Why is Drake so popular?
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yes, really, i'm not a brainless proletarian that consumes recycled pieces of trash handed down to us from madison avenue, force-fed down our throats by electronic media...
I'm on my own trip, thank you very much.
I'm on my own trip, thank you very much.
I'm not a Drake fan by any stretch but he has songs that are just straight dope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LnBvuzjpr4
Drake - Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2bBZvSPpOo
Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t195yz9xCc
Drake - 5AM in Toronto
I remember listening to hip hop in the late 80s and early 90s to my parents disapproval. Much of this thread reminds me of that mentality.
Coincidence that on this day today Big Daddy Kane released Its a Big Daddy Thing...27 years ago.
Such is the sound (literally) of progress.
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.vice.com/read/science-has-discovered-why-your-parents-hate-your-music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LnBvuzjpr4
Drake - Energy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2bBZvSPpOo
Drake - 0 to 100 / The Catch Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t195yz9xCc
Drake - 5AM in Toronto
I remember listening to hip hop in the late 80s and early 90s to my parents disapproval. Much of this thread reminds me of that mentality.
Coincidence that on this day today Big Daddy Kane released Its a Big Daddy Thing...27 years ago.
Such is the sound (literally) of progress.
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.vice.com/read/science-has-discovered-why-your-parents-hate-your-music
Never understood the popularity of The Grateful Dead, it sounds like music for rich white people with lots of dope and too much time on their hands. But then I'm into Frank Zappa.
I like pre 2006 hip hop.
I don't really understand how Drake made it..... I find his lyrics and flow to be simple and monotone. I find the production on his songs to be minimalist. In short there's not much to his songs.
I don't really understand how Drake made it..... I find his lyrics and flow to be simple and monotone. I find the production on his songs to be minimalist. In short there's not much to his songs.
This is music?, I tried listening to these, found them boring-all 3 "nigga"..this , "nigga" that in the lyrics
Does Drake play any instruments?
Whether Drake, Frank or other published artists "play" an instrument is a strawman argument. The debate here is whether what they produce is "music".
Hell, I play an instrument. That's meaningless.
All I know is music is relative. If Beethoven or Bach were alive, would they think the Grateful Dead was awful? Probably.
The tendency of older generations to view new music as "junk" is not a new phenomenon. And it's rearing it's aged head in this thread.
Drake is a global success and his music is the anthem of the current generation. Don't like it? Put on your vinyls and enjoy 40 year old music. No one begrudges you for your preferences. But being the old man that yells at the clouds just makes you look like an old curmudgeon.
Hell, I play an instrument. That's meaningless.
All I know is music is relative. If Beethoven or Bach were alive, would they think the Grateful Dead was awful? Probably.
The tendency of older generations to view new music as "junk" is not a new phenomenon. And it's rearing it's aged head in this thread.
Drake is a global success and his music is the anthem of the current generation. Don't like it? Put on your vinyls and enjoy 40 year old music. No one begrudges you for your preferences. But being the old man that yells at the clouds just makes you look like an old curmudgeon.
I've been listening to quite a bit of Drake's music just to understand his popularity, there was nothing painful about it. And even though, as Eddie1 suggests, I'm an old fart who has to constantly wash his ass, I'm still good at assessing talent. Drake is a product of his environment and Toronto's music scene has been thriving. He's taken the local scene that Maestro Fresh Wes helped to create and packaged in a way that Americans find hard to resist. That;s why the video to Hotline Bling has over 900 million hits. He doesn't overload his songs with unnecessary verse, each bar is clear and concise - less is more. Drake knows that to stay relevant he has to stay in tune with local scene. Hence he's the ambassador to the Toronto Raptors and he's building a palace on the Bridal Path complete with recording studio.
With Drake Sr...who lives in Memphis.
With Drake Sr...who lives in Memphis.
But let's be clear about this, he ows a huge debt to gratitude to The Godfather of Toronto Hip Hop for setting the table.
Burton Cummings considered this an honour:
Burton Cummings considered this an honour:
Ok... if you've never actually listened to them. They are, in fact, the most wildly outrageous psychedelic powerhouse of a band. They can play longer, harder, faster, and bend way more minds than the next best guys... I present to you The Magnificent 7...
The Grateful Dead were before my time, where I grew up no one was into them. I was given a copy of Frak Zappa's Apostrophe, which I found out many years later was a joke gift, on my 15th Birthday and I was hooked. The Grateful Dead are like red licorice, and I don't like red licorice. I respect your opinion by now it's time to stand aside:
