it’s been a way to denounce his blackness since he started lol

The bars are most likely corny then.

I love when Fire and Desires comes on at Bed Bath & Beyond

Drew walls making all his target run vids have Drake songs already taking effect

Shopping with an edge is hilarious

Paid him to perform while he was coming up to try and give him a backhanded compliment years later prove even those that want to see you win don’t want to see you win more than them

It’d hurt my feelings if Mos said this bout my music

And as great of a pure MC Wayne has proved himself to be, I still think there’s actually a legitimate argument to be made that he’s not hip hop. It’s kind of a futile and pointless argument, but it could easily be made

Some people even feel like west coast gangsta rap isn’t hip hop, mostly because of the content and lack of the 5th element

Niggas really rewriting Weezy history itt, just to reinforce a point another person making. KTT really shameless sometimes.

No Bs I’ve heard Fire and Desire in stores and malls more than once, that song is huge. Probably one of his most loved songs

It says a lot that I had to search a bit to find that pic without a watermark

Feel like we seen so many og's give drake his flowers these last couple years that this one actually comes as a shock lol

theres two different timelines. pre jail wayne = maybe a pop feature here or there. post jail wayne = less tapes and more pop features
i still never heard his bruno mars songs

Never heard Wayne is pop. I did hear "Wayne is garbage" along with the memes, but that was mostly from Eminem fans

all that hate he got back in the day just for folks to begrudgingly give him flowers nowadays

From the beginning rap was fairly commercialized and they were trying to sell to as many people as possible.

I would say Drake is a student of the game and cares deeply about the culture

How long until Drake drops a song that has a bar referencing this ?

S*** like this

I don’t see that as a trait of pop music though, if anything it’s much more closely associated with hip-hop. Future, Wayne, Gucci, etc. countless names have gone on runs, dropping projects back to back to back that dwarf Drake’s output. It’s not really Drake’s fault that he can do it in an era where each project is commercialized.

I’m just saying, some people even felt that way about NWA. The conversation has been around. And while I don’t think we should be close minded on who or what hip hop can be, I don’t really think we should ignore the standards all together either. There’s a lot of nuance here

When we relax those standards too much we end up with a bunch of non rapping rappers like today. The melodic sing song rap thing that happened in the last 15 years is a new genre to me

Exactly. Nigga been my favorite rapper forever and I never saw that.

Most of this type of s*** was coming from Eminem fans

Within the actual culture Wayne was always respected. At least amongst my age group/generation

If that song is playing in a store it’s Urban Outfitters where a 23 yo is controlling the music