Vibe Magazine recently released outtakes of a 2013 interview with Drake in which he speaks on his approach to making music and the viability of concept albums in Hip Hop.
“I feel like the music that I write is utilized in life,” he said. “It would be tough for me to go in conceptual storytelling. The last great concept album was [Kendrick Lamar’s] good kid, m.A.A.d city—still obviously true to his life but very conceptual. Very specific stories that need to be told. I always say hats off to that album. That album’s incredible, what an undertaking. For me, I would never want to be restricted to that.”
Drake, who released his third album, Nothing Was The Same, in September, added that he looks at that effort in a similar light. “I feel like I just made a concept album about a kid from Toronto that’s on,” he said. “I’m not good at telling fictional stories, so I would never be able to do that. There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that aren’t themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.”
Vibe’s interview also finds the emcee vaguely referencing the possibility of a new album and commenting on his lack of social media activity. “I think the next album I do is gonna be different,” he said, “I don’t know if I’ll necessarily return to family stuff and stuff that I feel I really summed up well on Nothing Was The Same. The problem is I don’t participate too much in social media, so my music is always the update that you’re looking for in my life. Twitter is not my outlet to get my message out there. My outlet is the music so my music always ends up becoming my life. I don’t know how to stop that.”
Given his comments that his music are drawn from lived experiences, Drake also talked briefly about his state-of-mind with respect to each album he’s released. “20-whatever years to make So Far Gone, then one year to make Thank Me Later,” he said. “I was like, ‘I don’t know, let me get a bunch of features and make some good music.’
“I went back home and wrote Take Care, got influenced by the city but I was in a dark place,” he added in reference to his second album. “I don’t know if I was coming back home with the best energy in the world. I was coming off a record where I loved that album with all my heart but I knew I wanted to do better. I was just getting more money than I had ever seen. I was like in this indulgent state of mind. It was a weird time for me.”
Ending with a note on his latest album, Drake referred to Nothing Was The Same as his “first time [having] no strife.” “This album is probably the most aware of self that I’ve ever been,” he said. “I did this album all over the place but for the first time have no strife. I’m here. I’m gonna own this now.”
Drake recently released a song pulled from the Nothing Was The Same sessions called “Trophies.” The Hit-Boy produced track was used in a preview for the album though only released in full shortly before the New Year.
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feel like drake is almost giving kdot a back handed compliment, “i draw off life experiences, i cant tell fictional stories”…. Thats a lowkey insult
“The last great concept album was [Kendrick Lamars] good kid m.A.A.d citystill OBVIOUSLY TRUE TO HIS LIFE but very conceptual”. I don’t think he insulted k.dot, I think he insulted him when he said “I don’t want to be restricted to that” since gkmc and section 80 were both concept albums, but he is very feminine and b#tch made in his rebuttals.
he was talking about rick ross fairytale raps
At last one thing I can agree with this bitch ass Wheelchair Jimmy with
fuck this fuckin faggot i hope drake dies
ok to much dick riding
shots fired at Officer Ricky???
“Im not good at telling fictional stories, so I would never be able to do that. There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that aren’t themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.”
that idiot dissed jay-z smh
dude called American Gangster a collection of crack songs LOL
my fav album of the last 5 years
HE DISSED JAY AND ROSS LMAO
pretty much dissed every rapper who raps about other niggas lives and not their own
Check out thegrandreport, they got some good hip hop and viral videos on there
Look at all the people saying Drake is dissing other rappers. That’s what DX wants you to believe. DX has a lengthy history of taking quotes out of context when it comes to Drake. Drake is obviously a fan of Kendrick’s work and respects what he brings to the table.
I couldn’t agree more with Drake. He makes life music which is based on his own experiences. Even though you might not find yourself in precisely the same situations as Drake, you relate to the themes and emotions being conveyed in the songs. 40 also does an impeccable job with the production which tends to blend well with Drake’s strong song writing.
Drake and 40 are the Guru and Premo of this era.
“Even though you might not find yourself in precisely the same situations as Drake, you relate to the themes and emotions being conveyed in the songs. ”
sorry but I cannot relate in any way to going through my girls purse and checking her text messages when shes in the bathroom
and dont ever disrespect gang starr by saying some bullshit like that
This Drake stan has gone too far with his comments. Don’t compare Gang Starr to those two bitch ass Jews.
only thing drake and guru have in common is their secret love of men
Co – sign with champagne papi life. These haters need to understand – hip hop changes. Respect innovators. Your the same clowns who hated NWA, Biggie, De La when they dropped.
im sure most of use were too young to hate on NWA and Biggie when they first dropped. I know I was…..
“Co – sign with champagne papi life. These haters need to understand – hip hop changes. Respect innovators. Your the same clowns who hated NWA, Biggie, De La when they dropped.”
This has to be a joke because none of this is true. No one hated on Biggie, NWA, and De La. Hell, most Drake fans know nothing about those three. And Drake is not an innovator. These Drake dickriders are always saying some ludicrous shit to make their idol look good.
I said themes and emotions. Not specifics. Quit taking what I say out of context. Many dudes, myself included, can relate to dating a woman whose intentions you don’t really trust. Obviously shit might not have been apparent right from the get go, but you might notice patterns of behavior over time. And no I don’t have experience going through my girls phone.
For most, that is much more relatable than hearing someone rap about being on the run from federal agents.
Also music changes. What Drake and 40 are doing right now is awesome. What Premo and Guru did was amazing too. It’s possible for fans of hip-hop to like both. I mean Premo himself listens to Drake.
A bunch of narrow-minded idiots on these boards.
More lies from the world’s biggest Drake groupie. Nobody believes you.
This is why kids like Champagne Papi with the gay ass name shouldn’t speak on hip-hop because they don’t know anything.
i feel so much second hand embarrassment every time i read a post from “Champagne Papi Life”
why do you people keep replying to this stuff I don’t even read these kind of comments just ignore them they just attention bitches.
OK. History lesson for those who claim no hated Biggie, NWA etc. Biggie and Puffy were hated by hip hop purists and derailed as pop because of their R&B laced song, champagne popping videos, West Coast sound. If you lived in New York at the time you would know this. In fact, Biggies Kick in the Door is direct answer to this. Need more evidence? Look no further than the Roots “What They Do” video, OGCs video dissing Biggie, Jeru’s Wrath of the Math etc. NWA hatred, didn’t exist, really? In case you missed it, the east-coast / west coast rivalry one could argue is the reason for 2Pacs and Biggie death years later but believe me – in New York hip hop was hated by many. Need evidence? Tim Dog “Fuck Compton”, Common,s Used to Love Her, the film CB4…the native tongues had plenty of tracks ridiculing and making fun of gangsta rap which was popularized by NWA….and then years later because the beef was simmaerring it spawned WestSide Connection was created, a long with “New York, New York”….I could go on. Hating on the top MC in hip hop when the music changes is absolutely nothing new. Jay-z got it. Eminent got it. Now Drake is getting it. Nothing new
are you like 43 years old
None of this is true at all. It’s all a bunch of delusional lies you made up, idiotic Drake stan.
I’m 39 years old and been listening to this hip hop shit since I heard the Fat Boys. Everything I said is 100% true and I grew up in and around queens / Brooklyn so I was on this shit before hip hop crossed over . Most the kids on here criticizing Drake are white kids from the suburbs in the Midwest who really have no idea what hip hop is about. If you go around and talk to people who actually know about hip hop as an art form, there is gonna be no debate about Drake’s talent. People always hate the top dawg in hip hop. Been like that forever. Who gives a shit, 20 years from Drake will get his respect. Just wait on it
You can’t compare Drake to the legends of the past at all. They were game changers, Drake isn’t. He’s just another mainstream pop-rap artist who got lucky making radio-friendly music that the masses blindly consume. He won’t matter in 10 years.
“I’m 39 years old and been listening to this hip hop shit since I heard the Fat Boys. Everything I said is 100% true and I grew up in and around queens / Brooklyn so I was on this shit before hip hop crossed over . Most the kids on here criticizing Drake are white kids from the suburbs in the Midwest who really have no idea what hip hop is about. If you go around and talk to people who actually know about hip hop as an art form, there is gonna be no debate about Drake’s talent. People always hate the top dawg in hip hop. Been like that forever. Who gives a shit, 20 years from Drake will get his respect. Just wait on it”
All of this is a lie. Quit making up bullshit like this in your head and calling it truth when it’s not. You’re just a suburban white Drake stan who only listens to music that he hears on radio/TV.
If Drake was making typical hip hop that was generic and non-innovative he wouldn’t be hated. He’d be like Action Bronson. Another dude rapping like everyone else. No one would care. He hated because people fear the change. He brings forth. Think about it. Why is Barack Obama so hated and admired equally? Because he has divided the republicans (the purists who don’t want change) and his admirers (the people who want change)…you can see this pattern throughout history and especially with hiphop. If you have a string understanding of musical compilation and song structure, you can’t really listen to a hit song like “I’m on One” and say its not innovative. You can’t take a song like Marvin’s a Room or Headlines and say that those songs are normal pop songs aka Britney Spears. They are not. Will I Am can’t right that shit. You obviously just don’t understand song structure, how hooks are written….there is a reason why people like Kanye are heralding Drake as a creative genius. You gotta figure he knows a little more about music than you do. Right?
And bro…I do not listen to pop music. Actually hate it..my top 5 MCs right now would prob be ghostface, MF Doom, Chance the Rapper, Drake and Rick Ross. Grew up on vinyl from Stetsasonic to Mos Def. I like dope music if it’s popular or not.
You really bringing up these old lies again? Give up. Nothing you say is true at all. Drake is another pop-rap artist like Nelly and Ja Rule, making safe, mainstream-friendly music. I know all about music and I can say you’re full of shit. There’s nothing innovative about what Drake does. Marvin’s Room, I’m On One, and Headlines are your typical mainstream pop/rap songs. Everything he’s done has been done before better. Stop overrating him like he’s some music god. He’s not changing anything, he’s just following the old pop music formula. The reason he’s hated is because his music is trash. Just because someone gets a lot of hate doesn’t mean they’re game changers, that just means that people think they suck. You can’t compare Drake to Obama, those are two different things. And fuck what Kanye says. This is the same guy who defended Soulja Boy and worked with 2 Chainz and Chief Keef. His opinion doesn’t matter.
“And bro…I do not listen to pop music. Actually hate it..my top 5 MCs right now would prob be ghostface, MF Doom, Chance the Rapper, Drake and Rick Ross. Grew up on vinyl from Stetsasonic to Mos Def. I like dope music if it’s popular or not.”
You’re full of shit. Keep lying, though. Also, your top 5 sucks ass for mentioning Drake and Rick Ross. One’s a bitch ass Canadian R&B singer and the other’s a C.O. turned fake gangster rapper with no substance or artistic integrity.
We will never agree so no point arguing. Drake will go down as a legend. Wait 20 years. Ja Rule / Nelly are shit. nellly is the more innovative of the two but lyrics were not great. Both had non lyrical bars , no double entendres, dumb pop music. Compare the chorus of Marvins Room and Nellys “it’s getting hot in here”. Be objective. One is a song about an insecure lonely guy at the club and another is a brainless simple club song. Sry dude. Your argument makes zero sense. Drake def has song that can be considered pop like hold on we’re coming home but most his songs are not in that vain. They are smarter in content. pop music has never been so dark, analytical and smart. Anyways, I’m done. U drake haters will always hate on him. But wait 20 years. He will be an undisputed legend. Just wait
I’m going to rebut everything you said.
1. Drake will never be a legend. In 20 years, he won’t be shit.
2. Drake is in the same lane as Nelly and Ja Rule.
3. It doesn’t matter what the hooks are or what they’re about, Marvin’s Room and Hot In Herre are shitty generic pop songs, period.
4. All of Drake’s songs are standard pop rap/R&B. Nothing smart, dark, or analytic about his music, it’s the same dumb shit we’ve got from mainstream rap forever.
You Drake stans are always dickriding the man. Guess what? He WON’T be a legend at all and I don’t need to wait 20 years. Besides, Kendrick is 1000X superior. Outside of sales, money, and fame, Kendrick shits on Drake.
Drake’s whole style is a combination of 808s & Heartbreak and Lil Wayne albums.
dissed jay like a bitch when he said AG wasn’t a concept album
To all the people saying he is dissing K-dot or he is dissing Jay or Rozay what is disrespectful about calling someone a good story teller? They are that, whether or not they or someone else lived the experience in the song doesn’t it make it more or less of a good song. I would say it is kind of a jab at himself, he is pretty one dimensional, he raps about his life and his experiences. Happy New Year Everyone!
I agree with the gkmc praise but the jay dissin was a bitch move lmao
Where did he diss Jay moron?? Please tell me where in this article did he diss Jay-Z. Man you clowns fall for anything.
dx didnt include the bit from the interview but he also said
” I always say hats off to that album [GKMC], that albums incredible, what an undertaking. For me, I would never want to be restricted to that. But it depends on what youd call a concept album. Would you call [Jay Zs] American Gangster a concept album? If it is, then yeah, I guess. All he did was just make crack songs. “
this fraud dissed ross, em & jay LOL
HOW ABOUT YOU GET OUT ALL OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SO YOU WONT IN YOUR MUSIC?
Comments here are unbelievable. Dude clearly gives Kendrick props. Disses no one. Relax mofos. Everyone in hip hop is fake and creates personas – from Dr.Dre to Rozay . Drake is clearly killing the game. So much hate – he has to be. It’s like when MJ was alive . And he is no fraud – realest rapper out.
realest rapper out? cmon
being a sensitive bitch nigga dont make you the realest
This dude is riding Drake’s dick too hard to make those last three sentences.
And calling people bitch niggas doesn’t make you a real nigga. To be honest, Drake is realer than most of these fake internet “hip hop heads”. These niggas will talk shit about rappers on the blogs but be a quiet in real life.
^^^ preach
The irony of these two comments. LOL
^^^NIGGA I’LL DARE YOU TO LAST 4 SENTENCES BITACH!
original comment,
he backslapped kendrick in the face by saying that he would never want to do an album like kendrick does it.
this nigga trying to play mind tricks with kendrick. He disses him then immediately comes back and says he has great respect for kendrick or he’s amazing then diss him again.
Love GKMC but The Roots- Undun was a better concept album
Love Undun but Kendrick Lamar- GKMC is a better concept album
He must not have listened to 12 reasons to die by GhostFace and Adrian Young
Back handed compliment. He tryna say Kendrick not real. Its funny because he put Kendrick on his second album for a reason. He dont want it with Dot.
Drake’s so scared of Kdot, a rapper who GQ called a nerd lol
GQ never said that. And no one’s scared of Drake, a sensitive guy who cries about women,
Yeah, listen to a fashion magazine that knows nothing about hip-hop culture.
You mean Started from the Bottom wasn’t fictional?? Psshh GTFO drake just mad can’t tell stories for shit & is still butt-hurt from a verse from 4 months ago.
Agreed. What a backhanded compliment: “I would never want to be restricted like that”. This guy thinks he’s slick!
yall hatin i like both drake n kendrick the black community always try to make it so that only one can be the best smh
Stop dickriding.
@Anonymous Damn Right… Jus Some Retarded Children on the Internet, Pay em no mind
The Anonymouses are the same.
keep sucking kdots dick haters. Drake wins kendrick voice trash
drake loves kendricks album u should too lol
It’s funny how the Drake stan got everything backwards.
i like the album
pizza > drake
Lloyd banks is killing every MC out here on all levels he will rise to the top once again be ware.
Every Drake album is a concept album.
Of women, money, and fame.
how can u over look Lloyd banks really tho from 2010 till now who really been that good? mixtape after mixtape for free who else is doing that dropping pure fire this guy banks is the real deal its crazy how so many dumb fucks are not paying attention smh.
When Drake says good kid, m.A.A.d city is the last great concept album; does he mean that it is the most recent great concept album to be released, or that it will be the last great concept album to ever be released?
This dude says he’s not good at telling fictional stories yet he got a song called ‘Started from the bottom”.
you a simple ass nigga.
No, that’s you, butthurt stanley.
lmao why did hiphopdx deleted the jay-z part ? dude dissed the whole mafioso game DEAD
LMAO at those Jay-z shots !!! This lil nikka is so disrespectful man. Who the fukk does he think he is? “i’m not good at telling fictional stories, so i would never be able to do that”…nikka eat a dikk. “I draw off life experiences”…what experiences? the ones where you simp strippers and grew up living the good life while being a child star? Is that where you drew the inspiration for Started From The Bottom? fukking fraud…that whole record was about the life you never lived. What bottom you started from? the basement in your mothers 2/3 story crib in the burbs?
nikka claim he love the wu..right? but then diss the entire mafioso shyt with this bullshyt.
American Gangster > your whole discography fucking trash peice of shit
dude said that AG wasn’t a concept album, just a bucn of crack songs… yeah you should read the original vibe interview
Amazing album. When I listen to it, it was more than music, it was a story of a person just like me with dreams, fear, dangers, trouble, happiness, adolescence and maturity. He stayed true to his roots he kept it original but different. God bless Kendrick Lamar and hip hop.
fail
Not.
GOD BLESS AMERICA SMMMMMMMMSSS!!!!!!!1!?!!!!
Drake is just a rich kid who got his mommy to get him into the business. His music is for homos n females no straight man could listen to that shit unless they a fuckin emo bitch nigga
Good god, I havent heard an album like this in a GOOD minute. I will actually purchase this rather than download it. If hip hop artist pumped out more stuff like this, labels could move units like it was ’98.
Wow. One thing I liked about the production of this album is that the beats are different from current hip hop albums and it sounded like all the producers were on the same page. It almosts seems as if the whole album was produced by one person. That’s how smoothly the album flows. Great Album Kendrick.
One of the best Album I ever heard!! Point Blank!!
This album will go down as one of the best albums of all time for any genre just like Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt, Ready to Die and the other rap albums that are considered the best of all time. When those albums came out we didn’t understand how great they because were very young at the time. Now we have a chance to witness a classic and a legend in the making. The storytelling is amazing. It’s like a movie. You can’t just listen to a couple of songs or skip through. You have to listen straight through from beginning to end.
This shit is a CLASSIC.
This album is ahead of its time. Perfection from start to finish.
The best hip-hop debut since Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor.
Kendrick Lamar: Single handedly bringing the REAL Hip-Hop back!
Pac died at 25. Kendrick starts to carry the throne at 25 should be some good years to come
this fucking jew dissed jay but DX didn’t include that part lmao…
“”Would you call [Jay Zs] American Gangster a concept album? If it is, then yeah, I guess. All he did was just make crack songs. I feel like I just made a concept album about a kid from Toronto thats on. Im not good at telling fictional stories, so I would never be able to do that. There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that arent themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.”
fucking sneak, dissing jay ? you deserve to die
American gangster >>> drake whoel catalog
LMAO HE SAID JAY WAS WRITING ABOUT FICTIONAL STORIES, fucking peice of shit
Drake is selling more albums than k dot.
and kednrick is making classic albums… drake albums are wack
Yet sales don’t indicate quality.
how much is justin bieber selling?
vanilla ice sold more albums than krs-one
method man realse your delf vid rapping up side down. 50 cent rapping up side down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUToyp74BQk
kendrick gaymar begged paid drake off in a large sum to praise his album so people will actually give a shit about kendrick. Drake is miles ahead of kendrick. Kendrick would be an opening act for drake on his tour. Drake will continue to dominate 2014 and continue to be the face of rap just deal with it haters.
Keep making up lies, dick-sucking groupie.
ok with the gkmc praised, it is truely the best album released these last years but dude dissed jay-z like a bitch
Drake is a fraud, jay-z american gangster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> drake
drake sucks
who does drake think he is ? he’ll never make an album as good as American gangster LMAO.
agree with kednrick, disagree with jay-z (deleted from HHDX)
Kendrick is king of hip hop
wacka flocka is right, if kendrick can released a third classic album, he’ll be top 10 of all time.
gkmc is really the best album I have heard these last 5 years…
I guess you have never heard the last 7 albums K Rino albums he has dropped or DAZ and WC West Coast Gangsta Sh*t. You only listen to the wack azz crap that the mainstream media feeds you
this clown of jew said american gangster was just a collection of crack songs, fucking idiot.
big sean > drake
well, I didn’t expect him to cosign gkmc but it’s deserved, gkmc is the last classic album of our generation, but this biatch dissed jay and ross roflcake… and hiphopdx is hidding this part DEAD
drake sucks, he shouldn’t talk shit about jay… even ross would rap circle around you drake
LOL he said american gangster wasn’t a good concept album LOL
lmao he sneak dissed jay-z… i’m fucking dead.
at least he realizes that gkmc is way better than anything he could release in his life.
But the part about jayz is so fucking funny, ag >>> drake catalog
Drake is a fraud, dude is admitting that he can’t tell stories or rap about other people perspective.
So, he states that he CANNOT tell stories that HE HIMSELF HAD NOT GONE THROUGH. He’s basically saying that if it didn’t happen to him or he wasn’t apart of it, he can’t channel it into his music unlike a lot of folks (For example your namesake) can tell stories that they never lived themselves and be very believable with it unless called out otherwise. How does that make him a fraud exactly?
just read it on vibe, he said jayz was a fake ahahah. with that said, I respect his opinion on gkmc, amazing album.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKJS_1bZgm8
If you saw that iHeart performance last nite you know I’m right.
I got the real feeling that in a different musical era/environment, aka later on, this guy’s music will age horribly.
yeah, drake isn’t in a position to say something like this he should just be quiet, make his money, and leave.
He’s the #1 artist in the states, and soon to be in the world. He can say whatever he wants. Sensitive people cover your ears cause the truth always manages to hurt.
He’s not the #1 artist anywhere, so he has no right to say whatever he want. Nothing he said was truth, it’s him and you stans who are sensitive.
why did you deleted the jay part ? the quote don’t mean anything now lmao.
It would be tough for me to go in conceptual storytelling. The last great concept album was [Kendrick Lamars] good kid m.A.A.d citystill obviously true to his life but very conceptual. Very specific stories that need to be told. I always say hats off to that album, that albums incredible, what an undertaking. For me, I would never want to be restricted to that. he said.
Would you call [Jay Zs] American Gangster a concept album? If it is, then yeah, I guess. All he did was just make crack songs. I feel like I just made a concept album about a kid from Toronto thats on. Im not good at telling fictional stories, so I would never be able to do that. There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that arent themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.
“i dont make fictional stories”
made a song about starting from the bottom when he was never poor or broke or in the hood
“i don’t use a lot of social media”
posts gay faggot pictures on instagram every five minutes.
fuck drake
the bottom doesnt have to mean poor and broke or in the hood and he never claimed to have been poor or in the hood in that song
Bullshit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6EZGMlgX0
agree about gkmc being inredible but this fraud dissed jay-z… and why isn’t that part on hhdx ?
lol fucking jewish said american gangster was a mixtape full of crack songs
wasnt it though>
Jay-Z should have retired a decade ago like he said he would. The only album worthy of comparison to his earlier ones is American Gangster. Which is a glorified crack mixtape. A damn good one at that!
WRONG!!
Uh retard, it was.
No it wasn’t.
jay-z gonna murder you fucking piece of shit
Right…
Jay has practically begged Drake to appear on tracks together. They’ve done what 4 songs together now? Jay-Z ain’t murdering anybody. Jay has two verses on Pound Cake, neither of which were better than Drake’s. Drake should have just done all 3 verses.
You got it backwards. Drake is the one begging for Jay to appear on tracks together. Jay Z murdered Drake on every track they ever did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rGsaDNI3Nk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QNb_pmed_0
I can’t stand drake as much as the next head but don’t get ridiculous with it yall. I noticed one post from champagne papi where besides all the drake praise he stated a shit load of facts. And some dude kept saying he was lying. Me I’ve been listening to hip hop since the fat boys era. And I’d rather listen to old shit from dead rappers(still waiting on kills sha’s lp) than drake dude was telling the truth on a lot of that stuff. The ogc video the tim dog song shits all true. I haven’t heard Kendricks good kid yet but I really wasn’t impressed with swimming pools or poetic justice just my opinion but from what I hear k.dot will still deliver. Right now I’m into hearing skinny jean rappers get ate up. I just got through listening to that du rag dynasty planet Asia–>drake alchemists–>40.
swimming pools is genius but it took me 1 week to udnerstand the song and the metaphors lol
We don’t believe you, Anonymous. You need more people.
Man. I ain’t champagne papi but I’m the dude who defended his take and brought in OGC etc. thanks for calling out the BS. Even tho you don’t dig Drake. Nice to know, there is at least some real hip hop heads on here who actually know / understand the art form and witnessed the history. All I was saying was that few people posting here actually digged a lot of the best legendary music when it actually came out. Sometimes it’s because the music is too unpopular and other times it’s because the artists is just too popular so it becomes cool to diss it. Mostly on here, it’s a bunch of kids removed from the scene. They go to the club and see a bunch of lame teenagers dancing to it and think this ain’t real hiphop. But that’s not how to judge music IMO. You have to be objective. After years pass, these guys often change their opinion because the music is what lasts – not the image and haters. There we’re a lot of turncoats when Biggie SMalls and 2Pac. So many haters suddenly we’re calling these guys legends.
Wrong again, idiot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgy7u5D8HqQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjXrtklI-6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDZWW8vzYxw
MMLP2 came out after G.K.M.C. #WTFYB
trash album, 1. it’s not concept. 2. it’s not great.
drake lol called kendrick a make believe storyteller in so many words say he would never be able to do that cause he draws from real events lololol
lol i thought the same thing
drake sneak attacks other rappers…its very bitch like and then he will play it off like they’re best friends or something
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHliQijgvA
why did you delete the quote ? the real quote include a jay-z diss lmao.
I agree with the gkmc praise, its clearly one fo the best albums of the last 10 years… but something is missing in that article.
hiphopdx editors SMH, when you copy past esomething, please don’t edit it.
here is the non edited part from vibe:
It would be tough for me to go in conceptual storytelling. The last great concept album was [Kendrick Lamars] good kid m.A.A.d citystill obviously true to his life but very conceptual. Very specific stories that need to be told. I always say hats off to that album, that albums incredible, what an undertaking. For me, I would never want to be restricted to that. he said.
Would you call [Jay Zs] American Gangster a concept album? If it is, then yeah, I guess. All he did was just make crack songs. I feel like I just made a concept album about a kid from Toronto thats on. Im not good at telling fictional stories, so I would never be able to do that. There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that arent themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.
this lame dissed jay ? lol fucking idiot. yeah he gave deserved praised to gkmc which is a classic but don’t diss jay you fucking peice of shit
gkmc is slowly making it into my top 20 of all time
lol at the jabs at jay-z smh
I wonder if gkmc will ever be topped…
The fact you bump this album non stop tells me you need the kind of help that involves shock therapy.
Nope. He’s perfectly fine.
he said american gangster was a collection of songs LOL,
american gangster is a classic breuh, its as good as gkmc therefore american gangster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your whole discography.
why did hiphopdx delete the jay-z shots ? it sounds like he dissed kendrick when he didn’t… wtf is that for a journalist ?
hiphopdx smh, these niggas decided to modify the statement
hes right about gkmc, inredible album, probably the best of the 2010s after MBDTF… but how you gonna diss jay and the whole mafioso genre ? AG >>>>> nwts & tc combined
rick ross > drake
rick ross would shit on drake, ross is up there with kendrick as far as best rappers goes
Nah.
“rick ross would shit on drake, ross is up there with kendrick as far as best rappers goes”
This wasn’t funny, try again.
He’s actually not that into the shit aspect, he prefers it when you sit & pee on him, I pooped on him once & he didn’t like it as much, the kid sure does love drinking pee pee though, I put some in that little trophy thing he’s drinking out of.
drake sucks, he needs to release his first great album if he wants to throw shots at jay-z…
When has Drake ever thrown shots at Jay-z.. You mean kendrick?
In the unedited article from just above, did you read any of it?
NWTS ain’t even album of the week
It is currently #1 on the Gay & Lesbian top 100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqEjD12Gm4M
so much awkward tension in this, stop talking about Kendrick, weirdo.
Drake wants K.Dot’s penis more than anything in this world.
Hov diss?
Has anyone on this website even heard drakes old stuff? Im talking masterpieces like “Say whats real”, ” The calm”, “Asthma team”, “Going in for life” and “Closer” ? And even recent shit like “The resistance”, “The ride”, “Fireworks” , “Look what you’ve done” and “Club paradise” all those songs are lyrically untouchable. Stop hating on the him because you never felt the need to give his music a listen. Drake will always be a better mc only because his lyrics are out of this world. Show that boy some love.
u right drake is a beast i like both drake n hendrick the world needs both my fav is drake but i like both
kendrick i meant
Drake’s lyrics really are not that impressive but to each their own. His voice is good,delivery,hooks but not lyrics so much.
John- co-sign. Correct
I want nothing more than to show that boy some love, my butthole puckers up when I hear Drake sing. I was watching a video the other day & my weiner got so heavy. I wish I could fill up his anus with my juice & watch him creampie squirt it all out as I lick it around & around. I might even suck his doodie stick if it’s not too smelly, OMG I am so hard.
does he really got a song called “Asthma team”?
LMAO
Kendrick >>> drake
kendrick is the best rapper since nas in 94.. I’d rank him higher than prime em
Kendrick’zs worst solo songs are twice as good as drake best songs
Who cares guys, I just want to buttfuck him into the dirt, anyone else feel this way?
This canadian hip-hop site sure loves them some drake
I want Drake to lick my bhole, I wonder if his weiner is white
this bitch sonned jay-z and that part ain’t even on hhdx ? lol, who does he think he is ? cool to give props to the classic gkmc, but respect AG lmao
this fucking lame dissed jay-z and hhdx trying to cover this shit lmao.
anyway, nice poprs for gkmc, its certainly the best album of our time
hes right, this album is a masterpiece and twice as good as anything he could release in his life…
but the jayz dissing is a bitch move
AG>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>drakes catalog
Amazing ….Everytime Drake speaks people go nuts. This dude could fart and you got half the people saying it ain’t a real fart and the other half saying it’s the greatest fart in the world.
I would probably lean more towards it being a gay fart because Drake is homosexual, more like a butt queef
Smells like weiners
“I would never want to be restricted to that.”
I don’t get what he’s saying here. You can talk about a variety of themes, issues, and personal stories within the framework of a concept album (which Kendrick did). Shit’s only limiting if you think that way.
ALSO, this headline is misleading. Drake said that GKMC was the most recent great concept album, but this headline implies that Drake’s saying GKMC is going to go down as THE LAST great concept album ever. If he said the latter, that’d be really stupid.
Interesting, what do you suppose Drake’s farts smell like?
Probably penises & balleses
“There are rappers that are good at telling stories about people that aren’t themselves. There are people that have vast imaginations to go and make up a story just to achieve a point. I draw off life experiences.
this part
So that’s why his music is so fucking faggy, makes a lot of sense now.
drake always been showing kendrick love. putting him on his albums, taking him on tour and shit. yet the old school baggy jean niggas at TDE always want to instigate shit
I wish Drake & Kendrick would just have intercourse & get it over with already. I know Drake & Manziel have broken off their relationship & there really wasn’t much to the fling with Future. Also, I don’t think Kayne Kardashian is going to leave his wife, so that’s just a fling as wee. Drake & Kendrick could be the it couple if they would just stop ignoring their urges. It’s a good time to cause Drake is on the rebound & he won’t be single for long.
Spoken like a tight jean homo!
You guys are idiots saying that GKMC is better than drake’s whole discography! Do you recall Drake being on Kendrick’s shit? Give a lil bit of credit to the guy; he is a legitimate artist!
Drake loves you
Kendrick was on Drakes shit (take care) and didn’t even bother to title him, only in the small credits (where the songwriters are) stfu
Keep lying, Drake stanley.
how do you now its the last you faggot jew
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This guy stays giving Kendrick backhanded compliments. He’s jealous!
He really lusts for his penis
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we don’t support them. Ironic if you tell me. Oh well Beyonce will stay on top for the coming weeks cause her fanbase support her.
Throwing more shots while trying to throw fony compliments! Concept albums are the best albums period! Check the history!
“Jay Z murdered Drake on every track they ever did”
Off That wasn’t either rappers’ best moment.
And then Because the Internet came out…