FEATURED Who You Got: Drake, Cole or Kendrick?

[Chicity]

7:43 is what I listened and where I stopped lol I’m not listening to these bozos for an hr

But he made the point I made a while back and ppl tried to ridicule me for me when I said

“ what exactly do we know about Toronto s culture from Drake s music”

He ain’t event got the accent lol
Like he hit the scene sound like a southern artist and never stopped co opting

Like what is Toronto s sound musically and with them having the biggest artist in the world to date we don’t know lol

Nigga you read 420pages of bozos but 45mins too much lol

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Still the dopest thing to come out of the 6

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Nigga you read 420pages of bozos but 45mins too much lol

lmao at the stray caught by the ABW community

 

[Los216]

You right. Drake makes great ATL, Houston, and Miami music. Now tell him go make his own.

But first, he needs to figure out what that is. Does he know?

Do you know? He's from Toronto. What is their hip hop sound? Toronto is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. Do they need to have an identifiable sound?

What you're really trying to say is that Drake should be kicked out of hip hop because he doesn't have a regional sound? If not then feel free to correct me. No disrespect.

 

[Goldie]

 

[Word....Life]

So what….Drake didn’t wanna rap like Kardinal Offishal and Choclair?!

Nah….it’s just jokes…they really tha only 2 Canadian rappers pre-Drake I remember

 

[Englishdude]

So what….Drake didn’t wanna rap Kardinal Offishal and Choclair?!

Nah….it’s just jokes…they really tha only 2 Canadian rappers pre-Drake I remember

Drake was hating and beefing with Kardinal during drakes come up, guess they patched it up somewhen cus they got a track together sometime last year.

 

[obnoxiouslyfresh]

Do you know? He's from Toronto. What is their hip hop sound? Toronto is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. Do they need to have an identifiable sound?

What you're really trying to say is that Drake should be kicked out of hip hop because he doesn't have a regional sound? If not then feel free to correct me. No disrespect.

Whoooooooooooooooooooooo said that?????????

I'm not about to stop listening to Drake. I listened to Pipe Down last night

 

[Don Dada]

Whoooooooooooooooooooooo said that?????????

I'm not about to stop listening to Drake. I listened to Pipe Down last night

You should always support some1 who makes good music unless he is gay or a snitch.

 

[Los216]

Whoooooooooooooooooooooo said that?????????

I'm not about to stop listening to Drake. I listened to Pipe Down last night

I'm asking what is your end game. You want Drake to find a sound? What does that look like to you?

IMO, I don't think that there's any artist out right now that can do what Drake does. I'm talking about their musical talent as far as rappers go.

Also Drake reps Toronto heavily and he claims that. So is you big hang up that you don't know what Toronto's sound is and therefor Drake shouldn't sound like anything? I'm trying to understand even though we have different opinions.

 

[Victory_Kid]

Still the dopest thing to come out of the 6

C'mon, bro...Did you burn this song or K-Os music on CDs or put it on mp3 players and tell your peoples to check him out back then if you were familiar? Are you seriously checking for his music today?

If not, stop, please.

Secondly, that song isn't even K-Os best, much less out of the city. But you are entitled to your opinion but still stop lol

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

C'mon, bro...Did you burn this song or K-Os music on CDs or put it on mp3 players and tell your peoples to check him out back then if you were familiar? Are you seriously checking for his music today?

If not, stop, please.

Secondly, that song isn't even K-Os best, much less out of the city. But you are entitled to your opinion but still stop lol

So u gonna tell me about my opinion ? lol

And what if I did everything you asked ? And saw him perform last time he was in the city then what?

 

[Chicity]

@Los216 Ebro makes some really good points at 7:43 if you still need some more clarity on the colonizer shit. I think it also hits a little harder considering he ALSO has a white, jewish mommy.

"By the way, what is YOUR sound?"

This was a great breakdown

 

[OGDirtyD]

*NAWF ATLANTA x *

Guess what side of the real nigga challenge he stands on lol

Yall will be over that mid bop by next month. Kenny won by a landslide but that joint mid.

 

[Victory_Kid]

Do you know? He's from Toronto. What is their hip hop sound? Toronto is one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. Do they need to have an identifiable sound?

What you're really trying to say is that Drake should be kicked out of hip hop because he doesn't have a regional sound? If not then feel free to correct me. No disrespect.

We don't have a sound per se but have a texture, feel or some sort if that makes any sense. Folks already know about the influence of the Caribbean, West & East African cultures here.

The underwater, spacey, eerie/gloomy sound from the eras raging from So Far Gone, Take Care, and House of Balloons/Trilogy could've been coined as 'Toronto feel'...but we fucked that opportunity up because of all kinds of shit that I don't care to get into.

Drake definitely built a lot of the feel using Texan & Memphian hip-hop music and that's just being dead honest.

 

[Victory_Kid]

So u gonna tell me about my opinion ? lol

And what if I did everything you asked ? And saw him perform last time he was in the city then what?

Wait, you from Toronto fam?

And yes, I am going to tell you about your opinion as you told me and every other user about theirs in the past lol. This is a forum for discussion, no?

 

[Los216]

We don't have a sound per se but have a texture, feel or some sort if that makes any sense. Folks already know about the influence of the Caribbean, West & East African cultures here.

The underwater, spacey, eerie/gloomy sound from the eras raging from So Far Gone, Take Care, and House of Balloons/Trilogy could've been coined as 'Toronto feel'...but we fucked that opportunity up because of all kinds of shit that I don't care to get into.

Drake definitely built a lot of the feel using Texan & Memphian hip-hop music and that's just being dead honest.

Almost like Drake pioneered a sound for Toronto but I'm sure people will think that word is too strong.

He's what I'll say about Drake. Drake came into the mainstream in 2007-2009 when the tide was changing in hip hop and a lot of young and up and coming artist were moreso trying to be like their favorites rappers that they admired and not so much like the sound of teh region that they came from.

The game was changing by then. That's why I said earlier that the regional argument for hip hop is an outdated one. By the time Drake hit mainstream, physical media was dying and things like Soundcloud and YouTube were starting to become more popular. The majority of rappers that you heard freestyling and trying to be clever with their bars like Lil Wayne were not from N.O. or even the south. They were from everywhere. By this point, the influence of individual rappers was bigger than the influence of the sounds of the regions where they were.

 

[Chicity]

Yall will be over that mid bop by next month. Kenny won by a landslide but that joint mid.

Nah, rap been mid as whole for me

Outside the Metro/Future album and this, ain't nothing else to listen to

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Wait, you from Toronto fam?

And yes, I am going to tell you about your opinion as you told me and every other user about theirs in the past lol. This is a forum for discussion, no?

Ok let’s start there so Superstar from K-os is my favorite song to ever come out of Toronto

Now what are you going to do about it?

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Lmao niggas is crazy

Fam really said no that can t be your favorite song like nigga what?