Editors Note: Thanks to HipHopDX’s reader community, it was brought to our attention that the comparisons between Drake and Breaking Bad’s Walter White addressed in this piece were previously tackled in a piece published by our friends at DJBooth earlier this year. While the article’s title and concept are similar, we’ve determined that all parallels were 100 percent unintentional and coincidental. Nothing malicious took place. There were no passages borrowed or stolen. However, out of respect to Nathan S. and DJBooth, we’ve decided to pull the article from our site and address this situation internally. Again, thank you to the HipHopDX community for bringing this to our attention. Justin Hunte, Editor-in-Chief
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There is no parallel between the two whatsoever…HHDX please remove yourselves from Drake’s testicular glands…
I know right? Spending 50K at a strip club doesn’t make you hard, it makes you bad with money. People with loud money don’t have money, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case with Drake, although I wouldn’t guarantee it either. My point is that anyone can spend 50K at a strip club if they have the resources.
This article makes me HAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn you guys are certified publicist for Drake huh?
No matter how u feel about him you can’t deny Drake’s star power,in this age of social media he has become the most prominent hip hop artist of this generation. Classic record or not he runs hiphop and young people that listen to him adore him dearly ready to defend him at all costs, he’s becoming iconic by the day and if views from 6 drops and does close to a milli as I think it will,then that’s it game over Drake will be surely recognized amongst the greatest that ever done it passing both Weezy and Ye and probably mentioned with Jay-z and the two dead legends.
But then again in 2000 nothing was better or bigger than Eminem and no one ever thought anyone resembling his star power will ever come by ever, so like Jayz or Em. Drake represents a time and a period in hip hop.
The young people’s attitudes are what irritates people to be honest. A lot of drakes young fans legitimately don’t know how to argue in his defense and will call you a hater for whatever reason lol. You also have to understand that young people constantly talk shit about the older hip hop heads as well so really its a culture clash. IMO I think the new generation is soft. Not in a gangster way but soft as in not really being individuals. It seems the new gen is more about following than actual leading.
I’m waiting for that Weezy-esq “I’m the best rapper alive” moment from drizzy, S#it made me sick when weezy was saying it and people were repeating it and believed it.
The article should be called sacrilegious…they way it’s worshipping dude’s nuts…smh..
Exactly
andre- its a good article but your trying to
act like the whole “ghostwriting” thing is a real legitimate attack when it is really another idiotic attempt to “get drake”. People see through it. No one believe that Drake never writes his raps. Does he get help sometimes? Probably. Who really cares? Nas had help on Illmatic and Ghostface had help with Supreme Clientele are these artists not abiding by hiphop traditions. the ghostwriting allegation is just another absurd attack on Drake simply cuz its Drake and folks are bitter some Canadian kid is running hiphop. He won the Meek Mill beef by barely addressing the ghostwriting because by writing his own disses so quickly he is addressing the ghostwriting BS square on by demonstrating his lyrical superiority, the reference tracks were also weak reaching evidence (the lines didnt match except for hooks for the most part which is an industry standard – its maybe 20% of each song). Plus credited collaborators are nothing new in hiphop. Everyone on top has been accused of ghostwriting and have debatable pasts with it. Jay-Z, Nas, Kanye West and Ghostface….its a rite of passage when your running hiphop. Ghostwriting is simply the latest anti-Drake thing from guys who always hated Drake cuz they have always loved the idea that Drake is manufactured or not real. The problem is the evidence is weak and hypocritical. No one cares if Drake got a little help becuase so did Nas, Kanye West, Biz Markie, Run DMC, Jay-Z, ODB, Ghostface, Beastie Boys, Dr Dre, Eazy-E etc. Its nothing new in hiphop. Its a new superficial requirement invented by purists.
Your entire post was pure bias toward Drake . instead of calling it down the middle and offering a neutral point of view you literally pulled out all the stops to defend Drake.
This exact article ran on DJBooth.net 4 months ago….
Fuck drake he ain’t shit compared to 2pac biggie nas dmx etc
This author is a perfect example of what’s wrong with music these days and fans.
1) all you did was bash meek mill for the sake of Drake. How can you call yourself a journalist/writer for a hiphop site when you’re clearly bias? This entire article was a declaration of your love for drake and offered NOTHING. You try to explain drakes transition but the way you do it makes it sound like you’re straight from the OVO camp.
2) why do you write as if you speak for everyone? What is this “we” shit you keep referring too? You keep saying we like you’re representing every single one of us.
I have never really criticized any of the writers like this before but this in all honesty is one of the worst pieces of material I have read on this site and tbats going back years ago. In fact, what do you even call this? An article? A blog? It’s a bunch of words put together trying to explain something by someone who is clearly one sided in his way of thinking.
Maybe, if you hadn’t tried to continually throw another artist under the bus then your opinion would hold some merit.
I swear writers like this dude Andre grant are the reason hhdx is turning into the fox news of hip hop.
The only people that think Drake runs anything are his fans. All the rest of us (the real world) live in a place called “Reality” where we know people/celebrities come and go with the wind. If you think anything otherwise you are just part of the “hype machine” corporate america wants you to be apart of to keep fueling his popularity (for free thru social media) while they sit back in there high rise offices cashing checks and buying shit on Amazon
OVO = Old Vagina Opening
when I read this it sounded like it was written by Ural Garrett.. wow Andre you really lost your touch man!!!!!
DJ Booth been on this comparison
Fighting Chris Brown??? I remember when Chris Brown was a little bit husky wholesome teenager that his moms was on the radio promoting. Then he hit RiRi and been a wanna be thug ever since. Then even Justin Bieber has gone from the wholesome media darling to a wanna be thug. The corporations funneling money through the radio stations and media publications run this game, hip hop magazines at one time were the only outlet of hip hop heads, when Master P was killing it on the radio, magazines like the source were giving critical acclaim to Mobb Deep, Wu, Nas, etc. This also helped add a little bit of balance in sales and spins on the radio, though Rap & Bullshit was still the biggest game in town. Once the source became obsolete due to yellow and vendetta journalism, lyricists didn’t care anymore about reaching a certain artistic peak. That is when the game went all to the radio and TV time. Drake is not trash but he is not a lyrical genius nor one of the best MC’s of all-time but his sales and popularity say otherwise. The hip hop publications/ websites are no longer a buffer between the casual fan and head anymore either. Shits dead
The drake meek mill beef is overrated. .. Jay z ate Mrs drizzy up, so did kendrick. … its a shame meek nill is too whack a rapper. … drakes Diss track goes Down as the whackest Diss tracks in history. …. he should learn from the greats Eminem, 2pac, nas, Jay z, ice cube to mention a few
Drake is a dope rapper, but his bars don’t set the standard or raise the bar for lyricism. Can’t lie after tpab, it’s kind of hard to listen to anything else unless it’s kiss or fab or anything under 2001.
Damn, you guys have had to either disable comments or pull an article twice in the last month
Since when did spending $50K at a strip club make you hard? That just makes you bad with money. Anyone can do that if they have the resources.
But at least we now know that Andre’s mouth is clamped firmly around Drake’s dick. I mean, I’m sure the dude is talented, and he has a lot of fans. But you can’t seriously compare him to Walter White and say he is becoming “hard” and taking over the rap game. I shit you not, I read an article just yesterday that said the exact opposite of this article. The synopsis is that it said that Drake is losing a grip on the rap game, emphasizing that he’s soft, and that if he wants to continue to dominate that he needs to embrace his pop star image and leave hip hop alone!