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the other day I saw a guy catch a bunch of flack for hating on Drake. He was called a backpacker, and was told the only reason he doesn’t like him is that he sings.
Well I also dislike drake, but it’s because he is a bad rapper. I don’t want to be accused of hating for hating sake, so I decided I’m gonna post his lyrics and tell you guys exactly what I don’t like in them.
The song I’m gonna use is Tuscan Leather because it’s all verse, so it’ll be easy to see his rapping chops.
“Comin' off the last record, I’m gettin' 20 million off the record
Just to off these records, nigga that’s a record
I’m livin' like I’m out here on my last adventure”
Right off the bat a see I huge red flag. He has no rhymes except for the four times repeated (be it a couple different meanings) record, and then there is one adventure that rhymes with the previous records. I can’t stand repeated rhymes like that, but it is sometimes bearable if they repeat a word to make multis, but here it’s only the record rhyming. (I’m sayng there is no words around it that rhyme if it’s not clear “last” “the” “these” “a” don’t rhyme but if they did and were different words I could have been okay with it.)
“Past the present when you have to mention
This is nothin' for the radio, but they’ll still play it though
Cause it’s that new Drizzy Drake, that’s just the way it go
Heavy airplay all day with no chorus
We keep it thorough, nigga, rap like this for all of my borough niggas
I reached the point where don’t shit matter to me, nigga
I reached heights that Dwight Howard couldn’t reach, nigga
Prince Akeem, they throw flowers at my feet, nigga
I could go a hour on this beat, nigga”
The problems I have with this are the following:
The present mention rhymes do not go past the first line.
The line ending in chorus has no rhymes at all to go with it except for “airplay all day”, but I fell that chorus should get a rhyme somewhere
Here he doing what I mentioned in the last paragraph. He is using nigga to beef of his rhyme, but he tries to use it to change the rhymes he is doing without you noticing. He starts of with half line rhymes with “thorough, nigga” and then “borough niggas” which is an okay 2 syllable rhyme, but then he switches to full line raps that are only 1 syllable rhymes (“me” “reach” “feet” “beat”). I would like to point out that reaching something someone else couldnt reach is just a terrible metaphor.
Now I could continue pointing out flaws in this first verse, but I’ll go ahead and show you bad raps in the second
“Not even talkin' to Nicki, communication is breakin'
I dropped the ball on some personal shit, I need to embrace it
I’m honest, I make mistakes, I’d be the second to admit it
Think that’s why I need her in my life, to check me when I’m trippin'
On a mission tryna shift the culture
Tell me who dissin', I got some things that’ll hit the culprit
Them strep throat flows, them shits to stop all of the talkin'
All of the talkin', got one reply for all of your comments”
Ideally there should be a should be a rhyme before every comma, but here “Nicki” “personal shit” “honest” “mistakes” “in my life” “dissin” “strep throat flows” are all missed opportunities for rhymes.
During this whole thing each rhyme only lasts 2 lines some being a streach “admit it” to “I’m trippin'” and “culture” to “culprit”
I hate repeating lines “all of the talkin'” it just annoys me
Now I really don’t feel like doing any more lines, but I hope you guys get the point
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