You have an artist like Lil' Wayne, who is currently rappin his ass off. Back to killing features like he has historically been doing since Bgs' album It's all on you vol 1. Spittin flames on his last few projects including the recent 2 Chainz project. Who constantly works hard to elevate and innovate in his craft. I'm talkin about a dude who in his prime was arguably the best in his field and who is currently spittin better than 99.9% of anybody else who is trying to do it. A certified living legend. Yet he receives nothing but criticism from fans and of course non fans alike for the most trivial of reasons like "I don't like his voice on that song" as if he hasn't been doin the same shit with his voice since 06, or because they feel he hasn't been able to "capture lightning in a bottle" so to speak by not somehow being able to invoke some sort of misguided feeling of nostalgia they felt when they first got into listening to him or even rap in general with his new shit.
And then you have a nigga like Drake...
And mind you I want to start this off by saying I do in fact like if not love some of Drakes music. I even liked what he did in that playa haters anthem he put out a few years ago tellin bitches they could do better. But yet in still you have this nigga here, who is all but confirmed to not even be responsible for writing some of his shit, and he gets a fuckin pass. I mean really...
This nigga got writers and he is treated as if he walks on water...WTF.
I mean look bruh. The singing is not what I'm talking about because let's be honest here... sometimes dude be killin that shit. It's not even him being softer than a babies bottom because to my knowledge dude never claimed to be a gangsta. Nor is it the fact that he be basically simpin on wax on some joints. But he does claim to be the best at rappin, "never the flow tho, They know I run that". But we don't know if you wrote that. Im just saying, ain't apart of being a rapper or a lyricist even let alone having your name thrown into that hat of being called GOAT require that you write your own shit. I mean who was really up at 9am in Dallas.
Has the game changed so much that an "artist is judged by what he sells and not about how nice he is with the pen.
If that's so Nas was right in 06.
And then you have a nigga like Drake...
And mind you I want to start this off by saying I do in fact like if not love some of Drakes music. I even liked what he did in that playa haters anthem he put out a few years ago tellin bitches they could do better. But yet in still you have this nigga here, who is all but confirmed to not even be responsible for writing some of his shit, and he gets a fuckin pass. I mean really...
This nigga got writers and he is treated as if he walks on water...WTF.
I mean look bruh. The singing is not what I'm talking about because let's be honest here... sometimes dude be killin that shit. It's not even him being softer than a babies bottom because to my knowledge dude never claimed to be a gangsta. Nor is it the fact that he be basically simpin on wax on some joints. But he does claim to be the best at rappin, "never the flow tho, They know I run that". But we don't know if you wrote that. Im just saying, ain't apart of being a rapper or a lyricist even let alone having your name thrown into that hat of being called GOAT require that you write your own shit. I mean who was really up at 9am in Dallas.
Has the game changed so much that an "artist is judged by what he sells and not about how nice he is with the pen.
If that's so Nas was right in 06.
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