Los216
The Game Is The Game
Copying styles, copying accents. Being a media creation. Being an actor playing the part of a rapper. Making songs like started from the bottom when you were a teen soap star. Latching onto Wayne, to bun, dj screw, to future, to 21, to yatchy, to sexy redd, etc. For style points.
Drake isn't an authentic portrayal of who Aubrey Graham really is. It's an amalgam of all the influences he cozies up to for acceptance and credibility. Dude 37 years old and just now is popping out with beads in his hair and painted finger nails. Dude doesn't even write his own songs, he's literally performing someone else's art.
He said this shit like it was some kinda stunt. Cause to him being conscious is some shit you can throw on/take off. It aint actually in him as a way of being, it's just another style to wear for props. He's not hip hop, he's hip hop-adjacent.
Do you apply this same line of thinking to all rappers? Like skateboarder Wayne and Pill Popping Future?