Drake Is Pop 

He’s gonna send you another vegan recipe for this one

Drake is hip hop in the same way that a tomato is a fruit. it's technically true, but it might as well not be. you wouldnt eat that shit like an apple

Drake the type of guy to say “I’ll have the usual” to a waiter who has no idea what he’s talking about

Alot of his biggest fans are drake fans as opposed to rap fans. The way they’ve disrespected Mos Def who is a certified legend in hip hop after his comments is so cringe

Drake basically said “Only people that know absolutely nothing about poetry should review my poetry book” 😂😂

Drake is 100% target music

this isn’t even opinion, this is fact. he brags about topping the charts, he’s a pop artist

Drake the kinda type of fella who constantly says he's the best in a genre he isn't even part of

I don't really understand why Drake fans or Drake himself would be upset about this. His fans say he's the GOAT purely based on the number of hits and album sales he has. They definitely can't point to any specific music he's created to make this claim. That's the definition of a pop artist.

Drake the type of dude to put "😂" in a text after taking a dig at someone

Aubrey’s Angels 😂

Im a popstar not a doctor

Mos Def's comments were non-controversial and not negative in any way. Drake is pop and it doesn't take anything away anything from Drake's music to say so. People can enjoy different things for different reasons.

“shopping with an edge,” yep, so like at a footlocker. he’s shoe store music.

Drake is a pop artist that can rap. While he may have started out as a rapper, some of his biggest hits are either full out background pop songs, or "rap" songs that are easy and catchy but they are known for the pop oriented hooks anyway. His rap ability is fine but as of right now he has more pop appeal then anything. Which is fine because he's making bank, another case of people being so attached to something any sort of criticism about it is taken as hate. And in Mos Def's case it wasn't even criticism, buddy was just answering a question and responded the way he thinks.😭😭

I love that people are talking about Mos Def again, its just annoying that THIS is why

He did not need to apologise for saying the truth

I hate social media. Bey shouldn't have to apologize for his opinion

Don’t let LosPollos see this

I don't even think pop and hip hop are mutually exclusive, I think its possible to be both at the same time. pop is more of a description rather than a genre in most cases anyway imo

"SHOPPING WITH AN EDGE (in certain instances)" 💀

“Drake is Target music” is the most succinct description of Drake ever.

"Your existence is pop"

A huge amount of modern hip hop is pop, to be fair

aged perfectly

Mos Def also an underrated actor…dude seriously can act.

Gotta love how absolutely no one calls him Yasiin Bey without clarifying that hes Mos Def😂

He writes the songs of a generation. Name another artist that so perfectly captures the suburban ennui of the self checkout

Mos is right but it's not a diss. Aubrey a child star turned popstar who found his way into hiphop as a guest. Well deserved success tho as he is very talented. No hate. Drake is drake, I thought we already all knew he was pop. Lol

Yes, I wish Yasiin Bey had not felt the need to apologize for his words while many of us agreed with his first assessment. I wish interviewers stopped asking lazy questions like "What do you think of XYZ?" Because it always puts the interviewee in a tough situation. They do not bother doing any research so to fill the time, "Who is the next best rapper for you? What do you think of drake?" And she was not even a good listener.

Melon kind of said this in his video but not outright- if he’s constantly bringing up his numbers, brings up that other rappers don’t like him, and stood the test of time against his critics, why should he care? If you held a gun to his head and asked him if he could beat Yasiin Bey in a rap battle he would have to admit he couldn’t. He’s successful and likes the lane he’s in, Drake just loves being petty. It’s like he’s addicted to being corny to his critics.

Joey Bada$$ still criminally underrated

I wish there was this much energy about human rights.

I don't think he apologized. I think he stood by what he said and made his stance and intentions more clear. He just added the point of "let's focus on what really matters", cause he IS real Hip Hop.

Your average drake fan's knowledge of hiphop history only goes as far back as 2010. Thats why they had no clue who mos def was, or why he was saying what he said. Its really common with most modern rap fans tho 🤷‍♂️. Its not that drake is pop, rap as a whole is pop now.

The thing about being the most popular artist in any genre, is that your music is going to be “poppy”. Like by definition you have to have a lowest common denominator sound. I just don’t understand when Drake and his fans constantly talk about his numbers and how he’s at the top. But then simultaneously get mad when you acknowledge what has to happen to become the most popular anything

Drake is to hip-hop what Laufey is to jazz.

I heard drake once in a dunkin donuts. I was feelin that ice coffee too. So I looked at her and said, "guuuuuuuurl blast some whipcream on that". as I assume Drake would say in a dunkin donuts.

Got the opps calling me pop Ladies love my sound, credit clean like a mop Money and women, two areas thatll never flop When u a kid from the 6ix who had to wheelchair ur way to the top 🦉 -Drake's ghostwriter, 2024

He didn’t say “internets’s busiest music nerd” at the start of the video. That is breaking the 10 commandments of needledrop

Slightly off screen in the mos def apology video you would see J Prince standing with his arms crossed

Drake isn't HipHop, he just plays one on TV

Drake makes the marvel movies of music and noone can convince me otherwise

"Drake Is Pop if you call him that don't stop" - Q-Tip

I think saying that Drake actively goes out of his way to not appeal to the “heads” is a bit disingenuous. That would be more fitting to say about someone like Flo Rida or something. If you listen to enough of Drake’s music, you would gather that the guy obviously cares about the art of spitting. He does have a penchant towards wordplay and metaphors and double entendres and some of the other ingredients associated with purist Hip Hop music

I didnt know Drake was considered a rapper, i thought he was known as the main Pop/R&B guy

I've been waiting for you to weigh in on this shit, and man, you did not disappoint. As always, you are the voice of reason in the social media reality of unreason. This right here is why I fucks with you and always will. Kudos to you, Melon, my favorite like-minded left-leaning vegan music nerd.

Yasiin was speaking truth. Drake has a very specific formula tailor-made for pop chart success and he's been riding on that for years, now to his detriment. If he was truly hip hop, his time in the sun would've faded away years ago - he would've never lasted as long in the spotlight with how repetitive his music has become.

There’s nothing wrong with what Mos Def said

Yasiin knows his stuff and I appreciate his takes on anything he speaks on.

Yasiin Bey forever indeed. Not just a magnificent artist but a wonderful humanitarian. I saw one RU-vidr (whom I otherwise respect) say that Bey's comments stemmed from jealousy. Y'all really believe that a man who turned his back on his movie and music career at the height of his fame to preserve the integrity of his work would be jealous of Drake? C'mon guys, stop the nonsense and just go listen to The Ecstatic.

Mos Def is definitely in my top 5. Some don't know nor learn from history, dude is a beast

“It happens to every genre and subculture during their commercial peak.” This is why turnstile and militarie Gun scare me

" I would have so many friends If I held back the truth and I just gave out compliments I would have all of your fans if I didn't go pop And I stayed on some conscious shit "100 by game fr. Drake... the man's own words

Great video!!

Thank you for the content.

We all knew Drake was too insecure to handle this gentle flick of an attack

Drake is so all over the place musically it’s hard to tie him to one genre, His music is pop, hip-hop, R&B, dancehall, bounce, etc.

Couldn’t agree more with the analysis here. Well said.

Yes Anthony. I recall the online tussle, with the back and forth and back and forth. You are very important and Mos Def knows it.

in the intervew he already look so uncomfortable with the question and he's trying to answer it as honest and as nice as he could. i cannot believe how soft a guy must be to see that and got insulted from it. i feel really bad for mos def

I've never thought of Drake as a rapper. He's a pop artist who does pop hip-hop designed to appeal to everyone. He is Hip Hop's version of Greenday or Blink 182, and there's nothing wrong with that.

That clip at the very end almost made me cry

"Why are you doing this to me?" kills me🤣🤣

drake basically had his swifties bully def into apologizing. if that aint pop...

Mos Def said a classic "great gowns, beautiful gowns" but male, rapper version😂 love that!

bro really attracting all the drake stans after the whole beef and making them cry 😂

I think something can be pop and hip hop at the time time."pop" can be applied to musi of any genre of said music is primarily designed to have mass appeal vs artistic depth

Aubrey is a sad boi who uses Ghost writers.

Fantano Is Melon

Good takes all round, Bey, Fantano - forever!

Nice to see Cal make an appearance

It certainly is fascinating how many people say they don’t like and don’t care about Drake but as soon as something like this happens, they are eager to pick up the scraps. Mos is one of my fav artists who has produced some of my fav albums. Is Drake pop? Yes. Is Drake hip-hop? Yes. Hell, is Drake r&b? Yes! He’s a lot of things which Yasiin sort of all-encompassed in his “pop” statement. That’s it, end of discussion.

Drake, “I’m a pop star” Fans: 😊 Yasmin Bey, “Drake is Pop” Fans: 🤬

10 Bands - Written by Quentin Miller Jumbotron Shit Poppin - Written by Lil Yachty Mob Ties - Written by Vory It would be different if he wasn’t pretending he didn’t lean on ghostwriters so heavily, but he really lets other people take the wheel more than any rapper should, even for a pop rapper.

I couldn't name a song from either, but glad you enjoy 🙂

: Drake doesn't have the fortitude or the capacity to have a bare bones or raw approach to making music - I think that's what needs to be said here. He can't help but sound quite manufactured, even when the recording mixing and mastering is utter ass. Drake is a pop leaning artist, 100% - yet I don't think that contributes to why he's mid as hell right now. It's just his manufactured sounding music happens to sound like hot ham water right now.

Yeah. He's pop. He's got a lane for himself. Him and Conductor should do an EP or something. Would be cool to hear bro rap again.

good one. really nice take

Completely forgot about the second black starr album until he mentioned it

Stories About My Brother is my FAVOURITE pop song of 2023!

Drake and Usher and closer to eachother than Drake and Kenderick.

I'd totally recommend revisiting the Black Star album

Not the youtube algorithm recomending me this today of all days 💀💀

If Drake and Ed Sheeran are both pop stars who can rap, does this give Ed the advantage since he's the one with a REAL British accent? Gonna make some vegan cookies and mull this over

Mos Def/Yasiin Bey wasn’t wrong here. Drake does make pop music. How often did you hear anything from Mos Def being played at Target? You didn’t, but you definitely hear Drake at Target. Like you said, he tried to be as eloquent and respectful as possible, but Cutting Room floor was looking to start shit and make Mos look bad.

I mean, does it matter? I feel like this is the kind of discussion that only exists to start arguments. I feel like if you were to ask pop fans they wouldn't consider Drake pop. Does he have pop songs in his discog? Absolutely, every artist does. It's what puts food on the table. And how come you never see this discussion with other genres? Lots of pop artists team up with rappers on songs but you don't see people questioning if they're hip-hop. Genre discussions are so weird, brings me back to the days when everyone would argue what genre of metal a certain band was in. Nu Metal, Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Post-Punk, like just enjoy it nobody cares.

“Aubrey’s angels” 😂😂

Totally agree. Hip-Hop is one thing and rapping is another. Beyonce raps, Doja Cat raps, Taylor Swift raps but they are still pop artists. Drake is far more similar to a pop girl than 50 Cent or even Kanye. Very Canadian BTS about the situation.

Drake fans are a mf cult 🤣 he's definitely pop

“Shopping with an edge… in some instances”

Just about every mainstream rapper, R&B singer, Rock Band, etc, is POP!! POP=Popular or Popular Music. The days of hardcore, in your face, rap, is long-gone from the mainstream and also mostly absent from the underground in 2023/2024!

This is the best video you've EVER made!! Thank you sir!!

I want Anthony to shave the edges of his mustache and just leave the middle fuzzy part so he can look like a 1920s butler.

That's right Anthony, ever since Pusha T told him to take care of his kid, Drizzy been a father

0:06 mos def is goated

Ye is 10 times more hip hop than Drake could ever be

Drake has been my favorite artist since 2009 and I agree 100% with Yasiin Bey. 😂 Anyone who doesn’t is goofy. Drake has his rap/hip-hop moments but let’s not kid ourselves.

This has been the most serious i’ve seen fantano. Especially in regards to Drake. He’s usually so sarcastic and trolls..respect.

Might as well be yeah