A Look At Drake’s Life Before Young Money

Drake always been a nice down-to-earth guy with great talent, but the problem is his affiliation with Lil Wayne that made him change his rap style and also has overexposed him over the last year

anyway I hope this guy have good success and become the hottest rapper in the game, if not yet (see how I say Hottest and not Greatest loool there’s a big difference sometimes that people don’t understand)

P.S.: Drake = another huge Jay-Z fan…. what more can we say about the Jigga man lol first Lil Wayne admits it, then Drake, how many other rapper has Hov inspired!?!?! I know I’m one of them lol

yeah i remember when this came on the N, it was mad longer, actually showed him in the studio n shit.

okay i take that back, aint seen the other one.

The rhyme book lol…he said he would have no use for the rhyme book lol. Also before Lil Wayne co-signed him Drake used to rap like Joe Budden/Jay-Z in his teens, his flow was remarkably different from what it is now. Now he uses the Lil Wayne monotone flow, he needs to switch it up from time to time.

I bet the RTNY Hip Hop police are gonna barge in any minute and find something to hate on dude about, probably gonna say “He’s fake” or “He already had money” etc.

WOrd, i wont comment on him being fake or anything like that. But that nigga edge up was fucked up in degrassi.

Why ppl call him “fake”??? home boy doesnt say he sells crack on the corner and threaten to murder dudes. your being part of the hiphop stereotype by saying he’s fake cuz he doesnt do wut most rappers talk about(even though most lie), rap is an art form not only 4 hood ppl but who ever chooses to. grow up and expand your mind. drake is a good artist and u shud be thankful he’s one more person u can hear on the radio that can actually spit unlike new boyz or gs boyz…..sorry but there fuckin lame

^^ preach

YEA, I AGREE WIT THAT LINE UP!!!! AND HE USE TO WEAR LONG SLEEVE THERMALS EVERY EPISODE,……. LMAO!!!! BUT IM GLAD HE HAS A DIFFRENT SUBJECT TO TALK ABOUT….. OTHER THEN DRUGS AND ISH…. BUT YEA BEIN WIT YOUNG MONEY CHANGED HIS EMOTIONS… THAT HE HAD ON COMEBACK SEASON…. BUT HE STILL GON BE HOT AND THE CD GON SELL

Totally aGree with #6..

Jay Z is Nice But If Nas Had Jay-Z Beats Nas would kill this nigga straight up Nas just dont got the greatest Beats but is hella lyrical

I have no problem with Drake. I do agree about the connection with Lil Wayne not being all that great… but the shit is working, so what do I know. Continued success man.

drake is fake

Drizzy!! Canada..you already know what it is!

That’s my nigga Drizzy!

What does Drake talk about? killing all these rappers you would swear I had a hit list? Like a sprain ankle I aint nothing to play with? Rappers talk about the street cause that where they came from. The streets. Most people can relate because thats where they are at or where they came from. Drake is ok but what is he really talking about. What message is he really giving. He is not better than Fab, Jeezy, or Cassidy. He fucks with Wayne who does not even own his own publishing. They use a computer to make there voice sound different. YM they all corney just got nice beats and hooks. Drake cant freestlye and if you do your research he talks about spitting written freestyles. He is ok good for radio but I want to or hear that real shit that shit where niggas had to struggle and go through different life experiences to make it. Like THUG MOTIVATION or BARS. Drake is a radio rapper good for girls but not for men

Dreeezyy….. Drakes Granny spits better then your average rapper hands down she a ride or die granny better know it by now.

I Agree with anyone who says its ridculous to call drake fake, I’ll give you that. My issue with him is that he is just not rap too me. Hence why I agree with you that say he should have never got with lil wayne the number one culpret in studio gangsterness it just paints drake in the wrong light and makes me not like him because they place him in the same catergory with – pac, big,rae,50,cam and so on and it just dont look right. I’m telling you drake gonna end upgetting punched the f*ck out by one of these rapppers whith his new cocky attitude that he got from trying to channel lil wayne

i think drake would be much better without wayne prolly not that famous and hype but lil wayne makes him look wack but drake flows is catchy

idk what the hell drake is talking about an Acura is a nice ass car for a teenager

Damn drake needs to get back on his old flow not saying his new flow isn’t nice but dude’s old flow is sick.

first and foremost, Drake can Rap, pretty good actually, but this nigga looks like a dweeb. he would’ve got his ass whooped for livin if he was from da hood.

Drake isn’t fake but he is an “Actor” lol Lil Wayne is fake and prolly why drake has developed such a generic sound like the rest of YM…if he would of signed to RocNation all hell woulda broke loose with a Jay-Z, Kanye, J.Cole, and Drake roster…

i agree with #6 ….. drake got Talent and he got money like other rappers but still manage to spit true shit that people can listen to instead of trying to be hood

All yall who say that Drizzy is whack because of Wayne or Drake isnt real cuz he aint from the streets or that his flow isnt nice yall are straight hatin. Yall just hate a dude who makes it like u want to hate dude cuz hes popular and got buzz now. Fuckin at #15 hes talkin about being better than rappers like he killin the game right now which he is. Yall act like everybody who didnt grow up on the fuckin streets dont have similar problems like in his song decieving or some shit. And yall act like everyone from the streets is sellin drugs or killin people. Only a small amount of niggaz from the hood are actually real fuckin hood. Drake dont rap about shit he dont got or shit he aint done. And if u think he changd everything when he joined Wayne u wrong. So Far Gone was classic Drake, it jsut had better production. Dude has na nasty flow and he original cuz he spits good and still manage to make his shit real or sensible. Yal hatin on this nigga and u probly stay bumpin his shit like “damn he can flow but hes got commercial buzz now so I cant like him” grow the fuck up. Yall should be happy an intelligent rapper finally made it again, cuz real spitterz like the Slaughterhouse rapperz or Lupe or Wale only make underground buzz when they make good music, Plus he aint a fuckin idiot like Kanye is in real life. Quit hatin cuz u wanna hate

P.S. If Drake got signed to Rocafella he’d prob just ride the bench like Hov’s done to hella talent that he should have made bigger. Hov is one of the nicest of all time but I would never wanna sign with him

lol I guess he wasn’t just rhymin when he said “toast to the fact that I moved out my momma basement”

SWAGGA ON NEGATIVE ZERO

co sign #15

drake is weak (haha go head YM/Wayne groupies, go ahead & hate on me hahahahahahahah)

bitches relate to that nicca, i dont.

He seems like a nice guy.

#15
your saying rappers spit about the streets cuz thats where they’re from which is true…but all rappers?

“He is ok good for radio but I want to or hear that real shit that shit where niggas had to struggle and go through different life experiences to make it.”

your trying to get away from stereotypical rap but here you are sayin you only like tracks written by trappers who struggle in the streets….nothing wrong with that but drake is doing it a different way. you said it yourself, “…go through different life experiences…” thats what drake did.

p.s. nothing wrong if he likes to read what he’s spittin, rap is poetry man.

Damn this makes me anticipate Drakes debut album even more… Did anyone else notice the
“Philly’s Most Wanted” Album cover!!!! Damn whatever happened to them?!?!?!

I gotta say this doesn’t surprise me to know that this went on a while ago tho…somehow i knew one day this would come out

…BUT NAW I GOTTA Agree wit #23 as long as he doesn’t FRONT on his style he should be alright. But on tha real Wayne smart by putting the dollars behind the talent… + on the flipside he DOES write his own ish too – idk – why hate on that??

^^^ you sayin he write his own shit like thats something special, nigga thats a pre requisite.this is not other genres of music, its HIP HOP, you MUST write your own shit.

dis nigga sound so fuckin white now now he speakin slang and acting like he hood only hood thing about aubrey graham is on his car fuck outta here

ayo HOME OF PHILLY only thing u anticipating is aubrey aka drake puttin his dick in ya mouth u sound like a dick rider wit ya lame ass comment “oh my god i really wants drakes album” u pussy

HE NEEDS THAT EMOTION THAT HE HAD BACK THEN… ON COMEBACK SEASON AND SO FAR GONE….. NOW HE JUS RAPPIN CUZ HE KNO HE GOOD….. BUT IM STILL GON BUMP HIS HITS THAT HE MAKE

i no hes imbaressed lol…i guess that he didnt think that canada life was gunna follow him to america..bu i aplaud him for bein real and not fakin his real life

Drakes a real dude and he got confidence.. he’ll stay successful but wayne is gonna fuck up his whole perspective.. notice he sayin then he wouldnt wanna drive a bmw or a benz cuz thats “pretentious” but look at him now.. success changin him

Every rapper hasnt trapped or shot a nigga so y should everybody rap about da same thing. Its betta to not rap about da shit than to rap about it then get calld on it and get fuckd up,rite? He’s one of dem ppl we music lovers call an artist. He’s stayin tru to himself which is wat he sposed to be doin. Yall niggas sittn at home hatin like u doin sumthin betta wit yo time. How bout yall make a couple mil then go holla at da nigga

next to eminem and kanye
drake is probably the reallest rapper in the game

-Aruba

lmao@#27 “bitches relate to that nicca, i dont”. I dont see what ALL THE HYPE is about when it comes to drake SMH

MAN THIS NIGGA LOOK LIKE A BITCH, AND THIS WASNT LONG AGO….LOL, HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH YEA I SAID IT….BUT HE CAN RAP THOUGH….BUT STILL HE LOOK GAY AS FUCK….LOL

AND HE SOUND LIKE TIGER WOODS WIT A COLD N THIS SHIT….I GOTTA FLAME HIS ASS FOR THIS SHIT NO HOMO…..AND HE LOOK LIKE A BURNT STEVE NASH WIT A NAPPY FRO….AND HE LOOK LIKE ALL U FAKE FUCKS WIT THESE WEAK ASS COMMENTS….ITS AMERICA GO HARD OR GO SOFT FROM THE BEGINNING AND PPL LIKE U….SAD WORLD WE LIVE IN WIT ALL THESE BITCHES…LOL, BUT CANT HATE ON HIS RAPPIN…..EVEN THOUGH HE LOOK LIKE BIG BIRD ON THE FIRST EPISODE ON THIS WEAK ASS SHIT….LOL

# 15… your fucking retarded. Drake makes that shit that he raps about to do one thing; that’s make some fucking money. Why the fuck wouldn’t he rap about that shit, that is what the people want to hear when they listen to rap. Nobody wants some Will Smith christian ass no swearin mother fucker. They want hood shit; they want death threats and violence and drugs, money, bitches, etc… that’s what rap is to 70 percent of the viewers. And when he says “killin all these rappers” he’s not fucking talking about killing them literally dumb fuck hes talking about killin ALL of them on the LYRICS. Sprained ankle line, dont play with him when it comes to RAPPING. He’s not talking about how he came from the streets at all, he’s just trying to make his MULAAA BABYYY. YM mother fuckas

maybe if i get out da ass rich, ill identify witem a lil more, but since im not, ioun thing he sucks at all, but i really cant listen to a kid i cant really relate

lol he hadda rougher life on degrassi den he did in reality

n those dat say he hasnt changed, go find his ol mixtape room 4 improvement, he commercialized da shit out his flow

seems like a cool dude tho, da whole signin to YM thing is dont match tho, seems like sumbody who’d be on GOOD MUSIC, or ROCnation

drake is not a rapper he does r&b and pop whatever to make money. real artists don’t do it for money they just make music that they like. Have your own sound don’t copy what’s on the radio. Lack of creativity is apparent in the lyrics, even the beats are lacking creativity, the beats are simple and sound the same. Producers need to stop thinking if the bass is loud then it’s a good beat, listen to DJ Premier, Just Blaze, RZA beats, there always good.

The album must be coming soon, time to start the heavy marketing.

At #45 how the fuck u gonna sit there and contradict yaself like that. That nigga aint a real artist cuz he can sing r&b, rap, and do pop?? So the fact that this nigga can be versatile and appeal to a massive demographic means this nigga is “lacking creativity.” U sound hella ignorant bra.. The dude can talk about legit deep issues then turn around and make a radio song, and niggaz dont consider that talent. The problem wit all yall is yall niggaz need to always hear some inspiration story of how a nigga was broke and had to “hustle” to make it out n shit and yall niggaz just cant respect talent. Theres athletes that aint had to work half as hard as other athletes or been broke and got picked up out the streets, and u know what if that nigga score touchdowns or score points u still gonna respect and look up to him. Talent is talent son. And I doubt this dude dont do songs he dont like to make, he decides the songs thats on his albums and mixtapes, he decides the release date of his album, them niggaz let him have complete control of his shit and why? Cuz the nigga is producin!! And when does dude have beats that are all bassed out n shit?? Never! He can get on other ppls beatz and tear them up better than they did (Kanye, David Banner, etc.). Half u niggaz probly just heard his radio hits and wrote him off, and even so, if u listen to his verse in, for example, Say Something, this nigga tore it up and it wasnt about blowin money or some shit. Yall wanna talk about hustlin n shit, well gues what, this nigga is hustlin the hell out of hte game right now he probly gets millions just to be on hooks. Niggaz is so ignorant bra.. Swear niggaz keep prayin for a lyrical rapper to come back n “save hip hop” blah blah blah and when a clearly talented nigga comes around, yall cant respect him cuz he dont fit ur mold? C’mon now bra.. Its like the same shit when niggaz said Em wasn’t creative or verstile or lyrical or some shit but the nigga makes a song making fun of people for buyin his shit, and its a chart-topping song.. Niggaz just wanna hate i swear

718 into 187.. negative zero.. are you fuckin retarded…

Why would he cut his hair

OMH, his voice is deep

gotta comment on #15, maybe u cant relate to drake cause u fake nigga, real reconize real, and drake a real ass dude. dont dont spit shit he dont know nothin bout. yea now he rap about bein on top and murkin these other “rappers/story tellers”, and thats cause that shit the truth, go back and check his flow on comeback season, room for improvement, so far gone, and so much else of this niggas old shit. hes already proved with out a shadow of a doubt in my mind, hes the hottest right now, and has the potential to be one of the greatest. and a successful rapper with a education, stop hatin nigga. this nigga been feedin the streets with nothin but straight fire for like a year straight. if u dont go spend 14 bucks to show this nigga some love when his album drops u should kill ya self

I don’t mind Drake aint from the hood… what i do mind is pplz here frontin like they wouldnt have made fun of him or at least thought of him as a geek… c’mon this is REAL TALK!

Look you cant front Drake Has major potential, Room for improvement and comeback season were his best shit and they were tight. I aint really on that radio play shit and I think lil wayne garbage, Lil wayne ruining drake. Drake had a bad ass flow and lyrics meant something unlike most radio shit with simple catchy hooks rapping about nothin. Drake need to go back to his old shit, but mainstream or commercial heads dont wanna hear that. Drake stuck on the money and those dumb mainstream commercial heads making him richer.

ALL about the money!

HAHAHAHAH… I wonder how many of youll come from the hood. Im guessing not many. If rap is strictly for the HOOD,then how about you HAVE TO BE from the hood to purchase an album,or piece of urban clothing,or a du rag. 50 cent wouldnt be half as rich as he is if people NOT from the hood did not buy his albums. Hip Hop is from the streets,i understand that, but why keep it there. There are talented people from all walks of life. Basketball started in springfield with all WHITE people… I guess we should make it so that only white guys from springfield MA can play. Youll just mad cuz someone from a nice neighborhood might be a better rapper than a nigga from the hood. Sad that a black man is judged on wether or not he has done dirt. Very sad. No wonder why white people look down on us. Its funny how everyone wants to hear the shoot em up sell dope songs,and tlk bout real hip hop. Yet hip hop started on the fun tip,and gangsta rap came after. Funny how people like jamie fox,lebron james,kobe bryant, etc are all drake fans and friends. But youll corny ass ppl sitting at home with opinions that dont matter, wanna hate on him. You dont have to like his music n shit if its not your style,but you cant deny talent. Look at someone like bun B..hes a legend, yes, but hes soo boring to listen to. No amazing lyrics at all but yet he gets soo much respect. It all boils down to not what your talking about, not how good you are or how versatile, but where you are from. Doesnt even matter what you did, its all where you are from. Very Very sad

ayo i stumbled onto this drake discussion to see y ppls is feelin this kid n i dont see it..hes a lil wayne wannabe whos helpin decrease real hip hop..his musik is POP R&B tht shud b his title he aint no rapper any real nigga kno that…will smith is a better hip hop artist i like will forreal he a good MC he dont sware thts tha only bad thing anyone can say bout him but wuteva he make good hip hop musik i fukks wit will smith all u drake fans shud go listen to will instead he deserves to b on da radio more thn drake..i aint hatin tha kid got talent but imma rapper n as a rapper n a fan of that raw real hip hop i cant listen to anythin lil wayne drake rick ross n all them poprorn rappers wit there autotune n shit…DRAKE aint no real MC he talk bout SEX SEX SEX n bein tha best rapper..n haters..theres nuttin bout his musik that makes him deserve to be known as one of tha best …u want some real hip hop n lyricists? check out my team fedd hill n my otha niggas boombox saints ..u dont like underground? go listen to eminem banks jadakiss styles dmx snoop method man redman juelz santana 50 thirsten howel joel ortiz obie trice sadat x my team Block royal tha LO-lifes just to name some..those are all real hip hop..n u dont gota b a thug to b a good rapper no but dont be no sellout makin songs for girls only all da time n then call ya self tha best or a future legend..tht he will neva be..ppls nneeda get off his dick n stopp thinkin they kno wut they talkin bout ..it dont mater tha color of ya skin wen it come to hip hop but wen u make musik strictly for clubs n love songs for girls u aint no serious MC it dont take alotta skill to talk bout sex n shit i cud do all them songs to i choose not to cuz i love tha musik i make n tha rappers i listen to …all im sayin bout drake is dont call him one of tha best rappers or tha hottest new rapper cuz he aint..his buzz is wit chikks n guys who dont kno real hip hop or guys tht only listen to musik tht will get them chikks becuz thts wut they wanna hear..get tha fukk outta heaa lol real hip hops makin a comebakk google fedd hill ull see..1 luv to all my thugs out thea tryna do there thing wit rap n keepin it real