“My hero” glazing

-"Lets try to make Drake accountable" Kendrick: Bet

One day we are going to give Queen Latifah credit for being the first rapper to consistently sing on her albums. Before Lauryn, Wayne, Drake, Ye, etc

“Changing the culture of misogyny.” 😭😭😭 He either always been lowkey misogynistic or regressed terribly…

drake also wasn't the first to breach what many rappers before him talked about in their songs in terms of moving away from money guns and bitches and he certainly wasn't the first to highlight and include women in rap in a less raunchy way, people like Lauren hill and kanye pioneered that movement. although drake made it popular to do so, he wasn't the first mainstream example of this being done.

Drake's antics are getting more and more distasteful. Which caused people like Kendrick Lamar to reach to the darkest part of their soul to get rid of the 'problem' he is contributing to. Kendrick may not be 'the' Saviour but he wants to at least help getting rid of this 'problem'.

As I listen to this flawed perspective, I have to remind myself that it makes sense that it makes sense that an outsider would deem another outsider as a "savior" of our culture. Aubrey was a movement, the movement of hip-hop further into the hands of the mainstream and majority culture. This is why when Aubrey is criticized, the only thing that he and his fans can fall on are his sales and streams i.e. how much outsiders like him....which is not only the antithesis to the actual culture, but also extremely detrimental to it. But go off...😒

"Dear Adonis"

Watching this in May 2024…. Lmaooooo

A long awaited call-out that everyone just acts like isn't a problem... great video!

Drake was special when he first hit the scene, now he’s the biggest fake gangster of them all. Rappers are fake af. I can’t stand Sexy Redd and Drake has always been goofy.

Kind of disappointed you mentioned 50 in the beginning but not the whole 50 cent vs Kanye West run because Kanye imo really pioneered everything you credited Drake for in the beginning.

Influence, yes. Revolutionize, no. Drake did the same thing, Dane Cook did with comedy. He understood internet culture and what it could do, he became a living meme and rode the wave. But the grind that makes you talented enough for that big stage was a step he got to skip. So he got popular before he was talented enough to prove critics wrong. He was able to patch that talent with other artist’s talents but burned others doing that. He could either grow or regress and he chose the easiest route.

I think what people do is make assumptions. We assume artists want to be artsy. We assume artistry is always mysterious and rooted in sadness. I believe art is a persons views on life , beauty and society. It’s subjective and means different things to different people. We are assuming drake wants to make music to impress rap nerds, bloggers and podcasters . When in reality he wants to beat the Beatles. I think his goal as an artist is to have the most hits ever (which he already does) when it comes to the billboard hot 100. He has 14 and needs 7 #1s to top the list all time. I believe that’s where his motivations lie. To look at it any other way is crazy until he comes out and says “these are my motivations” which no artist does lol.

Drake need to drop his version of Mr. Morale

I think drakes shift in style and even motivation to be better happened when Meek exposed the ghost writer shit. His passion to be the best “rapper” changed. People just kept dogging him as not a rapper.

I gave up on Drake after CLB when his intentions and directions were clear. I felt like "yoh it's been five years, five albums and it feels like an endless loop soo it's likely that this sh*tshow will carry on till the ceiling blows out". I didn't want an "old drake" or a "take care drake", all I want or expect from artists is self-expression, music derived from an artist's feelings, vision, thoughts, experiences or memories which translates into inspiration, not formulaic, mimicking and aimed at demographics music, I've been listening music for a minute so I got standards. So instead of keep shiting on him, I just ignore him, which is quite inevitable because in one way or another he'll pop in my ears through one of the artists that I'm interested, and somehow he never fails to disappoint (J Hus - Who told you).

missed your videos bro, keep banging out videos

It’s crazy watching this again while drake is beef with Kendrick

I stopped listening to hip hop around 2008. I just got to know who Drake is because of the beef. I cant deny his influence on the music, cause everything kinda sounds like him, but I absolutely hate this aesthetic, especially his pedantic haircut. I wouldn't say he "saved" hip hop, I think he reanimated already dead corpse. I wouldn't even say he is a rapper, he seems more like pop culture phenomenon. Still, good video, like for effort

Really interesting video bro! Favorite music channel

I’m not upset or bitter when I heard him say Drake with the artist that basically got him into rap culture told me exactly how he looked at the journey and evolution of rap, rap culture, and rap artists. Before Drake there was LL Cool J who made a rap love ballet called a I need love. Before Drake could even pull off much of what he did in the beginning one would have to acknowledge the change Kanye West brought to the industry. Kanye literally had men wear soft color polos and embracing the nerd/smart guy vibe. Drake has done a lot for the game but he has mainly been the final product set forth from the unique individuals before him like LL Cool J, Outlast, Kanye West, and Weezy F Baby

your videos are great i really appreciate the way you look at music even if i don’t agree 100% you really care about the music you talk about and i fw that heavy

It’s a good day when I see a new post

I LOVE YOU JACKSON KEEP THIS GREAT WORK UP

I know your speaking from your perspective, so its wild to think in 09 i was listening to kcamp, rich kids and future. Perks of living in Atlanta i guess.

Drake shifting the culture is crazy talk to me. He, draining it if anything. Also, Hip hop get slow due drake rise? Are you insane? It was only dry to people who wasn't listening the hip hop from the underground nor the South. The late 2000's early to late 2010's. was amazing for rap. Most of favorite songs are from that era. I was a drake during that time. I was the biggest Wayne most of all. Drake would have been greater if he stuck to his roots. He left his core fans behind back in 2013. Drake didn't change the culture for the better at all. He was thrown in our faces at every turn. Honestly I haven't listen to a drake album since more life and I only liked 3 songs off of it. By that time I was already huge big Sean and Kendrick fan, because to me they had greater music and messages. Drake, was really left behind. But only his core fan from when he first started saw the writing on the wall after Nothing was the Same

Love how you for the rap radar in the back

Im looking forward to the rest of the video, but idk if ill take anything in the video seriously given you basically just said that "drake saved hiphop" 😂😂😂 after trashing on wayne and kanye. What has drake brought to the table that kanye and wayne were not already doing? Every single rapper that has popped over the past 10 years - be it tyler the creator, future, kendrick, juice wrld, xxxtentacion, j cole, lil uzi vert, playboi carti, travis scott (need i go on?) Has named either wayne or kanye as their biggest influence or one of. Not a single one of those names i mentioned have listed drake as an influence. This is not a diss on Drake's music - i am a big fan of the first half of his discog, and even his later stuff has some massive highs for me (amen and bahamas promises are both big highlights from the recent album for me), but i seriously question your understanding of the history of hip hop. These claims you have made make you come across as a fan of drake, not a fan of hh, bc they are just blantantly untrue, all for the purpose of making drake appear more impactful than he has been. He may be the biggest hh artist of the past decade, but he is not the most infuential artist of the past decade. Acting like HH was a dead genre he bled life into is unironically historical revisionism, it just isnt how it went down. Wayne and Kanye lit the fuse that made hh blow up into the biggest financially and most sonically diverse genre of the past decade, drake's gift was being one of the first artists to truly appreciate their vision and take it to the next level - proving how successful it could be. Ok my stupidly unimportant rant about fucking hh is over lmao - no hate btw just needed to get that off my chest, i was genuinely just kinda flabberghasted at these statements pretty early in the video. Anyhoo time to watch this video - if anyone happens to see this comment and disagrees and thinks the original video is right and/or im just misunderstanding the point id be curious as to what the counter arguement would be so defo letme know. Fuck i love hip hop 😂

Great video.

New artists coming out with a few good projects early in their career and then running out of things to say and falling off is a tale as old as time. Only difference between Drake and those other artists is he didn’t let running out of things to say stop him. He figured out that if he jumped from wave to wave, emulating whatever the hot style was and making shallow, meaningless music that “sounds good”, he’d stay popular forever.

Kendrick > DRake and we all can agree..

I have only watched your Kendrick and Drake videos so far, and I gotta say, you know your shit! These are great breakdowns and you articulate them so well. You just earned a new subscriber!

Ya know I came here for 'The Bad' not because I'm a hater but that's just what I was intrigued about and came away with a really good point about the good he did when he first got into the game. Good video. "I like Drake with the melodies, I don't like Drake we he act tough" 🕺

These videos are fuckin awesome. I’d say the weeknd trilogy videos are some of the best video essays ever. I would love a Travis Scott video. Like: “Rodeo, birth of the modern rap superstar”

yes it is a bold claim to say he saved the genre, kendrick saved the genre

Seems like now drake is just having fun now, he already gave us the nothing was the sames, so far gone, take care etc and he still got constantly disrespected and called a fluke, now that he’s doing what he wants to do people are begging for the same music they overlooked and clowned back in the day, just fickleness

Drake is an anomaly in hip-hop for good or for bad… from when I first heard him in 07 to now… There will never be another Drake for good or for bad..

hi there Jackson! im a huge fan of your takes in the music industry and i was wondering if i could help you with thumbnail design. i have no clue on how to contact you personally therfore i have resorted to youtube comments

he used to make timeless great songs like “ From Time “ nowadays he doesn’t care and his fans eat it up like he’s dropping gems or sum

dont stop makling vids bro thios is high quality shit bro keep goingdont give up ppl do appreciate it even if ur numbers arent as hhigh as u want them to be dont stop

I was a fan of drake from 2009 and I was listening on the radio and then my sister bought me nothing was the same and that's classic and I felt like since 2016 his music is trash and yea I pluck out some songs but I'm fan of drake still and scary hours 3 it was back into form of his 2015

Nothing Was the Same is my favorite album I'm not going to lie drake certified lover boy album grow on me I love the album still playing that album

Ignoring the fact the problem is really capitalism, which dosent care about good or bad but winners and losers, and drake js definitely winning. The problem is the jester is king. Its that drake is number one instead of number 4 or 5 claiming to be number 1.

“My here” 😂😂😂😂

I appreciate the two videos I have watched from your channel and I feel you have a genuine taste for music. I truly appreciate it. I will be the first to admit that I think Drake is trash. I was a fan when he first came out but he clearly sold out. Watching this video as sad as it is for me to say this but I have to appreciate Drake because if it wasn't for Drake then you probably would have not been introduced to Kendrick. (I found you from that video you made about Kendrick.) I can also say that I only imagine how many other people don't understand music like Kendricks because of Drake. I am conflicted, but I am glad you are a creator and being genuine and honest. Stay blessed.

I dont think you can compare drake’s and weeknd’s transitions into massive mainstream popularity cause i feel that the weeknd’s portrayal of himself shifts with the sounds hes putting out like the sort of grittiness of the weeknd’s look paired with the serious tones of his older music and the red suit micheal jackson shit paired with the upbeat singy stuff he’s been putting out recently. Drakes kinda always been just drake

An outsider’s perspective on an outsider. What culture is this dude talking about? 🤮

Take Care was very important for hip hop

Are you going to do a video on j. Cole ?

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i agree wit the video excluding the first 5 minutes as drake wasn't actually the person that we needed, although he is a formidle figure and greatly contributed to hip hop, without kendrick lamar, hip hop would be down the drain.

Drake made good sounding music. Hip Hop would’ve been perfectly fine without Aubrey Graham.

Lost me at "saved the genre"

I'm glad drake is enjoying himself now

Well look at the conversation on social media and how it influences the new artists that are coming up. Sure u shouldn't care what others think of u. But if u r doing it for the love of music and the music is good and all ppl care about is whether or not it's successful or if it charts after a while, you start asking yourself, do I need to do what's true for me? Or do I need to do what makes me successful? Personally, I don't feel that way but there's too much conversation on the SUCCESS of the music rather than the QUALITY and the CREATIVITY. I think if the ppl want something meaningful, they need to shift the focus.

You want the truest form of Drake listen to “Comeback Season”

LIST FAM, NOBODY CAN DO WHAT THAT MAN HAS DONE. NOBODY

Channel orange next Mr.Jackson

Hip-Hop just took the win!!. I hope everyone who didn't/couldn't understand the rap battle between Kendrick and Drake (& why KL won) studies this lesson. It was about a culture of music that its TRUE fans were watching be slaughtered and corrupted by the industry, money, power, greed etc...Drake unfortunately fell into the hands of it and became a pawn that everyone with open eyes could see. this aged like fine wine!

😂😂 Good job Jackson

drake's music may not have the same meaning behind it as it did in the earlier 2010's but he still makes music which sounds good which in my opinion is the most important, but i get that everyone is different

Drake saving hiphop is hilarious to me

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Praise God

Can we get a "How Kendrick destroyed Drake" video

Good video. All I gotta say is the older fans gotta chill, you’ll always have the music from your period no one’s taking that away from you. I feel like people are genuinely mad that people actually like drakes recent output and are trying to force feed an opinion on us. We get it. We see videos like this about him every month and still enjoy the music. It’s easier to hate on him in this age than to like everything he puts out and people just like what they like. You’ll never get a dramatic character arc from him, he’s just who he is and makes the music he wanna make. If catering to all his fanbases every album is what he wants to do, he deserves to do it. People always fall for the publicity stunt music and easy cash grabs but ignore all of his other music. He still makes introspective shit about his life, it’s just the since he’s the biggest the “bad” is magnified like no other.

No way bro said Yeezus isn’t good

it's always a good day when one of my favorite youtubers drops. as a drake hater I appreciate your more neutral perspective, pointing out both the good and the bad. you always deliver great vids with well written takes

Ngl everyone who made a song w drake gotta thank him

“My hero” bro please you sound just like drake

if Aubrey was ever your hero at any point in your life... ooof.

UGK is the greatest drake song

dark lane demos his second best project to nothing was the same + take care is overrated its like the wu tang album (rae & ghost carry) + he’s only a man with money and pride

Free smoke free smoke yay

I skip Marvin’s room too

Ja rule would like to have a word …

Drake was conflicted and started misusing his influence

i could taste those old wendys fries

his production has gotten worse and his voice always sounds dead inside nowadays

no way you can blame Drake for an entire change in the culture. He did what he was supposed to do with music 10 years ago. I feel like he earned the right to drop whatever he wants at this point

drake being your introduction to rap isn’t an indication of your age, it’s an indication of your skin color. (this is not a hateful comment)

Leave papi alone

Im so glad someone else noticed that unique euphoric colourless sound that defines the Toronto sound because id go on and on about how House of Balloons would really take you to Toronto thru music even if you lived in austrailia and most just wouldn't get it

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BOY BYE!!!

Become a fan of no man or woman, take the music leave the rest

Yall riding drake no hat😂

Coming from a previous Drake fan… this video started off with waaaaaaay too much emphasis on Drake’s importance to the culture. 😂😂 Drake was a “miracle”? 😂 Bro 🤣 If the FIRST hip hop artist you ever got into was Drake… then you missed out on way too much for you to confidently claim that 2009 was the “lowest point of hip hop”. It’s also a VERY bold (and embarrassing) claim to say “Drake SAVED the genre of hip hop”😬. First you should probably learn that the hip hop genre is more than just Rap so you can look at the whole picture of the music that was being created at that time. And 2nd you should probably mention that Drake wasn’t the 1st, 2nd or 3rd rapper to do melodic rap about talking about feelings, love, and loving women. He also had quite a few misogynistic lyrics in his music, even back then. As much fun as it was growing up in that era and watching his rise, I would never say Drake was “needed” by hip-hop or that it would’ve been a dead genre without him. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, but the fact that you said “sure, I guess we had Kanye and Wayne”… as if they were a non factor at that point is crazy.

Who’s here after Not Like Us ?? 😂

I'll be respectful and tell you that it was a good video, however,drake isn't the best person out there. If you pay attention to anything he's ever done...you'd know it. That Naomi Sharon situation is pretty disgusting tale about how our society works. Who do you have to be to ruin a relationship just cause you wanted to? Lol please