if this is Drake sabotaging his career I’d hate to see what boosting looks like 💀

He didn’t sabotage his career, he sabotaged his legacy

Drake does deserve the moniker “King Midas” simply because everything he touches turns gold. For the past ten years maybe more if Drake was on your track it boosted your notoriety and exposure.

The crazy thing is that Drake has actually written for other artists which puzzled me hearing about him taking submissions of fully written songs.

Wait a minute... the guy that goes aiiiight in hiphop dx is white ?!? 😳😳😳

Drake is good for the culture. No one realizes it, but he bridges the gap between pop and Hip Hop.

He’s in a lane that’s bigger that just being a rapper he’s battling pop stars who literally have hundreds of writers on they staff helping them day in and day out

Nothing Was The Same is a classic in my eyes

I think a lot of people are really missing the point of the video, no one is saying can't rap or drake in a failure. The point instead of that Drake has diverted from his early ambitions of becoming the best pound for pound rapper and hip hop artist to instead becoming the biggest artist/pop star and hitmaker. That's the point.

2013/2014 Drake was at his lyrical peak. That was the greatest version of Drake in my opinion.

People be saying that they miss the old Drake but Drake has always been making the type of music that he has been making, I mean “Best I Ever Had” was the song that gave him recognition and he wasn’t really rapping on there but it was a melodic song

Drake in his own lane, the lane which has a mainstream appeal just like Kanye and many others. Everyone is going the same lane now, there are very few artists like Kendrick and Cole who keep their game intact and yet are also successful in the mainstream

Drake is a better RECORDING artist than most. Songs like The Calm, Successful, and Fear was what made me listen. He had a honesty that was missin in rap. But to me he just got a good voice and knows how to pick hits.

But Drake said he's a POPSTAR.

the title says RAP career. not career as a whole. he’s a pop star now

Drake was exactly good at conscious rapping From to 2006 to 2008 in his early days then he changed his style in 2009

All staged Drake never really sabotaged his career

Y’all really care he had a kid that much?

Bruh so pretty much King Kendrick was the poison that eventually spread to everything. 🙌🏾 I love it

Lil Dicky is not an enemy to hip hop. He’s an enemy to his fans cause we’re still waiting for that second album like clowns

The sabotage is saying he isn’t the Hip Hop Golden child that achieves critical acclaim while staying commercially successful as he set out to in the beginning of his career. He over time say that the acclaim wasn’t his way of dominating. He’s elite in bar status on his own and has ghostwritten for others (that’s why do many songs sound like drake featuring drake. -4am in Dallas) but Being a successful artist numbers wise is higher priority that the recognition from hip hop purists. Through the moves he’s made it wouldn’t seem that he would trade any of his chart topping albums in for a historic classic hip hop album. He knows if he does so he would lose much of his audience. So the best play is to stick to his strength and make hits. The truth is Drake on his own has never been lyrically weak at any point of his career. I personally believe references tracks were used as a volume play than a lack of creativity play. To make the song creation process quicker he signed artists to give him references to give him something to work with, tweak it and go on to other things. I think he takes time on his introspective songs like “March 4th” and more lyrical song such as tracks like the “lemon pepper freestyle”. When he gets features I believe he uses references for the sake of productivity. He tweaks them then goes on to other lucrative ventures. The volume of quality music is his long term play. No one will have more _____ than him. Kendrick can have a greater album(s), Justin can have bigger hits, but no one will have more of both than drake. Drake’s ability to juggling both pop success and hip hop supremacy awards him to be today’s most culturally dominant figure.

I feel like the persona that drake has created is one that no one could truly live up to. Like anything, if you look close enough, you can see the gaps and flaws, but the real question is has the music lost any of its meaningfulness? For me, I couldn't be bothered since the music was always about how it made me feel and how I could relate to the persona rather than the actual person. Everyone else may feel differently and that alright.

His lyricism is still top notch. Singing doesn’t make you less lyrical.

I hope people don't actually believe he wasn't taking care of his kid.

It's amusing how so many people in the comments don't understand or refuse to understand that this is about his hip hop career not his music career.

Scorpion sold 661k in one week. Was 5x platinum in months. People just want him off the mountain top.

AS A PRODUCER, I assure you, he did not sabotage his career lol

So is anyone else noticing that hate on Drake keeps growing each year on KZfaq/Twitter.

Drakes NWTS came out the day before i deployed, and that was my go to album on my IPOD . and "hold on were going home" music video used to play in the DFAC because over seas MTV is actually Music Television. Still to this day that's one of my favorite Drake Albums, i think it aged well.

I actually met drake at a cheese cake factory in Canada i asked him about Rihanna and he shouted at me i cried all the way home ripped down my degrassi posters and put the vhs's in the bin worse birthday ever true story if you believe it Roadhouse

He literally has like only two songs from 2015 that are “ghostwritten” and they’re just ideas. 10 Bands was just a hook lol. And then there’s just the one Rico verse that literally only uses a few bars from Quent that Drake changed majority of. That’s ONE verse out of his 10 plus year career. He been active since 2006. You tryn tell me Drake had a ghostwriter wit him since 2006? And y’all know how Drake was rappin early on. You tryn tell me he been willin to give writing credits up to someone else for 10 plus years? Bullshit.

Who is here after Drake became the first artist in history tp chart #1 and #2 on the Billboard hot 100?

Well I don’t care cause at the end of the day, Drake is gonna be remembered in 10 years and more for making so many hits and undoubtedly has 3 classics under his belt

I think most people still talking bout the ghost writing allegations and all are just dimwits...when meek accused Drake of ghost writing and even called QM the ghost writer...we forgot QM came out to deny it and was jumped by meek mill eh?? Y'all just tripping cause he be doing more than you Favs Drake all the way

Good kid maad city should of got best album of the year that was a classic .

How has he sabotages his career , this man literally can’t miss, hip hop madness this the dumbest narrative

I don't know if people are dumb or what in the comments section. Sabotaging was clickbait the geast of the video was about drake being more commercial and less bars and more popish

I feel you, good video. Just one thing tho: we can’t act like Drake is the first Top Artist to bite other people’s styles....not gonna shit on anybody by name, but a few of the Legends that had the throne before he did bit just as much as, or more than, Drake. It’s not an indictment solely on Drizzy

😂😂 halfway through I realized how bad this video really is. Drake always pays homage and puts up and comers on

Drakes a super star. And hes a fuckin hit manufacturer. Dude hits a home run every time, consecutively for the past decade+

You're doing really well Pro. Consistently good videos and narration. Great breakdown.

I like how ppl completely ignore the word "Rap" in the title of the video when discussing it

Between king kendrick and Grandmaster j.Cole I don't count drake as a Hip hop figure that idea died a long time ago...but he's definitely the pop king of party playlists tho

most recent drop had a trendy pop song a regular drake song w baby on it and a female rnb sample beat with rick ross that he rapped for 4 minutes straight on and the small project ended up selling 930k it’s first week. I don’t think he sabotaging his career i think he’s showing how versatile and how far he can push his music that’s why all of his projects have a distinct and different sound Lol

Drake the goat in this era

Self-conscious rap is self-sabotage. They won’t play that on the radio unfortunately, and it will hurt your pockets.

Love your vids. Would love for you to do a recap on the rappers called out on ‘Control’ by Kendrick and what’s happened to them since.

Loved your video man. Very informational.

Drakes time is coming to an end... But his music will live on for generations.

“Hip hop purist” 😂😂😂 ain’t no such thing

Bro u be killings it with the vids

As a day one fan and older millennial, this sums up my feelings accurately. The take on how the beefs play into his route-taking tho, was an angle I hadn’t considered.

Why be just the king of hip-hop when you can be a king of the world?

I don’t see where Drizzy sabotage his career because it ain’t slowed down 😂

Drake is a great artist 1. He’s making the music he wants to make 2. He’s the most successful hip hop artist ever still 3. He took and L and he’s still the top artist on the planet of what ever you said sabotaged his career I can’t imagine what I would look like without all these allegations but .... 🍵 I’ll wait

Every recent drake album there is like 1 song that reminds me how great he can be. But that same album would be filled will filler and trend chasing. Drake is undoubtedly among the greatest if only for how he managed to push hip hop forward in the mid 2010 to become the dominant pop genre in the world. He has enough classics to keep him in that conversation. But he can never be the GOAT.

Pusha T doesn't get enough credit for that chess move.

This know it all content creators on KZfaq are tryinn so hard to undercut drakes success

Face doesn't match the voice.

Drake’s career is fine, his Hip Hop legacy is tarnished though

Nothing was the same and if you’re reading this it’s too late are both classics. Had the radio play and every song went crazy

I like him better as a pop star but when I found out about the extra help and stealing it didn't feel right

Your voice is why I keep coming back to this channel

The hood doesn’t respect Drake because his bars is simple plus he don’t rap about the struggle. We can’t relate to him but he is a great artist

I get it, Drake might have gotten to the top but it seems soulless compared to the more introspective non sale out lane Kendrick and Cole is in they have a more organic crowd that sticks with them no matter what, Drake on the other hand have a crowd that’s more into the sound of the moment that don’t really listen to content for depth. However I suppose Drake is still a needed balance in hip hop, because he kinda fills the void when Cole and Kendrick is on a hiatus. Personally I like organic music and I don’t equate a good song or album to numbers or how the masses feel about it.

Wait till Drake drops CLB his Career isn’t going anywhere😂 he had the biggest streaming numbers in 2021 even before dropping scary hours

Interesting perspective. Great video as always!

Excellent doc!

Drake is like Kobe or Lebron, no matter what greatness he achieves no matter how many times he proves he the undisputed GOAT, there will always be a faction of people with something negative to say Give the man his flowers while he’s here Drake changed hip hop forever

I’m convinced there are no good videos on KZfaq breaking down Drake’s career. The sub-par good ones aren’t good enough, at least on the level of the THOUSANDS of videos in Kanye’s career and breaking down each of his albums. Everyone on KZfaq loved to hate on Drake, it’s hilarious.

One of the most successful rappers of all time....definitely. One of the best rappers of all time.....not even close.

First song I ever heard by Drake, I was about 15 or so and my sister was driving me to school before she went to work. She asked if I had heard this dude named Drake and up til that point, no I didn’t. So she played a song called “Say What’s Real” off of one of his old mixtapes. To this day you can’t tell me he dropped anything harder than that song. Like that song is insanely good to this very day and you cannot change my mind that that’s the hardest shit he’s ever dropped. Very first song I ever heard by him is my absolute favorite song of his ever.

Wow I always thought this a was a black guy voice

Drake is a once in a lifetime talent period

Say what you want about the man, most of you have at least one song you like by Drake or that he is featured on throughout the years. He's a presence you can't really ignore. Even if you don't listen to him, you'll hear something with him on it playing while walking outside, in the store, at a birthday party, etc. He might not be a hip hop GOAT but he is definitely having a GOAT run, still as relevant as ever. I was 14 when "Forever" dropped and now I'm 27 and he's still going. Shit crazy.

Great video

Some people still trash with ghostwriters😭😭😭

if this what "sabotage" means then shitttt I need that I need some mf sabotaging

You can't have ghostwriters if you gave them credit for all of the songs you worked on together (which Drake did). Drake has written HIT records for other artists and got his start in the industry working at writing camps for Dr. Dre - a lot of times artists use reference tracks because they simply don't have the time to sit down and brainstorm ideas.

"Sms triple X, thats the only time i ever shoot below the neck"

Seeing this guy talk is like seeing VladTv for the first time 😂😂 no disrespect just putting a face to the voice

This is why platforms like this don’t speak for the culture. People do not care about drake’s kid and the pusha t diss was good but not able to kill his career. He’s a pop culture icon that dabbles in rap. Fans make it so corny when they do all this

Well well done👍🏾

If you watch with no sound it looks like the narrator is Rapping when hes shown

The first hip hop song rapper’s delight was ghost written that dq’s sugar hill gang as goats to though

Drake stole the chorus of my song on chris brown song "No guidance" My song came out 2016 "You got it" look it up on Facebook "Cellus - You got it ft DP" 150,000 views. I love drake but Man i wish i would have got credit sheesh.

You should make a video of the battle between Ice Cube a d Cypress Hill

And you're wrong bro... he's still breaking records, his own as well...check the billboard bro

Let's be honest Drake since day 1 was the Pokémon Mr Mime. Or ditto

What are y’all even talking about he sold 3 songs and got counted as album based on streams lol...

i think people fail to realise how meek calling drake out affected quentin miller,

0:54: Is this what you looklike? I would never have thought

Bro wtf are u talking about ?

Soon he will be riding the Flint/Detroit wave working with Rio Tha Young Og 😂

holy shit prothedodge is behind HipHopMadness what the GOAT

You really need to change the name of this series. None of the artist you’ve done these videos on “sabotaged” their careers but the videos are pretty well done all around.

Ayo its the doge guy LMAO

I consider drake a legend as a mainstream artist but certainly not a hip hop legend and I think if he would’ve just come clean about the ghostwriter rumors he could have still been better accepted in hip hop culture

Screw being the GOAT. Get your money and run. Once your times up, being the GOAT won’t help you.

Hey family great job