The "Drake Feature" Curse 

Mac Miller did it all without a Drake feature.

The Drake feature isn’t for the artist, its for Drake.

loll drake talks to these rapper like women, "you my favorite rapper" sells the dream, raps a few lyrics of their songs and the gets the box (feature) then ghosts em

in retrospect, drake was never putting on. he was hopping on to a new artists wave and bringing them to a place that is basically unsustainable for a new artist finding their way into the industry. his feature brings you so high that you find yourself struggling to get back to that height as a newer act with no true cult fanbase. it's not the help that people think it is, i feel like drake does this lowkey to sabotage new artists from taking any shine from him while simultaneously benefitting from the new wave they bring when they come out.

Drake uses new artist to claim their flows as his own.

Drake is a clout vampire. He tracks down hot new artists and feeds on their hype.

Drake’s impact in Hip-Hop as an outsider should be studied

Don’t act like Drake wasn’t using these guys to keep his career up.

Drake the type of guy to wear a nightcap and hold up a lantern when he walks around at night

Drakes got so many ghost writers they can start a union.

To say that Drake helped them is very disingenuous, considering the fact that these new artist breathed new life into his career. The fact is that the collaborations were mutually beneficial.

Drake never treated them like people, they're just Pokemon cards to collect.

Drake doesn’t jump on these tracks to help THEM. That may be what happens, but that’s not why he does it. He does it to help HIMSELF.

He steals your identity and music. He charts it as his own. Then moves on to the next mark.

What cheat code? He only hops on people’s 🌊 then drops them soon as they not hot anymore. A lot of them said they even asked him not to drop his version of the songs but he would do it anyway.

Drake wouldn't have survived the early 2000 B.E.T rap city freestyles 😂😂 dawg would of been cooked off rip

Everyone is drake's favorite rapper 🤣

So, like Katt says, evil can not create. So they must steal. They can't create original works of art, so they cosign authors to legally give them access to their library then pick and choose their next album concept. Evil cannot create so they must steal.

My RU-vid algorithm keeps delivering since this beef started. I got a lot of heat from ppl over the years cause I been hating on Drake since I was 16 and he got big. Never understood it and he always seemed so scummy to me. Thanks for this, you got a new sub!

R.I.P Takeoff 🕊🚀 We miss you ❤

"You not a colleague you a f**kin' coloniser"

If this happened to other rappers, they would say they got backstabbed, but since it's drake, no one bats an eye.

I think rod wave may have dodged a bullet

BBL Drizzy

Is it safe to say Kendrick won now

He uses other artists so that he stays relevant forever, now he has sexy redd, when she starts flopping you'll never see drake with her again.

As someone who’s been clowned by friends for being a Drake hater for years, this is all making me very happy and all of a sudden I’m not the only Drake hater in the group

The machine is behind Drake and Taylor more than it is other artists 🤷🏿‍♀️ Lil’wayne use to have that support too in the 2010’s

Drake is not putting anyone on, he's leaching off new artists and getting them on his side.

Drake literally stole other people sound and style, X got killed for saying that :/ Kendricks townfolk line is spot on

Drake stole lil waynes energy. First it was a Wayne verse now it's a drake verse that it sought after.

Fun fact: Drake stands for "Do Right And Kill Everything." Miss Me lyrics. 😂

Nah smiley was literally set up perfectly for success. He just fumbled the bag

Bro is in a two album a year contract 😂 of course he has to keep it fresh. Exploiting every new talent that pops up.

I’ve said this time and time again… *DRAKE IS A CHAMELEON* he goes for all the up and coming artists to stay relevant. That’s why he goes for whatever sound is in at the time

Drake is a diabolical wave rider, but if you ask his fans, they will try to convince you that he is putting on no names.

Trust me Giggs is still doing good in the UK

Is it safe to say Kendrick won now?

say ovhoooe 🗣️🗣️

16:31 shit aged horribly lmfaooooo

PND is heartbreaking cuz he is really talented. It’s like he almost got big but was pulled back and we never heard from him since

If he really just loves the music then he doesn't have to jump on the songs and waves. Can just tweet about them and can bring them on tour to open up for him.... He doing that sh*t to jack, that's it.

A Drake feature is like making a deal with the devil. You got what you wanted but you lost what you had

RU-vid is getting relly bold with these 15 second ads

Drake gives you exposure for ghostwriting in return 😂😂

Man, the way people have turned on Drake is quite ridiculous. You don’t live off a stimulus package. If you can’t maintain the wave assisted by Drake that says more about you as an artist.

Drake doesn’t put anybody on. He literally just hops on songs that are already trending and blowing up to get a piece of their BAG 💰 then he dips out on em

I still listen to Yung Bleu. And i knew him before he had a collab with that PDF file.

Whats crazy is, the problem is just Drake. Because all throughout the 00s, IMO, if you listened to rap, there were 2 people 2-3 who you ALWAYS either heard a track from, or you heard them on somebody elses track: Wayne, T Pain, and Chris Brown. You couldnt listen to a single song practically in that time period without hearing one of those 3 at least once. And if they werent on the original, their would probably be a remix with them featured. Drakes problem is a bit of a mix. On one hand, dudes kinda like Kanye. Hes not signing people to actually build up a label. Hes more so signing a support team to help his own projects. You sign to him and youre music career wont go anywhere because most of your work, your lyrics, whatever, if its good enough, theyll end up going to him instead because hes the boss. The other is that hes kinda like Em in that, he overshadows the people hes on tracks with. When Wayne, Pain, and Brown are on tracks, they feel like they compliment the artist they are making music with. When you heard an artist with Em on the track, Em always feels like his bars are more powerful and overshadow the other persons. The big difference is, Em will actually tell the other person "hey, you should work on this some more". He actually wants people to improve, and this has been stated in many interviews with people that worked with him. Em also isnt singing someones praises heavy on social media so it doesnt feel like he tossed them aside once he was done. Because most of those people who listen to those songs Drake is featured, are Drake fans and Drake fans only. They listen, but will never check that persons stuff again. The last thing is that...Drake eventually betrays most people that have a close relationship with him. Most of these guys were too new that they never actually built up anything with Drake. But if you been around him long enough it seems everyone who hes had a friendship with in the industry, at one point he betrays them

It's starting to seem like every Drake feature is going against Drake now, just look at Kendrick Lamar for example.

Jay Z was doing the same thing.

Drake the type of guy to say “what’s crack a lackin” 😂😂

R.I.P Drakeo the Ruler

Drake is a professional surfer...all he does is ride waves

Drake gave BlocBoy the exposure of a life time. BlocBoy had all the time in the world to leverage on that exposure but he didn’t.

Something i don't see anyone mentioning, is that there are moments Drake was on the decline. He got someone like 2 Chainz, Meek, Future and Ross to collab. And he dropped some tea about a controversy. And the Drake lyric deep divers making the song blow up.

He did the Jay-Z/Rap vampire move more times than he switched accents

4:19 you also got to realise not many Uk rappers have charted on billboard so that’s not fair to come at Giggs for that, also Drake has helped many Uk rappers chart on the Uk charts that wouldn’t have if he didn’t give them a look, even Dave got drake on a remix to one of his earliest tracks and he’s now sold out the O2 twice and headlining major music festivals

Drake is the Rachel Dolezal of rap

Drake feature is like signing your soul to the devil , I guess the lines "Hellcat , made his home boys and them type sell their soul" makes sense

Since its Drake, we know it was predatory behavior. At first these rappers saw it as good thing because they gained likes and made good money. What Drake(the industry) knew is they could have (some still did) gained love and made great money without him. Organic love is always better (more profitable) than temporary likes. Drake set them up in the long run to be able to say things like, "your first number one I had to put in your hand" and "everybody got a deal, I did it without one!"

P Drizzy the most successful colonizer since Columbus

This is ridiculous, blaming Drake because you couldn’t get another number 1? Put in the work and get your ass there, Drake showed them how so now it’s up to you to get yourself back there. Give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach him how to fish feed him for life (if you can put in the work).

At least 5 of those artists who apparently never charted before have massive fan bases and have absolutely charted in their respected countries. Gigs, Jorja Smith and Wizkid especially are absolutely massive artists in the UK, and Wizkid in the whole of Africa (home to 1.5 billion people). Just for context, I am 27 and Goggs had the biggest song in the UK before I started school. Literally around 20 years ago. Wizkid has been massive in the UK for around 10 years, and Jorja Smith already had a hit song (probably number 1 song, though I can’t be sure) over here before Drake. Drake takes existing talent and gives it to his fan base, he’s not helping anyone career, he’s siphoning their talent. Also, Sampha is from my hometown, Croydon. He had an incredible album around 10 years ago, He didn’t even record a new song for drake, Drake just used the same song that Sampha made when I was in high school. (Not sampled, used and put a rap over it).

Drake was BBL Drizzy

Ilovemakonnen is a warning about ovo for all artists out there

Is Drake the diddy of rap artist..... i just realized xxxtentacion , juice wrld , mac miller, and lil peep never had a drake feature.

16:38 just support them. Don’t hop on their songs. Just nod your head and chill in the music video. Don’t feature

Drake going thru it 😂😂😂

I love how Drake says "you guys only sell in America, I sell all over the world".. To me that means absolutely nothing... If you have the respect of the country that invented the artform you leech from, that means more than selling tickets in Thailand. It's a nonsense argument

Drake hops on super early in their careers, making them think that he is the only reason that they were successful! We will never know if these songs would be big because the time was never put in to see!

Biggest culture vulture of hip hop

Bro I found your channel like a month ago. I have to say you are my GO TO person when I want a deep dive into all the details. Great work. Awesome video. Looking forward to your next!

People say culture vulture but he more of a parasite. Control of the living and growing host then once he got everything he wanted, he leaves and the host dies, incapable of living by itself. I would say the fault is not only on him.

While Drake did use other people to boost his name, everyone else used Drake to make it. It's not Drake's job to keep them relevant.

Having an intro for the video in the description is cool

Louiasta dropping banger after banger 🔥

If Drake calls you his "favorite rapper," prepare for your flow to be jacked and wave to be ridden. Drake should change his name to Toronto Surf.

You have enough content to call up Netflix and get a "Surviving Drake" special going. Great video homie!

As a Brit, I don’t think this curse applies to the U.K. scene. I don’t think the Drake co-sign backfired with any of their careers, domestically at least. He put money in a lot of money people’s pockets and not just musically but also in the acting world through the tv drama ‘Top Boy’ - that show meant a lot to the scene culturally, and those actors careers have gone to new heights thanks to Drake supporting the culture. As he know he was an actor and roles for Black British actors as slim so many leave for America. I say that to say, anybody who says Drake acted like a vulture and took from the U.K. without giving back, that’s 🧢. The history of him showing the U.K. love is well-documented back to the beginning of his career.

It's like he befriends them to disarm them and then takes them down

“I appreciate all these young ppl”💀

This was beautiful bro, and your last sentence echoes my sentiment. It’s become cool to hate on Aubrey, if he gives you a hot feature, it’s not his job to give you a whole career. Just as we can point out those who faded, we can also find many examples of those who took advantage of that opportunity. It’s probably 50/50. It’s sounds like it’s a curse because of the number of people but he’s worked with a lot of artist, and a lot of them are successful too. So what if it’s mutually beneficial and he gains as well

He was there to heal his people

The drake feature is a stimulus package

“Party at the Party playing wit his nose now” But nah for real PND is the biggest upset, dude got unlimited talent.

The curse almost got Kendrick. Glad he had people around him that helped him dodge a bullet by becoming more independent.

Yall can fake hate Drake if you want, regardless.. bro has made an impact on not just hip hop but Music in general in ways we’ve literally never seen.. he’s was Lil Wayne’s’ successor .. and to me bro did a damn good job despite the craaaazy amounts of rumors in the past 15 years

How do you feel that the barbz ate you up because you spread misinformation about Nicki Minaj 😂

Louaista been going hard on the boy 😅😅😅

HES DAMNED IF HE DO, AND DAMNED IF HE DONT! If the artist drake gives features and that specific artist cant keep his own career going! Especially after getting a boost from drake. Thats the artist fault. Its up to them to do that, no one elses.

bbl drizzy

Is Drake supposed to carry their careers?? All u can hope for is somebody put u on. The rest is up to u. This just sounds like pure hate.

Drake has access to more marketing, it was never about whether he could actually rap.. let's be honest

It’s a mutually beneficial situation as long as you don’t sign to him. The issue is when he (or his fans) hold it over an artist like they owe him anything

Interesting video, I haven't thought about this in a while

That’s they fault they wanted a Drake feature these is grown men and they can make they own decisions if they fall off that just very unfortunate

being mocked by banman keveo lmfao that sent me

Louista da goat 🐐

It’s obv when some up and comer has a hit song Drake has to IMMEDIATELY jump on a remix or new song with them to stay in the news and then he disappears, musical vampire