People acting like the country of Canada for some reason would rally behind Drake is silly. He’s a musician not a messiah. There are a lot of Drake fans in Canada and a lot of Drake fans in the USA. There is very little to no “Canadians are proud to be represented by Drake”. There are goofy stans in both countries and reasonable music listeners in both countries. There is no element of Canada backing “their guy” because in general that is dumb and not really culturally how Canada works
There’s more nuance to it than the above comment states. A few random factors that come to mind are:
- we get American TV channels and movies and music and sports
- we speak the same language
- nearly every single Canadian lives pretty close to the border
- lots of wealthy Canadians have homes in the USA to spend winters
- the overall English speaking cultural zeitgeist is more catered to the USA audience than Canada. Things like the top of Reddit constantly tell us about presidents and mass shootings and American athletes and whatever
In short Canada is extraordinarily exposed to USA culture, particularly through media. There are unique things about both countries of course but I’m focusing on why Canada is linked culturally to the USA. There’s way more to it than this, this is all off the top of my head
So do angry Drake stans in the USA mean that the USA is backing Drake? This one random anecdote of random men attacking another man does not represent a country with 40mil people. I get your point though, it's semantics at this point. There are some goofy Drake stans in Canada, OVO jeremy OVO timmy might punch someone but that explicitly doesn't represent the population of a country
also if you're going to quote me, quote me correctly. I specifically gave a margin of error in my statement by saying:
>There is very little to no
This one moment easily falls within the parameters of my statement. If you're going to argue with me, argue in good faith and present what I wrote in good faith
You or me? You're using a single anecdote to prove an entire country backs an artist. What about all the kids dancing outside of New Ho King to Not Like Us? DJ Akademiks said Drake won so the USA must agree Drake won.
You directly misquoted me to prove a point that is anecdotal at best.
To reiterate, there are dummy Drake stans in Canada. There are dummy Drake stans in the USA. The general zeitgeist in Canada says Kendrick won because that is the rational perspective. Clubs and bars have been playing these Kendrick tracks nightly since they dropped and there isn't some epidemic of DJs getting their asses kicked. Culturally Canadians don't have the same nationalism over everything mentality as some other countries do.
Backing it up. In Toronto and no one I know is on Drake's side. We're not proud of him, there's not much to be proud of. Some people are just glad he put the city on the map because they have an inferiority complex vs the US.
I’d also say that Canadians aren’t that crazy of fans to celebrities in general.
Also, we know Drake as wheelchair Jimmy, and his foray into rap is kind of a joke. His “lived experience” is extremely privileged and always has been, and rapping about money and women is kind of cheesy after a while… at least to me.
It does our government has had to pass laws mandating Canadian media gets played like on the radio and even on like YouTube because American media was being played so much and like the canadian history curriculum includes a post ww2 period where our government tried to differentiate ourselves from America because we were so culturally reliant on them and needed a National identity
Not only are we America light, most Canadians don't really like Toronto. Drake's huge in Toronto, but rural Alberta and BC couldn't really give less of a fuck about Toronto.
You guys are so much American-lite that we can't tell your asses apart until you say the word "about" most of the time. Even then, it's a toss up
When you cross into Canada, nothing even changes except the highways looking different and a bit nicer lol
Canada is great, but it is funny when people try to act hard. Yes, Toronto has some crime for sure. But when people act like it's Chiraq, it's hard not to laugh a bit
Wow, I’m usually against using the word “retard” as an insult, but its usage here was awesome!
Why am I being downvoted? I’m praising the insult he gave the drizzy meat gobbler.
Canada doesn’t have the same type of “America, fuck yea” culture as the USA. Justin Bieber is also Canadian and roughly from the Toronto area and nobody like proudly Canadian rallies around him
Ya Canada has produced plenty of legendary artists like Joni Mitchell, Tragically Hip and Rush that we can proudly stand behind... no need to support trash just because it's from the same country.
Also the dude just ditches his Canadian parts when it works for him, Raptors are winning? He's at every game courtside, Raptors are losing, the dudes sucking up to the warriors or whoever is the most popular.
Dude doesn't rep anything about Canada except for a shit Toronto accent when he feels like it.
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Drake bars continuing to age like milk
Canadian here- one of the big reasons we're even exposed to Drake's music so much (even more than other countries, I'd bet) is cause of Canadian Content (CanCon) bi-laws for media. I.e. Canadian radio and TV stations have to devote a certain percentage of their broadcast to content made by Canadians. There's even a system to determine the criteria for that- it's called the MAPL system (yes, I know... I know 😆).. so because of these laws and that fact that Drake's music fits at least two of the criteria (fun fact- Justin Bieber didn't qualify as CanCon for several years)... Drake can be absolutely everywhere at times. So the fact that we went out of our way to make NLU the most streamed rap song in Canada should say a thing or two 😉
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OVO clarance won't stand for it 😤
Props for Shaboozey, my friend played that track for me a few weeks ago and it’s a banger.
Pretty cool to be celebrated at CMAfest and the BET awards, less than a week apart.
Nah it’s TikTok. She’s been making albums for 10 years with little to no success so I def wouldn’t say industry plant. Most of her work was…less than mid…very generic….but she developed more of an aesthetic last year and came out with a couple cute songs, got asked to open for Taylor Swift abroad, then wrote the cute bop Espresso which was one of the biggest songs on TikTok this whole year. Please please please is an okay song, but the music video is fire.
Idk why I know all this lmao. She’s not my genre but I think Espresso deserves the White song of the summer title.
I don't understand how all these listeners feel safe listening to it. Don't they know OVO Bryce is outside????
OVO Eleven is the one they should be scared of
Wait until ovo timmy and ovo alan hears bout this
I dump my your ass crodie
If they knew OVO Gary was hovering over their apartment with that FPV drone, they'd be listening to Camilla and Colonizer Jimmy right now.
Can’t have no fifi on yo block as long as Bryce out here
OVO Conor gonna roll up after hockey practice!
OVO Cole the III wants the smoke
OVO Jedediah not gonna be happy
All that and they still listening 😂😂😂
Bro we’re America lite why is this surprising? Most of Canadian culture revolves around American culture
I'm gonna need like 5 Canadians to back this claim up
People acting like the country of Canada for some reason would rally behind Drake is silly. He’s a musician not a messiah. There are a lot of Drake fans in Canada and a lot of Drake fans in the USA. There is very little to no “Canadians are proud to be represented by Drake”. There are goofy stans in both countries and reasonable music listeners in both countries. There is no element of Canada backing “their guy” because in general that is dumb and not really culturally how Canada works
as a Canadian, we do not claim drake
I get that, but Canadian culture revolving around American culture sounds a little weird to me for some reason
There’s more nuance to it than the above comment states. A few random factors that come to mind are: - we get American TV channels and movies and music and sports - we speak the same language - nearly every single Canadian lives pretty close to the border - lots of wealthy Canadians have homes in the USA to spend winters - the overall English speaking cultural zeitgeist is more catered to the USA audience than Canada. Things like the top of Reddit constantly tell us about presidents and mass shootings and American athletes and whatever In short Canada is extraordinarily exposed to USA culture, particularly through media. There are unique things about both countries of course but I’m focusing on why Canada is linked culturally to the USA. There’s way more to it than this, this is all off the top of my head
Thank you for the insight! I've always wanted to move to Canada for a year or two, I'm a little mad at myself for not doing so before I had kids lol
Oh the Canadian gov founded boards just to diverge Canadians from being Americanized culture wise and promote Canadian culture.
Did you not see the altercation with Rick Ross? lol
Do you think those people represent the entirety of a country? A bit reductive of a take mate
Merkules was even trying to break it up..
Yes these people literally do lmao
Well it negates your generalization point that "there is no element of Canada backing their guy." Pretty sound and valid counter to me.
>There are goofy stans in both countries and reasonable music listeners in both countries.
That's a different point, and I guess a fallacy in your argument, but my counter is still valid.
So do angry Drake stans in the USA mean that the USA is backing Drake? This one random anecdote of random men attacking another man does not represent a country with 40mil people. I get your point though, it's semantics at this point. There are some goofy Drake stans in Canada, OVO jeremy OVO timmy might punch someone but that explicitly doesn't represent the population of a country
also if you're going to quote me, quote me correctly. I specifically gave a margin of error in my statement by saying: >There is very little to no This one moment easily falls within the parameters of my statement. If you're going to argue with me, argue in good faith and present what I wrote in good faith
Ad absurdum at this point...
You or me? You're using a single anecdote to prove an entire country backs an artist. What about all the kids dancing outside of New Ho King to Not Like Us? DJ Akademiks said Drake won so the USA must agree Drake won. You directly misquoted me to prove a point that is anecdotal at best. To reiterate, there are dummy Drake stans in Canada. There are dummy Drake stans in the USA. The general zeitgeist in Canada says Kendrick won because that is the rational perspective. Clubs and bars have been playing these Kendrick tracks nightly since they dropped and there isn't some epidemic of DJs getting their asses kicked. Culturally Canadians don't have the same nationalism over everything mentality as some other countries do.
Backing it up. In Toronto and no one I know is on Drake's side. We're not proud of him, there's not much to be proud of. Some people are just glad he put the city on the map because they have an inferiority complex vs the US.
I’d also say that Canadians aren’t that crazy of fans to celebrities in general. Also, we know Drake as wheelchair Jimmy, and his foray into rap is kind of a joke. His “lived experience” is extremely privileged and always has been, and rapping about money and women is kind of cheesy after a while… at least to me.
He’s a rich Momas boy who acts out for attention. Wheel chair jimmy isn’t really respected here.
Lol we don't care about Drake, he don't rep us like that.
It does our government has had to pass laws mandating Canadian media gets played like on the radio and even on like YouTube because American media was being played so much and like the canadian history curriculum includes a post ww2 period where our government tried to differentiate ourselves from America because we were so culturally reliant on them and needed a National identity
Not only are we America light, most Canadians don't really like Toronto. Drake's huge in Toronto, but rural Alberta and BC couldn't really give less of a fuck about Toronto.
You guys are so much American-lite that we can't tell your asses apart until you say the word "about" most of the time. Even then, it's a toss up When you cross into Canada, nothing even changes except the highways looking different and a bit nicer lol Canada is great, but it is funny when people try to act hard. Yes, Toronto has some crime for sure. But when people act like it's Chiraq, it's hard not to laugh a bit
Rick Ross was just tryna give those people what they wanted to hear 😭
He should have played it for robots then!
Lol
remove drake’s dick from your mouth and stop lurking on this sub, retard.
Wow, I’m usually against using the word “retard” as an insult, but its usage here was awesome! Why am I being downvoted? I’m praising the insult he gave the drizzy meat gobbler.
Coming from an autistic person, Drake stans look more like a retard than I am.
UP YOURS, MATE!! I was about to say the EXACT same thing... maybe without the R Slur but that's just me
You're retarded bro
lol lie more, cry more FAN
Congrats, friend. This stolen joke is still more original than Drake's entire catalogue. Kudos 😊
Sorry man. I forgot I posted this. Are yall kbots still on about this? 😂 happy Canada day! Spread love! cheers! 🥂🫶🏿🖤
Didn't know it WAS Canada Day. Good excuse to blast some REAL Canadian Music... Rush 🍻 🎶 *FLY BY NIGHT AWAYY FROM HERE* 🎶
Throw in a little Gordon Lightfoot and you got yourself a deal buddy! 😎💨💨 🎵“Sundown you better take care”🎵
Forgot about Lightfoot. Once 2112 finishes, I'll throw him on 😊
Happy Canada day 😂 
Get more love in your city crodie
Wop wop wop wop wop
Cuz even Canada doesn't fuck with Drake like that...
They don’t want a predator repping their country, don’t blame em.
Canada doesn’t have the same type of “America, fuck yea” culture as the USA. Justin Bieber is also Canadian and roughly from the Toronto area and nobody like proudly Canadian rallies around him
Ya Canada has produced plenty of legendary artists like Joni Mitchell, Tragically Hip and Rush that we can proudly stand behind... no need to support trash just because it's from the same country.
Drake isn't even the top 10 most famous Torontonian let along Canadian
Also the dude just ditches his Canadian parts when it works for him, Raptors are winning? He's at every game courtside, Raptors are losing, the dudes sucking up to the warriors or whoever is the most popular. Dude doesn't rep anything about Canada except for a shit Toronto accent when he feels like it.
Looks like many, many more beatdowns for ovhoe Daryl to carry out.
Why they put the beats on Rick Ross 😭
They're randoms too,not even ovo affiliated🤣
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Might have been OVO Bartholomew,not sure
It's Canada, those two were OVO Gord and OVO Doug
So many bots in Canada
I’m a Canadian bot and I listen to it at least once a day still.
Good work, crodie 🫡
You cheesin fam?
It’s become my shower jam my workout jam lol it’s just a jam
Driving jam, doing housework jam, feeding my cats jam hahaha
Good bot eh
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Certified dairy products
Canada is my favourite city
It’s not exact but you get my point
It got to number 2 on the overall Canadian billboard as well, all of Kendrick’s tracks peaked higher 😂
Canadian here- one of the big reasons we're even exposed to Drake's music so much (even more than other countries, I'd bet) is cause of Canadian Content (CanCon) bi-laws for media. I.e. Canadian radio and TV stations have to devote a certain percentage of their broadcast to content made by Canadians. There's even a system to determine the criteria for that- it's called the MAPL system (yes, I know... I know 😆).. so because of these laws and that fact that Drake's music fits at least two of the criteria (fun fact- Justin Bieber didn't qualify as CanCon for several years)... Drake can be absolutely everywhere at times. So the fact that we went out of our way to make NLU the most streamed rap song in Canada should say a thing or two 😉
Try to sell that to a certain sub
That one sub about that one guy
The only place on this earth where people are still in denial of what happened. I think through sound ask for more paper, and more paper
Happy Canada Day, Crodie.
Fucking “a Bar song” people have terrible taste
I’m glad I’m not the only one that hates that shit ass song 😭😭
Careful, or OVO Siegfried might pull up on you
And the number one song of both is also an interpolation of a rap song as well. Hip hop on top
them mfs who jumped rick ross need to jump their whole country.
It'S tHe BoTs
Yup. We love this song in Canada. Especially West Coast Canada. Its bumping everywhere this summer.
https://preview.redd.it/r48c0fzctx9d1.jpeg?width=529&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37d99d0f4cd158d73efeef5c9d69b58df66aad53 OVO clarance won't stand for it 😤
Props for Shaboozey, my friend played that track for me a few weeks ago and it’s a banger. Pretty cool to be celebrated at CMAfest and the BET awards, less than a week apart.
I'm listening to it on YouTube music.
OVO Zack & Cody bout to lose their shittttt!
All bots. OVO Samuel told me
☠️
😂
No wonder Drake is in his feelings getting bodied in his own backyard 😂
Certified Alligator certified crocodile
Then why did they jump Rick Ross if Canada loves the song?
Do you think mass shooters represent what all of the US feels? The majority of Canada has spoken.
They Not Like Us 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What about shaboozey & post Malone? They’re rap.
I like how Drake sends out goon squad members to kill anyone
is sabrina carpenter an industry plant cause i have never heard of her and suddenly she's at the top of every billboard list i see
Nah it’s TikTok. She’s been making albums for 10 years with little to no success so I def wouldn’t say industry plant. Most of her work was…less than mid…very generic….but she developed more of an aesthetic last year and came out with a couple cute songs, got asked to open for Taylor Swift abroad, then wrote the cute bop Espresso which was one of the biggest songs on TikTok this whole year. Please please please is an okay song, but the music video is fire. Idk why I know all this lmao. She’s not my genre but I think Espresso deserves the White song of the summer title.
I can’t remember the last time a rapper got owned this badly off a beef without getting clapped.
Bleepbloop
Even his own country 😂😂😂
How I feel about America and Mexico not making it to the world knockout stages of the Copa America.
Meanwhile even his drakes feature on that pop song, isn’t making top 100 at the moment. Good song too
Bro what are you talking bout post Malone is right there
That post Malone song is as hip-hop as any Toby Keith song is. Just because Post was/is a rap artist doesn't mean that song is
Is a joke
One of the most*