OT: Drake..

[Bynumite]

Pusha put him in a body bag. In a different era and if Drake was an actual rapper that would have damaged his career.

But since Drake is a male Miley Cyrus. He doesn't write or produce, just lends his voice. He will remain popular until his fanbase of teenage white girls grows out of his music.

[Spurtacular]

Would you rather go to a e Girls reunion concert or a Drake concert?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cid=spartandhp

[Spurtacular]

Drake is the an hesis of what rap music is about. It's a toss up between him and Snitch Ross on who the biggest fraud is. Canadian Jew whiteboy Teeny Bop telenovela actor rapping about things he had before he "got in the game" vs. a prison guard, no criminal record, iden y thief. Both rap about they've never and places they've never been.


Rap used to be the ghetto blues- it was a poetic, musical diatribe that resonated with the urban youth because they shared the same plight. Then came the bling-bling consumerism rap, but it was still from the same credo that made rap what it was. It hasn't been the same since Lil Wayne proclaimed "hip hop is dead" which was a lie and Cash Money begat the got movement. Rap/hip-hop- the music the genre originally spawned and, most importantly, the message and the audience that message was crafted for are dead. Now it's a sexual filled industry Whitey runs.

So touching, your dishonor.

So desperate to go back to what you really really really believed in at 15.

[Killakobe81]

Sorry to break it to you, but virtually all mainstream rap is consumed heavily by young white kids they're far more likely to listen to ty rappers like Kendrick or 2Pac, since there's an element of shame for white suburban males for listening to Drake IMO..

Please Kendrick and Drake are not even comparable. Kendrick on the songs he is just featured on the Black Panther soundtrack has put out more quality music than Drake has this year. Drake easily has more streams/views... But I would much rather maintain my artistic integrity and still sell records and make millions than to sell my soul to do so.
Drake is trying to find himself yiu can tell.it seems he almost wants to switch to R&B singer full time on this project. Maybe that will work for him I don't know. But pretty crazy that so far he really doesn't have a classic album this late in to his career He has plenty of hits: The motto, hotline bling etc.
But nothing close to Illmatic, Blueprint, TPAB, Dropout etc. You can make popular music that still resonates with the culture outside of strip clubs... And teenage girls... DRAKE just never really figured it out.
As for the Six nine crap dude is dumb AF... Clashing out gang culture in Houston, LA etc he is playing a very dangerous game with borderline talent.

[ambchang]

I remember you being a bit of an audiophile. "Good music" is still being made in the classical/jazz/academic areas, and it's exceedingly well mixed and mastered, unlike modern pop which they master and mix for earbuds and Bluetooth speakers. For popular music, Battles is good stuff.

Thanks. Good stuff. Good to see something with a little depth.

Can’t say I’m an audiophile as I got tin ears. That said, just got an old sansui amp. Those things sounds phenomenal. Gonna have it restored but it’s gonna cost me a pretty penny. I just don’t have the skills to do it.

Listening to old stuff still, death cab for cutie lately, broken social scene as well. But just older bands in general.

[lebomb]

He is MUCH, MUCH better than all of the "lil" this and "lil" that rappers that are literally here today and gone tomorrow with their WACK rap and so called hip-hop. Its garbage. Drakes tunes at least are listenable and carry a good beat.

[lefty]

Would you rather go to a e Girls reunion concert or a Drake concert?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...cid=spartandhp

Why not suggest a beisbol game while you're at it?

[CitizenDwayne]

I liked Pusha T’s “Daytona”. He s on Drake quite a bit on there.

I just have a hard time envisioning a grown ass man willingly listening to Drake by himself.

[BD24]

Please Kendrick and Drake are not even comparable. Kendrick on the songs he is just featured on the Black Panther soundtrack has put out more quality music than Drake has this year. Drake easily has more streams/views... But I would much rather maintain my artistic integrity and still sell records and make millions than to sell my soul to do so.
Drake is trying to find himself yiu can tell.it seems he almost wants to switch to R&B singer full time on this project. Maybe that will work for him I don't know. But pretty crazy that so far he really doesn't have a classic album this late in to his career He has plenty of hits: The motto, hotline bling etc.
But nothing close to Illmatic, Blueprint, TPAB, Dropout etc. You can make popular music that still resonates with the culture outside of strip clubs... And teenage girls... DRAKE just never really figured it out.
As for the Six nine crap dude is dumb AF... Clashing out gang culture in Houston, LA etc he is playing a very dangerous game with borderline talent.

Spot on tbh.

stopped responding when he called Kendrick a ty rapper. Clearly he is just doing his contrarian bull , and on the off chance he actually thinks Kendrick is ty he isn’t worth discussing rap with tbh.

[DMC]

I'm not the biggest hip-hop fan and never listened to Drake, but the genre seems to be at a dead end creatively (at least in the mainstream) for the most part. The biggest "hip hop" acts in the country right now are face-tatted morons and about 70 different iterations of "Lil something something" that don't so much as rap as mumble/scream catchphrases (most of these songs only have like one badly written verse) over terribly produced FLStudio "beats."

Can someone explain the appeal of 6xxx6ninenine or whatever the his name is and other similar soundcloud garbage? Do kids really think this "scares" parents? I'm old enough to be a parent of a teenager and I would just laugh and mock my offspring if I caught him/her listening to some dip mumble about popping "Xannies" in da club.

Confounded whipper snappers and their new agey crap isn't music. Benny Goodman, that was music.

[Killakobe81]

Thanks. Good stuff. Good to see something with a little depth.

Can’t say I’m an audiophile as I got tin ears. That said, just got an old sansui amp. Those things sounds phenomenal. Gonna have it restored but it’s gonna cost me a pretty penny. I just don’t have the skills to do it.

Listening to old stuff still, death cab for cutie lately, broken social scene as well. But just older bands in general.

Amb knew there was a reason I fux with ya...
That is good stuff even if it's old.
Lately a buddy of mine got me access to some hi-res remaster of Stevie, Miles, Coltrane and even some Smashing Pumpkins. I need to update some components in my chain (my AVR is good but the one I want and preamp are both pricey) but really love the quality difference it makes already.

[Chucho]

Amb knew there was a reason I fux with ya...
That is good stuff even if it's old.
Lately a buddy of mine got me access to some hi-res remaster of Stevie, Miles, Coltrane and even some Smashing Pumpkins. I need to update some components in my chain (my AVR is good but the one I want and preamp are both pricey) but really love the quality difference it makes already.

Billy Corrigan is one of the most under rated, unnoticed musical geniuses of all time. He wrote every song and played basically every instrument on every album they recorded and the other band members were on the band for live gigs essentially. And you got to love the way he trolled the bands that called him a sellout when they made it big.

Mainstream music can be good. Drake isn't good tho.

[Chucho]

So touching, your dishonor.

So desperate to go back to what you really really really believed in at 15.

Yeah, your statements/insults hold no weight. You're a whacked out weirdo who has mentioned two specific males- your objects of desire obviously- enough times to cover 50 pages in just a few months.

You're a closeted with an easily spotted love for black attached to black she-males and you stalk two random dudes on a Spurs message board. You've got some issues, seek help you weirdo.

[hater]

American pop is dead to me tbqh

So dont listen to drake or thqt kardasian trump guy

I usually listed to old school or new latin music. New latin music is dope even with the reggaeton fad which IMO is finally starting to die

Btw talking about streamed music. That Despacito youtube is almost at 6 billion views

Billion

[ambchang]

Amb knew there was a reason I fux with ya...
That is good stuff even if it's old.
Lately a buddy of mine got me access to some hi-res remaster of Stevie, Miles, Coltrane and even some Smashing Pumpkins. I need to update some components in my chain (my AVR is good but the one I want and preamp are both pricey) but really love the quality difference it makes already.

I’ve always been a rock guy but I’m trying to get into jazz and blues. Mostly the biggest of the names like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. But for rock, anything from Beatles to white stripes is good with me. Some of the newer stuff is nice as well
But I’m just so out of it.

The home setup is decent just nothing amazing, and most of that is through headphones (grado, hifiman, stax, diy even) and they sound amazing. I’d have to spend so much more for an equivalent quality for speakers.

[Killakobe81]

I’ve always been a rock guy but I’m trying to get into jazz and blues. Mostly the biggest of the names like Miles Davis and John Coltrane. But for rock, anything from Beatles to white stripes is good with me. Some of the newer stuff is nice as well
But I’m just so out of it.

The home setup is decent just nothing amazing, and most of that is through headphones (grado, hifiman, stax, diy even) and they sound amazing. I’d have to spend so much more for an equivalent quality for speakers.

That is one of the reasons why Kendrick's TPAB is so good it mixes westcoast 90's rap, with funk, sould and rock. The instrumentation is amazing including horns. Good Kdd and DMAN are both excellent and DAMN is excellent sonically but musically TPAB is probably the best rap album since Kanye' MDTF which also fused so many difffernt sounds from Rhianna to ELton John.

As for speakers oobviously you could spend crazy dough but as long as you have something decent it really enhances the game viewing experience as well as music. Wont be as good as your headphones but at least you can clean, do projects troll kobe stans while you listen without being restricted a cord.

[DJR210]

Pusha T really hurt this dude's bottom line for now.. The whole 30 year old deadbeat dad thing on his shtick of being some young 20 something year old bachelor singing songs for the lonely or depressed out there. It went from people worshiping this guy, to a ton of negative reviews of his latest album and the outrage on the Spotify "takeover" .. shouldn't have been so eager to beef with a lyricist

[lebomb]

Pusha T is whack as all . sounds like a cartoon character.

[vy65]

I remember you being a bit of an audiophile. "Good music" is still being made in the classical/jazz/academic areas, and it's exceedingly well mixed and mastered, unlike modern pop which they master and mix for earbuds and Bluetooth speakers. For popular music, Battles is good stuff.

[Killakobe81]

BTW can't be a great rapper if you use ghost writers. That makes you an actor or a performer not a true rap artist.

[vy65]

Drake is seriously horse . Anyone who listens to that is actually re ed.

[Spurtacular]

Yeah, your statements/insults hold no weight. You're a whacked out weirdo who has mentioned two specific males- your objects of desire obviously- enough times to cover 50 pages in just a few months.

You're a closeted with an easily spotted love for black attached to black she-males and you stalk two random dudes on a Spurs message board. You've got some issues, seek help you weirdo.

Objection, your dishonor!

You're an idiot!

[Clipper Nation]

Pusha T really hurt this dude's bottom line for now.. The whole 30 year old deadbeat dad thing on his shtick of being some young 20 something year old bachelor singing songs for the lonely or depressed out there. It went from people worshiping this guy, to a ton of negative reviews of his latest album and the outrage on the Spotify "takeover" .. shouldn't have been so eager to beef with a lyricist

Also, the only way the lyrics on Scorpion could have been more embarrassing for Drake is if Push ghostwrote them himself. Dude literally rewrote the album at the last minute to put in some lines about how he really is what Pusha said he was.

[The Gemini Method]

Not a Drake fan, but he fill that niche well. Pusha T has been garbage up until the point he pulled the low bearing fruit and dropped Drake. Dude is redundant about the "game" but didn't really thrive in it. But he did have others to float his career. Got to give the Canadian credit for keeping himself paid. Even if the biggest fans are teenage girls and what seems the local radio stations here in L.A.

[ambchang]

That is one of the reasons why Kendrick's TPAB is so good it mixes westcoast 90's rap, with funk, sould and rock. The instrumentation is amazing including horns. Good Kdd and DMAN are both excellent and DAMN is excellent sonically but musically TPAB is probably the best rap album since Kanye' MDTF which also fused so many difffernt sounds from Rhianna to ELton John.

As for speakers oobviously you could spend crazy dough but as long as you have something decent it really enhances the game viewing experience as well as music. Wont be as good as your headphones but at least you can clean, do projects troll kobe stans while you listen without being restricted a cord.

I actually got good kid maad city because you guys are pushing Kendrick so much. I haven’t had a good listen yet but like what I heard. It reminds me of the early outcast (aquemini) but I could be way off.

Big fan of the flaming lips and all that grunge stuff in the early mid 90s but that entire went down the gutter with nickel back and creed. Loved rage against the machine but then limp bizkit ruined that genre as well.

Huge fan of Radiohead but they aren’t really a genre and post rock died pretty quick without really taking off.

So now I’m that angry old man ting on popular music because the lyrics are just embarrassing. I heard imagine dragon song once on radio and it was just re ed