That killed me off 😂😂

Drake kept it hip-hop from 07 to 2014. That's a good run. Hip-hop was never his religion he always wanted to be a mega star and worldwide but he's humble and thankful for hip-hop for giving him a chance.

Drake was never fully embraced by the “Real Hip-Hop” crowd that embraces artists like Kendrick & Mos Def, so naturally he doesn’t typically make music for them.

@@PandaDonG to be fair... I don't like this whole "real hip-hop" idea. Cuz who exactly is defining what is "real"? In my eyes... there's just a huge difference between artists who make art and entertainers who make entertainment. Drake tip toes the line of artistry every once in a while... but he's more heavily on the entertainment side of hip hop. His story is his story. He just wants to make music for moments and it passively plays in the background of most consumerist environments... hence the whole "shopping with an edge" thing. LOL Nobody is looking to listen to MOST Kendrick Lamar songs passively. It takes a little more effort to actually think about what you're listening to when Kendrick is playing. He makes you question your perceptions, your consciousness, your political and social views. Drake's music typically just goes with the flow of the crowd. You don't have to really contemplate what he's talking about. It's mostly based in things that feel more surface level to the every day person. Every so often he drops something like 'Champagne Poetry' that touches on deeper topics or personal issues, but a LARGE majority of his shit is commercial music. Made to go directly with the flow of consumerism... which is what most of hip hop is these days. There's no deep intention behind it. We're all just turning up... fuckin' bitches... getting to the money... and competing. We get it. There's no layers to it. It just is what it is. I can appreciate all of it. Drake has always been like that tho. Even on So Far Gone... when he dropped "Say What's Real"... he was solidified as a great rapper. But most of his other shit was entertainment for that moment in time, and although... he was mostly an entertainer who made entertainment for moments... that never really involved as much risk to me. He wasn't really putting any real time in to creating the music. He was putting in a lot of time in creating A LOT of music. That's why Drake is able to drop so damn much. Cuz it's all built around the short term. I told people this about "For All The Dogs". We're all going to listen to it... but after 3-6 months... we need something new. What else do he got? And while people won't listen to "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" all day every day... it's still one of those timeless albums that you can revisit years down the line and it'll still resonate cuz it reaches the deeper side of human experiences... just like every Kendrick album. That's why he's able to take 3 years off and still be relevant. A lot of people might consider that as "Real Hip-Hop" cuz there's a little more thought put into making his albums. Maybe there's something to it... but all of it is hip hop at the end of the day. Some of it is more art... and some of it is more entertainment.

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fmDrake has been giving us hip hop material way past his 2014 era. Dude did a whole trap project with both Future and 21 Savage, gave us two EPs that were completely hip hop, and most recently even dropped an extension of his latest album where he’s rapping his ass off. The fact he can deviate from hip hop and do some experimental stuff here and there shouldn’t take him out the hip hop conversation. Drake is just divergent

Omggggggg. That’s a perfect description 🤣😁 I died

me lmao

I’m here after Not Like Us lol. This video is aging better and better now.

I think it's pretty straightforward actually

If that happens, that would mess up my whole shopping experience at that store

😂

I was in Whole Foods the other day and controlla was playing so it already does

​@@shinzou42I was just getting ready to reply "Drake **IS** playing in Whole Foods...and Target.

Bruh, I'm on the gram and everywhere trying to find out. Automatic subscription

But it’s gonna make you pay to watch it Interviews ain’t supposed to cost me money 😒

​@@marleyyoung just seen that😢

If it ain't free who cares

I didn’t even pay for it myself😂 just putting it out there for anybody that may want to

"Why are you doing this to me" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

My 4yr old wants to know why I'm laughing this hard so early in the morning right after I just told him to quit banging around because other people are still sleeping!! I got freaking tears over here!! 😂😂

This interview or clip is only going to be relevant because of Drake

Well said 👏

Basically lol.. only rapper that sounds like he's talking about SOMETHING but really not

Scary Hours 3 wasn't HIp Hop okay. I see what people are doing they are purposely ignoring when he does backpack boom bap rap projects so they can hold onto their delusional narative

@@danteroots-hf7tz boom bap?? 😂🤣 yea ok

@@danteroots-hf7tz Naw... we just understand and see that MOST of what Drake drops is entertainment for the moment. He's capitalizes on creating moments for his music... while other artists like Cole, Kendrick, Hov, Mos Def, etc.... make timeless music. The type of music that will resonate with the next 5 generations... and the last 5 generations. Drake's music is passively played for 3-6 months, then that shit is old news. Nobody cares anymore. We need something new. Why else do you think Drake drops so much shit? He HAS to. Not saying all this to fault him or say he isn't good. It's just microwave music. He heats shit up for 30 seconds to a minute... it get's people by for the time being... and it doesn't FULLY leave us with anything substantial. Other artists are out here making full course meals. Putting real time into cooking that shit up. Over the stove... popping shit in the oven... might even fire the grill up and BBQ some shit that they had marinating in the fridge over night. There are artists who make art... and there are entertainers who makes entertainment. Drake might tip toe the line of making some art every once in a while... but he HEAVILY leans more on the side of being an entertainer who makes entertainment.

Theee best

And he didn't say sh!t he basically said Drake's music is mainstream with an edge LOL that's not a diss so why are people treated as such😑😑😑 mos def hasn't been relevant in 10 years the man lost his mind and went through downward spiral and became a conspiracy theorist lol.

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm less is more.

@@GrandPrizeFitnesAJAYIt-bothers-me-when-the-gods-get-to-actin-like-the-broads

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm Hadn't been relevant? Mos Def is more respected as an MC than Drake. Tell me you don't know Hip-Hop without telling me you don't know Hip-Hop.

"Look at this place... they have everything. EVERYTHING is here" LMAO

He was very condescending please don't deny that

DMX later said that he loves Drake and gave him respect.

​@@JustSomeMisfit because Drake said to him "you raised us fam"

This is precisely what I thought of as well during this clip: X was just blunt about it and wasn't even remotely trying to be politically correct, which we shouldn't expect from him regardless. DMX and Mos Def are basically saying the same thing: Drake is embarrassment to the rap and hip-hop of old. DMX later retracted but it's clear what he truly thinks...

He was gentile towards drake? Is that some sort of antisemitic trope?!?!?

Yeah but he’s almost most definitely hip hop as well

Nah man, Kanye had his popstar era but then he made an 180° turn being one of the most experimental artists on the mainstream. Drake is far from that.

With all due respect... Ye is an artist who, at times, made pop songs. But Drake is a pop artist who, at times, made art. There's a clear difference between an artist who makes art... and an entertainer who makes entertainment. Drake leans more towards the entertainer side. Ye leans more towards the artist side.

@@DrewGems you can be a pop star and still be an artist you know

No one said it's an insult so why are yall making it seem like a diss??? I don't know why haters are trying to latch onto this you're not going to erase drakes history from 08 to like 2014 drake was rap and hip hop and R&B Golden Boy golden aka love child with pop appeal. that's how he got his start then once he became a mega star he wears the cape of full on Entertainer that does it all. A multi sound wave for worldwide audience that contains rap singing Disco R&B International and Caribbean music. Drake has had a hell of a run. 16 years in the game but 6 years out of that 10 he dominated rap hip hop and R&B charts and that's a fact. Better go to the internet archive the way back machine. I'm tired of y'all trying to erase history. Y'all forgot a popstar rapper Macklemore one album of the year and a Grammy in 2013😑😑😑 I'm not hating and Drake wasn't hating either 2012 is when drake won haha. But hip-hop hated it all hip-hop fans where upset and mad 😠 a rap popstar not hip hop artist macklemore never claim to be hip-hop but he wasn't no hater. Now yall trying to do drake like that 😭😭😭 drake won pop and hip-hop and r&b awards 😒 and have plenty of rap nominations I mean he isn't trying to step on J Cole or Kenny's toes drake won one rap award and many hip-hop awards. He straight he did his part for hip hop and rap. Now he's a full fledge Entertainer. What's the problem with that?

The man went on a downward spiral and had to leave the country it is not going to be iconic it's only going to be relevant because he mentioned drake. And he knows it. That's why he didn't even want it to be brought up. These platforms always do this use drake for relevancy and it's always something negative never positive

facts!

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fmyou’re lost, 😂😂😂😂 who tf is Drake? Mos Def didn’t spiral out of control, come on now. It’s much deeper than that. Anybody that truly follows Hip Hop will appreciate this interview. Drake is ass. 🤦🏾‍♂️😂😆

Well duh drake been In the game for 15 years. He blew up with the song called Best I Ever Had where he is rapping and singing in 2009 and almost won a Grammy off of mixtape.. drake has mega star likeness. He is not a starter or a bench player in this game. Remember in 2012 he had everybody saying Yolo. You don't remember that blew up and went viral the motto. So it would make sense someone using his image or likeness to generate revenue or virality. But I do believe that AI song being nominated for Grammy was false. You have to be the legal team of an artist and submitted to the Grammys for it to be nominated and you have to pay for your catalog. So no I don't think it was ever officially nominated for a Grammy but it did got mega viral.

​@@JohnBoyed-fo6fmTake a deep breath tiny little kiddo, grown folk don't listen to that hotline bling bullshit 😭😂🚮

@@phonymex3340 I'm not a kiddo and I'm in my thirties I was a drake fan from like 07 all the way to 2018. Mos def gave a factual opinion the Drake now is mainstream with an edge. Drake is my favorite artist but not my favorite rapper I can only do mainstream with an edge I love hip hop and R&B and some pop Drake has the best of all three combinations. Drake has been in the game for 17 years 7 out of that 10. He was Hip Hop's and R&B golden love child. He evolved into a full on Entertainer that just does it all. It's cool tho. But hip hop and R&B Golden Child drake was my favorite

@@phonymex3340😂😂😂

​@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm what the hell 2009 gotta do with 2023 - 2024

Yes he is he clearly raps

@@jfraz1992 Rapping & Hip-Hop is 2 different things, and production plays apart of that as well

Smh 😑😕🤨😭Drake been in the game for 17 years now of course right now his music is mainstream with an edge. But seven out of that 10 year from like '08 to 2014 he was rap hip hop and R&B royalty he was it's Golden Child it's golden Loverboy. He was winning all charts all Awards in the genres of rap hip hop and R&B. I remember when you had old heads like KRS-One saying Drake was the future of rap hip hop and R&B. You can't erase that he won a Grammy for Best hip hop album/ rapper R&B album in 2012 bro and he won an award for best writer. He wrote hits for Rihanna Alicia Keys Rita Ora Jamie Foxx Etc he gave hits away to Rick Ross to Meek Mill to Lil Wayne to Tiger 2 YG to DJ Khaled to Future to ASAP Rocky Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz. This is the reality bro why you tryna too confused people in 2024 Drake Started as a rap hip hop R&B artists with pop and mainstream appeal that's the reality stop trying to change history😒

@@sickboyzay24 Now that 7 track Deluxe EP he dropped recently is definitely his Hip-Hop project since Nothing Was The Same.

@@prof3ssor178 u sound dumb rapping is hiphop drake started hip hop n went pop lil baby an every one does it even nicki

Look hip-hop isn't drakes religion but he was thankful and humble at the chance of becoming a mega star and worldwide. People can feel whatever they want to feel about drake but the man kept It hip-hop from 08 to 2014. That's a good run. He did right by Hip Hop and gave back. And mos def can have his opinions but we seen what happens to to Hip Hop artist who who make it their religion who keep it strictly Hip Hop and don't evolve and want to be a rap activist their lives go through a downward spiral it happened to mos Def it happened to shayne it happened to our old hip hop groups it happened to A Tribe Called Quest it happened to Kanye etc. Drake chose to make money and entertain. Not to be some poetic prophet lol.

​@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm With all due respect, Drake wasn't hip hop from 2008-14, either...

​@@Notorious_C_E_E exactly 💯

I can guarantee you...... that Yasiin Bey's friends are probably saying the same thing. lol

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fmexactly

SUPERHEROOOOO

Get ya power, ya mask and cape snatched/ Brooklyn take what u can't take back/ I know a lots of cats hate that/ All I can say, black/ There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at.

@@naswiipp imagine Drake stepping to that, he’d end up laid flat with cheeks on the mat

@@tonystealth007 why would he ever entertain someone who hasn't been relevant in 10 plus years

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm The person you're calling irrelevant is widely considered a Hip-Hop legend.

TRUTH

What folks

that was Drake at his peak

I said the same thing after his beef with meek mill his music went the other way. 09 to 2015 was that guy.

Drake honestly peaked at IYRTITL but he’s still relevant

Except he changed his mind

Before DMX died he said. Na I love Drake. 😂😂😂.

@@jamieervaughn7469 they really do forget that😭 I hope in a documentary drake leaks that conversation one day I know it's going to be heartfelt. DMX said he was battling Demons during that time he just had hate on his heart he was hating on everybody in that interview with The Breakfast Club they only edited to make it sound like he only had hate for drake. The stuff he said about Rick Ross 🤣 he was catching strays. But yeah DMX said he had no right hating on these guys especially when all they showed him was love. He even said he loved drake.

Correct. Yasiin been focused on more important issues like Palestine he has a lot of pent up energy that Drake shouldn't want any parts of.

Why would he???? Mos def wasn't disrespectful. He didn't hate or attack his character. He basically said his music was mainstream with an edge. It makes sense this isn't 2008 drake anymore he is a household name now and has a multi brand/soundwave in every genre of music that he can push to his whole audience. 15 years ago drake was a simple hip hip star with pop appeal and was a rap and r&b artist. Now he is a mega Superstar who is just a musical artist in general. for every genre every Style National or International. But drake wouldn't diss mos Def not because he's scared but because back in the day drake dabbled is that poetic spoken word/ harmonic rap movement/style it was big In Toronto that neo-soul you have to remember that New York and Canada are right next to each other if Canada wasn't International it would be New York sister state. Young Drake and his friends were heavily influenced by it reggae reggaeton Caribbean rap Caribbean R&B. Canada was like a sanctuary for hip hop a lot of international sounds was birth from that to. There's a reason drake loves Erykah Badu jill scoot music groups like The Roots quest love black thought Q-tip A Tribe Called Quest Etc. Back in 06 drake use to open mic night and do that poetic spoken word harmonic rap and he was good at it. But that and being a rap activist doesn't pay the bills or make you money hip-hop obviously isn't drake religion and that's fine. I remembered drake said one of his favorite movies from the 2010s era was 16 shots lol so he's a fan of mos def.

Please he scared to battle Lupe punked his ass and Drake rapped on track with Lupe and kept up do your research

​@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm Yasiin was respectful, but Drake is the most sensitive rapper who ever lived. He'll be all in his feelings over this. Just watch.

@@Notorious_C_E_E naw he only responds to people that attacks him and his craft. Like people get mad or get mad when he tries new things or if he stays the same basically something to generate views for talking points on a platform. Mos def gave a critical opinion that drake would agree his music is mainstream with an edge. You must haven't seen the drake documentary. Yes he was pure hip-hop from 08 to 2014. He was a hip hop artist with pop appeal as a musician he did rapping and R&B this is very well documented

i believe it on her patreon called "the cutting floor" or something like that.

I agree... which is why Drake drops so often. He has to stay current and a majority of his music is made for moments in time. Nothing wrong with that. It got him the 4th most number 1's in Billboard history. Definitely agree with the "pop crowd" being fickle tho. They're always waiting for the next hot song. It's not even about music that they can sit with and let marinate. It's music for the moment... then the moment passes.

To be an artist that chases trends from the crowd, not the crowd chasing them ... Is a place where they get consumed by envy. The crowd followed prince, not the trends he kicked off.

None of the genres/styles you mentioned stopped being pop. There are songs in any given style that are commercially popular, thus, pop. And country had pop songs as soon as there was "Country" and music label trying to make money on it.

Hip hop was always hip hop, pop? No

​@@TheCdubbleyooPop isn't just popular it's literally a sound you have to have. Which makes it its own genre.

Facts people are trying to erase history bro drake been in the game for 17 years 7 out of those 10 years he was rap hip hop and R&B royalty he was rap hip hop and R&B Golden Child it's golden Loverboy All The Gatekeepers of Hip Hop back in Jay Z K r s LL Cool J Timberland sway P Diddy mos def etc. Said drake was the future of rap hip hop and R&B he was a triple threat artist. It's in a documentary back then when drake blew up overnight sway asked everybody was drake up next was he the next big thing they all said yeah. Jayz shouted out drake before cole🤣🤣🤣🤣 in the song stars born. He said drakes up next let's see what he do with. It's been 17 years he's had a hell of a run standing ovate👏👏👏👏👏

bro I hear you 100 %. drake is creating generational wealth for his family, everybody would do the same, I have two children, I am happy for every family that does not have to be a slave to this system, champainpapy shall continue to be blessed. Yassin used to address things more, kweli is still on his activism, bey always seems like he protecting his brand. _click bait bs is always setting us up, dividing the tribe...grate to hear from you fam peace! @@JohnBoyed-fo6fm

@@JohnBoyed-fo6fm yes fam it’s all click bait, not be taken to serious 😃

His worst album in my opinion. He still gets introspective and delivers some great lines, but it's gets lost in a lot of other bullshit. 8AM in Charlotte feels so out of place on an album that also has a song with Yeat and Sexyy Redd.