Ah, Drake, What a controversial and influential figure in the music industry. While so many mainstream listeners adore him and feel as if every project he touches can do no wrong, there are also the people who try and stray away from the mainstream and dive deeper into the community. These brave souls either hate drake or like him but are too afraid to actually say something cause most of the hardcore music fans have roasted him to pieces. Our opinion on the artist now has changed since his claim to fame with Thank Me Later in 2010. At first we all thought he was this up and coming rapper who had game and could back it up, but in these recent days it has been revealed that drake had used ghostwriters for most if not all of his projects as well as starting pointless “beef” with other famous artists and kind of just ruining his image. Well, at least for us he was ruined. Besides these setbacks, no one can deny that drake still had impacted the music community and although he had ghostwriters, he had the voice to back himself up. When you think of 2010, every young adult thinks of Drake’s famous single “Headlines.” It was catchy, dope as all hell, and had some pretty meaningful lyrics about being in the spotlight, a very relate-able dream pretty much every listener thinks about. Drake in his golden age had produced Take Care to Nothing Was the Same to If you’re Reading This It’s Too Late all in short stretches in a short amount of time. In these albums, Drake did have a ghostwriter but Drake had a fire and a purpose while making these tracks. These albums are so good because he just goes at anybody who he chooses and he doesn’t seem to care about the consequences. At the time we thought it was cool and granted, it did sound really dope but that’s the reason why the community started to hate him as well as us at Blonded. In the end, all of us here enjoy the old Drake as more of a guilty pleasure and respect the grind and change he brought to this community. What do you guys think of Drake?
Side Note: Drake would have never existed if 808’s didn’t exist so this is more evidence as to why Kanye is such a good artist and genius.
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