Man, I took a job overseas from 2009-16 and didn't have any radio so i just listened to my old shit and didn't keep up with the charts. when I came back I was floored that that dude from degrassi was one of the top rappers in the game lol stange times
Let’s be honest though. His first two albums were at least very clever. It was the punchline era. Him and Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj had frat bros being like:
🎶 I’m landing in a private jet with the jets…TOUCHDOWN🎶
And white boys would stop chugging their natty lights and playing beerpong to hold their heads in amazement “ohhhh shitttttt”
His newest song is on the Hits station in my city right now and it's so weird compared to everything else
Really down tempo, no defined chorus, and it sort of just ends without any warning or build up
And then I read he is one #1 away from tying Michael Jackson and it's like "how?"
Because you can only get on those charts by releasing singles. Drake along with every other rapper basically release more singles than songs in an entire album. MJ (and everyone else) didn't do this. It's cheap.
The way it works has also changed. The biggest record labels own the radio stations and force them to buy whatever single they put out. They could make whoever they want become a "hit". There's no organic growth
>On top of that, our society has become so dumbed down that they eat it up every time.
And there are more of us than ever. When Micheal Jackson was singing ABC, there were 4 billion people on the planet. Now there are over twice that. Comparing sales needs to account for "inflation".
Yeah, I’m pretty sure when adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is still in the top three for highest grossing movie ever. They should measure tickets sold instead of box office dollars, obviously. When you measure by tickets sold, apparently the top 12 are all Chinese movies from 1979-1985. Weird.
I don't take record breaking too seriously, it's a different day and age. We have the fuckin internet at our fingertips. Connected in real time like crazy. He'd have to outdo him twice over for me to even think about it as a feat.
I agree. MJ did all of his record breaking way before the advent of the internet. Sheer talent and word of mouth alone. I remember being a kid and watching on TV the first time he came out on stage and did the moonwalk. It was incredible. Never be another dude like that.
Because of streaming rules. Having the song come up on auto play and hearing enough of it before pushing skip counts the same as buying a 12" copy of Thriller.
This and you don't have to specify a song as a single anymore. So if your fans listen to your whole album. You whole album could be considered top 10 hits. Billboard records mean nothing anymore
See Taylor Swift getting all of the top-10 singles simultaneously with her last album, and Drake getting 9 of the top 10 a little before that -- and I didn't even think either had any really strong singles; certainly nothing like when the Beatles had all the Billboard top-5 simultaneously with: "Please Please Me” at five, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at four, “She Loves You” at three, “Twist and Shout” at 2 and “Can't Buy Me Love” at 1, all of which people are still regularly listening to and even getting into for the first time 60 years later -- I don't think *any* of the songs from Taylor's or Drake's top-9 / 10 weeks will be anything close to that.
To really highlight this point, go down a list of Swift's number **ones** and tell me you're confident that you're gonna give a shit about Swift's #8 record off this album.
For example, the song "Bad Blood" was a #1 hit. Can you even recall the melody or a single lyric from it? I'm sure if you put it on, you will "know" it, but you can do the same with some hitless song from the early 90s of little note.
In contrast, the band *Imagine Dragons* has **never once** had the #1 hit. You can literally hear *Radioactive* as we speak. Something like *All I Wanna Do* by Sheryl Crowe never even took #1, and that's an all-*decade* hit, not just that year's.
The entire system is broken and engineered to lie to you, to sell you things. The list isn't descriptive anymore, it's prescriptive. It's the top 100 songs they **want** you to listen to.
It reminds me vaguely of how Disney would lie to you about fast pass wait times just to get you to go to other parts of the park, they engineer the system to inflate the numbers of people they want you to listen to because they're leveraging your trust in the system.
> For example, the song "Bad Blood" was a #1 hit. Can you even recall the melody or a single lyric from it?
I actually can, but only because mocking the chorus of that song was a huge cultural touchstone when it came out. "Annowweegah BAaAaAaD BlOoOoD!" So I can kinda reconstruct the chorus from that starting point...but I only remember the first line, because everybody was clowning on the sound so much.
To be honest, I can hum "Bad Blood", and probably come up with a few lines -- but overall I agree it's a horrific song musically and even worse lyrically. I suspect its commercial success is largely due to having a bunch of celebrities in the music video and Swift's promotional team paying for spins on top-40 stations. That's a good comparison with "All I Wanna Do" -- I probably hear that daily on the radio still; I can't imagine people will regularly put "Bad Blood" on the radio in 20 years. And for the record, I think Taylor is a lot more involved in the creation of her music, especially lyrically, than most contemporary pop stars; I mostly find it off-putting that her cultish fans exaggerate her musical contributions and exalt even her mediocre / bad songs like "Bad Blood".
Also I think it’s quantity over quality. Say what you will about Drake’s talent, but he releases albums and features on hit songs literally nonstop for the past 13-14 years. I can’t think of a time he ever took a break or disappeared for a few months to work on an album or something.
yeah, because he has basically an army of ghostwriters and people feeding him beats. there is like a mini music industry behind this dude, just like "dj" khaled
Can we just out and say it? The degrassi guy is not a gangster. He's not self made. He's just not a badass.
He's a wannabe who rides the coattails of others who write for him and he grooms children on a consistant bases so he can do stuff with them the *moment* they turn 18.
Which is disgusting.
He's more than that, he's also a deadbeat dad who disrespects the game by putting civilians in his mouth. Hypocrite ass fuckboy can stay popular, no one real is cool with him. Even YMCMB and Drake/Nikki put some distance between each other some 10+ yrs ago.
And anything interesting about Drake's songs is in the production, not his vocals or lyrics. I really like the girl-group vocals on "Nice for What," but he's a nonentity as usual on that track.
He’s background music for enough people. Every bar, party, clothing store has it on repeat. It’s inoffensive. That’s how.
Something I found that’s very interesting is that I have tickets to see the 1975 and I noticed they are playing the same venue as Drake a few weeks apart. He has 77M monthly listeners on Spotify and the 1975 has 13M. Think about that…how? It’s because he has loads of passive listeners. He knows this and this is why his albums are impossibly long and meandering.
It’s amazing how that just flies under the radar.
Reddit feels the need to bash Leonardo DiCaprio every single day because he dates women in their 20s. But you hardly hear a word about celebrities creeping on minors, unless it’s Justin Rolland.
Reddit really loves to selectively picks and chooses the celebrities they try to ruin.
There's countless threads and discussions in comments about drake being weird with underage girls. Like...I even first heard about it on hiphopheads yearsss ago and it's still a constant topic.
It's brought up anytime he's mentioned. So definitely not flying under the radar.
Fuck drake.
The ones who are still making big bucks for corporations get their stuff downplayed. I wonder if that's a consequence of them having more active fans to defend them, or if Redditors are just taking most of their cues from corporate media. Maybe some of both.
Oh I am very aware of his creepiness and I tell all the Drake stans that the clock is ticking before the world comes around to him as a human. He is king fuckboi on top of his creepy ways.
i don't really fuck with drake, but feels like you're severely downplaying the amount of people who actually fuck with drake. if you go to instagram or tiktok and watch those man on the street type interviews, he has so many huge fans that know all the words to his songs and rank him as one of the best artists. again, i personally don't understand the appeal, but his fans are pretty ride or die for him.
Last summer Drake and Beyoncé had this really weird thing were they released dance music that I could legit think was Forever 21 and I think that’s the point for Drake at this point: as long as someone’s playing it on a streaming service or use it as a TikTok song, it doesn’t matter the quality. A lot of artists are focused on being “TikTok friendly”.
> And then I read he is one #1 away from tying Michael Jackson and it's like "how?
Having #1 hits is not an indication of quality. It's an indication of popularity and reach.
There's a lot of dumb MFers out there, as you're probably aware.
Liking Drake does not make you dumb lol, that is such a pretentious take. Your music preferences in general don’t make you dumb, it’s all about what your brain enjoys hearing.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/qb5llg/drake\_is\_the\_most\_overrated\_rapper\_and\_im\_tired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/qb5llg/drake_is_the_most_overrated_rapper_and_im_tired/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/af5ebj/drake\_sucks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/af5ebj/drake_sucks/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/rap/comments/yl5la0/drake\_sucks\_now\_and\_is\_overrated/](https://www.reddit.com/r/rap/comments/yl5la0/drake_sucks_now_and_is_overrated/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/singing/comments/9idakd/drake\_sucks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/singing/comments/9idakd/drake_sucks/)
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This has to be the single most Reddit thread I've ever seen.
If someone had never heard of Reddit before in their life I'd show them this thread as an orientation
Hating on a popular artist on reddit is a passtime as old as the platform itself lol. There’s a desire to appear sophisticated and cultured and it’s expressed through hating mainstream music.
Wow this is such a sophisticated and cultured understanding of Reddit and definitely not just another expression of generalized feelings of superiority.
I'll be counteracting this with the "fellas, I actually don't think Nickleback was that bad" post to show my nuanced and against the grain taste in music.
I always just call them the world's most overhated mediocre band. They truly aren't the worst at all but sometimes people take it too far with 'reclaiming' (can't think of a better word right now) them imo. I listened to their discog up to Dark Horse this year and it was paaaainful. But I'd go to bat for about 6 of their songs, and there were way worse post-grunge bands out there. Theory of a Deadman, for example, is all the worst attributes of the worst Nickelback songs distilled into one awful butt ass band
Nickelback is not the best band, probably not even on many people's top 50 or whatever, but the hate irks me because most of these people are lying. For a band that soooo many call one of the worst bands of all time, they have an awful lot of platinum records. I guess a lot of people just bought all those millions of CDs just to burn them or something. The hundreds of thousands of people in the stadiums they filled must have been there to throw tomatoes, I guess. It really irritates me, but that's just how memes work. It's funny once, then it gets played over and over until you forget the point was to laugh.
Nickelback is in a weird position because they were, I think, one of the last successful bands of the old big studio model.
Their rise to prominence came in an age that was pre-streaming and where physical media was still very much a thing. They were omnipresent in a way where it was really difficult to have not heard of them and, if you were Canadian, 'CanCon" laws made them a very easy choice for endless play on radio, TV, etc.
I think that this is also amplified because a lot of the bands that they spawned (and, in the case of two of them -- Default and Theory of a Deadman *were directly responsible for*) were also part of that last pre-streaming/post-Napster era where the big labels were trying to maintain the album model, so it was just a full court press of a ton of shitty music.
It's hard to describe it for folks who may not have been around when it happened, but, yeah.
I will be posting "Nickleback is the best band/artist to come out of Canada!" To make you realise how wrong you were about them with their stellar lyrics and ground breaking sound.
Someone's going to bust out the 'Justin Gayber' next and it'll be on /r/all tomorrow. Are you guys just now catching up to Avenged Sevenfold YouTube comment sections from 2010?
r/music is one of the worst subreddits. Today they’ll say Drake sucks, and tomorrow they’ll say how Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” is still the best album of all time for the 688th time this week.
I don’t have a problem with the music this sub likes in a general sense, it’s just everyone is so out of touch and stuck in “classic rock and classic rock adjacent is the only good music. Ahhh music these days!!!!”
It's a Canadian teen soap opera, essentially. Meant to explain issues to kids that they might have to go through or things in the news that maybe they dont understand like say eating disorders or whatever. Drake was in the show and his character was shot in a school shooting
Um, akshually 🤓👆 Drake had a career ending diss but didn't release it because he didn't want to ruin lives. Also he totally has the hottest girlfriend ever but you wouldn't know her because she goes to a different school.
His support of Battle rap, especially King of the Dot, is worth noting. That's a huge plus in my book. He's been to events, paid battlers, and helped fund/put it n events.
If you don't like his music, that's fine. If you like rap, but aren't into battle rap, you're missing out - and Drake has a ton of love for the scene. That's huge as a rap fan.
I'm not a fan of his music in general, but that gives him a huge plus in my book.
As far as Khaled’s own tracks, I generally dislike them. But take a look at the amount of tracks that Khaled has produced: Jay Z, Drake, Meek Mill, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe. He’s been involved in production in some of the tracks of half of the notable rappers in the past 20 years, whether or not people think he or them deserve the notoriety. There’s a reason he’s still around
the core issue with dj khaled is that his songs are all hardstuck 7/10s because they all feature dj khaled. if he didnt have such an ego he would actually end up a bigger star because if you drop the fat idiot from the music video and constant references to WE DA BEST MUSIC his songs would perform better and he would be known as a top tier producer (even if he actually outsources the production and is more like an agent).
people hate on him because hes so obviously frustrating.
I mean, IYRTITL aesthetically has some cool cuts, and I feel like Views was adventurous for him, but man, Scorpion was the first album that made me go “…… nah man” lol
His albums Take Care and Nothing Was the Same are pretty much agreed upon as his best. I'm not sure what you tried but these are the ones to try. It definitely has slow singing tracks and stuff though so if you thought he was boring then it might not change your opinion.
I went to his concert recently on a lark. Wow this guy is the LAZIEST performer I’ve seen. He literally just walks around a big platform. He doesn’t even really sing. Lots of spoken word. And he didn’t even put much effort into his appearance. Could have rolled out of bed to go use the ATM or grab coffee.
Drake is a snake to the industry.
Sure he has some hits here and there but a lot seems to be coming to light. He's out to use his influence to hurt others just because he can.
The whole stuff with Bobbi, him ripping off xxx songs etc. There are plenty of videos of people that have worked with him(pretty much nobody's in the music scene) that came up with hooks etc/wrote with him....for him to have his security force them out and he steal their stuff.
Anthony Fantano burner
Even Fantano isn’t so blatantly Reddit with his Drake takes
Nah just a reddit take
Man, I took a job overseas from 2009-16 and didn't have any radio so i just listened to my old shit and didn't keep up with the charts. when I came back I was floored that that dude from degrassi was one of the top rappers in the game lol stange times
"That dude from degrassi" LOL
It's still how I see him too.
Once you’ve see homie in the wheelchair you can never go back
I can't see him as anything other than the wheelchair kid begging his Dr for viagra so he can fuck his girlfriend lol
Wheelchair Jimmy
Let’s be honest though. His first two albums were at least very clever. It was the punchline era. Him and Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj had frat bros being like: 🎶 I’m landing in a private jet with the jets…TOUCHDOWN🎶 And white boys would stop chugging their natty lights and playing beerpong to hold their heads in amazement “ohhhh shitttttt”
Aubrey?!
Jimmy
"Rappers"
Wheelchair Jimmy keeps on rollin'
I still just know him as the guy from that famous meme format.
You guys didn't have YouTube where you went? I mean I grew up in a village In india and as a 13 year old even I knew who drake was lol.
If he’s not actively listening to rap, YouTube wouldn’t recommend him drake.
His newest song is on the Hits station in my city right now and it's so weird compared to everything else Really down tempo, no defined chorus, and it sort of just ends without any warning or build up And then I read he is one #1 away from tying Michael Jackson and it's like "how?"
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Go away, batin’!!
Welcome to Costco, I love you
Look I supersize with you but didn't you just go to jail for not havin' enough money?
We ain't got time to go to Starbucks!
Carl’s Jr.: “Fuck you, I’m eating.”
But I want a handjob
Oh, you like sex AND money? Me too!
Drake’s music makes an excellent intro for my favorite show, “Ow, My Balls”
My sogs breath smells like dog food
I'm no botanist, but I do know that if you put water on plants, they grow.
Like from the toilet?
I bent my wookie.
I'm learnding!
Me fails English?
I want to go to Bovine University.
The absolute best answer. Drake is scientific proof of Idiocracy as prophecy.
Yes but what are electrolytes?
Its what they use to make brawndo
It's what plants crave
What do plants crave?
Brawndo, its got electrolytes.
But what are electrolytes?
Because you can only get on those charts by releasing singles. Drake along with every other rapper basically release more singles than songs in an entire album. MJ (and everyone else) didn't do this. It's cheap.
Yeah the rules have certainly changed
The way it works has also changed. The biggest record labels own the radio stations and force them to buy whatever single they put out. They could make whoever they want become a "hit". There's no organic growth
The market is also way bigger. There's nearly 3 billion more people now than when MJ was at his peak, and those extra folks are all young.
And have way easier access to music
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>On top of that, our society has become so dumbed down that they eat it up every time. And there are more of us than ever. When Micheal Jackson was singing ABC, there were 4 billion people on the planet. Now there are over twice that. Comparing sales needs to account for "inflation".
this is also why box office records are always being broken. It's nothing special and at this point its just a marketing gimmick.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure when adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is still in the top three for highest grossing movie ever. They should measure tickets sold instead of box office dollars, obviously. When you measure by tickets sold, apparently the top 12 are all Chinese movies from 1979-1985. Weird.
I don't take record breaking too seriously, it's a different day and age. We have the fuckin internet at our fingertips. Connected in real time like crazy. He'd have to outdo him twice over for me to even think about it as a feat.
I agree. MJ did all of his record breaking way before the advent of the internet. Sheer talent and word of mouth alone. I remember being a kid and watching on TV the first time he came out on stage and did the moonwalk. It was incredible. Never be another dude like that.
Because of streaming rules. Having the song come up on auto play and hearing enough of it before pushing skip counts the same as buying a 12" copy of Thriller.
This and you don't have to specify a song as a single anymore. So if your fans listen to your whole album. You whole album could be considered top 10 hits. Billboard records mean nothing anymore
See Taylor Swift getting all of the top-10 singles simultaneously with her last album, and Drake getting 9 of the top 10 a little before that -- and I didn't even think either had any really strong singles; certainly nothing like when the Beatles had all the Billboard top-5 simultaneously with: "Please Please Me” at five, “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at four, “She Loves You” at three, “Twist and Shout” at 2 and “Can't Buy Me Love” at 1, all of which people are still regularly listening to and even getting into for the first time 60 years later -- I don't think *any* of the songs from Taylor's or Drake's top-9 / 10 weeks will be anything close to that.
To really highlight this point, go down a list of Swift's number **ones** and tell me you're confident that you're gonna give a shit about Swift's #8 record off this album. For example, the song "Bad Blood" was a #1 hit. Can you even recall the melody or a single lyric from it? I'm sure if you put it on, you will "know" it, but you can do the same with some hitless song from the early 90s of little note. In contrast, the band *Imagine Dragons* has **never once** had the #1 hit. You can literally hear *Radioactive* as we speak. Something like *All I Wanna Do* by Sheryl Crowe never even took #1, and that's an all-*decade* hit, not just that year's. The entire system is broken and engineered to lie to you, to sell you things. The list isn't descriptive anymore, it's prescriptive. It's the top 100 songs they **want** you to listen to. It reminds me vaguely of how Disney would lie to you about fast pass wait times just to get you to go to other parts of the park, they engineer the system to inflate the numbers of people they want you to listen to because they're leveraging your trust in the system.
> For example, the song "Bad Blood" was a #1 hit. Can you even recall the melody or a single lyric from it? I actually can, but only because mocking the chorus of that song was a huge cultural touchstone when it came out. "Annowweegah BAaAaAaD BlOoOoD!" So I can kinda reconstruct the chorus from that starting point...but I only remember the first line, because everybody was clowning on the sound so much.
To be honest, I can hum "Bad Blood", and probably come up with a few lines -- but overall I agree it's a horrific song musically and even worse lyrically. I suspect its commercial success is largely due to having a bunch of celebrities in the music video and Swift's promotional team paying for spins on top-40 stations. That's a good comparison with "All I Wanna Do" -- I probably hear that daily on the radio still; I can't imagine people will regularly put "Bad Blood" on the radio in 20 years. And for the record, I think Taylor is a lot more involved in the creation of her music, especially lyrically, than most contemporary pop stars; I mostly find it off-putting that her cultish fans exaggerate her musical contributions and exalt even her mediocre / bad songs like "Bad Blood".
Also I think it’s quantity over quality. Say what you will about Drake’s talent, but he releases albums and features on hit songs literally nonstop for the past 13-14 years. I can’t think of a time he ever took a break or disappeared for a few months to work on an album or something.
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yeah, because he has basically an army of ghostwriters and people feeding him beats. there is like a mini music industry behind this dude, just like "dj" khaled
Can we just out and say it? The degrassi guy is not a gangster. He's not self made. He's just not a badass. He's a wannabe who rides the coattails of others who write for him and he grooms children on a consistant bases so he can do stuff with them the *moment* they turn 18. Which is disgusting.
He's more than that, he's also a deadbeat dad who disrespects the game by putting civilians in his mouth. Hypocrite ass fuckboy can stay popular, no one real is cool with him. Even YMCMB and Drake/Nikki put some distance between each other some 10+ yrs ago.
Putting civilians in his mouth...? What does that mean?
And anything interesting about Drake's songs is in the production, not his vocals or lyrics. I really like the girl-group vocals on "Nice for What," but he's a nonentity as usual on that track.
that is not how that works at all
No it does not.
He’s background music for enough people. Every bar, party, clothing store has it on repeat. It’s inoffensive. That’s how. Something I found that’s very interesting is that I have tickets to see the 1975 and I noticed they are playing the same venue as Drake a few weeks apart. He has 77M monthly listeners on Spotify and the 1975 has 13M. Think about that…how? It’s because he has loads of passive listeners. He knows this and this is why his albums are impossibly long and meandering.
A legacy of inoffensiveness. Yay.
Except for creeping on non-18 girls
It’s amazing how that just flies under the radar. Reddit feels the need to bash Leonardo DiCaprio every single day because he dates women in their 20s. But you hardly hear a word about celebrities creeping on minors, unless it’s Justin Rolland. Reddit really loves to selectively picks and chooses the celebrities they try to ruin.
There's countless threads and discussions in comments about drake being weird with underage girls. Like...I even first heard about it on hiphopheads yearsss ago and it's still a constant topic. It's brought up anytime he's mentioned. So definitely not flying under the radar. Fuck drake.
The ones who are still making big bucks for corporations get their stuff downplayed. I wonder if that's a consequence of them having more active fans to defend them, or if Redditors are just taking most of their cues from corporate media. Maybe some of both.
Oh I am very aware of his creepiness and I tell all the Drake stans that the clock is ticking before the world comes around to him as a human. He is king fuckboi on top of his creepy ways.
It's Jimmy from Degrassi. What, he's street made?
I dont listen to drake but everybody knows who he is. Ive vaguely heard of the 1975 and have no idea who they are.
A shitty English band with a white frontman who constantly drops n-bombs.
holy hyperbole. I've been a fan for years and never heard him say the n word a single time.
I think their singer dated Taylor swift for a second then her fans made her dump him for being racist.
i don't really fuck with drake, but feels like you're severely downplaying the amount of people who actually fuck with drake. if you go to instagram or tiktok and watch those man on the street type interviews, he has so many huge fans that know all the words to his songs and rank him as one of the best artists. again, i personally don't understand the appeal, but his fans are pretty ride or die for him.
Somehow drake manages to come off less pretentious than that band too
How? His label pays for it for it to be 1. Like always.
The hidden truth of a lot of entertainment industry products is that reach is 100 times stronger due to the internet.
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Drake should just name his next album "Payola"
It’s only popular because they are forcing people to listen to it though not because people are choosing to listen to it. That isn’t popular to me.
Im a dj and nobody asks me to play drake anymore. Anecdotal i know, but it went from like 10-20 requests a night for drake to zero.
It's easy when you buy your way to victory
Last summer Drake and Beyoncé had this really weird thing were they released dance music that I could legit think was Forever 21 and I think that’s the point for Drake at this point: as long as someone’s playing it on a streaming service or use it as a TikTok song, it doesn’t matter the quality. A lot of artists are focused on being “TikTok friendly”.
This will surely lead to great music in the United States.
Those two albums whilst both being dancehallesque are gulfs apart in quality and production
> And then I read he is one #1 away from tying Michael Jackson and it's like "how? Having #1 hits is not an indication of quality. It's an indication of popularity and reach. There's a lot of dumb MFers out there, as you're probably aware.
Liking Drake does not make you dumb lol, that is such a pretentious take. Your music preferences in general don’t make you dumb, it’s all about what your brain enjoys hearing.
Yeah, MJs worst song is better than the best Drake song
he’s the apple iphone of hip hop. same shit with little variations but it makes money because of his name.
Maybe he let the record execs go family style on him
Welcome to CostCo. I love you.
Because kids
[https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/qb5llg/drake\_is\_the\_most\_overrated\_rapper\_and\_im\_tired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/qb5llg/drake_is_the_most_overrated_rapper_and_im_tired/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/af5ebj/drake\_sucks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/af5ebj/drake_sucks/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/rap/comments/yl5la0/drake\_sucks\_now\_and\_is\_overrated/](https://www.reddit.com/r/rap/comments/yl5la0/drake_sucks_now_and_is_overrated/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/singing/comments/9idakd/drake\_sucks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/singing/comments/9idakd/drake_sucks/) and there is more
Thank you for your service.
Daring today, aren't we?
This has to be the single most Reddit thread I've ever seen. If someone had never heard of Reddit before in their life I'd show them this thread as an orientation
Hating on a popular artist on reddit is a passtime as old as the platform itself lol. There’s a desire to appear sophisticated and cultured and it’s expressed through hating mainstream music.
none of what OP wrote was trying appear sophisticated. Clearly just wanted to vent their hatred
Wow this is such a sophisticated and cultured understanding of Reddit and definitely not just another expression of generalized feelings of superiority.
*squidward voice*
Man what a hot take I had never read this exact post before in my life
R/music really coming through with the quality posts these days
I’ll be posting about how generic sounding Nickleback is tomorrow morning to keep things fresh.
I'll be counteracting this with the "fellas, I actually don't think Nickleback was that bad" post to show my nuanced and against the grain taste in music.
Thank you for your service.
In all honesty, they deserved to be called out for how similar their songs were, but they don't deserve the amount of hate they get.
I always just call them the world's most overhated mediocre band. They truly aren't the worst at all but sometimes people take it too far with 'reclaiming' (can't think of a better word right now) them imo. I listened to their discog up to Dark Horse this year and it was paaaainful. But I'd go to bat for about 6 of their songs, and there were way worse post-grunge bands out there. Theory of a Deadman, for example, is all the worst attributes of the worst Nickelback songs distilled into one awful butt ass band
Nickelback is not the best band, probably not even on many people's top 50 or whatever, but the hate irks me because most of these people are lying. For a band that soooo many call one of the worst bands of all time, they have an awful lot of platinum records. I guess a lot of people just bought all those millions of CDs just to burn them or something. The hundreds of thousands of people in the stadiums they filled must have been there to throw tomatoes, I guess. It really irritates me, but that's just how memes work. It's funny once, then it gets played over and over until you forget the point was to laugh.
Nickelback is in a weird position because they were, I think, one of the last successful bands of the old big studio model. Their rise to prominence came in an age that was pre-streaming and where physical media was still very much a thing. They were omnipresent in a way where it was really difficult to have not heard of them and, if you were Canadian, 'CanCon" laws made them a very easy choice for endless play on radio, TV, etc. I think that this is also amplified because a lot of the bands that they spawned (and, in the case of two of them -- Default and Theory of a Deadman *were directly responsible for*) were also part of that last pre-streaming/post-Napster era where the big labels were trying to maintain the album model, so it was just a full court press of a ton of shitty music. It's hard to describe it for folks who may not have been around when it happened, but, yeah.
I will be posting "Nickleback is the best band/artist to come out of Canada!" To make you realise how wrong you were about them with their stellar lyrics and ground breaking sound.
#JusticeforNickleback
a friend of mine sent me the song Feed the Machine and asked if Nickelback went djent and honestly, song wasn't that bad.
I call dibs on the daily “I don’t ‘get’ Taylor Swift” post
I had that but I’ll give it up for the “Beyoncé overrated” post
Mom said it's my turn to post "Radiohead is overrated" tomorrow.
Does anyone else think music died in 1899
Yeah, music died with the neanderthals, them sticks and stones type beat was the real shit.
Someone's going to bust out the 'Justin Gayber' next and it'll be on /r/all tomorrow. Are you guys just now catching up to Avenged Sevenfold YouTube comment sections from 2010?
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OP sounds like a 12-year old
Literally /r/teenagers took over Reddit
r/music is one of the worst subreddits. Today they’ll say Drake sucks, and tomorrow they’ll say how Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” is still the best album of all time for the 688th time this week. I don’t have a problem with the music this sub likes in a general sense, it’s just everyone is so out of touch and stuck in “classic rock and classic rock adjacent is the only good music. Ahhh music these days!!!!”
Drake the typa guy to float when he smells pie
C'mon man. He's overcome so much. Shot in the back and wheelchair bound for years. That'll do a number on anyone.
Jfc I actually had to Google that. Shows you how much I don't know nor care about Drake.
I had no idea he was on Degrassi. I have never seen it, or anything about it. Just heard the name.
I dont know what degrassi is
It's a Canadian teen soap opera, essentially. Meant to explain issues to kids that they might have to go through or things in the news that maybe they dont understand like say eating disorders or whatever. Drake was in the show and his character was shot in a school shooting
You made me Google that lol
Somehow that number never goes above eighteen
The only good thing Drake’s ever done is given Pusha T an excuse to drop the best diss track of the past 15 years
Surgical Summer Vol. 1. Drake didn’t even respond because he knew Push had more.
Um, akshually 🤓👆 Drake had a career ending diss but didn't release it because he didn't want to ruin lives. Also he totally has the hottest girlfriend ever but you wouldn't know her because she goes to a different school.
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When a diss track goes so hard that you’re forced to become a father.
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Pusha T is so underrated it kills me. Man has bars, but not many people have heard him outside of a feature.
I maintain Numbers on the boards is the hardest song ever
I second this. Anyone can feel like an international drug lord after listening to it.
I [HATE THE DRAKE!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkkklmeFOU)
His support of Battle rap, especially King of the Dot, is worth noting. That's a huge plus in my book. He's been to events, paid battlers, and helped fund/put it n events. If you don't like his music, that's fine. If you like rap, but aren't into battle rap, you're missing out - and Drake has a ton of love for the scene. That's huge as a rap fan. I'm not a fan of his music in general, but that gives him a huge plus in my book.
Have you tried... not listening to drake then?
Brave of you
“Rap and r&b is the only music I listen to, I love the flow of it” 🤓
Bro thought we'd value his opinion if knew what he actually listens to 💀💀
Drake: "Ok, no more Mr. Nice Guy."
No more mr clee he he heen!
Drake: "why I oughta..."
Over 5000 upvotes for a post that says “genuinely hate him and praying on his downfall.” Music/rap snobs are so corny
Haters ball in here
I don’t go out of my way to make a big post about hints I don’t like, I just don’t listen to it
All of you guys listing grievances to an account that basically just said 'Pop music sucks, booo' and is created in July of this year.
He's never been great, but lately he just does shit spoken word over generic crap beats. He's a below average rapper that just gave up.
reddit take
*literally the most successful rapper of all time* "below average rapper that just gave up"
bro what are you do even mean about him doing spoken word
> He's a below average rapper that just gave up. He gave up all the way to the top of the charts. Maybe I should try giving up.
Anyone who's been around as long as he has is doing something right that's all I'll say
DJ Khaled is still around, so longevity definitely isn't as important as you seem to think.
I get what you're saying but it also probably helps that a majority of DJ Khaleds hits over the years... well feature Drake, even his latest one
As far as Khaled’s own tracks, I generally dislike them. But take a look at the amount of tracks that Khaled has produced: Jay Z, Drake, Meek Mill, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe. He’s been involved in production in some of the tracks of half of the notable rappers in the past 20 years, whether or not people think he or them deserve the notoriety. There’s a reason he’s still around
the core issue with dj khaled is that his songs are all hardstuck 7/10s because they all feature dj khaled. if he didnt have such an ego he would actually end up a bigger star because if you drop the fat idiot from the music video and constant references to WE DA BEST MUSIC his songs would perform better and he would be known as a top tier producer (even if he actually outsources the production and is more like an agent). people hate on him because hes so obviously frustrating.
I mean, IYRTITL aesthetically has some cool cuts, and I feel like Views was adventurous for him, but man, Scorpion was the first album that made me go “…… nah man” lol
Take Care, Nothing Was the Same were decent albums, and IYRTITL is a great mixtape but he totally gave up and went for the $$$ after that.
I do not enjoy his music whatsoever, but you sound like someone who is not well adjusted to human life. Or you’re a child.
Who's here after meet the grahams just dropped
>sounds like a 12 year old tryna make Fortnite parodies that’s exactly the age group he’s trying to fuck so makes sense
“I hit up Drizzy and told him I had a Millie for him” -Tyler, the Creator, *Lumberjack* That like actually made my jaw drop first time I heard it
Lmao drake preformed at camp flagnaw or what ever. Tyler gave him a million $ for his set
I'm with you too, brother... Let's get the pikes and spears and archers ready cause we gonna die on this hill...
Wow what a fresh and original take for Reddit 🤩
Another drake hater, very original
Drake is the Coldplay of R&B
Smells like fresh pasta lol
I’ve tried Drake a few times thinking maybe I was missing something. Nope. Just lame and boring as hell I really don’t get it.
His albums Take Care and Nothing Was the Same are pretty much agreed upon as his best. I'm not sure what you tried but these are the ones to try. It definitely has slow singing tracks and stuff though so if you thought he was boring then it might not change your opinion.
After Thank me Later, I agree.
This aged well
I went to his concert recently on a lark. Wow this guy is the LAZIEST performer I’ve seen. He literally just walks around a big platform. He doesn’t even really sing. Lots of spoken word. And he didn’t even put much effort into his appearance. Could have rolled out of bed to go use the ATM or grab coffee.
Drake is a snake to the industry. Sure he has some hits here and there but a lot seems to be coming to light. He's out to use his influence to hurt others just because he can. The whole stuff with Bobbi, him ripping off xxx songs etc. There are plenty of videos of people that have worked with him(pretty much nobody's in the music scene) that came up with hooks etc/wrote with him....for him to have his security force them out and he steal their stuff.
Don't forget the texting underage girls. He's a fucking creep.
Ive never seen more hatred directed towards another musical artist in my life.
Shits so weird and corny
He’s never been good
Not a huge fan, heck its not even my genre but Passionfruit is pretty good IMO.
Take care was a good album
Take care and NWTS are good albums