Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DRAKE VS MOS DEF (YASIIN BEY)"

Episode Date: February 19, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticDeep Dive on Artistic Responsibility in Hip-Hop: Yasiin Bey (MOS DEF) VS DrakeDive into a nuanced conversation about artistry and social responsibility in hip-hop. Veteran rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) unpacks his recent critique of Drake, sparking reflection on the role of music in times of crisis. Is talent and charisma enough? What deeper impact should artists strive for? This segment goes beyond surface-level commentary, offering thoughtful analysis and sparking your own critical thinking.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I know. Drake is pop. Because we're here for truth. Drake is pop to me. Right, that's fair. In the sense that it's charting like pop music, popular music. In the sense that if I was in Target in Houston and I heard a Drake song. So it feels like a lot of his music is compatible with shopping.

Commercial music. Or it's, you know, shopping with the edge. with an edge in certain instances or fair i like drake's music but i understand exactly what you're saying of course i mean it's commercial entertaining fun good formulaic music that is it's likable likeable music yeah it's likable music you know cat williams got everybody in their bag when it comes to hating so i'm not even mad at most deaf he looked at drake he looked at cat williams And he was like, you know what? It's my turn now.

And I understand. I mean, when Drake is competing with the likes of Taylor Swift, you know, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallin, none of them are in a hip-hop space. So, you know, just breaking speed records on rows that these OGs paved. And obviously, they don't like it. You know what I'm saying? So whenever you start hating on somebody because their music is likable, you're basically saying that at the end of day, this man is such the goat at the craft that we can't even compare him in the same realm of hip hop because he's competing with other musicians that he shouldn't even be competing with. Because if you don't know, I mean, hip hop has been the number one genre for the past, what?

I would say decade plus. So, or since the 90s, so even more than a decade. So when it comes to Drake building all this hype and anticipation as far as time and time again, somebody else in a hip-hop space could have did the same thing because the genre has been number one since the 90s. But did they? Of course not. Because Drake's the goat. So when most decades.

is hating and which is you know he's most definitely hating you know that's probably what it stands for um at the end of day you just look at the stats and you just compare and a wise man once said comparison is the thief of joy so if your joy it's just being stolen by this light-skinned person from DeGrassey, I would hate to. You know what I'm saying? How in the world does somebody named Jimmy in a wheelchair get up and start running the hip-hop game? Y'all let me know. Because with most deaf, he's a phenomenal rapper, but then guess who else is a phenomenal rapper. Guess who else makes hits on top of hits?

Top of hits. So when it comes to somebody just spreading blatantly false information saying that Drake isn't hip hop. The best thing he could come out and say is I was wrong. I was hating like most of the old heads are doing towards Drake right now, which is why I had a whole episode, yeah, shameless plug. I had a whole episode basically talking about Drake versus hip hop media. If you search notorious mass effect, Drake versus hip hop media.

It should definitely pop up. And more specifically, not even hip hop media versus old head hip hop media because they just do not understand what it takes to get to Drake's position. So guess what? If you don't understand what somebody or someone did to get to a position that you want to be at, but you failed to do so, you start to make excuses for why he's at that position. So now it falls in the category of hating. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we'd have made a full circle moment as haters are always going to hate

because they couldn't do what whoever did at the level that they tried to do but failed at. So if I see somebody and he did something I wanted to do, but I tried and I failed, I'm going to say, oh, he only got that because he sold the soul. oh he only got that because he's been mentored by this person oh he only got that because i'm hating like i wish somebody would come out say that i wish somebody would just be like hey i'm just hating like i'm just putting a bullet on this hate and sending it towards somebody away right because letting somebody know your true intentions is way more honorable than you hiding behind the veil of oh this is constructive criticism like no my brother you are most definitely

hating so with that being said click my link to my bio let me know on one of my social media's what do you think about this old head hating well another old head yet another old head hating on drake and also at the end of day i mean with drake being the goat how many more old heads do you think going to come out to hate on them