels.
I love the position of being Drake ignorant. Its so troublesome and unsettling to folks when I say I don’t know whodefuck he is. 40, FTW.
Prolly because Drake is half the J00.
“We got a rappin’ Lenny!”
Lenny Rapitz?
The industry is tailspinning out of control trying to keep it’s grasp on whatever they can. Drake is one of them “safe” negros who can replace Chris Brown. He’s already an actor who has been studying the manneurisms of Kanye(peep his performances), the intonations of Jay-z and the cadences of Lil Wayne……He is a product for the 13-20 yr old females who actually buy or pay for downloads and fawn over a dude with “good” hair……Being Mullatto also helps because white jawns can feel ccomfortable hanging up the poster. WOMENS loves them some light skinted “actors” who seem like just clean cut pretty boys they could beat up i.e Rihanna. I’ve heard cats like Joe Buddens singing along to his stuff, then I listen for myself and I’m like literally NO GROWN ASS MAN should be playing with “my lil pony and carebears” no matter what they think will make them seem cool or retro. I see this as the desperation of a sinking industry trying desperately to continue feeding it’s greed by raping artists
no shots dallas but the Britney thing seems a bit harsh ..
the timberlake thing seems fair
cause timblerlake can sing and write ,,,,
and the kids actually a strong song writer…
an he can rap when he tries
Exhibit A) able to rap …
Good night and Good Luck
youtube.com/watch?v=rIFhbcAMiTE
Exhibit B) good song writer
Little Bit
youtube.com/watch?v=i36yQkkltc0
Drake is definitely wack. i’d listen to a wiz khalifa over him any time anyday. you the man dallas.
I thought I was losing my edge on rap in my old age when I thought Drake was weaksauce. Now I know I’m wrong. It’s easy to see why Drake draws (female) crowds. The people that buy his tickets don’t like hip-hop anyway, they couldn’t even tell you what hip-hop is if you asked them.
Same people that know who Asher Roth is but never heard of Heltah Skeltah? Disgusting…
did you mention that he’s Jewish ?
Well said my G!! It just doesnt make sense, all hate aside.
the_dallas Says:
June 4th, 2009 at 7:32 am
I am totally fat, but you’re a dude from doucheland that dickrides a rapper.
I can go on a diet but you’ll always be a dickriding douche.
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LOL 1st of all, what´s you´re problem with germany??? didn´t you coca-cola & Mc fuckin donalds girls bomed irak and now you want go on on iran??? it´s cool to bomb the terror bitches but to act like an peace-harmony shit with an monkey can´t help you guys at all, that´s the topic about stero-types—..— im rick james bitch!!! fuckin cocksucker…speakin of cocks, im not dickridin of a rapper, you´re dickridin of afew rnb singers and the whole rap game,speac. rick ross the boss saw you´re footage from you at his album release party screamin boss i luv you fat ass…ugghhhh
P.S: comon dude the net & you fat ass knows that you never pass a diet successful….hehehehe.
“The record industry is no longer into the A & R develop an artist for the long haul shit. If you sign your deal in the morning they want their money back this afternoon.”
haha, truth is written
Celebrating the fact that I’ve never even heard of this kid. The filters still work and I’m doing something right.
THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN.
(still pissed Ashton Ross made it thru…)
Yall need to make up your mind whether you upset with “the industry” or upset with the culture. Keep in mind while your having little white girl hissy fits about dudes success, that he is NOT a product of the labels and the “industry”. He is a product of the internet and the net belongs to the people. So if you think drake sucks make your argument that the kids these days are stupid for liking dude and then go join the old folks playing gin rummy, reminiscing about the old days.
Uh..DP…it’s hate. Why you hating on dude? Cuz he light-skinted? I’m with QGladwell; duke is SUPPOSED to be owning this shit if when he put his foot in the door, mad muhfuggaz tried to pull him in. And though he may seem watered down to you, he does make good songs, write, and sing. He IS a safe bet for radio…and yet, there are a lot of dudes who dig his isht. He’s supposed to swing for the moon w/this kind of buzz. I hate that cats like Buddens couldn’t generate this buzz, but that’s the state of the game. That aint dukes’ fault
Wait a sec…isn’t this dude Weezy’s ghost ? Ok, he did make it past the filter.
I personally don’t need him, but he is at least as good as Wayne, no? They sound exactly alike to me. Wayne cakes, so why not this kid?
Not a nickel from me however…
LMAO @ Polotron. You know what? I guess you’re right; dude COULD be Weezy’s ghost. He’s certainly mimicked his style enough to pull it off
Did I get this wrong? I thought he wrote for Wayne and now Wayne was bringing him out…..So knowing how these things works, who mimicks whom? Mark (or anyone), help me out…
He wrote that, “Do you like girls like me/Lez be honest” line? Or am in over my head?
I’m just gonna restart this Andre the Giant track, I’m getting a headache.