FEATURED Mos Def: Drake Is Pop, Not Hip Hop

[Loch121]

Drake is a hip hop/rap pop artist a Hip Pop artist

He mostly makes good to great music for many genres.

Now seeing it from Mos Def's view and him being a 90's NY underground hip hop legend who ran with ppl like The Native Tongue and what not,I get what he's saying

In his era Drake would have been considered an ultra commercial artist and a sell out.

There's really no equivalent to Drake in Mos Def's era really musically.

You could say artists like Ja Rule,Nelly,Wayne,and Kanye and a few others were pre cursers to Drake's sound.

I don't agree with him,but I get why somebody like him would say that.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Ironically we all thought he was from Houston when he first hit the scene

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

 

[God_Body]

Black on Both sides>>>>>>Drake's career

lol, no it’s not. What’s wrong with you niggas.

 

[SheerExcellence]

real hip hop

i’m sure mos has a reason why it’s cool for him to sell gmc trucks and Wales Bonner’s hoodies and jackets without being considered consumeristic

 

[Loch121]

My first comment on this was strictly based on the clips I saw when he spoke on Drake

When you hear more of the interview it gets way deeper than commercial vs underground or pop vs artistic

Mos is really talking about capitalism and zionism and shit way deeper than "hating on Drake"

 

[Black_Samson]

Mos got y’all mad as hell Bwahahahahahaha

Yall mad at a genre hopper that is damn near untouchable careerwise

he did all that and still kept it mos def.

Bwahahahahahaha

Y’all wanna cut up so bad but can’t cause dude is just that exceptional at whatever he does.

I hope his next album is a duo album with Bobby Mcferrin just to make yall mad.

 

[Goldie]

 

[ChicagoFigure]

Hmm "talented emcee"

Is that a pop artist performer?

 

[southsil4lil]

Mos Def forced to lean back

You hate to see it

 

[VIBE]

Drake got Suge Knight type pull?

Bro sent the owls and he hit rewind.

 

[BDBIID]

I don't do well with people makin' disses or makin' threats
Woi-oi, man got flown like private jets, for way, way less
I know you tried to get one down on us, ever since then it's been stress
'Cause you know the Reps dem owe you one and we always pay them debts

 

[OGDirtyD]

Clown behavior. Should of just stood on it.

 

[Goldie]

"You pop shit, apologize, nigga just ask Kiss"

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Yea Mos might be on bozo time lol



Plus Mos lived in Toronto for a lil bit

 

[a.mann]

Drake got Suge Knight type pull?

Bro sent the owls and he hit rewind.

Seems like Mos got a phone call…

 

[RandomNegro]

Seems like Mos got a phone call…

Which makes the whole thing funnier because it doesn’t make him any less of a pop star so I don’t know why someone would make that call.

 

[Inori]

Seems like Mos got a phone call…

yall givin Drake a lil too much credit

 

[Dwayne]

Which makes the whole thing funnier because it doesn’t make him any less of a pop star so I don’t know why someone would make that call.

But he’s not a pop star.

Uzi Vert is a pop star
Lil Nas X is a pop star

I don’t see Drake being in that category at all.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Bro Drake is the biggest star on the planet besides Swift and Beyoncé he is a pop star