Raekwon Calls Drake: "The male version of Lauryn Hill"

From Sohh.com


http://www.sohh.com/2010/07/raekwon_...ersion_of.html



Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon recently shared his thoughts on some of rap's current stars including Diddy, Drake and Andre 3000.
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"This kid [Drake] is a phenomenon. He's like a young pharaoh with a great talent. I call him the male version of Lauryn Hill. He can go this way or that way. I heard him mentioning the Wu in one of his new songs. So I know he understands the music...Three Stacks is a combination of many different things. He reminds me of a Jimi Hendrix, a RZA with super lyrical skills. You really can't define this dude. At the end of the day he's just a bad motherf*cker. He's a walking gem." (VIBE)

Drake sounds mad gay lol

http://www.datpiff.com/Drake_Excited...oh.v21185.html

Young Money Is Seriously gay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYea2...layer_embedded

NIcky Minaj tryn to make the game comfy for a gay rapper
http://www.sohh.com/va.html?vaid=15b...3c6b8841f2acc5

peep the drake interview..go to 3:26 (says "thats that nigger")
http://allhiphop.com/stories/rumors/.../21656009.aspx

Drake Falls on his ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVoy_8XaoSA

"Freestyle" from his i phone..and still fucks up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcYLMN-pt0

this dudes WACK

he can write songs..he marketable to the ladies..but this guy AINT HIP HOP!!
put em in thep pop/r&b category and hell be fine..ill stop ranting..but why do i have to see this guys name on every fucking hip hop website known to mankind like i should really be listening to this queer... BRING ON SHAOLIN VS WUTANG and crush this garbage!!

Wow!

one thing i love about wu nigguhs is they rarely speak out of emotion unlike most rappers..usually they give well thought out answers... he could have raned against drake and this that and the third..but what he said was pretty accurate...not a drake fan but one cant front hes doing something right...

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Originally Posted by JEM

he can write songs..he marketable to the ladies..but this guy AINT HIP HOP!!
put em in thep pop/r&b category and hell be fine..ill stop ranting..but why do i have to see this guys name on every fucking hip hop website known to mankind like i should really be listening to this queer... BRING ON SHAOLIN VS WUTANG and crush this garbage!!

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why isn't he hiphop?
he sucks, but he's making hiphop music.

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Originally Posted by Pandemic

why isn't he hiphop?
he sucks, but he's making hiphop music.

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http://www.differencebetween.net/mis...p-hop-and-pop/


Hip Hop vs. Pop

Telling the difference between two musical genres can easily be determined by listening to each type of music. Although it may be difficult to say upfront, using concrete words, as to how each music style differs, every genre clearly has a distinct sound that separates it from other music forms. For example, by simply listening to what people say is ‘pop’ music, you’ll really know that it is pop. Also, if you listen to hip hop music, you’ll be able to identify it as hip hop, and not pop.

Besides from the difference in their sound or music style, both pop and hip hop also differ in other aspects. In terms of their birth year, pop is clearly the older music genre, having been developed in the middle portion of the 1950’s. It was only two decades after that, when hip hop began to flourish along with the entire hip hop culture.

Unlike pop, hip hop is also distinct, because it incorporates many musical styles into it’s music. The addition of certain loops, raps, freestyles, DJ’s, scratches, breakdances, samples and the beatbox, has all molded hip hop into what it is today. Hip hop has become the medium to express political concerns and social unrest. Hip hop lyricists incorporate meaningful lyrics into their hip hop songs as ‘a capella’ free verse with certain rhymes, or as powerful phrases with accompanying beats. Due to this nature, hip hop music has become the music stereotype of the streets, the underground, the ‘black’ denomination and of the rebellious groups of people.

On the other hand, pop music is a genre that is generally loved by the masses. It’s music is almost always geared to appeal to the public, and to gain the most or biggest commercial success possible. Pop music includes love songs that are usually short and uncomplicated, which is on the contrary to the hip hop songs, that are usually longer in their lyrics, and in the duration of the entire hip hop song as well. It also has a larger audience that’s mostly composed of younger people, when compared to other musical genres. This is probably the reason why pop has continually penetrated the music industry ever since its emergence.

All in all, pop and hip hop differ in the following aspects:

1. Pop is an older music when compared to hip hop.

2. Hip hop has lots of raps, scratches, free verses and beatbox included in most of its songs, while pop is relatively simple and focuses more on love themes, targeting a much younger audience.

3. Pop songs usually have shorter lyrics, and shorter song durations, when compared to hip hop songs.

^^^this is stupid and arbitrary...how many hiphop songs in 2010 have scratching and beatboxing in them?
"love themes" make something not hiphop? hiphop is all about social unrest and political views (but i thought it was free verse)? hiphop songs have longer song durations?
this is all dubious shit.

basically, he is making hiphop music; but because you don't like it, you say it isn't hiphop.

can someone rationally explain, in their own words, why he isn't hiphop?

^I dunno, if I were to dig for a reason why, I'd say hiphop is a product of the streets and drake is not.

hiphop without the street is pointless.

"I'm gettin love in the hood and I ain't even talkin street shit." - Drake

^that's like a slap in the face.

and I'd like to know what hood he gets love in, Canada? the only ppl I know that play his shit in the hood are 16 year-old girls, for real.

I don't have a huge problem with Drake, but on the 1 thru 10 scale of hiphop, he probably gets a 2. he does the music, but ain't lived the life. call him a Eric Clapton compared to a Robert Johnson.

^^^so you have to live the street life and talk street shit to be hiphop?

define "the life"

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"I'm gettin love in the hood and I ain't even talkin street shit." - Drake

^that's like a slap in the face.

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how is that a slap in the face exactly?

you guys have no rational basis to say he's 'not hiphop' simply because he makes songs for girls. he sucks, but he's making hiphop. accept it.

this nigga raekwon is tripping.

they dont make brothers like they used to

@Pandemic

I didn't say he's not hiphop, he does the music, but he's less hiphop than a lot of ppl I could name, including Lauryn Hill.

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^^^so you have to live the street life and talk street shit to be hiphop?

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quit throwin a fit over another man's opinion and you answer that question for yourself. is eric clapton blues? is good charlotte punk? me and you would probably disagree on a lot of these things, so i ain't gonna bother telling you what i think. I was just tryin to make you see why ppl jump on the hate train.

I don't like Drake's music, so I ain't gonna weigh in, but even in a case like Bob Dylan, someone i admire and respect, his music is good, but he'll always be a hipster wannabe that sounds a thousand times less natural at doing folk songs than a Woodie Guthrie did. one person was born into it, lived it, wrote songs about it and sang about it, the other took that person's formula and made millions of dollars off of it.

remember that hiphop is a huge culture, not just a style of music. some represent that culture and some don't, but i think you already understand all of this and you're just being contrary.

^^lol at 'being defensive' and 'catching a fit'...i forgot that, on wu-corp, to question someone's reasoning is to be foaming at the mouth and going insane with rage.
*yawn*
*unsubscribes to thread*

I edited my post before you even made that reply.

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remember that hiphop is a huge culture, not just a style of music.

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^ignore everything but this then. is it that hard to see why there's always this same argument? somebody says 'he's not hiphop' and somebody else comes back with 'but he does hiphop music'.

that shit will go on for days, when neither of the ppl arguing are even talkin about the same shit. if you believe in such a thing as a person 'being hiphop' regardless of their music, then you must also believe that not everyone who uses the hiphop formula to create music is hiphop.

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Originally Posted by food for thought

this nigga raekwon is tripping.

they dont make brothers like they used to

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Agreed

^co-sign