(CelebNMusic247-News) Drake BLAST Rappers for Being Fake Thugs to Sell Records
Young Money Entertainment rapper Drake is not worried about his street cred or faking being a thug!
The former Degrassi: The Next Generation star, who played Jimmy Brooks, turned hit rhymer and hip hop super star is preparing to drop his third studio album “Nothing Was The Same” this September. Drake popularity has continued to rise in the hip hop industry as well as crossing over to all despite the recent stir he and Roc Nation star J. Cole caused over an offensive lyric Cole rapped on one of Drake’s new songs.
Drake continues his success with landing on the cover of XXL for their 16th anniversary issue, however, Drake has opened up on a lot of things and is now CALLING OUT rappers who fake being thugs just to sell albums. Drake is NONE of the and continues to chart and go platinum. When asked about dropping his album around the same time many heavyweights in the game are putting out their new albums, he replied with these snippets.
On his new album, Drake says:
“I remember coming into this year thinking, “How am I going to cut through all these people and shine?” I’ve never been part of a year when so many legends are dropping projects. How am I going to be seen? I’m going to be like the kid waving in the background in the photo with all of his tall relatives. And, I guess, those were my initial thoughts, and not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some of the stuff that has come out this year, but it didn’t pan out the way I thought it was going to. I think I am going for it, to really establish what are murmurs or things being said quietly, “Um, I think that Drake might actually…” On September 17th I want people to be like, “Oh, we were right.””
Drake admits that he NEVER felt like he had to switch up his image and calls out other rappers for faking thug images:
“Do I think that if I didn’t have, for lack of a better term, a unique look about me, if I was from somewhere in America and if I hadn’t been on a kids TV show [Degrassi: The Next Generation], would I be as famous? I don’t know, man. Honestly, I don’t think so. I was just some young kid on a TV show. And I haven’t become anything else while I’ve been in this position. It’s not like I got here and was like, “Oh, got to switch up my image.” I don’t wake up nervous. I feel like maybe a lot of these guys do. How old are you, really? What is your background, really? What have you really done in the drug game, in the thug game?”
As for competition, Drake is ready to take on anybody, even Kanye West (who he has a lot of respect for):
“It’s tough for me. That’s a guy I can’t pretend not to like. He’s the guy to me, in a lot of ways. That’s Kanye West. But I’m also here to be the best. I’m here to surpass. I’m here to outdo. I’m ready for whatever with anybody.”
Is Drake to cocky or just self assured of himself these days?
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