He sounds too much like Kanye without the guts to say fuck the man to his face, people may think ‘Ye is a baby or an asshole but he says whatever the helll he wants at any time

It might be time for Drake to shake up his management team. A good manager wouldn’t drop the ball as much as what happened in Drake’s case. Drake can’t do it all, don’t care what he says. All movements need good, aggressive management to keep things moving. Cash Money (or Young Money or whatever) is distracted by other issues right now and they can’t make Drake a priority. And yeah, the industry as a whole is stagnant too.

It sucks, but that’s the way it is at the moment. Skee, you on point with these blogpost. Props.

This is a great entry Skee. Loved seeing your perspective on this.

I see ya’ll tryin to start another Drake machine, real heads see right thru him. One mixtape is not paying dues and the fact that he got wit Weezy right off the bat with no Toronto cosign is kinda fishy. I’m betting somebody in Toronto gonna expose something about him.

Drake blew it like Baron Davis missing that wide open break away lay up last night. Had the ball in his hands. All he had to do was dunk it and he would still be in the game. But he missed and now time is running out. SMH.

Bomb ass blog Skee.

For y’all who know how I rock, click the name I have a forum open on 360 deals. In the comment section I also have links to refer to for info, so you might wanna clipboard them while you read my blizzog.

Drake contradicted his own success by signing a deal, he would have been better off getting a bank loan to put out his own album, which would have BEEN out…the Sprite commercial is a strong, valid reference point of failure on Drake’s behalf.

great blog. presumptuous and speculative certainly… but that’s what blogs are for.

Comment-ers say the darndest (dumbest) things.

For one, nobody has dropped the ‘proverbial’ ball. Drake is going to be WILDLY successful. He will release an album THIS year and will be one of the top-selling music acts of the past five years.

Let’s gauge the current barometer. Prior to releasing a full-length album, Drake has collaborated with Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Timbaland, Eminem, Lil Wayne, and Kanye West. The list is limited to top-sellers but I could go on. He’s been nominated for and performed at the Grammy’s.

How is he being mis-managed? Did I hear someone say he should “shake up” his management? Nomination for multiple Grammys and performing there too isn’t “proper recognition?” Do you live under a rock?

Also.. some of you need to reevaluate what it means to be ‘hot in the streets.’ It does not mean you present yourself as a street character. It means.. you ask a random person on the bus, walking down the ave.. who Drake is and what their favorite Drake song is and they can answer immediately. Drake is VERY HOT in the streets.

I’m not a Drake fan, but I am a fan of So Far Gone. If his first full-length studio effort matches the creativity and dopeness of that mixtape, I will be a fan. His flow and content have seemed a bit repetitive on leaks lately so I’m on the fence as yet. Some of you, however, are delusional.

good read and i co-sign. me and my homeboy was having this conversation the other day and i said somethin similar about how drake has already had his peak and when his album does come out its not gonna do so well. i really hope i get proven wrong tho..

We haven’t listen to his first official release yet and we already talking about him dropping the ball. The kid appeal to the masses. from a rollingstone magazine reader to a bill o’reilly viwer. You just have to laugh at things like this….

Not that I’m a fan of Drake, I think calling him “Nickelodeon” is perfect. Dont see him doing anything unique, new or special. I’m not a fan.

That said I can tell you that he most certainly will drop an album this year and it’ll do very well. Sadly he signed that deal to cash in on the buzz of a mix tape and now its Drake Inc – another musical act that needs stamps, signatures and approvals from a list of people at the label before anything can get done. Spontaneity is out the window and, as the article states, original ways on cashing in are gone. One person at the label may think its great and there’ll always be one person who thinks its stupid.

Funny thing about “buzz” and going 0-60 or 60-100 is that you’ll still slow down at the same rate. When your momentum is based solely on buzz you’ll slow down pretty damn fast. You can be the next big thing and peoples grandmothers might know your name but when you’re an artist and your buzz isn’t based on your art – you are fucked! Wayne will be locked up, Jay-Z is off being Jay-Z and Alicia Keys is a product…they’re not going to spend time worried about Drake.

Drake will successful no doubt and even though his skills are overrated they still can’t be denied but the fact that he came out big out of nowhere, oversaturating the market, big connects and all is hard to believe that this was all grind as opposed to a creation by the industry, a Frankenrapper of sorts, is just not organic and it really seems forced.

I am still unsure about Drake i want to hate him because he looks like a sneaky ass fake douche, but then i want to hate him cause he looks like a big ass tool hidden in cashmoney cosigns with a whole machine to back him up so then he can claim there is no such machine….strictly music though, he´is OK, but not the NEW JAY-Z like XXL said YEAH I REMEMBER THAT NEWS HEADLINE

letyoutellit.com thinks the same thing

whoever wrote this, can you get at me?

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Drake is good – but he is not street.

“I don’t mean to give away the secrets on what I’m working on, but imagine going to company X, who cuts a check to have Drake be a spokesperson for the brand, then pays to create a music video that features and can also be cut into a commercial for company X that’s shown on TV to millions of people thousands of times. To top it off, the consumer has to go to Drake’s website to get the entire song (or mixtape/album) for free, where before they download they’re forced to watch that 30 second music video/advertisement about the product.”

Seriously? This could go horribly wrong.
1st. This would only make since, from a corporate perspective, for established artists or artists that had already had a substantial buzz that lined up with their target market.
2nd. once they write the check, you better believe they are going to want to a say in the lyrics. Albums will start to sound like those old st. ide’s commercials. The next time you listen to a Game song, replace the words “Aftermath” with the name of a corporate sponsor. Imagine Snoop singing “Hewlett-Packard is the label that paaays me”. Is this really what you want?
3rd. Exclusive deals will be the norm. Corps will want to lock up entire business segments of artists and they will be managed like professional athletes. An artist who signs an “adidas” deal for a commercial/video may be forced to stop wearing sportswear from any competitors in public. You better believe Lebron’s contract forbids him from ever being caught in shelltoes.
4th. what happens for the second or third single? If company x finances video 1, how are they going to feel when 2 weeks later, the artist is advertising company y (a direct competitor) in his new video? That would be a no-go for any decent business. Even assuming Company X finances the videos for an entire album, what about album 2? The value in an pitchman is his ability to generate sales. That ability is diminished if the pitchman isn’t believable. If an artist flip-flops every time he opens his mouth, soon people will stop listening. Kind of like the boy who cried wolf. Additionally, once an artist has “sold” a segment to company X, that segment has less value to any other company going forward. An artist’s management team would have to be world-class (IMG level) in order to appropriately position their client.

lol what reality do yal live in where a rapper has 4-5 songs in regular rotation and fresh off a grammy performance is ‘losing his buzz’?!?!?

u aint got to like dude all u want but lets not be silly and say some dumb shit like that people.

Who said it wasn’t cold in here?

Drake aint really the kind of guy thats gonna take risks, the minute a proper deal appeared he took it , shit l cant hate on that, he thinks its the best deal for him. He gotta do what he gotta do to survive.

Dont worry, our rap saviour is out there, ready to take the game by the scruff on the neck! You gotta go thru the darkness to get into the light!!