Noah "40" Shebib on Drake's hearing method and how he is horrible at keeping time. Credit: Pesado's Place #Noah40shebib #noah40 #ovo #ovosound #drake #hiphop #mixingengineer #music #rap #song #producer #songwriter #MusoShorts
Truth , drake leaning into singing is surprising when his rapping sets him apart dramatically. His points are accurately orated. His story telling is compelling. His tone complements the argumentative venting style of rap he often uses. He’s mastered many nuances of an art form that can seem one dimensional.
This is a really thought-provoking comment, I never thought of Drake's style as "argumentative venting rap" but it's an extremely accurate description of his bar work. And I agree wholeheartedly regarding his singing turn, these recent singing records are, quite frankly, awful, not to mention completely uninteresting to his rap fans. Worse still, when I listened to his verse on "Churchill Downs" with Jack Harlow I was even more upset, as it's clear Drake hasn't REMOTELY lost a step. I mean he completely bodied Jack on the track & that's saying a lot as Harlow REALLY came with a serious verse but Drake was just deep in his bag. I just hope Drake decides he wants to get back to his roots & the area of music where he's truly peerless....rap. Back to his NWTS, IYRTITL, Views & even Scorpion type stuff.
That's easy to say but harder to do when you have been the game's biggest star for 10+ years. It gets BORING. For HIM. To do the same thing that everyone wants him to do.
His singing stuff always charts higher and can appeal to everyone whereas the rapping will only appeal to hip hop fans. Although I do agree with everything said
I always noticed that whenever he sings or raps. Especially raps, he always holds for a second before spitting his next few bars. Some people are gifted. He’s one of them.
@@denali8311 You’re in a RU-vid comment section. Drizzy is making millions. Grant it that last album was terrible IMO. So it ain’t like he’s Michael Jackson where everything he does is a hit. But he’s where he’s at and we’re both here. So please. Go to bed.
@@Kal-El207 ok chill 😂 i was just making a comment not anything serious i was just stating something. also it is daytime for me i dont know where u live vut i just woke up lol
@@Kal-El207 I mean he is kinda like Michael. Everything he touches goes crazy and is a hit off name alone. His last album was dope. Y’all just didn’t like it. Simple.
As a drummer who grew up on punk rock and then eventually fell in love with dance music and then rap, Drake actually is a far better potential drummer than 90% of the population. Hearing the space between a beat is what let’s you groove and catch a pocket. But yeah… actually keeping time is a very important part. Work on that hi-hat drake.
I think of drummers like Nick Mason who always knew what needed to go in between those spaces. Also theres a video of Nick Mason talking about Drake saying his lyrics are trash haha edit tried finding the video couldn't find it but I know this fucker exists
What’s crazy is that there is elements of Drake and his sound that no one has been able to replicate; Nobody can format bars and cadence in the way that he does it. I don’t listen to a TON of Drake, but I listen to a loooooot of hip hop alllll day long obsessively and I can emulate some rappers, even the great Rakim. But the artists that I’ve had the toughest time emulating… Baatin from Slum Village Tupac Nas Drake There raps honestly sound closer to conversation. They’re not repetitive in any certain cadences. Like Pac stretching his words out (What if I’m wroooooonnnngg a trick to keep me on and on) or how Nas and Drake just literally talk through a track… They don’t necessarily focus on the Rhyming element more than just getting out what they really feel on a track. In any case, Drake is a different cat. I don’t listen to him a lot, but he definitely put together a format and formula overall that works for him.
So you think conversational style rapping is superior to syllable abuse? I can respect that, but there are rappers who have both styles combined and drake is not one of them.
@@persona8991 you just wanted to shit on drake in that last part. Most people prefer conversational raps, and most listeners don’t care about rhymes. People care about what’s being said, what they can relate to. That’s why drake got so big, his lyrics are him speaking and people feeling it. Think about how many people use his lines to express what they want to say. Honestly it’s annoying, but he’s selling a mindset and people dig it
Yea, and rhymes on the one. (As in he'll start on the two and keep going till it's on the one again, then he'll start the new line on the 2 again) Honestly, not my cupt of tea, but I did find it interesting how everyone copied this style.
What makes Drake bigger than the others rappers nowadays is VERSATILITY No one can sing and rap changing flows like him Listen to Take Care or Best I Ever Had... he literally changed his flow 3 times in the same song (from singing to rapping and vice versa)
I was wondering who the hell I got it from but I tried to like elevate it buy doing different voice tones or sounds along with the cadences to challenge myself....but it sometimes can throw the average listener off because they think it's more than 1 person on the beat
@@mdnvisualz Yeah, that’s right If you listen to Trust Issues or Headlines it seems like Drake is 2 people (his singing voice is different from his rapping voice) And that’s why he’s ahead of Kendrick, J Cole, Travis, Tyler…etc
It’s amazing how everything and everyone around him holds to maintaining his image and making him seem as this “special” man. I respect their loyalty. I still see him as just a man. I say that humbly. Like anytime you watch anything relative to him even funny content from him it always makes him look good, and to the consumers mind leaves you thinking he’s a God. But to me he is still just a man. And that isn’t to undermine his success. It is just to say he’s another ambitious person. He is not unreachable. Like if anything he does all this to inspire the next artist who will be bigger than him.
Listen to heart part 6 as a point of reference, it’s clear he only hears the Spaces in between, the end of his rhymes all end in the beginning of the next bar, so if the beat is at bar one, his rhyme wont end till the beginning of the 2nd bar.
This is true, Drake even taught Wayne how to rap 'behind' the best as opposed to 'infront' of it, especially for these new trap beats. And it helped Wayne reinvent his music for the new age, Drake definitely came up with a formula. You can hear this stark adoption and impenetrable of rapping in the spaces on the song versace.
I was listening to a busta rhymes interview, I think it was on the drink champs, and he was saying similar things about his own process. The way he listens to a beat and how his timing of when he says something, not just what he says or how he’s saying it, is absolutely vital
You know what I find funny is all the Kbots turning into 🐈s and saying Drake should never make fun of Kenny for being an SA victim yet yall go an do this over OVO40. Bunch of hypocrites. Just like kenny defending R kelly
I used to be in the booth with one headphone on, sometimes no headphones . Just going off the bass that I feel from the control room…hearing the beat directly always messed me up especially hearing your voice playback
One of my favorite Drake songs is “Do Not Disturb”. His flow has always felt off on that song - the beat has no spaces. I still love the song but always wondered why it felt off.
I legitimately JUST listened to DND last night, and I SWEAR it's his worst song to try to rap along to. Because his Flow is so NOT predictable with the Beat. He almost seems OFF beat at times, and after watching this- it makes SO much sense. lol Still love DND. Though. MoreLife. 🤣😎🙏
This makes sense...im no drake but a few producers wondered why i didnt record or write identical to some other's...i hear beats etc a little differently....i see which cadences would fit but then i "try" nd choose the most either unpredictable or non used options ...also love certain beat selections im very specific but hard to calculate due to randomness
All rappers wait for the space in the best that's how you come on. It's call catching the beat, its like double dutch. this isn't something amazing. Turn on a beat and freestyle even if you don't rap you'll still wait for the space to start. Drake just do it amazingly 🐐
@@royaltycd8082 hard to explain it’s a feeling like a boxer- he raps in between the kick and snare- so does drake - and Eminem’s cadence goes with the hihats
It’s pretty simple, drake hears something someone else made popular and he hops on it for some of the most mid rapping/singing the industry has ever heard from a major artist.
You can utilize the spaces in between a beat and still be on beat....nd lean towards the timing of your syllables and lyrics rather than the beat count nd just have a flow nd sequence rhythm
You can mainly tell who does it by listening to if someone is rapping over or under the beat. Someone like Lil Baby is listening to the beat, so he raps over it. Someone like Gunna is listening to the spaces, so he raps under it.
Yeah he probably great at picking the next verse to use from those different writers. You definitely need a good ear for that. The best actors know how to pick a script when it's on paper lol. It's easy to say that was a good movie after the credits roll, but imagine seeing it before the effects, and the co stars, etc...that's a skill. He just an actor to me at this point.
@@Rich_iamI’m pretty sure that was the r&b portion of take care but if you wanna visualise the Weekend sitting down writing Rap songs Who am I to take that from you🤣🤣
@@travionpatterson9776 you def never heard Weeknd music then lol and it shows. So we got a rapper writing for drake, an R&B singer writing for Drake and you still making excuses. There's definitely more feeding him hits too, that's how the industry works, especially for someone like him. But if you want to visualize him churning hit after hit out because it makes you feel better at home when you bump that shit then go ahead.
@@Rich_iamthat’s what I was waiting on the “There’s definitely more” with no proof. I can here the weekends music in Take Care but I get it. I don’t think Drake is the best rapper or even the greatest artist, but disrespecting his pen is just silly he’s done to much.
drake so happy he quoted my grandmas bumper sticker about music being the silence between notes....dude is so corny it's a phenomenon. I clicked on this video to see drake content I assumed I would appreciate because he truly is a remarkable designer of sound delivery and cadence. Again though, he never fails to be so corny it's f-ing mind boggling how he keeps it up.
So how did he fuck up the new album cause he basically had the same flow for every track and his melodies didn’t match the tempo or the rhythm of the beat
Worked to get him the number 1 album in the world the number 1 song in the world and 5 songs in the top 10 on billboard when he released it. I think his ears work a lot better then yours
I couldn't imagine building my whole life around another person, doing interviews talking about what a musical savant they are. "He's such a genius, he can't do anything musical to save his life and relies on other people for 99.99999 percent of everything he does but he can hear when the recording is lagging"
@@leeroyuckface6893 nothing, I'm an 18 year old future artist that will put anything Drake has ever released to shame. You will know my name. I'm all potential. 😎 What about you?
@@oliveoil3917 Yeah trust me son I'll have about 12 of them in a little while. Give me 5 years and YOU WILL BE WATCHING INTERVIEWS OF ME, MEAT RIDING ME ASKING MY HATERS "WHERE IS YOUR BUGATTI"
