The PROBLEM With Drake

that boy said I could turn the boy into the man six guy about the cyberbully again Drake is one of the most interesting characters to do case studies on because dude has so much she's attained so much in his 10 years plus in music you think that there's nothing more that he could say to surprise people but here we are and I know the idea of doing any kind of case study on a human being is a little foreign to most folks as they would never try to do so with themselves and doing so with an artist is extremely dehumanizing if you watch Drake's newest interview with rap radar you pretty much know what this is about and I'm making this video kind of a shift through the debris and let y'all know like to me what were the most important parts or what gave me the most insight into the way Drake thinks because most of the other stuff is stuff that I really care about this is actually one of the first times that clips on Twitter and on Instagram and on Facebook and wherever else these clips were spread actually weren't really that far out of context this is like the first interview I could say you could watch from Drake and be like oh he said what he said you watch the interview is not that far off either if you care about Drake that much then watch the entire two-hour thing you definitely won't find any moments of filler first thing I want to give Drake props on though in the interview is when he said you'll never get this who is this moment ever again something that will always and forever be foreign to Drake for the remainder of his life there's never gonna be a moment or a time where we play Drake and there's gonna be somebody in the car or somebody at the function somebody at the event asking who that is because everyone already knows who that is why this is damaging to artists in their career going forward is it puts a huge expectation on them it puts a huge comparison between their new work in their old work and anything that falls short of their old work is trash is garbage however you go into someone's musical you have no idea about you don't have any expectations you just go in raw and you're like oh wow this is surprising I really enjoy this or I really don't artists should revel in that moment because I don't think it'll ever come to them again and the pressure begins to build from that point next thing that hit me in this interview was Drake alluding to the idea of there being a necessity for change in in the rap game and and he was right pay attention because everything that I'm saying is actually gonna come together in a cohesive way like every bullet point that I have he says I could make music for dusty guys Joe Budden should definitely get props for his move music and everything else that he's pretty much done when it comes to emo rap however emotional rap can be conveyed in more ways than just ideas and in lyrics write your emotions can be conveyed through singing your emotions can be conveyed through melody and that's something that was missing from rap music for a really long time I'm not saying that Drake was the first and only artist to do something like this but for those of you who keep saying that Oh Drake didn't do anything new there have been RSM rapping sung before none of those artists were caught soft [ __ ] none of those artists were made fun of for singing in their rap songs none of them so why was it that Drake was well because he's saying because he rapped in some about his emotions about his relationship issues and I was foreign to mainstream rap for a long time all it was about was I use women for this I use women as tools I shoot people I rob people I do this I get money that's what mainstream rap was so the next mainstream wave that began to come out was someone that was a little bit more emotionally aware and forthcoming with how he felt this was expressed in more than just ideas it was expressed through his harmonies through his vocals so when he says he doesn't really want to make music for dusty guys he means those people that give themselves value through the music that they listen to guys that talk about Kai and rockmar siano and your old rügen MF DOOM like they're the only rappers that can give you any type of joy or entertainment in this world like you're realistically laying pipe to rock Marciano's intros if you are you nasty you need to be in jail you need to be shot imagine riding in the whip with your girl and you got Benny the butcher playing in the back it's just not a good look for you but keep that in mind rape specifically said I don't really want to make music for dusty guys I like making music for one next point the drink made was about cultural appropriation right now my issue with Drake in this cultural appropriation take is for one has been overblown on Twitter because people are making it seem like Jay said that he popularized afrobeat and I never heard him say that in the entire interview correct me if I'm wrong I never heard him say that or allude to Drake does defend his use of these cultures and these sounds by saying it's not cultural appropriation because I give credit to the original I support the original and I also give you know the artists that are participating in that content a platform how can you appropriate a culture that you're paying homage to especially with all the rap and hip-hop elitists that want to say that hip-hop and rappers it's this original thing like it wasn't introduced off the back of funk and disco and soul music samples to say that the sounds never existed before hip hop is ridiculous they use the sounds that already existed that were already popular in the outside world America and Americans in general are just late to the party every single time we're late when it comes to music Americans are late to everything so you cannot sit here and call a Drake a cultural appropriator and not say the entire rap game didn't start based off cultural appropriation what Drake needs to understand though about his stance on cultural appropriation is just because you are paying homage to a culture does not mean that you got permission from the pioneers of that genre of music and even if you do it's not always a good luck you putting something on a mainstream pedestal is only gonna further devalue it making something more popular is the worst thing to do if you're trying to add value to it not as a drink make dancehall of course of course he does does he make good dancehall no does he make unique dancehall no so what value are you adding to a genre of music that was already popping before you and have only decided to add more to the pop infested version of it the same thing happens with artists that are newly discovered all the time people want them to be underground people want them to be in closed spaces because the second everyone discovers them they then start losing their value people from a multitude of places start taking from their sound start taking from their art not saying that Drake can't just make the music that he wants to make I'm just saying this is why it doesn't always add value to is one of the reasons why people disrespect pop music so much it's one of the reasons R&B as a genre is has such a huge problem making a statement over the last few years because of so many people's infatuation with adding trap music to it R&B singers becoming rappers instrumentals sapping literally the soul out of their RMB I do I think Drake specifically helped popularize things like afro beat no do I think that people learned more about afro beat from Drake's use of something that is you know similar to it on tracks like one dance yeah I think more people probably look into it based off of more people discussing it because I never heard anybody really in the in the mainstream vein really talk about afro beat until wale and Drake know all these like woke people like oh I've been listening to African music my whole like no you have him my god and I mean in America and a mainstream sense I'm sure there are people that have been listening to these artists for a very long time okay so let's establish that point America is late to most things music included the fourth thing that Drake talks about in this interview that also gave me pause was wishing that his achievements were celebrated as a black man now these next few points are probably gonna be the most damning in this whole Drake interview wishing his achievements were celebrated more from the black community he mentions at one point in this interview that nobody said that it was a wonderful thing that a black arted like Drake got the artists of the decade achieve and he said he took notice to it he looked a little slighted he looked a little upset he looked a little hurt you look a little upset but for those of you who watched the remainder of the interview you know that prior to that only a few minutes before Drake literally says I don't talk about issues that affect us that much I like to be ten toes down I like to go into the cities I like to be in the streets I like to make my mark through action I like to help people through school I like to build schools I like to put people in programs cool he doesn't like posting and posturing as if he's this woke guy on social media trying to get points from other people but at the end of the day not really doing anything cool Drake but I don't see you do much like anyway when it comes to black people and dealing with police and systemic racism and everything I don't see that too much from you anyway not saying that you're a bad person if you wanted to just stay out of the way but you're making it seem like you're not being celebrated as a black because you're light-skinned when in reality that's not the case at all I think you're not being asked celebrated when it comes to this achievement from the black community because you don't talk about anything black in your music okay and I'm not saying that to be like mean or try to you know do this racial divide but he mentioned it in this interview so I'm gonna speak one you made it a point in this interview to say that you don't like to get political you don't like to posture on social media intellectually as if you have this higher knowledge or understanding of your surroundings but at the end of the day not doing anything you make it a point not to discuss any of this stuff in your music you make it a point not to talk about black issues at all really your music is primarily about you right so if Lamar or AJ Cole or if a jay-z would have gotten this artists of the decade award people that are black probably would celebrate it more because these are artists that talk about it a lot in their music these are artists that talk about the effects of racism a lot in their music these are artists that have actually been sent out ten toes down you can see them helping their community a lot even twenty one savage has a whole little program he's doing in Atlanta I saw jay-z putting checks in people's hands helping them with lawyer fees supplying new lawyers you know Meek Mill though at the end of the day no one's like purposefully not celebrating Drake because he's of a lighter shade it's just you don't talk about that so why would they celebrate you for that I think we've grown revolved to a point as a society that we don't just celebrate you being black anymore we celebrate your achievements as a black person but also if you do things for a black community like I mean it's more than just being born a race you don't just get accolades and support from your community by default because that's like saying every black person is good every black person is thorough and they're not Barack Obama a bunch of people voted for him because he was black what did he do when he got in office and spent some time in there Obama care [ __ ] learned ironically enough the only people Drake mentions he has issues with in this very interview are black I'm not saying that that's a racial issue but I'm just saying it goes in line with what push of T is gonna end up saying or what ended up being said about Drake next point Drake talks tough right his tough talk is really believable and when he's talked when he's talking about you know the issues that you have with other celebrities when he was talking about oh like you know I could let this go to a certain point oh I'm gonna let my man do ten you know five to two three four or five years in prison because of something that I just did and I believe him I was always all the way I was brought up was you never put a gun in shaky hands you never put a novice man at the center of decision-making because they always make mistakes they always [ __ ] up they always leave a little detail they always screw up somehow so I a hundred percent believe Drake nervous men are the most paranoid people in the world paranoid people do not think rationally okay so I believe Drake when he said he had like he was alluding basically to having a violent mindset he was alluding to wanting to do something to the people that were sliding him y'all could think that he's joking or that he's trying to posture as if he's tough as much as he want to me I think him just admitting that is him saying that he was scared and people that are scared don't think Streep will let her scare make dumb decisions right so that's what he was alluding to so all the people that are saying Oh Drake saw he's trying to act like he's hard no he's actually being very transparent do not leave the trigger in the hands of a man who is nervous who is paranoid who is afraid now for probably the most interesting part of the entire interview is when he starts talking about Pusha T and when he eventually ends up talking about Kanye which isn't that interesting it all really Pusha T he's saying that the diss was only popular pretty much because he revealed information he had secret into like these loose documents that revealed Drake to be a father and that's the whole reason that Drake ended up being clown when he's like you really got to be disingenuous and like how the huge lack of self-awareness to not see that the entirety of the diss was based in you as a man not you as a father like no one looked at this and said oh man Drake he had a son oh man let's [ __ ] on him like no nobody was looking at you like that they were looking at you like that because it's like you are the exact thing that you've preached that your dad was to you entire digiti goes on to reveal the type of person you are Pusha T's dis is much more layered than Drake's dis not saying that Drake's dis didn't have better wordplay and it wasn't a more palatable song cut like artery deep this goes back into my Wayne about why drink wouldn't be celebrated as a black man how are you gonna be celebrated as a black man when you add to the absentee father statistic that was another thing that Pusha T was trying to push in that was funny that was trying to push in that dis record right so already I think on my point number four point number three I said you know Drake wants to be celebrated from the black community for his achievements being a black man Pusha T's dis says that you shouldn't be celebrated as a man or as a black man adding to the absent father statistic might not be an absent father but that's not Pusha T's problem he's trying to prove a point regardless of if some of the information is accurate or not like the first thing he put was an image of you in blackface that goes to how you are viewed in portrayed as a black man the fact that you would even be willing to do that number three my cultural appropriation point Pusha T is also saying you emulate cultures and you devalue them just like white people used to you're the same you're not a black man this is all in line with Pusha T's entire point right Drake is literally proving push a tease point in his district doing this interview my point number two when Drake says I can make music for dusty men I can make music for dusty guy who should T alluded to you not being a real MC because of the fact that you had help writing a couple lines when you're if you're reading this is too late record I don't know how many I'm not saying it invalidates you and everything that you've done good in your career I'm just saying this is what Pusha T is trying to say he's saying you're a lesser emcee because you don't prioritize the methods of an emcee and Drake you haven't for a while you know let's not be disingenuous he also adding to my number two point is Drake puts these guys these people from other countries that are black on like these poster cards and yes he helps them yes they get a look yes they get more exposure yes they get more popularity but the way he advertises them is very much like those infomercials that you see randomly popping up on your screen showing kids in Africa that if you donate $1 to they'll have another meal like the way it comes across I'm sure push it's he had that in mind the way you put these cultures on display is very opportunistic right and most of the time he's inspired by something because it was a hit now one point about Drake that I love that he mentioned in this interview was he didn't want to participate further in the nastiness he says at one point he looked at some of the things that he was saying in the diss record that most people believe to be imaginary and you know I do too but at the same time I let Drake had this one cuz it might it might be real but when he says I didn't want to look back at something you know that I did two years ago and say I'm not proud of the person that said that we all gotta remember what Eminem said about his mother on cleaning out my closet years and years and years later Eminem came out with a with the response to that record I don't remember the name of that record but he was talking about in the record that he released years and years after the cleaning out my closet record that he was ashamed of everything that he said in those lines he was ashamed of the song that he made he was ashamed that the song even come out right so he wasn't proud of the person that was saying what that person was saying even though most people that listened to cleaning and cleaning out my closet championed him for saying what he was saying he was ashamed for saying what he was saying and if this is one of the reason that Drake doesn't want to participate in the nastiness meaning it adds further to his point that he likes music that's real and that's authentic he would be a fan of music that is true to someone's spirit not just a random outburst of anger or a random out of character moment if Drake doesn't want to participate in the nastiness of rap and how far it can go that's fine I think he should stick to things that he's more comfortable with I don't want people to lose pieces of themselves trying to prove something to other emcees based off of the spectators which is comprised mainly of like teenagers that live in the suburbs you're altering the person that you are for kids online to say oh and ah that's not the type of person you are that's fine honestly I gotta look myself in the mirror I got to look my peers in the face I gotta look at my family I gotta look at my son so when he says he's not a fan of music he doesn't believe if you can't believe that these things are gonna come out of you even though they do and you don't want them to ever be released that's fine I understand that that's that's okay at the end of the day people need to understand that this rap game should not alter the type of person that you are if and it's if it starts to you need to stop that's the downfall of rappers as it is letting this persona take over their personal life letting it take over their actual being and then they don't know how to separate who they are versus who they're trying to be for entertainment that's what you don't want it you don't want to lose yourself last but not least Drake talks about relationships at a point in this interview and he talks about them in a way that also alludes to push a tease point unfortunately and to my perception of him as a father when he says that he loves his space when he says that he doesn't like to compromise when he says that he doesn't want to come out of his routine it kind of makes sense I mean not to say that you were trying to do anything fishy when it comes to being a father even though a lot of people are gonna make their jokes about that it's more about yeah you don't want to compromise you don't want to give time you don't want to you know divvy up your routine you also have to do that with a child you also have to do that with your son so Drake was forced into a fatherhood position so his space was invaded his routine was ruined the thing about parents is they unintentionally take out their frustration with their routine being ruined on the child because it's not their responsibility to take care of this person whereas if it's a relationship you can just leave this person high and dry and I really care that much about it in the long run also adding to push a tease point because if you end up not having the best relationship with your son because you didn't want your routine interrupted this is also the same thing that you kind of talked about with your dad there were certain compromises that he wasn't willing to make because he didn't want his routine altered Drake talked about that a lot in his music so would it pusha t do push a chi in a diss record that was made almost two years ago well year and a half ago Pusha T showed the world why Drake shouldn't be celebrated as a black man and Drake literally in this interview a year and a half later goes on to confirm while complaining about not being celebrated as a black man why he ultimately should not be celebrated as a black man there were a lot of moments in the video where Drake seemed visibly upset he seemed visibly irritated not to say that he was upset with the interviewers because I'm sure they mean they were doing a great job to me going into questions or a little bit more uncomfortable it wasn't a fan at all the push of T but he still got his signed microphone upstairs in his room like don't you have a tattoo of like the Beatles on your something to like you need to stop idolizing folks right because maybe if you didn't you wouldn't have this fall so hard he says he's not a fan of Pusha T because he's not a fan of like rappers that don't live the life that they live in their music but I don't remember recall the time and push a tease discography where there was something that was said that was made to be like significantly bigger than it actually was I feel like you allow your perception of his music at that time since you idolized people so so much and so regularly I feel like you allow your perception to become the reality when if you listen to push your tease lines I mean I don't think too much of it is so unrealistic sure it's put in a way that's supposed to be interpreted in a bit more of an entertaining way but I don't think it's anything that's like too far off the mark if anything you should have had enough common sense and wherewithal to either not be a fan because you didn't want him infecting and infecting communities and then spreading the rhetoric around later or shut up and still listen to his music and just accept the fact that he bested you in a rap beef but that's how I'm feeling about the interview those are the most important parts to me anyway what I got out of it when I took from it y'all feel free to let me know how you felt about in the comment section down below if you watch the entirety of the two hours and yeah hopefully we're gonna get a good drake album in 2020 I've got my hopes up I feel like this could be something special I really do and that's that's really it you know thanks for watching and yeah I'll see I'll see you all next time and I'm out I'm holding my crotch right now like one hand like a rapper

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Id: 4QPYA1WZ93U

Length: 21min 31sec (1291 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 28 2019