Wednesday, September 16, 2009

What will be the fate of Drake?



I will admit that I don't check for Drake's music that much. But, as of late I've been reading "industry" blog sites about him. And the stuff I'm reading is not in favor of Drake. It's either you like his singing or you like his rapping. The main debate is that Drake is new but he's not "new" and he's being labeled as a "reproducible" artist. Drake personally said in an interview that he doesn't listen to Rap that much, he highly prefers R&B and would rather sing more. Now the question is..why don't you do you that? Now there's is a lot of speculation that Drake is being manufactured to steer separate fan bases into one primary fan base. You see, the effects of this will be the same as the Auto-tune. Will Drake become the industry standard? it's too early to call it.

I will agree that as of right now Drake is free to straddle the fence of singing/rapping. I believe sooner or later Drake will have to choose what side he wants to take. Also, Drake is a Pop artist that raps/sings, therefore he will have to heed the pop culture. The pop culture is what is putting Drake on top but the curse of that is that once the pop culture has you, they can be very cut throat and have no loyalty, ditch you and move to the next hot pop artist. Those powers that be showed that when 50 cent went at Ja Rule and now it's happening to 50 cent minus an adversary.

Drake supposedly wants to drop "Thank me Later" in February. And it's said that he's pushing for appearances by Jay-Z, Eminem, Kanye West and Young Jeezy.

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