Yasiin Bey Predicts The DOWNFALL Of DRAKE? 

This aged like fine wine.

"He doesn't carry the burden of culture" wow, I've never heard these words like this before, this hits.

At this point we don't know what Drake wrote.. his biggest album was with songs he took from the Weekend..

He really doesn’t make fantastic music. He makes broadly appealing digestible music.

I'm here after Ken & Friends concert...Futuristic

Sooo are we now seeing just how weird and creepy it is that old man Drizzler followed Yasiin’s daughter practically the moment she turned 18, especially considering that she was a minor during the time of this interview?

Drake vibe aint carrying the unspeakable vibe that was Rakim, Prodigy, Nas, QTip, KRSone, Yasiin Bey, Nate n WarrenG, BIG, Snoop, Pac, J.cole and all them realest who still MC to this day... They Righteous!! Thas all that matters!! It wasn't just about giving the larger crowd what they want!! It's about being RIGHTEOUS! Master of Ceremonies means more than being safe or having likeable BEATS... Drake is POP

Drake response to mos saying this made me very happy that he got bodied by K dot and we all showed how much the culture doesn't really rock with dude

"Look at all these skus" that's a bar

This makes me want to go watch Chappelle Show again 😂😂😂😂 Mos is a great comedian and rapper ❤

We can end the discussion with this.... In hip hop it is a tenant that you must write your own shit In hip hop its not ok to be a biter a swagger jacker a leach or a culture vulture In hip hop you dont get ethered and have a press conferece saying how cold your diss track would have been In hip hop your freestyle should be at least memorized if not actually spontaneous you dont jump in the cypher reading off your phone And in hip hop you respect the elders pay homage show love and carry on tradition... Drake has violated all of these and as a pop artist that is perfectly fine You dont get to go out your way to go against the grain then cry when your not pary of the group chat

Yo, that beat and your flow on the “I haven’t told my wife I want to rap again” track, 🔥🔥

Yes !! I'm getting your album when it drops; I just love the mature vibe happening

This is new? Drake has never been hip hop. He’s pop. He’s popular and packaged - a product.

The phonte shoutout was well placed sir

Peace.You did a better job then most people on this topic. The whole interview is mostly a cultural and political conversation, he does give a definition of Hip.Hop in a unique way. He does get some push back on some contradictions, etc....Live A Righteous Path, eat proper foods, exercise and join a community/organization for the benefit of Yourself and Others

I really enjoyed this topic, and listening to the reasoning behind Yasiin's comments about Drakes music. Growing up in the 70's, I remember that feeling of emacipation of blackness, the pride, the afro, the attire, and realizing, in time, that we still fighting the same battles in 2024! Hip Hop is a culture that knows what day to day life is like for our people, and it educates those who don't get it. It's a way to speak out about what we have to deal with in a society that dehumanizes us. I love Drakes music, and other rappers music as well, but the culture of Hip Hop today, is much more commercialized, which is what Yasiin is saying. No one can deny this, nor should they feel offended by the simple truth.

He said "Drake is Pop, TO ME" Those are the key words TO ME referring to himself. I don't see the problem with the statement as he said it.

This video is a retrospective gem of a prediction post beef. Crazy.

Being older, Drake was always a Nicalodian kid to me. So yea, pop.

Great analysis. I wish everyone could and would watch and hear this. It is very important. I love all genres of music and personally I don't even like to use the word genre. Same with reada book. I read what I like and I listen to what I like. I like authentic artists no matter what music they are singing. Great thought provoking video.

thank you Curtis !

I like how he said, buying experience.

When I was a child in the 70’s many in the dominant society referred to rap music as ghetto music.

Yikes…who’s here in July 2024? It’s seems the columns are now falling. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Which culture was he talking to here? Sweetheart deals that the judges been handing down -- Champagne Poetry 2021 Bout how we need protection from those protectin' the block - 6PM in New York 2015 I say, "We gotta talk about us, I feel like Jordan Peele - 8am in Charlotte 2023

DRAKE followed his(Mos Def) teen (17 , 18) daughter after this interview🙄 shows how cringe buddy really is.

@Curtis Kingg you’re wrong about one thing: Drake hops in other sounds but he doesn’t inject anything because he has no style. Every kind of sound he has has been stolen. Hell, his base sound is stolen from big sean

But let's take out the how it sounds it's funny but very true.

Bro, damn near every change/addition in music genre is usually not first accepted by the mainstream. Nothing new about that. Hip hop not being widely liked at the beginning is the same as Rock, country, Jazz, etc. people don’t like change. A new genre is a change.

Yasiin Bey was actually a child actor. I forgot the name of the show but clips are floating around RU-vid/SM. I just heard Yasiin being true to who he always been and stands for at least at a public persona perspective. Check his role in Brown Sugar for reference. Legit was just being him.

yo music dope fam

This video has aged like fine wine!!!! Kendrick verified everything Mos Def had to say!!!!

I think you should interview dee-1.

I think Drake addressed that a long time ago when he was winning an award years back.

Drake is a black street boy if they had that one minority in the group

I think it's unfair to judge Drake in that way just because he has some big pop hits in his catalog. He's given great bars, great stories and hard beats in a number of songs as well. It's like over judging Jay Z for "Can I Get A.." or "Holy Grail" or worse yet, "Sunshine." No one before (in hip-hop) has lasted as long at the highest level, so no one (in hip-hop) had to crank out soooo much catalog for so many consecutive years. ANY artist who's done as much has some artistically sophisticated songs and some genre bending works in that long stash like Jay Z, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones (who had a straight disco song at some point), Prince, MJ (especially if you count his Motown J5 days).

haven't heard a Drake song yet up to now.

You hit nail on the head, drake is a culture vulture.

drake is a pop artists but he done things behind the scenes for hiphop

B.O.B.S. will shut down drake's whole discography.

A look at us now lol

Drake is like the movie Avatar

#facts

He’s a singer of course he’s not hip hop

Is it true that Drake dropped out of school his senior year because of bullying?

drake is pop

He may have had a point but the laughing came off as a bruised ego to me and this is coming from someone who doesn’t listen to Drake, but I respect what he has achieved and I think it comes off as corny when ppl try to attack ppl for being “pop” or “commercial”. If he would have stayed his opinion without the laughing ect it wouldn’t have come across as bad

Drake is POP trying to be hip hop

Mos Def provided a friendly fade😂😂

This aged well bro😂

So this is why his creepy a$$ starting following his daughter? Wow.

At this point Drakes music need to be sent to turnitin first to check for plagiarism 😂

This aged well

Damn 😂 I can understand Yasin saying this about Drake. He came from that revival of underground REAL hip hop.

Mos’ sense of humor is expert level and I loved every word, sigh and nuanced body gesture of this clip.

KRS 1 Taught us it's a difference Hip Hop& Rap are different..They just rapping these days& No Hip Hop today🎤

michael jackson & prince were more hiphop than drake could ever be

I’ve noticed that lately I’ve been gravitating to rappers who aren’t talking about death and destruction. It’s getting old with how violent music is being pushed down our throats.

Facts Drake is an actor that acts like Hip hop artist .

I’m here after the the Kendrick beef. This aged so well

Drake he is Pop he ain't about anything else but shopping in Walmart and Target.

Here after Not Like Us Video

I rather listen to Mos Def over stale Nickelodeon Drake and it's the fans that try to make Drake feel like he's superstar when really he's just average artist.

This video aged beautifully

Drake don’t write most of his raps or make his music..so why are yall giving him credit for making great music?🤔all he’s does is perform other folks stuff..smfh he’s an actor..

And now, Drake is in his daughter's DM. Same MO he uses with others who hurt his feelings. He goes after the females in their life. Drake...stop! You're obvious.

To me Drake is not Hip-Hop or an artist. People want too much from Drake and that's crazy to me because he doesn't even write his songs.

The whole interview is GREAT!!

He lucky he ain't had a black mama while he getting an attitude over a sandwich 🥪. My mama would have none of that. You better say thank you and keep it moving 💯.

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Drake’s comeuppance has been a long time coming

Im sorry I never liked Drake period. I just don't see what others see but its my opinion.

Awww man..this aged beautifully…fuccin beautifully 🤌🏾

Hip Hop is about the passing down of knowledge or edification in some way; an awareness type of music that would have a meaningful purpose to serve the audience.

Were we seeing the collapse? Apparently yes...

I been calling Drake a music buffet, whatever you looking for he got it.

You’re a real spiritual dude. I’m binge watching your videos right now. I like the mature outlook on hip hop you have and how you still have a love for it but still recognize the darkness in that industry but still doing your own thing . I struggle with my age doing this music stuff (28) and you’ve been an inspiration just based off of the clips of the music you play. The strategy is awesome as well in here because you talk about day to day hip hop topics while still promoting your music and you don’t do it to shove it down peoples throats , you do it to genuinely share your music with the world and make business off of it. This is the new American dream .

Mos Def, Yasiin would know, he one of the few thats still anchoring the core essence of where and how hip-hop originated, that man is a wisdom keeper. Not to diss Drake though but it is dif functions of music and spirit, one might require 40 ghostwriters the other goes off top. The gap between is dollars and integrity. Everybody find something different in the sounds though..

drake is an actor not a rapper. He memorizes the lyrics just like he memorized his scripts on that show he was on that's why he's good at mimicking different cultures

🤣🤣 they really thought Tuna Bagel in Forest Hill was finna beat Section.80 in any kinda rap battle

Bey was a child actor before he rapped just like Drake but he is from Brooklyn and in NY and BK there is more relationships between people of different backgrounds and NY is the birthplace of Hip Hop so he is just authentically Hip Hop.

Like most people don’t even understand what hip hop is. Just bc you rap don’t make you hip hop. Rap is now pop music. Rhythm and Poetry ≠ Hip Hop culture. Hip hop is a culture. A way of life. It pushes boundaries and creativity. It expands the horizons and sets trends. Drake isn’t a trendsetter. He’s a popular guy who follows trends. Drake has NEVER pushed boundaries Or creativity. Hip hop been sing-rapping long before Drake. Drake is pop. He’s the Taylor Swift of Rap

Nine years ago Drake had two paternity suits. The daughter in one case was two years old and it was settled without Drake admitting to the paternity of this child. Kendrick alluded to his past problems with getting caught up in such suits. There were many reports of him dodging paternity of children and responsibility with the women that he had affairs with.

Heres the thing, Drake, over the last few months, said and did some things that are fairly suspect. The "set the slaves free" diss. Come to find out, first thing dot wanted to tease out of drake, is cultural ignorance and insensitivity. So, scratch that one off the list. Thanks drake! The AI Pac and snoop verses. Saying names, he shouldn't be saying, in the song. Day after slaves diss, my guy shows in my news feed rocking the FUBU.

"shopping with an edge" 😂😂😂😂

If Drake is suddenly Hiphop, then tell me if Snoop Lion was ever really reggae?

Actually, Yasin Bay a.k.a. most deaf was a stage actor and musician before he started rapping ! I think a lot of people don’t get is there are artist that are for the culture and they love hip-hop so they want to protect it in a sense that we are just capitalizing without substance, like we did everything else which will eventually be downfall

Drake is a rapper because he raps, but to say he's hip hop alludes that he lives and breathes the culture. He doesn't and that's not a diss, it's a fact.

"The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves".

I knew Mos Def's prediction about Drake would come true. However, I had *NO IDEA* it would true *THIS SOON* . Yikes!🤣🤣🤣

Drake is unbelievably insecure.

Ask KRS-1, Rakim Allah, hell even Scareface, Ice Cube & Ice T, do they think drake is Hip-Hop...

Aged like a fine vintage.

Every time Drake responds in the way that he does and who it is he is responding to, it always makes me look at him as a bxtch no matter how much I like him. Drake isn’t god, and everybody doesn’t have to like him or think he’s this trendsetting artist the way that he does. He is so self inflated and that’s the part that will always make him unattractive to me (not looks wise) no matter how much music or crossover success he has 🤷🏽‍♀️

Drake is definitely Hip Hop, but Kendrick is culture and Drskes upbringing and ghostwriters can never compete wirh someone like Kendrick or KRS-One

Oh, so THIS is why Drake was hitting up Mos Def's daughter on Instagram 😂

Still can't believe people tried to laugh at Mos for giving his opinion on Drake. Dam. Look who's laughing now. #TheyNotLikeUs

Target is gonna hit up drake for cross promo commercial!! That’s more money in his pocket though 🤷🏾‍♂️

Drakes a very flat singer