Truth , drake leaning into singing is surprising when his rapping sets him apart dramatically. His points are accurately orated. His story telling is compelling. His tone complements the argumentative venting style of rap he often uses. He’s mastered many nuances of an art form that can seem one dimensional.

I always wondered how he always was a step ahead the beat and could time it so perfectly when he delivers now it makes sense

I always noticed that whenever he sings or raps. Especially raps, he always holds for a second before spitting his next few bars. Some people are gifted. He’s one of them.

This made think completely different about writing now holy shit… I’ve been thinking like an engineer the whole time

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As a drummer who grew up on punk rock and then eventually fell in love with dance music and then rap, Drake actually is a far better potential drummer than 90% of the population. Hearing the space between a beat is what let’s you groove and catch a pocket. But yeah… actually keeping time is a very important part. Work on that hi-hat drake.

What’s crazy is that there is elements of Drake and his sound that no one has been able to replicate; Nobody can format bars and cadence in the way that he does it. I don’t listen to a TON of Drake, but I listen to a loooooot of hip hop alllll day long obsessively and I can emulate some rappers, even the great Rakim. But the artists that I’ve had the toughest time emulating… Baatin from Slum Village Tupac Nas Drake There raps honestly sound closer to conversation. They’re not repetitive in any certain cadences. Like Pac stretching his words out (What if I’m wroooooonnnngg a trick to keep me on and on) or how Nas and Drake just literally talk through a track… They don’t necessarily focus on the Rhyming element more than just getting out what they really feel on a track. In any case, Drake is a different cat. I don’t listen to him a lot, but he definitely put together a format and formula overall that works for him.

These the type of convos I fw heavy

I was listening to a busta rhymes interview, I think it was on the drink champs, and he was saying similar things about his own process. The way he listens to a beat and how his timing of when he says something, not just what he says or how he’s saying it, is absolutely vital

He always starts rapping on the 2 instead of the 1. It’s one of th reasons his flow sounds different from others. Rick Ross does it too

Listen to heart part 6 as a point of reference, it’s clear he only hears the Spaces in between, the end of his rhymes all end in the beginning of the next bar, so if the beat is at bar one, his rhyme wont end till the beginning of the 2nd bar.

That’s why he had Tupac sounding like he was off beat 😂

First time in ages I’ve seen a short that isn’t some cringe bullshit this is actually interesting

It’s amazing how everything and everyone around him holds to maintaining his image and making him seem as this “special” man. I respect their loyalty. I still see him as just a man. I say that humbly. Like anytime you watch anything relative to him even funny content from him it always makes him look good, and to the consumers mind leaves you thinking he’s a God. But to me he is still just a man. And that isn’t to undermine his success. It is just to say he’s another ambitious person. He is not unreachable. Like if anything he does all this to inspire the next artist who will be bigger than him.

Which makes sense, one of the most patient and in controlled rappers ever

I used to be in the booth with one headphone on, sometimes no headphones . Just going off the bass that I feel from the control room…hearing the beat directly always messed me up especially hearing your voice playback

“The spaces” really makes sense thinking of the Drake produced track pistols

Crazy!!

Enlightened

This makes sense...im no drake but a few producers wondered why i didnt record or write identical to some other's...i hear beats etc a little differently....i see which cadences would fit but then i "try" nd choose the most either unpredictable or non used options ...also love certain beat selections im very specific but hard to calculate due to randomness

GLAZINNNNN 😂😂😂

Yea Under ground kings on take care used to be slightly off in transition..I think they fixed that

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Time signatures

Man that makes so much sense, I’ve always been a little jarred by his cadence because his lines don’t follow a traditional pattern on top of the beat

Im doing both buddy 😂 you can only imagine my head is everywhere

Gotta watch this a couple times lol. That’s just an insane perspective but I get it. But I don’t have that ability for sure I’m the engineer ears lmao

One of my favorite Drake songs is “Do Not Disturb”. His flow has always felt off on that song - the beat has no spaces. I still love the song but always wondered why it felt off.

Wow that's like so heavy and insightful for shut up ond go back to being invisible

Bro you gotta link to the original video if you're just gonna clip someone else's work.

Genius

That’s why I can’t rap over my beats,my mind be too much in those patterns that I can’t think as an artist

All rappers wait for the space in the best that's how you come on. It's call catching the beat, its like double dutch. this isn't something amazing. Turn on a beat and freestyle even if you don't rap you'll still wait for the space to start. Drake just do it amazingly 🐐

This explains his dancing

Not like us kendrick got you wiped down 😂

Yeah so. Cadence. Thanks 🙏

if you ever write a good verse this how you listen to the beat.

Listen..... Lis/Beat drops/ten...... Seeing you got rituall/beat drops/stic.... Passion fruit. Is proof drakes just a genius man. Complete genius...

makes sense.

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Full interview anyone?

That’s why he has that off beat but on beat flow when he actually writes his own shit 🤫

What makes Drake bigger than the others rappers nowadays is VERSATILITY No one can sing and rap changing flows like him Listen to Take Care or Best I Ever Had... he literally changed his flow 3 times in the same song (from singing to rapping and vice versa)

Drake and Jayz both Bob and weave the kick and the snare - if you know you know

Touches chin

Brought tears to my eyes

Aye 40 did you get the message cuz I just checked my phone and I didn’t get it

Tupac on shirt?

Ok. Interesting

That's every artist tbh. Give them a chance to make a beat and this is the exact reaction you get. Same sh*t different day.

It’s called rapping/performing for that specific beat instead of relying on producers making a beat for the rapper

Ridin' hard.

I hv no clue wtf u guys are talking about

And this is exactly why Drake hopped on many waves in 2014-2016 & dropped Honestly NeverMind .. Drake is a fucking Genius ahead of time

name drop?

That’s that white part

No wonder they’re so successful. 😂

“Auuughhhhh” lmaoo what the fuck man

That’s why he’s the Goat 🐐

He stole that quote from prince 😂

Wow, this is sick sick sick.

uh what???

i still don’t get it and i rap bro

Nah that’s deep , and explains the root of why this man is a Legend. “Lose You” is the song that came to my brain.

Most cringy comment section of all time.

Damn I’m both an engineer and an artist , and I can’t comprehend listening to the “spaces”, maybe I do both and I don’t even realise 😂

It’s pretty simple, drake hears something someone else made popular and he hops on it for some of the most mid rapping/singing the industry has ever heard from a major artist.

“ hey 40 you know I don’t like interviews. Go out there and make me look good “

horrible at keeping time? but then expains the opposite.......i dont understand

It's called not having rhythm. Stop glorifying it we saw the Funk flex freestyle.

Lol mannnnnnnn 🧢🧢🧢

Drake's entering that HOV stratosphere in hip hop. Couple more hits and albums and he'll surpass your favorite rapper.

The man has literally ‘Kyrie and Steph’ dribbled bars at our head tops his whole career!

Tick tick tick

Sounds like a parent hyping their kid up, i think it’s just the lack of fundamental training. I suffer the same issues

40 talks too much

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So how did he fuck up the new album cause he basically had the same flow for every track and his melodies didn’t match the tempo or the rhythm of the beat

‘He’s trying to find the cadence in between the transients’ I don’t even know what this means. Way over my head

drake so happy he quoted my grandmas bumper sticker about music being the silence between notes....dude is so corny it's a phenomenon. I clicked on this video to see drake content I assumed I would appreciate because he truly is a remarkable designer of sound delivery and cadence. Again though, he never fails to be so corny it's f-ing mind boggling how he keeps it up.

Yeah he probably great at picking the next verse to use from those different writers. You definitely need a good ear for that. The best actors know how to pick a script when it's on paper lol. It's easy to say that was a good movie after the credits roll, but imagine seeing it before the effects, and the co stars, etc...that's a skill. He just an actor to me at this point.

Just mean hes tone def

OVO 40 hunched over like he 80

OVO 40 hunched over like he 80… tick tick tick

Thought this man was like dying 10 years ago 🤣

Pusha bodied this guy and Drake lol!!

Pretentious

That’s his white side

Drake ? The guy who hasn’t made a good album since 2014? The guy who made a failed edm album? Draaaaake 😂

Seen him live he can’t even sing 🎤 😂

Another words, Drake can’t freestyle for shit lol

truth: 40 doesnt know what a offbeat is

I couldn't imagine building my whole life around another person, doing interviews talking about what a musical savant they are. "He's such a genius, he can't do anything musical to save his life and relies on other people for 99.99999 percent of everything he does but he can hear when the recording is lagging"

ok that is why he is off the beat most of the times!!!!

I call it “talking on the track” it’s not even that unique. Honestly the worst tho.

TIL: Drake can't even keep time🤦🏾‍♂️

Funny because drake’s ears didn’t work his last album 😂😂😂😂😂 edit: read the comments below; im hella weak!