Drake is one of the greatest rappers of all time and the biggest of this generation. There’s always the question of who is his predecessor but I’m here to tell you there isn’t one… at least for now Socials linktr.ee/iusedtobepay
I just think because it’s no artist of that caliber in the game .. and yes it’ll never be 100 percent agreence but at least 60 to 70 percent could come to agreement I believe in the future
@@vrrtvrrt5700 yea or like Chris brown before the rih situation …. Or drake like majority people would agree he’s a superstar even if he’s not their favorite artist
@vrrtvrrt5700 I'd say the last superstar was Lady Gaga. I remember back in high school when Fame Monster came out, she and her music was EVERYWHERE like nobody since. The last of a breed of genuine megastar. The only person after her to come close to that IMO is Adele and she was much more low-key. I know Bieber was popular but he's more of a constant chart presence (for some reason) than a superstar.
Drake really is a 1 of 1 no matter what genre. Nobody has captured the youth of 3-4 different generations like this. you’ll find a Drake fan that only likes backpack boom bap Drake. One who likes only rnb Drake. One who only likes trap beat Drake. Dude is iconic
People gotta chill with saying anyone is the next Drake or whoever else because…man, that’s a high bar for anyone to try to live up to, given what he’s done in music
@@llamapartyy I’m saying though bruh 💯💯💯💯 and honestly, I’m not sure that anyone can really call that, not even the people signing them. Because for all that have made it, it’s arguably more than we could even look up on Google or Wikipedia that either never took off or fumbled it somehow
Drake and Kanye are the most unique, versatile rappers to have ever entered the game and neither of them will ever have a proper prodigy that will encapsulate their genius. It’s just impossible to recreate their personality, charisma, voice, message, musical talent, or impact. Travis Scott is Travis Scott, not Kanye. When you get a Travis feature you get a Travis feature, not a Kanye one. Kanye’s lyricism and flow is leagues above Travis. Closest thing Travis has done to touch Kanye’s genius is his grandiose production and ear for melodies
Social media killed the organic growth of an artist. A lot of the current goats had to face difficulties, challenges and adversity. Nowadays, you just need a co sign or hot collab and that’s it, which is great and makes things convenient. But that shit sounds boring/uninspiring. There is no story attached to their comeup or brand where someone like Drake gets shit from everybody, rap fans not validating him on their list and is still defying the odds by dropping hit after hit.
Agreed. And as such you got people still making hits but feeling less and less impactful with each new track/album. It's weird, because while they're still on, it's like they should have fallen off by now at the same time. Streaming has lead to a lot of astroturf and the natural shelf lives of many acts (like Drake and Bieber) being extended well past what should have been their expiration date.
Jack harlow being the 'Next Drake' seems to be more of a criticism for Jack more than anything. When Jack released his last two albums, I've seen being saying that he has nothing to offer when they have Drake to listen to. To them, Jack Harlow is the walmart of Drake. As for Drake himself, I agree it'll be many more years before star power and success will cool off, even though I don't listen to his music, it seems that every album that man drop, is a successful one.
@@lukethornhill7319Jack can sing but his signature style is Drake's nothing was the same era. His entire discography is ripoff of nothing was the same
honestly i don’t see him ever retiring. and Like you said, rap artist are usually burned out within if not the first five years they definitely don’t get a good 10 years but with somebody like Drake him being such an international superstar, I don’t see Drake really ever going away or retiring or like passing the flame on because when you look at people of his stature, nobody of their stature really passed the torch. who is Beyoncé gonna pass the torch to? it can’t be done. who is Madonna gonna pass it to? Michael Jackson didn’t pass the flame on to nobody. Carrie Underwood never passed the flame. Taylor Swift can’t pass the flame on to anybody. Dolly Parton never passed the flame on. Kanye West can’t pass the flame on. honestly, I think one of the test of being a true superstar is not being able to pass the torch because you’re so big nobody under you can ever compare or be as that guy as you. you can tear people up for a couple months or even put them on to their career but they will never be as big as you matter fact they will always be known as that person Drake put on, or kendrick Lamar’s cousin, or the rapper that J. Cole discovered.
I don’t think you understand when they say the NEXT DRAKE they mean who will be the TOP GUY in rap. Not who sounds like Drake. That’s why the lil baby and chance was brought up at certain times in the pass however Drake is one of one. We should just enjoy his dominance while he still has it cause his run is unprecedented
Because the new generation hasn't worked out the fundamentals of creating a well structured song. Instead they've based their music on popularity trends and contests. Which is a fickle and ever changing concept. They don't love the music they love the popularity of it.
Maybe we’re at the age where we’re all old now, and we look at everything the new generation is doing as a fad or not as good. So the next Drake might be here already, but he’s not the next Drake to us because we can’t relate to the new Drake’s style. I’m guessing this is how parents felt in every generation whenever they would hear music from the generation below them.
@@echox000 yeah you're probably right. I'm sure my generations song structures were totally alien to my parents generation. Just sounded like a bunch of noise to them. I can see that still.
the reason there isn’t a “Next Drake” is cuz Drake is uninspiring, No one wants to be Drake, nowadays Drake gets memed on for valid reasons despite him being one of the best, he’s kinda a joke now and not something an upcoming rapper would probably wanna be, it’s weird but facts, People rather Kanye or Young Thug or Future, no one wants to be Drake, if you got no clones your not that influential. Btw Drake be making the same music lately
hot take: the next drake isn’t in the hip hop lane to me the new “drake” is maybe bad bunny due to the rise of Latin music in America takin over hes versatile, the ladies love him, not too conversational and he’s a global star i mean right now there’s also a new rising mexican star called peso pluma right now with the same qualities and alot of rappers are started to flock over there trying to to collab with him
This is the most insightful take. Latin America will be rising and taking over the charts. All it needs is someone as bilingually versatile in english and spanish as kanye and bad bunny rolled into 1.
If you take the right artist from The states who got respect for the Latin community/Spanish community, that's an easy collab. Drake ft bunny was crazy good Nikki Minaj ft Carol G was crazy good I also think that the problem with the States is that the respect for others' languages is not there. So it can make it hard sometimes. I know the Latin community rep hard their artist so they dont need the States to blow up. if you look in Europe fRENCH English Spanish rapper are doing featuring with each other
@@619rastayeah that does sound like the dream combo an English and Spanish rapper. That's kinda like how drake combined rapping and singing but now instead of music style rap and sing it's language English and Spanish. Can't wait to hear this new type of artist if any artist is even capable of that
I'd say it's more towards the late 80s right now. MJ was coming off thriller I think then nirvana and grunge took over during one of mjs albums. Drake is already past his thriller which would be something like views or Scorpion but there's seemingly no new artist thats gonna take the mantel
He probably wants to go down as the greatest to ever do it. Right now people always say he’s one of the best. I think he wants people to say he was the best.
I don't really agree with saying rap is for 16-24 year olds. Maybe back in the day in the 90s but most rappers nowadays seem to be late teens to early thirties. Anyway, great vid.
drake is definitely trying to become the biggest artist ever, he’s easily the biggest artist of the last 15 years without doubt but he’s trying to make so many hits in so many genres so he comes up in the goat talk. Just to clarify i’m not talking about goat rapper i’m talking goat artist ever like in comparison to the beatles, queen, MJ etc. This also isn’t me saying he is bigger than all of them but he wants to be in that convo cus he’s like the one undisputed goat of this generation where everyone in our generation likes atleast 5 drake songs. Where u have 70 year olds now talking about queen and the beatles you’ll have us in 40/50 years talking about how drake was the biggest artist ever
@jusnbl the "views and certifications" really mean nothing when the artist In question puts trash content out, content that lacks effort. He's broken records, dominated, gotten artist of the decade simply because of his popularity, nothing more. Five years of consistent quality Is what we got from him, after that It was just mindless, meaningless consumption.
I dont think there is a singular "next drake" but we are at a point where the elder statesmen are beginning to pass the torch for the people next up. We see Drake posted with 21 savage and Central Cee during the on the radar freestyle. Nicki and Cardi B are both hopping on features and providing cosigns. Kanye has his various proteges like Travis Scott, Playboi Carti, (Fivio for a bit), and Kaycee. We are at a transitory time. Drake is a once in a life time type talent so I dont think someone can emulate it exactly but I can see where the landscape is headed.
@@SweaterSwagg he got the most top 10 hits, top 20 hits, top 50 hits and top 100 hits for any artist to ever exist in billboard. He's also the artist of the decade in billboard. He got the most streamed rap albums of all time. He's definetly not as big as Michael but he's prolly one of the closest artists to Michael
As far as the sports comparison goes Drake is literally Lebron. Lebron and Drake are both easily the biggest in their fields even if ppl don’t give them the “best” tag, they’ve both been around for so long and dominant tht it’s so hard to say there is another one of them. However when u look at the NBA and as Lebrons gotten older, it’s harder to call him the best player in the NBA anymore even tho he clearly is still good and nothing he’s done can be taken away from him but when there’s ppl younger than him like Giannis, jokic, Luka etc. thts when it’s pretty clear like we can’t overlook the young guys who are just as good if not better. In terms of rap there just isn’t anyone out rn and as much as I love JID and i wanna see him achieve the mainstream success he 1000% deserves, i just don’t know if the ppl are gonna fuck with him like tht unfortunately same with baby Keem who i think is an even harder sell.
Drake is kinda like Jamie Foxx....multi-talented guys that have charisma, act, rap and sing. like jennifer hudson also, those type of artist are hard to replace. also ive noticed that when an artist has to work their way to the top like jayz, lil wayne, cardi b vs a nelly, their careers last longer
I truly believe XXXTENTACION was the next big mega star after Drake but he's not with us unfortunately, bro could literally do every genre and different styles and bro was only 20
Maybe we’re at the age where we’re all old now, and we look at everything the younger generation is doing as a fad or not as good. So the next Drake might be here already, but he’s not the next Drake to us because we can’t relate to the new Drake’s style. I’m guessing this is how parents felt in every generation whenever they would hear music from the generation below them.
I love how you claim that when you're 28 you're considered an "old head" yet then you talk about Kanye "mentoring" Travis Scott in the same vein as Kendrick mentoring Keem even though Travis Scott is 32 or Drake possibly mentoring Lil Baby even though Lil Baby is 28 💀bro step back and wake up a little. Yeah when hip-hop was starting out as mainstream the longevity of rappers weren't as long but just like life expectancy that's gotten longer with the internet and people not giving an f
This got me thinkin it would be cool if someone came on the scene and just took tf over, like hiphops version of bad bunny or some sht, then him n drake go back n forth beefin and then drake is jus like- okay you win young blud… N boom we enter a new era of rap
It's just not any generational talent in rap right now that I see continuing to be at the top of the game in the next 10 years. To me, saying somebody is the "Next Drake' is that type of guy who is gonna be at the top for a VERY long time. Nobody right now is that. It's not Lil Baby because we just though saying he was falling off. Not Yeat, Carti, and everybody else people deem the best right now. Durk's album was a bit underwhelming so🤷🏻♂
"Once youre 28"... Travis Scott... 21 Savage... Lil Uzi... Lil Baby... Tyler... Kanye... Lil Durk... Post Malone... Future..... DaBaby... Thug.... Kodak Black, Playboi Carti and NLE a couple years away... those names fill up 80-90% of the top rap artists of the game right now... you need to do some more research or adjust your view points before you do videos my guy
i feel like x or juice wrld could’ve been the ‘next drake’ they both made rap music with the occasional dabble into pop music and r&b etc. there’s very few rappers right now that make music in all of these genres.
@@ynrkenshi true i hear that but i meant more in terms of the genres they delve into, all the big rappers and pop stars today just release music in one genre really other than maybe uzi and drake so x and juice could’ve been them crossover artists like how drake has a huge pop fanbase aswell as rap
Why can rockstars and country singers perform until they cant walk, but rappers have such an expectancy to quit? Music is music let people make it forever if they want to. Ageism in hip hop is weird...
“Y’all keep talking bout who’s next but I’m about as big as it gets” drake said it himself. Does anyone actually believe most of these rappers today will go on the run that drake has been on? We tend to downplay artists when they are alive and actively dropping.
The thing is sounding like drake doesn’t make you the next drake that’s why Harlow isn’t being the next drake needs to be more about balancing pop appeal with legit hip hop credibility in which case id go Doja cat or maybe a baby keem as a bet but that’s probably wrong
@@amorgod7776 eh maybe I wasn’t really being serious I just figured Dojas got the pop r&b singer slash rapper thing going on and really I was taking a punt on keep but I figure he’s gonna make it big
Drake was always positioned to go beyond what Jay had established in hip hop. Jay was an innovator and the previous number one and reigned for quite some time. I think Drake could be number one till like 45. But eventually you get tired and want to enjoy everything you worked so hard for, so who knows.
Music isn't a sport. But the rap game unfortunately is. Though, it should NOT be. The sport of rap should be kept to battle rap circles, cypher rap circles, and genuine beefs. Creative arts are NOT sports. The rap game should stop being a sport. Because rap music is NOT a sport, it is an ART. Especially in a free era such as this one. Not saying rap needs to let go of competition in general. I'm just saying things MUST BECOME less cutthroat and personal.
y’all just stay asleep their is a whole new movement on SoundCloud y’all keep ignoring “the revolutionary is already here, y’all just stay ignoring it” - brahdlee
Honestly I think that theres two reasons why there won't be a next Drake. 1. A lot of rappers just dont have a long shelf life. Rather than finding an original sound, its either rehashed ideas that have been done to death or they hop on the newest trend/wave thinking this will keep them relevant forever until that wave is done and theyre just washed up. Thats why more so "concious" rappers (JID, Tyler the creator, Danny Brown, Vince Staples, etc) stay around a lot longer. 2. Rap fans are sooooo disloyal to their artists. In the age of social media, the pressure for artists to stay relevant is constantly looming over them. So they have no choice to pump out music as much as possible. And if they take their time, they are forgotten, instead of being cheered on saying "take your time and perfect your craft and we will still be here for you when the time is ready". You want their music now but a rushed album is forever bad. Look at a band like Full Of Hell that has been active a lot be takes their time with their art and their fans are always there to support them. TL;DR: rappers are unoriginal and fans are impatient.
