Aubrey Drake Graham a.k.a "Drake" (hehe his first name is Aubrey!) is a Canadian actor turned recording artist. He started out on the hit show, Degrassi, which some of us know and love. He started his career on the music scene by making mixtapes and posting them on YouTube. One of his mixtapes, Replacement Girl featured Trey Songz and featured a "freestyle" with mentor Lil' Wayne to a remix of the song, Man of the Year. The song aired on BET making him the first unsigned rapper who made it on to BET. Due to the subsequent success of his other mixtapes, Best I Ever Had and Successful, he started taking over the rap game and getting airplay on MTV. Before his album was even released he has worked with some heavy hitters: Jay-Z, Kanye (more like Kan-gay), Young Jeezy, Lil' Wayne, Missy Elliot, Justin Timberlake, Trey Songz, Mary J. Blige and Timberland to name a few. So some could say that Drake could do no wrong.WRONG!!!
About a year ago, Drake was asked to appear on Hot 97 radio in New York. He came on the radio and gave a little interview and then they asked him to spit some freestyle rhymes. For those of you that are not in tune with the rap game, an MC's freestyle is what separates the goods from the greats. Everyone can write lyrics and everyone can surround themselves with great musicians to make solid albums. It is only those select few (i.e. Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Andre 3000, Eminem) that can make up rhymes off the top of their heads and still slay on the microphone.
The crowd was so amped to hear Drake spit his share and prove himself to the listeners. He has had such hype around his lyrics and name without even releasing an album, the kid probably has a lot of talent, right? Nope! Someone in the studio recorded the radio session with a camera or phone and you will not believe what he captured. DJ Funkmaster Flex lays a nice beat for Drake to feed off of and freestyle and what does he do?
DRAKE READS THE RHYMES RIGHT OFF HIS BLACKBERRY!!!!!
Don't believe me? Check the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VnWPRNzd3Q&feature=PlayList&p=96E97A547F94F056&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5
Can you believe it? I don't know how the industry has not picked up on this blasphemer. Not only does he read every single lyric but he even reads the hype parts of it. Why doesn't Funkmaster Flex say anything or do anything? Call him out!! That is not a true artist. If you have to read the lyrics, that's fine, but don't call yourself an MC and give credit to your writer. Every comedian on a movie or a TV show gives credit to the writers because they are just delivering the words that are written by someone else. They are just the vessel. This is infuriating and annoying that this has not been exposed.
What do you guys think? Are you as outraged as the Deputy?
id ont like drake! but i love your posts!!!
ReplyDeleteWhile i do appreciate the magnitude of his indiscretions, he is still a jew, so he is ok in my book
ReplyDeleteI produced a little music video for him, he requested hot wings and deli sandwiches. The true mix of a jewish black man.
ReplyDeleteI thought the writers at Poposaurus would be more supportive of their Jewish brethren! First, its turning your back on your brothers in the industry. Next thing you know, you are getting married in St. Baptist Cathedral; your grandmothers would be ashamed!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, Drake is the hottest freshman in the game. So please hop off the homie's nuts. Check songs like "Deceiving" or "New Shit" where he spits hot fire like a Hebrew volcano. His upcoming album "Thank Me Later" is without question the most anticipated album of the year. I, for one, will be first in line for a tall kubick of molten Hebrew lava
Alright Alright. Fair enough Labor and Employment Law Society. We know the kid can kill it and has a good eye for the game. But what about when he's not sitting behind a mixing table and surrounded by non-hebrews that are warping his mind and making him do things he doesn't wanna? Just kidding, but for real. Him getting over this is like R. Kelly getting over the piss scandal just because he came out with Remix to Ignition. Now that's the type of hot track that will make me forget some indiscretions.
ReplyDeleteI mean, I guess its not so terrible if he actually wrote the lines himself, shows he at least has some talent, and its pretty clear he can spit too. He just shouldn't be passing them off as an on-the-spot freestyle. That's just straight up lying.
ReplyDeleteanyone that can go from jimmy brooks, school shooting survivor and wheelchair basketball star to drake, rapper extraordinaire (or not so much, according to the blog), is ok in my book
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