So is lil nas X a rapper and if so what percentage of his discography is rap
Let’s see
How is Morgan Wallen country ass racking up so many streams?
Nashville Apple numbers checked out he's got the number one song there
okay, now let’s use this argument about Views era Drake
his biggest songs of his whole career at the time were Hotline Bling and One Dance
he’s always been more melodic rap-singy than strictly rap
would you have called Drake a pop artist who rapped when he wanted in 2016?
So you're using 1 album era for Drake vs. 3 album eras for Doja Cat? Room for Improvement, Comeback Season, So Far Gone, Thank Me Later, Nothing Was the Same, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive are all rap releases. Even if you don't categorize Views as one, More Life, Scorpion, Dark Lane Demo Tapes and Certified Lover Boy are also rap releases. That's not counting the dozens of rap features Drake has done. Comparing him to Doja Cat is insulting. Why?
1. Drake has released A LOT more rap music than Doja Cat ever has and probably ever will.
2. Drake is the most dominant rap artist in hip-hop history and he managed that making mostly rap music.
3. It's not that hard to understand that it's very possible for an artist to have rap verses and still not be categorized as a rapper (Chris Brown, Ed Sheeran, Fergie, Beyoncè are all singers who have rapped several times in songs before but no one categorizes them as rappers because most of their discography has them singing).
Doja Cat is a talented artist. Whether she's singing, dancing or rapping — she's clearly gifted at it but she doesn't rap nearly enough to be considered a rapper the way many of her peers like Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, etc.
I'll give you this example: Cardi can have 3 R&B songs on her next album and guess what? No one will call her an R&B singer. That's how it works with Doja Cat and being labelled a rapper. It's totally fine if she sees herself as a rapper. She should just not be offended or upset when other people don't see her that way.
Nicki made pop songs as well and has sang as well but she established herself as a rapper first and she has countless classic feature rap verses under her belt where she's eating up male rappers. She was never afraid of that smoke and her discography as well is more than 70% rap so no one in their right mind can take away her rap pedigree.
If Doja Cat wants that, all she has to do is rap A WHOLE LOT MORE than she sings moving forward and it'd also help if she had some memorable rap verses because I really can't name a single Doja Cat rap verse that's ever stuck with me. I can't even remember her lines.
How is Morgan Wallen country ass racking up so many streams?
My streaming farms doing overtime
Oklama Nationals still coping.
https://twitter.com/BlackySpeakz/status/1528164041675493376Imagine what his numbers would be if his fans weren’t listening to it 50 times in order to “get” it.
Doja Cat
Is a pop artist
That raps when she wants
Her biggest songs
Are pop songs
She's more melodic rap-singy
Than strictly rap
Even if her biggest songs are pop songs, there's nothing wrong with that. You can say the same for Nicki. The main difference is that Doja Cat simply hasn't RAPPED enough and doesn't make enough RAP MUSIC to be categorized as a rapper. Anybody can rap. That doesn't automatically make them a rapper. Countless singers throughout music history have rapped on songs yet they're never seen as rappers because rap music doesn't make up most of their discography. That's all it is.
No one is saying she can't sing and rap but even someone like Drake that raps WAY MORE than he sings still gets s*** about not being a rapper and that's Drake who has been running the rap game for the last 14 years and has more that 250+ RAP SONGS to his name. How more Doja Cat?
So you're using 1 album era for Drake vs. 3 album eras for Doja Cat? Room for Improvement, Comeback Season, So Far Gone, Thank Me Later, Nothing Was the Same, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive are all rap releases. Even if you don't categorize Views as one, More Life, Scorpion, Dark Lane Demo Tapes and Certified Lover Boy are also rap releases. That's not counting the dozens of rap features Drake has done. Comparing him to Doja Cat is insulting. Why?
1. Drake has released A LOT more rap music than Doja Cat ever has and probably ever will.
2. Drake is the most dominant rap artist in hip-hop history and he managed that making mostly rap music.
3. It's not that hard to understand that it's very possible for an artist to have rap verses and still not be categorized as a rapper (Chris Brown, Ed Sheeran, Fergie, Beyoncè are all singers who have rapped several times in songs before but no one categorizes them as rappers because most of their discography has them singing).
Doja Cat is a talented artist. Whether she's singing, dancing or rapping — she's clearly gifted at it but she doesn't rap nearly enough to be considered a rapper the way many of her peers like Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, etc.
I'll give you this example: Cardi can have 3 R&B songs on her next album and guess what? No one will call her an R&B singer. That's how it works with Doja Cat and being labelled a rapper. It's totally fine if she sees herself as a rapper. She should just not be offended or upset when other people don't see her that way.
Nicki made pop songs as well and has sang as well but she established herself as a rapper first and she has countless classic feature rap verses under her belt where she's eating up male rappers. She was never afraid of that smoke and her discography as well is more than 70% rap so no one in their right mind can take away her rap pedigree.
If Doja Cat wants that, all she has to do is rap A WHOLE LOT MORE than she sings moving forward and it'd also help if she had some memorable rap verses because I really can't name a single Doja Cat rap verse that's ever stuck with me. I can't even remember her lines.
get a life son good LAWD
Let’s see
Instead of just looking at rapping like Doja, I looked at actual hiphop songs with mostly rapping in them (aka his verses). Across Lil Nas X’s 31 songs in his entire discography there are 14 hiphop songs with primarily rapping on them. 4 of those songs are from his studio discography which has 21 songs @Nessy
So you're using 1 album era for Drake vs. 3 album eras for Doja Cat? Room for Improvement, Comeback Season, So Far Gone, Thank Me Later, Nothing Was the Same, If You're Reading This It's Too Late, What a Time to Be Alive are all rap releases. Even if you don't categorize Views as one, More Life, Scorpion, Dark Lane Demo Tapes and Certified Lover Boy are also rap releases. That's not counting the dozens of rap features Drake has done. Comparing him to Doja Cat is insulting. Why?
1. Drake has released A LOT more rap music than Doja Cat ever has and probably ever will.
2. Drake is the most dominant rap artist in hip-hop history and he managed that making mostly rap music.
3. It's not that hard to understand that it's very possible for an artist to have rap verses and still not be categorized as a rapper (Chris Brown, Ed Sheeran, Fergie, Beyoncè are all singers who have rapped several times in songs before but no one categorizes them as rappers because most of their discography has them singing).
Doja Cat is a talented artist. Whether she's singing, dancing or rapping — she's clearly gifted at it but she doesn't rap nearly enough to be considered a rapper the way many of her peers like Latto, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B, etc.
I'll give you this example: Cardi can have 3 R&B songs on her next album and guess what? No one will call her an R&B singer. That's how it works with Doja Cat and being labelled a rapper. It's totally fine if she sees herself as a rapper. She should just not be offended or upset when other people don't see her that way.
Nicki made pop songs as well and has sang as well but she established herself as a rapper first and she has countless classic feature rap verses under her belt where she's eating up male rappers. She was never afraid of that smoke and her discography as well is more than 70% rap so no one in their right mind can take away her rap pedigree.
If Doja Cat wants that, all she has to do is rap A WHOLE LOT MORE than she sings moving forward and it'd also help if she had some memorable rap verses because I really can't name a single Doja Cat rap verse that's ever stuck with me. I can't even remember her lines.
i wasn’t using that album era as the example, i was saying imagine we were still in 2016, and nothing past Views had dropped yet. Drake’s biggest hits at the time were pop songs, which was Quadra’s whole reasoning for saying Doja couldn’t be considered a rapper
okay, now let’s use this argument about Views era Drake
his biggest songs of his whole career at the time were Hotline Bling and One Dance
he’s always been more melodic rap-singy than strictly rap
would you have called Drake a pop artist who rapped when he wanted in 2016?
what makes doja more of a rapper than a singer?
All 3 of her albums are pop and r&b.
Is chris brown a rapper or a singer who raps? Chris brown look at me now verse is better than any doja verse.
what makes doja more of a rapper than a singer?
All 3 of her albums are pop and r&b.
Is chris brown a rapper or a singer who raps? Chris brown look at me now verse is better than any doja verse.
who cares about the distinction. they don’t have to be one or the other. they’re singers and rappers. putting them in a box to say “rapper who sings” vs. “singer who raps” is lame
who cares about the distinction. they don’t have to be one or the other. they’re singers and rappers. putting them in a box to say “rapper who sings” vs. “singer who raps” is lame
She is still mainly a singer. She doesn't even have a rap album.
She is still mainly a singer. She doesn't even have a rap album.
her entire soundcloud discog is rap
Nicki doesn’t have a full rap album either, her full rap projects are her mixtapes. you gonna say Nicki’s not a rapper because of that?
her entire soundcloud discog is rap
Nicki doesn’t have a full rap album either, her full rap projects are her mixtapes. you gonna say Nicki’s not a rapper because of that?
You don't have to have a 100% rapping project. Does Wayne making How To Love make C4 no longer a rap album... obviously not. Rappers are allowed to sing.
You don't have to have a 100% rapping project. Does Wayne making How To Love make C4 no longer a rap album... obviously not. Rappers are allowed to sing.
right that’s my point
i wasn’t using that album era as the example, i was saying imagine we were still in 2016, and nothing past Views had dropped yet. Drake’s biggest hits at the time were pop songs, which was Quadra’s whole reasoning for saying Doja couldn’t be considered a rapper
Well, that's not a good example because Drake released two bonafide rap mixtapes before Views dropped, not to talk about the 3 rap albums he released before that.
You're acting like Planet Her is Doja Cat's first album. It's not. It's actually her third, plus she has an EP she dropped in 2014 so people have a sizeable amount of songs to go on. It's not like she's just straight rapping on every other album except her latsst album.
Amala (her debut album) is mostly R&B records. By Hot Pink (her sophomore album) she started making more pop-leaning records with a couple of R&B records on the side and by Planet Her (her third album) she fully dived into making pop music so there was never a time since she came out as "Doja Cat" that we've seen her RAP or drop albums that have her mostly rapping so why should anyone see her as a rapper?
Also, just to be clear, the ability to rap does not make you a rapper. ANYBODY can rap. That doesn't automatically make you a rap artist. Like I said earlier, countless singers over the last 30+ years have rapped or sang over hip-hop influenced beats or used rap inflections when singing — none of those things makes them a rap artist. That's all anyone is saying with Doja Cat.
Is chris brown a rapper yes or no
yes obviously
being a rapper vs. a singer is not a binary
both can be true at once and are true for many artists
her entire soundcloud discog is rap
Nicki doesn’t have a full rap album either, her full rap projects are her mixtapes. you gonna say Nicki’s not a rapper because of that?
As "Doja Cat" does she have RAP SONGS/RAP ALBUMS? I'm not talking songs she made in her bedroom 10 years ago before she made her mainstream debut.
Take Lizzo for example: her early albums have her rapping a lot more than she sang but over her last 2 albums, she began singing a lot more and basically ditched the rapper label even though she still raps in her songs. Notice how no one calls her a rapper?
Well, that's not a good example because Drake released two bonafide rap mixtapes before Views dropped, not to talk about the 3 rap albums he released before that.
You're acting like Planet Her is Doja Cat's first album. It's not. It's actually her third, plus she has an EP she dropped in 2014 so people have a sizeable amount of songs to go on. It's not like she's just straight rapping on every other album except her latsst album.
Amala (her debut album) is mostly R&B records. By Hot Pink (her sophomore album) she started making more pop-leaning records with a couple of R&B records on the side and by Planet Her (her third album) she fully dived into making pop music so there was never a time since she came out as "Doja Cat" that we've seen her RAP or drop albums that have her mostly rapping so why should anyone see her as a rapper?
Also, just to be clear, the ability to rap does not make you a rapper. ANYBODY can rap. That doesn't automatically make you a rap artist. Like I said earlier, countless singers over the last 30+ years have rapped or sang over hip-hop influenced beats or used rap inflections when singing — none of those things makes them a rap artist. That's all anyone is saying with Doja Cat.
how am i acting like Planet Her is Doja’s first album? she makes R&B, Pop, and Rap, so she’s a singer, a popstar, and a rapper. it’s that simple.
yes obviously
being a rapper vs. a singer is not a binary
both can be true at once and are true for many artists
The point is that culturally, he isn't a rap artist. He's an R&B singer who raps on songs sometimes. That's what you don't seem to be getting.
This whole debate is really simple to understand. Can Doja Cat rap? Absolutely. Is she a rap artist? F*** no. Is it possible to have several songs of you rapping and still not be regarded as a rap artist? Absolutely.
As "Doja Cat" does she have RAP SONGS/RAP ALBUMS? I'm not talking songs she made in her bedroom 10 years ago before she made her mainstream debut.
Take Lizzo for example: her early albums have her rapping a lot more than she sang but over her last 2 albums, she began singing a lot more and basically ditched the rapper label even though she still raps in her songs. Notice how no one calls her a rapper?
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