I feel like maybe letting the homie rangerbob go in on Drake (and blog-rap in general) might’ve been a bad look without me supplementing his rants with some thoughts on the subject. Because sometimes you gotta be direct with the people.
At this point, Drake has gotten big enough so that regular people who don’t look to the Internest for their hip-hop needs actually know of him. That’s a breakthrough for blog-rap. This shows that on some level, blogs can be used as a viable testing grounds to launch an artist from Internest fame into actual, real-life fame (though whether that’s by the power of bloggers or by the power of labels to manipulate bloggers is a different debate).
So we get to “Forever” which isn’t really special one way or the other except that it features Drake, a rising star, and Kanye and Lil Wayne, the two artists that labels are trying to mimic the most and most definitely, the two artists from whom Drake derives his style the most. One of my rap friends told me that this track, “Forever,” is what converted him. He had been hating on Drake previously but this made him give Mr. Degrassi some respect. We talked about it some and then he described Drake as “like if Kanye could rap.” Read the rest of this entry »
