Does Drake really just rap about the same thing on every song?

By Beaker - 06-26-2010, 01:52 PM - Boxden > The Hip-Hop Spot

No hate, but it seems like every single song on Thank Me Later is exactly the same. Parts of a Drake verse:

1. I always wanted to make it, the haters never thought I would; I proved them wrong. Now I'm stunting.

2. Now that I'm rich and famous, I'm enjoying life, but I'm also afraid that I'm letting the success get to me; I want to act good, but sometimes I can't help but act a fool.

3. Even though I'm rich, that doesn't mean everything's ok, because my parents divorced when I was a little kid

Rinse and repeat. Those the three things, in some form or another, are the basics of just about every Drake verse -- throw in some random "punchlines" and that's about it.

Everyone always says Drake is a "breath of fresh air," but his !! is way more repetitive, and way less versatile, than most rappers. I don't get it? [smiley]

06-26-2010, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by francnad4

Drake just raps about his life...what else can he rap about? He could rap about k!lling people or selling drugs but i don't think anyone would buy into it...

every rapper "just raps about his life"

but most rappers find a way to be more versatile and creative than Aubrey

every single Drake verse is basically interchangable

06-26-2010, 02:00 PM

When you're a high class jew growing up in a Canadian suburb, you have little depth.

As !!ed as it sounds, it's gonna take either 40 or his mom's passing for him to step his game up.

06-26-2010, 02:01 PM

drakes either rapping about how everyone was against him..(please)

or some !!

06-26-2010, 02:02 PM

maybe he should be like wiz and rap about getting high on every track. then BX would love him.

06-26-2010, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Brand0n031

maybe he should be like wiz and rap about getting high on every track. then BX would love him.

His mom and the jewish community wont allow it.

06-26-2010, 02:03 PM

50 Cent, for example, is way more versatile than Drake -- 50 has party songs, ignorant street songs, "creative" street songs, disses, songs for the !!es, etc.

But everyone dismisses him these days as a one-dimensional gangsta rapper

but I just listened to TML again, and Drake is perhaps the most one-dimensional rapper I've heard in a long time [pic]

06-26-2010, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by Brand0n031

maybe he should be like wiz and rap about getting high on every track. then BX would love him.

No, Wiz is garbage too.

I love how if you dislike someone on BX, some stupid !! always comes along and[..]umes you like a different garbage rapper instead

06-26-2010, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by Beaker

50 Cent, for example, is way more versatile than Drake -- 50 has party songs, ignorant street songs, "creative" street songs, disses, songs for the !!es, etc.

But everyone dismisses him these days as a one-dimensional gangsta rapper

but I just listened to TML again, and Drake is perhaps the most one-dimensional rapper I've heard in a long time [pic]

And when he became versatile with those type of songs is when his downfall begun.

06-26-2010, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by francnad4

The majority of rappers rap about the same thing. But i actually think Drake does alot...he can go from rapping like on "Ransom" with Lil Wayne, to rapping about him not visiting his grandmother and leaving his father broke, to writing songs for Alicia Keys was it? To making songs for females, then songs about females that we can relate to, singing full songs and doing it well etc..i think Drake does alot more than most of the rappers you seem to think arn't one-dimensional...

[pic]

06-26-2010, 02:12 PM

Bria's Interlude is Drake's best song.

06-26-2010, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by francnad4

The majority of rappers rap about the same thing. But i actually think Drake does alot...he can go from rapping like on "Ransom" with Lil Wayne, to rapping about him not visiting his grandmother and leaving his father broke, to writing songs for Alicia Keys was it? To making songs for females, then songs about females that we can relate to, singing full songs and doing it well etc..i think Drake does alot more than most of the rappers you seem to think arn't one-dimensional...

pretty much all can see him do.

06-26-2010, 02:18 PM

so far, though, none of the Drake supporters can refute what I said in my original post: those three things are basically the only content in 99% of Aubrey's verses

06-26-2010, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by Beaker

No, Wiz is garbage too.

I love how if you dislike someone on BX, some stupid !! always comes along and[..]umes you like a different garbage rapper instead

I love how you make constant troll threads........... Like the WU one you made yesterday.....
speaking of rinsing and repeating it seems thats what your doing with your threads

1.find something that alot of poeple like.
2.diss it and stir up controversy but @ the same time claiming not dissing them just making an observation.
3.proceed to look like a huge douche in responses of said thread.

06-26-2010, 02:27 PM

I agree, he talks about the same shyt. But as ignorant as it sounds, I dont expect much content from him because he's a child actor from Canada. What else can he talk about? Blight of the black man? He's half Jew. Crack, guns, and mayham? He's from Canada. But one thing that disappoints me is that lately he's been making too many chick songs and not as much unisecks music like he had on So Far Gone. I aint heard TML let, but hopefully its not 15 female tracks like "Find Your Love".

06-26-2010, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by francnad4

[pic]

best gif ever, except maybe the jeremy piven GTFO gif.

06-26-2010, 02:33 PM

If you're a guy that deals with women a lot, Drake's music would be the !! to you...

I guess most of y'all just..... don't deal with women [pic]

06-26-2010, 02:35 PM

lol, it's true. he's young and his life is pretty one-dimensional, so we can give him a pass.

06-26-2010, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by ATF Fresh

If you're a guy that deals with women a lot, Drake's music would be the !! to you...

I guess most of y'all just..... don't deal with women [pic]

I'm not a simp, so I guess I don't relate to Drake's women songs

I guess you must be [pic]

06-26-2010, 02:46 PM

It's true, Drake does rap about pretty much the exact same !! throughout the course of the album......kinda like Em raps about being better than everyone and finally being off of drugs excessively on Recovery. [pic]

Recovery is a much better album, but let's not point throw Drake in a concentration camp just yet...

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