“There were people who incorporated melody before me,” says Drake, talking backstage at the 02 in south-east London, where 18,000 people have converged to see him play the biggest concert of his career, “but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.”
“I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. It doesn’t take me six hours to get ready and I don’t have to wake up in the morning and remember to act like this or talk like this. I just have to be me. ”
- Drake
Source: TheJC
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what about L-BOOGIE (Lauren Hill)
truuuuuuuuuuuuu
andre 3000?
ummmm
Nelly?
you got a point
wtf bout BONE?!!! dis nigga late and a r&b singer.get da fuk outta here
…He’s one of those delusional guys who swears they’re this and that, wouldn’t take anything he says, sings, or raps about serious. A successful cornball is still a cornball.
very true… think about the punked episode, this nigga was delusional enough 2 think the vice president wanted to meet him and actually got in the car, bitch niggas let that money confuse em smh
Andre, not in the same way. Lauryn, I agree with. One would assume he’s referring to male rappers though. Missy Eliot and Queen Latifah have done both also. Even his close friend Nicki Minaj has done it to a certain extent, so I doubt females are being included. What Ja Rule did shouldn’t be considered singing. Of course he held a tune, but it wasn’t traditional singing.
Ja rule did it 40million sold is not bad.. Drake still has 36mill to go lol…
Nelly, Flo Rida, even DMX had a couple of rap and sing records… with that said Drake needs to get off of what ever drugs he’s taking.
Nobody was more successful than 50 tho lol
What bout bone thugs they pretty succesful
bone has over 40 mill sold
how cares what drake thinks he wrong we all know it , lets move on to reality now
All those artist everyone is naming couldn’t sing as good though. holding a note and doing sing song raps is not the same as singing POINT BLANK but the female artists are the only ones I would say preceded Drake with those abilities He has word play punchlines and metaphors not to mention GOOD R&B songs ( No missed notes or off key melodies)
If we’re talking about RHYTHM AND BEATS, RnB, then I’ll say Lauren Hills already did it better.
Those other guys people are naming aren’t true vocalists though.
Lmfao Drake being the First? LMFAO DRAKE?! lmfao the same bitch who wants to complain about people stealing flows? The same bitch who has his dad pay for all his shit? The same dude who claims to have done all this with out a deal but yet cought his break on a canadian TV show called Degrassi as a cripple? lmfao. Yea drake needs to remember, Biggie, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and many more. LMFAO drake being the first one to sucessfully rap and sing is like saying im the first man in the world to cum in a girl. lmfao
Bone Thugs N Harmony, brotha
Of male rappers, Drake is absolutely the first to be legit with his. Ja Rule couldn’t sing. 50 couldn’t sing. Bone thugs harmonized on a couple songs. But really Drake is the first male rapper to really incorporate both into his style.
Nobody has been able to do it quite as well. I hear Diggy trying. Chris Brown and Trey Songz also…but they’re singers. Im no Drake stan but I do give him credit where it’s due.
I actually agree with him, Nelly, Ja, 50 don’t sing on tracks like Drake. They sing the hooks but still not even really singing. They don’t make R&B songs like Drake, not even close. He is a different artist then the rest. Like him or not he is one talented guy and he’s correct on this point.
Nigga please, I guess u have never listened to Bone Thugs, Andre 3000 (the love below) or Cee Lo.
Ceelo Green.
Yes, plus Cee Lo sings better and way colder on the mic.
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really? how about Ja Rule….
—-SEE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. “PLAYA HATER”
“u know, we need this…. money, and you…….. yes baby, you….. should just roll wit meeee, lets go offfffffff together……..on this robbing spree……..we’ll make money…..playa hater…..turn you ass round, lay on the ground, you’ve been robbed”
classic shit nigga who fuckin wit that????
I usually don’t comment on the chats, but regardless of how you feel about Drake he is the only male hip hop rapper that could legitametly have just an R&B carrer. PERIOD!!!
Cee Lo has made a career out or being just an R&B singer
Co-sign
Damn nigel. I was just about to mention Ja Rule. And if Drake keeps up this fake tough guy act his career will end up just like Ja’s.
drake can sing… with auto tune. technology is so great right now you can take ja rule and make him sound like Alicia keys…
What about Smooth B?
MISSY ELLIOTT ANYBODY, C’MON SONS!
Mos Def/Yasiin Bey
What a fuckin’ egotistical dweeb. Lauren Hill? Dana Owens? Missy Elliott?
Oh yeah, I almost forgot; Angie Stone.
This bum must have lost his marvels! What about Ms. Hill?
Rolling around in a fucking wheelchair on TV is the only thing DRAKE was the FIRST in HIPHOP to do …. Nothing Else.
I see people didn’t understand what he was saying. Ja, 50, & the other people y’all mention didn’t make a pure R&B song like Drake. & I’m pretty sure he wasn’t including females when he made this statement. Niggas said Bone Thugs & Ceelo plus saying Ceelo is better on the mic? Get the hell out of here!!! Dumb shits.
Cee Lo is WAAAAAAAYYYYYY better on the mic! You need to do some research. Absolutely NOTING Drake has done can compare to Cee Lo both RnB and emceeing. Also, he did NOT differentiate between male and female. STOP looking for excuses.
“but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.”
Dude said, “person”.
jimmydrake use melodyne, most music sound good now days bcuz of technology, but he gasin on dat loud n lean so dats y he say shit like ddat to get ppl goin
come on people 2pac raps and sings not like a bitch duh
Nelly, Ja Rule
There’s (been) plenty of artists that comes to mind,
when I think of music with that so called Rapper/Singer flava:
Devin the Dude
Pharoahe Monch
Phonte (of Little Brother)
Cee-Lo Green (formerly of Goodie Mob)
Queen Latifah
Sleepy Brown (Dungeon Family)
Andre 3000 (of Outkast)
Lauryn Hill
Drake (yes him too)
Queen Latifah
BTNH
TLC
Z-Ro
(and etc…)
But at the end of the day…
it’s all just OPINIONS.
T-pain… Thy both uses autotune so T-pain did it WAY more succesfull and way before him…
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you call that shit singing. hell no. and that’s him singing live.
ja gonna see this and get in a fight just to blow off some steam . yal fans are so fickle man . I’m tired of it . yal kicked ja out the game for singing , then thats all everybody else did was run with his style after yal laughed at him . everybody from ti , drake , 50 , , lil wayne and kayne west came out with whole cds singing 808 heartbreaks ect . Yal was running around playing that lil wayne how to love bullshit ! yes Bullshit . and ja songs was way better then that . but yal laughed at that man ! FAKE ASS RAP FANS MAN I SWEAR !!!
The ultimate ” Smooth B ” i was just thinking the same thing kid . props for that one .
Cake and eat it too was my shiiiiiit !!!! ” you can’t have your cake and eat it too girl ” ! haha ” Having two loves just won’t dooooo giiiiiirl ” ! hahaha
Nigel d is a hater…. That’s all I have to say….I’m american but I think everbody is jealous because he’s doing better than most African-american rappers no offense…
These young rappers booooy!!!! Drake.., are you really FUCKIN serious??? I think a few people above me got it sooo on-point. Ja Rule.., definately had success with it.., Bone Thugs., definately!!! An to me, the actual 1st rapper to make it with singing included, gots to be Queen Latifah!!! Then we got Lauren Hill.., my GOOOWD!!! Yo, tell CONECTER-BRAWLS to stop sippin outta Waynes cup, cause he is a fuckin CORN!!! Even ya girl Nicki Minaj does it better than YOU!! I tell you what, Lauren can sing with some of R&Bs best.., Queen La already did it.., lets see Drake sing with catts like KC n Jo-Jo…, or do a duet with Jaheim, an watch his ass get BURRIED by Ja’s vocals.., tell him to sing along with Bilal.., or even Anthony Hamilton…, he’d get str8 BURRIED!!! Its alright to dream Drake, but reality will pop yo ass in the face REEEAL QUICK!!! CORN!!
50cent
NUFF SAID WIT THE JA RULE PIC!! LOL
Bobby Brown > Drake
Didn’t New Edition have a rap on everyone of their songs?
No one done it batter then nate dogg he put his rap in a song