When Drake croons ”Strength and guidance, all that I’m wishing for my friends, nobody makes it from my ends” on “One Dance,” it has an ominous ring to it.
These revelations challenged listeners: Could the performer responsible for so many bottle-service selfie captions really be considered a serious lyricist when some of his most resonant material had been cribbed and lifted wholesale, albeit with appropriate credit? Could hip-hop fans forgive a performer for cribbing flows and quotables from a relative unknown on a song that literally prayed for the fakes to get exposed? It goes without saying at this point that Meek took a loss of unprecedented proportions, but his diss track, “Wanna Know,” and its interpolation of Miller’s reference track recordings for Drake’s “Know Yourself,” an anthem championing authenticity, sparked its own wave of debate and derision. Meanwhile, Drake and his fanbase have swept the Meek Mill/Quentin Miller fracas under the rug along with all of the parade confetti and Twitter memes. This kind of relationship is nothing new in hip-hop, however Drake himself has played both part and parcel to this sort of collaborative process: according to Noah “40” Shebib, Views’ executive producer, Drizzy’s has lent his songwriting chops to ‘countless’ others with little to no credit, including his own mentor, Lil Wayne, in the past. This relationship has fostered creative dynamics like the one Drake established with Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye on Take Care, who went on record with Drake’s favorite magazine Rolling Stone stating that his contributions amounted to roughly half of Drizzy’s sophomore effort. This local talent gets refracted through Drake’s creative lens, usually via a remix or rework of standout tracks, which often overshadow their source material the resultant buzz, however, is often enough to slingshot the original artists to superstardom. blogspot URL to prove it. Since Drake’s global takeover, OVO Sound has attracted and corralled talent, effectively creating a stable of in-house songwriters-Partynextdoor, Majid Jordan, dvsn, iLoveMakonnen-for Drake to work with and cull from as he sees fit.
But it is yet to be seen whether Drake will play cultural ambassador or vulture with his tremendous influence and reach.ĭrake and his cohorts at October’s Very Own have been local cultural creators and curators since the days of So Far Gone, Take Care and Nothing Was The Same and they have.
As Drake gears up for the release of Views From The 6, the rapper finds himself at an interesting crossroads in his career: not only has he emerged as an emissary for Toronto and Canadian hip-hop as a whole, but he has found himself playing poster child for a wave of inclusive, integrative multiculturalism that allows the 29-year-old rapper to mix all of his influences in a gigantic melting pot-including all, excluding none. No one has seized upon this spectrum more than the 6 God himself.
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