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Topic subjectOuch.
Topic URLhttp://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=13136260&mesg_id=13136848
13136848, Ouch.
Posted by BigReg, Tue Mar-21-17 02:09 PM
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>For one thing, it might be easier to receive Drake as the
>conduit for world music if he wasn’t already a notorious
>wave-rider. He took half the Weeknd’s album to make Take
>Care; hopped on remixes of Migos’ “Versace,”
>iLoveMakonnen’s “Tuesday,” and Wizkid’s
>“Ojuelegba” to share in their moments; torpedoed “Cha
>Cha”’s chart run with “Hotline Bling” (premiered on
>OVO Sound Radio as a “Cha Cha” remix); sapped the energies
>of international sensations for “One Dance” and
>“Controlla” (which arrived on Views without the leaked
>Popcaan verse); and fast-tracked What a Time to Be Alive with
>Future and Metro Boomin to capitalize on their momentum.
>He’s used Bun B as his Houston liaison and Aaliyah as his
>unwitting R&B talisman. He’s a swag vampire, a sound
>poacher, and an identity thief. It’s hard to believe his
>work as a global ambassador isn’t also mostly self-serving,
>or at least in service of building his wider OVO brand. In a
>bit of irony, Drake, who is constantly rapping about people
>using him for their gain, does exactly that to everyone else.
>