This Canadian born rapper/singer has had one of the fastest rises In the history of hiphop and as of this writing hes been famous for nearly 2 years and finally released his full length album, he got a ton of traction from his EP and according to Sources its pushed 300,000 units. In a depressed music market, that 300 grand is big numbers for what basically is a glorified mixtape. Drake has kept his shine going by guest appearing on tracks like Trey Songs I Evented, Alcia Keys The Unthinkable and of course his association with Young Money. At press time the numbers are not yet in on the first week of his sells for his first full LP release Thank Me Later, but if does over 500,000 the first week that will be a major number. Lets face the only rappers to move platinum after 2005 have been Jay-Z, Weezy, T.I, Ludacris, Eminem, and Kanye. In 1998 it was common for 25 different rap acts to do a million in a single year but today you will be lucky to see 2-3 at most in a calendar year So Drake would be joining elite company with a disc thats certain to go over 1 milli but the first week is like a movie release everyone wants to know how well it did. For old heads like myself Drake first became known nationally when he got love from Jaime Foxx who was hosting the 2009 BET awards. He pointed Yung Drake out the audience stating Drake you hot right now and don’t even have an album out yet! YM’s performance that night singing a not so clean version of Fucking every Girl with underage girls on stage (and on a night honoring Michael Jackson was clearly in bad taste) but that’s another subject.
So what makes Drake hot? I admit that his first big Hit “The Best I Ever Had” is a catchy fresh track but is it enough to make him an instant A lister. I guess that’s true if you get scooped up Weezy and put down with his crew. If you got friends like the most famous rapper alive backing you, its hard to mess this up. Some like myself are thinking that this has something to do with the Light Skinned pretty cool complex coming back! Drake could be a mix of Al B Sure (and offkey harmony corrected with audiotune) mixed with forgotten rapper Candy Man who rode the strength of Betty Wright’s Tonights The Night for a early 90’s hit called Knocking Boots. (not to be confused with H-Towns hit) So im afraid that the success of Drake is a harbinger of the return of the light skin lover 2.0 because you know record labels are copycats looking for there version of the next Drake.
Like the success of NWA shouting Compton in the late 80’s it didn’t take long for DJ Quik was born in raised in Compton and a group called CMW (Comptons most Wanted) and then on and on. This Drake pheBest of Luck to Dizzle, will we be talking about him in 15 years 15 months or is he at the end of his 15 minutes? His new squeeze model/groupie Miliah Michele Hopes so or shes picked the wrong horse.
Sad but true this dropped unintentionally on September 11th and became an instant classic, proving that Hova was out to crush the whole decade as the top dog in the rap biz. A breakout not just for him but put Kanye West on the map being the producer of about 80% of the tracks here, the other 20% Just Blaze. The Diss Record The Takeover, Izzo, Song Cry and Eminem duo with Renegades. One of the few albums of any format in the decade that you could play non stop without hitting the fast forward button. #DRAKE - THANK ME LATER CD
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