Drake: The Biggest Fraud in Hip Hop

with five billboard chart-topping albums three mixtapes and more top ten billboard singles than any other artist from a commercial standpoint drake just had the most ridiculous decade of any artist ever and he's also gone through more transformations than any musician i can think of early in his career drake was the poster boy of honesty he built a career on writing emotional introspective music alongside his producer and engineer 40 who helped him carve a sound that was unique and transformative from 2010 to 2013 there were countless artists trying to sound like drake but now it seems like the tables have turned and drake is biting whatever style is hot to stay on top it seems like somewhere along the way he became more interested in maintaining his relevancy than being authentic and in attempting to please everyone he diluted himself as a person and lost his own identity people change i mean i change every day i'm not knocking that i just can't get down with drake's recent image because i feel like he's trying to be something he's not but maybe along the way he got so immersed in this caricature of himself that he started believing it perhaps aubry graham's best acting days weren't as wheelchair jimmy on degrassi but rather playing a hip-hop superstar named drake a man who's capable of jumping to the top of the charts with any release who else really trying to mess with hollywood cold i'm treating birmingham like my hollywood shows i'm trying to tell you something that you probably should know this that slumdog millionaire bollywood flowing aubrey drake graham was born on october 24 1986 in toronto canada his father dennis graham was a drummer for rock and roll star jerry lee lewis drake said his mother sandy also comes from a very musical family and his grandma used to babysit for aretha franklin drake comes from an eclectic background his father is an african-american catholic and his mother is a white canadian jew his parents divorced when he was five years old and he was raised by his mother in forest hill an affluent and predominantly jewish neighborhood in toronto in interviews he's taken issue with people saying he had an easy life i only moved to forest hill because my mother is an incredible woman who was willing to live beyond far beyond her means for the sake of her family we rented a someone's basement and the first floor i didn't have some mansion i wasn't you know i i grew up with a mother that was deep in debt because she wanted the best for her family in this nicer neighborhood drake found being biracial was more of an issue than when he lived in the poorer section of a western road i just always felt like an outsider i went when i was in forest hill you know it wasn't all jewish school like and just being biracial but still being jewish so i was like kind of connected to the kids but like sort of distant it was drake's dad that really spurred his interest in music dennis would bring five to six-year-old drake to gigs at various bars around toronto and get him to go on stage and sing at times after his divorce dennis moved to memphis so drake spent part of his childhood in tennessee where he was influenced by the southern rap culture in memphis dennis started selling drugs and was eventually caught and put in jail while in prison he'd reserve time for drake to speak to a fellow inmate who also rapped my dad used to share his phone time with this guy and this guy used to rap so he used to read me his raps over the phone and i told him you know i rap too so we used to kind of i used to be like it got to the point where i'd be like yeah dad all right cool where where's where you know where is he at like i got new raps to i got to do raps to spit for him or whatever so we used to kind of use the remainder of my dad's phone time and just rap rap and rap until it cut off unfortunately for drake dennis wasn't as involved in his upbringing as he would have liked and this would become a major theme in his music where he'd lament on the absence of his father it was actually one of drake's classmates at forest hill who gave him his start in the entertainment industry drake said quote there was a kid in my class whose father was an agent his dad would say if there's anyone in the class that makes you laugh have them audition for me after the audition he became my agent in 2001 at 14 years old drake landed a role on the famous canadian teenage drama called degrassi drake who was then still going by the name aubrey graham was cast as jimmy brooks a popular 8th grade basketball star an eventual paraplegic he starred on the show for seven years but worked on music on his time off i have to utilize those days and like you know i'm working with a phenomenal engineer by the name of noah he's also a producer goes by the name of 4040 and we get in here you know i get in here when i can i get in here if i start sessions at 1 2 in the morning and we leave at 7 6 when the sun's up you have to really budget your time you know and it and it is it is a challenge i've been a mess since every girl i left went and got a new man but i'm the new version of fresh prince and the bands got bumped for real i switch wifey every season like uncle phil and then of course drop so that was a little verse i wrote a little something little thumbs down after shooting several seasons the producers of degrassi decided to take the show a different direction and laid off drake and his co-stars it was a upsetting time for me you know we all kind of came in the names on our dressing rooms were changed you know they were making a complete changeover they were starting over with new younger kids i remember telling my mom that i was gonna tell my agent that i'm gonna probably take a break and see where this music thing takes me drake released his debut mixtape room for improvement in 2006 and his second mixtape comeback season the following year jazz prince whose father's legendary label founder james j prince was looking to make a name for himself in the music business so his dad told him to look for the next hottest thing at the time myspace had a music explore page mjs came across drake's music and it immediately caught his attention she found me on my space and i told him i was like yo i like your music and he was like okay i was like i'm gonna make you famous he was like man i know lil wayne and i'm gonna play him in music one day and i was just like yeah right you know like you never really i didn't buy it at first i told my dad like yo i found somebody that has a buzz i feel like and it's hot like let me hear it i played it for him he didn't get it like what's all this singing he doing on this on his music jazz also sent drake's music to lil lane i waited like a week i hit him every day you heard it you heard he heard it he finally hit me back was like yo bro he sucked don't ever play the [ __ ] for me again a few months later jazz was driving lil wayne to a jewelry store and saw another opportunity to put on drake i got him in my car i'm gonna play some drake so he's riding i'm playing [ __ ] you know i'm jamming you know i'm looking at him and i see him over there like you know bobbing his head i'm like okay he was like who is this i was like oh that's that [ __ ] drake that you told me you didn't like and he was like he's good like where are you at like he's in toronto i was like man i can get him here asap i need y'all to meet he's like i'm about to call him right now i was like hello i was like yo what's up i was like this doesn't sound like my friend and he's like yo what's up it's wheezy and it was you know it ended up being it ended up being wayne he was like i'm starting this thing called young money and i'd really love for you to be a part of it so i want to fly you out to houston and meet you and he did just that the day after and that formed our relationship and i was like this quiet kid in the corner of the bus yeah while everything was going on around me and the carter 3 was just i think it was like maybe two or three weeks away from coming out and uh what a time that night we drove on a bus to um atlanta and at night when the studio that's where we cut the first forever stunt hard and another song you can't think of and about two weeks later the songs leaked then that was that [Music] drake released his first commercial ep so far gone in february 2009 and it peaked at number six on the billboard charts his debut single best i ever had hit number two on the billboard hot 100 and helped make him a household name from here drake turned into a global superstar and every commercial album he's dropped has peaked at number one on the charts drake's arrival and music marked a new path he wove together singing as rapping and rapping as singing in early 2010 hip hop had just come out of an intense auto-tune phase and the proven formula was that a rapper would tell the story and then bring a singer in to provide emotion or sensuality drake showed the world that those parts could be delivered by the same person kanye west deserves a lot of credit for helping pioneer the genre of introspective rap with 808s and heartbreak but drake and 40 turned that style into a sound that was their own drake's early lyrics are extremely personal and convey universal emotions like love and regret to me like making music for girls is just the waviest thing you could do so i was never really you know out of all the things that people will say about me i was never affected by the whole like ah you know this is soft or this is emotional or whatever because i was just kind of like i mean i guess i just make music for like dusty guys and [ __ ] but like that's just not really like what inspires me you know drake won a grammy for best rap album in 2011 with take care and two years later drake released nothing was the same which is my personal favorite album by him and just like his title after that nothing was the same by 2014 drake had positioned himself comfortably at the top of rap commercially and wanted to assert himself as a confident individual i'm so sick of people saying that uh that i'm like lonely and emotional and like associating me with this like longing for a woman or a bad guy yeah i hate that man it bothers me so much in his recent albums it seems like his sole concern is maintaining clouts so he's hopped on trend after trend without creating his own path in 2015 he released a collaborative project with future after future's epic run of releases and the following year drake released a bloated and predictable album that lacked real creative energy it felt like a room full of corporate execs were tasked with finding regional jams that drake could repackage and turn into a commercial hit and these songs have led some to accuse drake of being a quote culture vulture though he's quick to dismiss those claims the definition of appropriating a culture is is not supporting that culture doing songs with people who are deeply rooted in that culture giving opportunity to people who are in that culture that's not appropriating appropriating is taking it for your own personal gain and denying that that it was ever inspired from this that's the true disservice that somebody could do to the uk to dancehall to afrobeats drake has had a long history of rap beefs but the two most notable are pivotal to the man we see today in 2020 and i'm not going to get into too much detail on them because i think that could make for its own separate compelling video but the first major one was with meek mill who blasted drake on twitter for allegedly having someone else write some of his rhymes drake responded with a one-two punch of diss tracks charged up and back to back which unanimously put him as the winner of that feud i do think that that win propelled part of drake's new tough guy persona he thought oh i beat the street rapper i'm on top of the charts no one can touch me and that is until he got roped into a feud with pusha t who ultimately gave him the biggest l of his career when he dropped a disc called the story of adidon where he exposed drake for having a secret baby adonis with a former porn star basically pusha asserts that drake is continuing the cycle of not being present as a father things got worse when drake's own father went on the radio with nick cannon and dismissed the notion that he was an absent father i have uh always been with drake i talked to him if not every day every other day wow um i said drake why are you saying all of this uh different stuff about me man like uh this is not cool and uh he does that is sales records many fans hope drake would address these topics on his fifth studio album scorpion but he mainly avoided those to focus on typical drake themes like the burden of dating multiple beautiful women at once and the audacity of rappers to speak on his name scorpion is a doozy of an album with 25 songs that span 90 minutes and it's not a very fun listen but numbers don't lie and scorpion debuted at number one on the charts and broke both spotify and apple music's one day global record for album streams with drake's upcoming album certified loverboy set to drop soon it's almost certain to be another commercial hit but all i can do is hope for a more focused honest and compelling record i'm outside in an amg [Music] there's certainly something to be said about aubry graham being able to make it out of his childhood nickelodeon image as wheelchair jimmy and turn into drake a global superstar and him and 40 deserve a ton of credit they've made countless bangers over the years and i do like a lot of his songs i just can't get down with his current image he just comes across as fake he's told us over many songs and albums that he's insecure and maybe some of that comes from him hiding the fact that he's actually a nice guy that was raised really well he's pretending he wasn't this is the exact opposite of the advice lil wayne gave him out the gate he's always just like man please be yourself please don't ever try and be me or anybody else don't ever go get tattoos you don't have to do you don't have to dress any different you know because um i like from the day wayne met me to now i didn't i haven't changed anything about myself he met me and he really liked the kid that he met and he was like don't stop smiling either don't try and get mean or aggressive he's like just be you drake doesn't do interviews anymore and the recent one he did actually inspired this video it was a two hour and twenty minute rap radar interview that he produced himself it's one of the most scripted interviews i've ever seen yet it screams desperation and perhaps that's because drake touches on vulnerable topics but answers them with polished practice answers and in that way it kind of feels like a politician at the dnc biden was straight reading off the teleprompter while at the rnc trump is leaning on the pulpit and winging it i don't even like trump but he's actually speaking his mind and that makes him more likeable biden very well may be a better guy behind closed doors but we don't even know him and for many people the evil you know is better than the evil you don't the rap radar interview gave me an impression that i don't trust drake i like a lot of his music but i don't trust him if tyler says something i go yes this is exactly how he feels with drake he just says the right thing and maybe that's why we don't trust him [Music] some of like my my blackest friends can be just as as cruel on the other hand you know by making you feel excluded sometimes i don't feel celebrated when i know maybe somebody else would be celebrated for those accomplishments you know i don't feel like people say when drake is the artist of the decade i don't think anybody says wow a black artist is the artist of the decade i don't think anybody says that really i never heard anybody say that in the last few weeks drake has always felt like an outsider and i feel for him for that reason that was part of his allure early on and what resonated with me because i've always been someone that never quite fit into a single group when i think back on my high school experience i remember sophomore year looking around the lunchroom and not knowing which table to sit at i had a couple friends at multiple tables but no one was vying for me to sit with them so i picked one and sat at the end of the table with honestly no one wanting to talk to me i wasn't integral i wasn't actually a part of the group and i jumped between three different tables that year but as i got older and more confident more myself i found my people and that wasn't an issue my last two years of high school drake is an artist that you put on at a pre-game that will pass every time and you won't get judged it's the least vulnerable i think it'd be very difficult for me to go on a date and have a conversation with someone about being a drake fan it's like wearing nike it's the most inoffensive thing you could wear no one would [ __ ] on you for it but it doesn't say much about you as a person yeah drake is the highest selling artist of all time in the us but when all is said and done i don't think that says much about the art the avengers is the highest grossing film ever but is it the best movie of all time it's scary to put yourself out there everyone can relate to where drake's coming from but we can also relate to why it's the wrong direction he has a massive fan base and has the opportunity to elevate their taste levels if you if you're able to like wrap your head around and be like okay cool i get it it is what it is good song that's not that's not what like great music is great music takes a little takes a little work on your part you know it takes you almost maybe elevating your listening level and becoming you know a bit more of a sophisticated listener because of a song or because of an album so i want to give a big shout out to 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Length: 20min 34sec (1234 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 30 2020