Drake Sucks

On this day before Thanksgiving the one thing that I want to give thanks to myself is the suspicion I always felt when listening or hearing anyone talk about Drake. Let’s discuss.

I have never been a fan. From day one his rapping felt fake. His beats felt too repetitive. He is a phony. He acts like he is some hardened dude from the street when in reality he is a suburban kid from Canada. I despised how often they'd show him at NBA games. He was always rooting for a different college basketball team, whichever team was the favorite that year, and that reminded me of a bandwagon type fan. I never got the feeling from him that he really liked rap music or appreciated what he got to do for a living. He seems to me to be more obsessed with fame than with the craft that made him famous. I have always gotten the ick from him as the kids would say. And now, and it for sure helps that I am a humongous Kendrick Lamar fan, he is doing one of the most childish things I've ever witnessed a grown adult do. Drake is suing Lamar for defamation over "Not Like Us".

This is low, even for Drake. It's upsetting because he just can't live with the fact that Kendrick Lamar crucified him with their whole "rap battle". He can't handle the fact that nearly every single person has sided with Lamar. He can't deal with it. Instead of just riding off in the distance with his W, Lamar released a whole new record that is amazing. At every turn since this whole "beef" started, Lamar has bested him. Kendrick Lamar has always been the much better rapper, but the way he has handled his dismantling of Drake has been masterful. And instead of taking it and moving on, Drake has decided he needs to file suit. This is the attitude of a pampered child who has never been told anyone is better than him. This is how suburban kids act. This is the kid taking his ball home because the people they're playing with are better than them at the game they're playing. This is a petulant child act, and it comes as no surprise to me that Drake would stoop so low. He is never going to be the artist that Lamar has become and continues to be. He is never going to be respected when people talk about all time great rappers. Hell, he'd be lucky to be included in a top 10,000 list of all time rappers. He is too busy taking selfies, showing up to Toronto Raptors games and trying to start a beef with DeMar DeRozan, who also handled Drake's childish shots with grace. He wants to be loved on Instagram instead of for his music. He wants to show off all the things he can buy because of his fame. The one thing he doesn't seem to want to do, make more music, or make even listenable music.

Drake is the phony and fake that I perceived him to be over a decade ago. I have never had any respect for him or his non rapping ability. And now to file a defamation suit against Lamar, he is making himself look worse and worse with every new move. I swear the people around him, and himself for that matter, they seem to be finding ways to make him look even softer. Drake has been beaten by Lamar with music, a mic and now with the social media crowd that Drake so craves love from. He is going to become even more of a joke. And if I were in Kendrick Lamar's shoes, I'd just keep smiling, holding on to my victory and making even more dope music. Kendrick Lamar not only won this whole thing, he wiped the floor with his weak opponent. 

Ty

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