Why do people hate drake?

[IGetMoreAssThanAToiletSeat]

I'm not saying that I hate/like him, but I'm just wondering why every one hates him so much lol....

 

I was watching an eminem music vid on youtube and i looked in the comments and people were making drake jokes and just hating on him, got me wonderin, why?

 

I don't really listen to his stuff anyways, not a big fan of his music but anyways

[IGetMoreAssThanAToiletSeat]

Drake is a rapper, for those of you who don't know

[NicekillBG]

because he is a part of league of legends

[Elapo]

because he is a part of league of legends

I like drake when he's dead and my team killed him though.

[Volbet]

I don't think people hat him, but people can probably just highly dislike him.

I'm not a personally a big fan, since I find him too whinny and unintersting to hold my attention. 

Although, I did like the majority of If You're Reading This, It's Too Late.

[wyattzx]

because he is a part of league of legends

This.

 

In all seriousness, I don't "hate him" as a person. I dislike his music, and how he performs. Plus, at times he seems very.. arrogant. So I voted yes, but only to his public image.

[Guest]

How can i hate someone i don't know? 

[IGetMoreAssThanAToiletSeat]

Yea who am I kiddin, drake sux, I dont really like him either lol

[JAKEBAB]

Because he acts like he's been through something he hasn't, alot of people listen to rappers because they feel a connection with the rapper as they have been through the same shit but Drake is fake, he never had it tough.

 

Also he sounds terrible rapping the only song that was good was Forever and the chorus was only good about the song when it got to rapping it just ruined it.

[IGetMoreAssThanAToiletSeat]

Because he acts like he's been through something he hasn't, alot of people listen to rappers because they feel a connection with the rapper as they have been through the same shit but Drake is fake, he never had it tough.

 

Also he sounds terrible rapping the only song that was good was Forever and the chorus was only good about the song when it got to rapping it just ruined it.

Eminem carried the song forever tbh lol. Drake was ok in it. But I definitely agree on the fake part

[Admiral Naismith]

No idea who Drake is, therefore I am indifferent to his/her/its existence.

[LamboLaddy]

I'm not saying that I hate/like him, but I'm just wondering why every one hates him so much lol....

 

I was watching an eminem music vid on youtube and i looked in the comments and people were making drake jokes and just hating on him, got me wonderin, why?

 

I don't really listen to his stuff anyways, not a big fan of his music but anyways

Eminem and Drake rip on each other quite a bit.

[Overkilled]

Drakes in my personal top 10

[Guest]

Drake isn't the best performer or rapper in the world.

He's just lucky he made a few catchy raps.

[You_are_a_cunt]

I saw the thread and thought: "who the hell is drake?!"

Today I learned something.

(for once my default lulzy poll pick was the actual answer to the question)

[KemoKa]

People consider him an artist, I do not, I think that if anything he can just spin some rhymes. Rappers are just poets who put their lines to a beat and speed them up. Shakespeare would have been a rapper if he did this. I can't stand rap, and he looks pretty arrogant as most rappers appear to be, so yeah, I guess I can hate that.

If you want music "artists" in this day and age, search the bowels of Youtube for Indie producers. Start with Monstercat. Mainstream stuff to me is just made with cookie cutters.

Just my opinion.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Haters gona hate..

[ORGASMATRON]

I think it's because of his song "Started From The Bottom" when he's already filthy rich when he started rapping. lol. idk.

[Guest]

People consider him an artist, I do not, I think that if anything he can just spin some rhymes. Rappers are just poets who put their lines to a beat and speed them up. Shakespeare would have been a rapper if he did this. I can't stand rap, and he looks pretty arrogant as most rappers appear to be, so yeah, I guess I can hate that.

If you want music "artists" in this day and age, search the bowels of Youtube for Indie producers. Start with Monstercat. Mainstream stuff to me is just made with cookie cutters.

Just my opinion.

I agree but monstercat? Electronic music is just robots fucking (sounds like)

Real music is like 'Tell it to my heart' from Taylor Dayne

[KemoKa]

I agree but monstercat? Electronic music is just robots fucking (sounds like)

Real music is like 'Tell it to my heart' from Taylor Dayne

Again, just opinions. I love electronic music. You may think it sounds like robots fucking, I think it sounds nice (as long as it's done right - there are a lot of songs on Monstercat that I can't stand either). A lot of people think rap is cool, that's fine, I personally think that it constitutes of people talking, swearing and complaining about the troubles of the "hood" to a beat and not a lot else. Taylor Dayne is creative, but perhaps not for me. There's no definition of "real" music as what it is is entirely subjective. Just different tastes is all.

[Volbet]

If you want music "artists" in this day and age, search the bowels of Youtube for Indie producers. Start with Monstercat. Mainstream stuff to me is just made with cookie cutters.

Just my opinion.

You raise an intersting conundrum, that I think is worth answering.

 

What then if Monstercat became "mainstream"? Would they then be made from the same cookie cutter as the rest of the pop-fodder?

Or would the mainstream cease to be made with a cookie cutter?

 

And what mainstream are we talking about? I know plenty of people that would consider Monstercat to be mainstream within the electronic music scene.

It's the same way that some people consider Cannibal Corpse to be mainstream within the death metal scene, eventhough they never had a commercial hit.

 

 

Because he acts like he's been through something he hasn't, alot of people listen to rappers because they feel a connection with the rapper as they have been through the same shit but Drake is fake, he never had it tough.

While this is true, isn't it true for most artists within rap music?

Rick Ross always brags about his illegal endevours, but untill his rap career started, he was a correctional officer at a prison. 

He was pretty much the opposite of the person he raps about.

 

Even the rappers that have been through though time probably have to spice up their stories to make them intersting. Does this make them dishonest aswell?

I doubt that people like Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg etc. have lived through everything they rap about.

 

So, while Drake might not have lived through the things he raps about, he might just use himself as the center of a story. Whether or not that story is good, is a different discussion.

[KemoKa]

You raise an intersting conundrum, that I think is worth answering.

 

What then if Monstercat became "mainstream"? Would they then be made from the same cookie cutter as the rest of the pop-fodder?

Or would the mainstream cease to be made with a cookie cutter?

 

And what mainstream are we talking about? I know plenty of people that would consider Monstercat to be mainstream within the electronic music scene.

It's the same way that some people consider Cannibal Corpse to be mainstream within the death metal scene, eventhough they never had a commercial hit.

When I say mainstream, I mean the generic Top 40 stuff that is broadcast day and night on the radio with almost no variation. A lot of the more recent artists who are making big money are releasing music that to me sounds no different to the last songs they released. There are a few good ones, but in my opinion (note that in every post I've made so far I've said that this is all opinion) most are rather uncreative. As for Monstercat, in the realm of Electronic music they may be considered "mainstream", but on the whole, in the grand scheme of things, they are not well-known at all. Go out on the street and ask some person if they've heard of Monstercat Records. Occasionally someone may say "yeah" or "wow, you know Monstercat too?", but I guarantee you that the vast majority of average joes will never have heard of them. When's the last time you heard the tracks they have on a conventional radio station? yeah, same here. If you want to go deeper than that, ask how many people have heard of Pegboard Nerds, or Laszlo, or The Eden Project, or Karma Fields. Hell, outside of the Monstercat community I know no one who has even heard of Televisor.

 

That is my definition of mainstream. Perhaps it's a wide definition, but that's what I'm going for. I like stuff that doesn't show up on the front page. And as of right now, Monstercat has not been up there. Maybe that will change one day. I don't know. I certainly don't see it happening though. It just seems that the most generic stuff attracts the wider audience and that's why it's so popular. Electronic music doesn't really have that kind of draw. So *shrugs* I doubt that monstercat will ever become mainstream in that sense.

Opinions, my friend. This is all subjective.

[MrDynamicMan]

Jees, I hate Drake. He seems so arrogant and shallow, not to mention his songs are just plain bad. He lacks any sort of originally or creativity... Just read his lyrics.

[Volbet]

When I say mainstream, I mean the generic Top 40 stuff that is broadcast day and night on the radio with almost no variation. A lot of the more recent artists who are making big money are releasing music that to me sounds no different to the last songs they released. There are a few good ones, but in my opinion (note that in every post I've made so far I've said that this is all opinion) most are rather uncreative. As for Monstercat, in the realm of Electronic music they may be considered "mainstream", but on the whole, in the grand scheme of things, they are not well-known at all. Go out on the street and ask some person if they've heard of Monstercat Records. Occasionally someone may say "yeah" or "wow, you know Monstercat too?", but I guarantee you that the vast majority of average joes will never have heard of them. When's the last time you heard the tracks they have on a conventional radio station? yeah, same here. If you want to go deeper than that, ask how many people have heard of Pegboard Nerds, or Laszlo, or The Eden Project, or Karma Fields. Hell, outside of the Monstercat community I know no one who has even heard of Televisor.

That is my definition of mainstream. Perhaps it's a wide definition, but that's what I'm going for. I like stuff that doesn't show up on the front page. And as of right now, Monstercat has not been up there. Maybe that will change one day. I don't know. I certainly don't see it happening though. It just seems that the most generic stuff attracts the wider audience and that's why it's so popular. Electronic music doesn't really have that kind of draw. So *shrugs* I doubt that monstercat will ever become mainstream in that sense.

Opinions, my friend. This is all subjective.

I was in no way intending to dismiss your opinion, and I'm sorry if it came off that way.

Neither would I ask for anything but an opinion, seeing how music is such a subjective field.

I only asked, becuase I have heard people make similar statments, but I have never gotten an explantion as to why they hold a ´mainstream = bad´ opinion. I just ceased the opportunity to finally ask someone.

i see now that you were probably not the person to ask, since you appear to hold that opinion on a dogmatic level. And I will applaud you for that.

Your point about the generic sound of the top 40 is pretty valid. Although, I would contribute this to the fact that most music is made by the same producers. I wouldn't really blame the performers themself.

We are also wired to like and recognize certain type of music, so that would explain my most things sound the same: http://www.cracked.com/article_20065_5-ways-your-taste-in-music-scientifically-programmed.html

This means that popular songs do tend to sound very similar. And afterall, we do live in the age of focusgroups.

And as you yourself said, there are outliers to the generic formular.

I have actually heard Monstercat on the radio before. I heard nanobii's Rainbow Road played late one evening. I was pretty surprised.

To my knowledge, there have been plenty of electronic artists on the top 40 in various countries.

I know both David Guetta and Avicii have had top 40 hits, and older acts like Kraftwerk and Pet Shop Boys have also broken into the top 40.

[DildorTheDecent]

"Jew rat", nice going OP.

 

Still on the Tylenol?