Drake is a well known artist through-out the world, before he was a rapper/singer he was a actor on this show names Degrassi, and his character name was “Jimmy Brooks”. He was born in Toronto, Ontario on October 24, 1986 and is now thirty two years old. In 2006 he didn’t want to act for Degrassi so he pursued his dream in rapping, a year after he left the show he got many views from his “cocky and laid back track” “Replacement Girl.” This track also featured Trey Songz, and was played on the very famous BET’s 106 and Park. Throughout the months that passed he came out in many mixtapes, and albums. Many famous artist like Kanye and Lil Wayne. By 2009 Drake was becoming more and more famous, and a single that was produced from him name “Best I ever had” was number 2 on “Billboards Hot R and B Hip Hop Sound Chart”. After this single, two labeling companies bided for Drake, and Universal Motown won the bid and signed with Drake and created their first album ‘So Far Gone”. This album had many songs that were popular from his mixtapes that were produced in the past years. This album became one of the top 10 songs on U.S Billboard 200 chart and won a award called “Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year.
Since 2011 to 2018 every year Drake topped charts from all around the world, and many of his singles he did went very well for him. In 2012 Drake announced that he would be making yet another album, named “Nothing was the Same” this album also made many awards, and nominations for the best album. .In 2016 Drake came out with a song named “Hotline Bling” which was a Grammy winning song. It also was Grammy nominated, and was picked for the Polaris Music Prize. He started working with Future, and created this mixtape “ What a Time to be Alive.” In 2017 “More Life” was introduced and it featured many artist like Kanye, Travis Scott, and Quavo. This release by Drake was his seventh consecutive Top Chart Hits. Drakes most famous song to ever be released was Gods Plan, which streamed more than a billion times throughout the world, and is now one of the most famous songs to ever be made. Drake made a album names “Nice for What” and right after it was released it went platinum, and broke records for the most streams in one day.
Drake is a very well-known artist who now works with many famous artist like, Kanye West, Travis Scott, Quavo, Young Thug, Future, Nav, and many others. He also sponsored many artist including The Weeknd. Drake not only raps but owns OVO sound label, which streams his music, and many other rap music.
Drakes used a introspective rap style that many other rappers in that time did not do, and he would soften his voice to create a R and B type of style. He also took a lot of time creating his lyrics so the music would not sound rushed. He would also use synonyms to many different verses so the song could have a meaning to it. Drake also became a meme many times because some of his lyrics and dances. In his song “Started from the Bottom”, he says he started from the bottom now he made it big. This was in-fact false, because Drakes parents were very wealthy, and they had many things that many other people didn’t have. Also in the music video that was produced by Drakes record label he does this dance and twirls his hand into a circle and shakes his hip, this meme blew up after many people started sharing it. These two memes had a really big impact on drake because it brought more viewers to him, and many new fans.
The album that we are going to be talking about is “Scorpion” even though Drake had many astonishing Albums and singles, Scorpion broke many records, and instantly went platinum the first day it came out . Scorpion was released on June 29, 2018. This album was streamed more than one billion times on the same day it was released, and that broke the single day record. This album went Platinum on the first day, which is not common with very popular songs. The songs in this album featured many famous artist like Jay-Z, Ty Dolla $ign, Static Major, and also a recording from before by Michael Jackson. They used a previous recording from Michael Jackson and combined it with Drakes beat so that it can be a mash up, and a reminder for one of the best singers who has ever lived.
This album had many rumors made about it, because in the lyrics of emotionless it says “I wasn’t hiding my child from the world. I was hiding the world from my child.” So this specific line made a lot of controversy if the famous “Drake” had a kid, without telling the world. So a very famous rapper named Pusha-T made this situation even worse by creating a whole diss track about drake talking about he wasn’t really taking responsibility about his son, and how he was trying to hide the facts from the world. In June Drake finally announced that he did have a kid and his name is “Adonis Graham.”
The album “Scorpion” was made in the United States by three record labels named “Young Money Entertainment, Republic Records, and Cash Money Records.” This album was made all at the same time, because it was rushed because many Drake fans were waiting on what Drake would say to Pusha-t, and to see if he did have a kid. But many people stayed on Drakes side.
Before this album was made, Drake made another diss track to Pusha-T’s disstrack called datytona, then Drake made “Duppy Freestyles”, then Pusha-T made one more album called “the story of addiction”, so drake made this album “Scorpion” as a diss to Pusha-T. This is why many people tried to hear it on the first day, so that they could see whose diss track was better.
The album “Scorpion” consist of rap, and r&b, this mainly goes for the whole album, because some songs are very pop oriented, and then others just go out full rap. Some songs in this album are very slow like “Don’t matter to me” because it’s a song where they just wanted people to enjoy the song and sing along with it. But songs like “Mob Ties” is very fast paced, and Drake uses rap to compensate for the music .In the song “8 Out of 10” this song is very rapped based, and is dissing Pusha-T, and towards the end it’s a recording of a female saying “leave me alone”. This shows that Drake wanted to end the controversy, but also in the same way not losing the rap battle.
There are around twenty five songs in this album, many songs use the form of AABA. Also six songs out of “Scorpion” went platinum on the first day, and it changed the media because that has never happened before. It also influenced many challenges that occurred after the songs were introduced that instantly went viral. This album matched the last album made by Drake because it was about the same topic, but the tone was different. None of the songs in the album use the same beat, or use the same background for the intro of the next song. This made the album unique in many ways, because each of the songs had a different meaning about it.
Scorpion was Drakes best album release, and his views and streams topped the charts, many companies today still play his songs today for parties, and many other things. Drakes fan based is mainly teenagers, around the age of sixteen to twenty six years of age. But he makes music for everyone so that they can enjoy, and just chill with each other.
The song we are going to define is the song by Drake named “Mob Ties.” This song has a lot of meanings to it, and it plays a big factor in the diss track to Pusha-T. The beginning of the song says a lot of what its going to be about. The first line of the song is not really school appropriate, but it basically talks about he is sick of the people trying to diss him, and how they think they actually have beef against him. He also says “im your brother s***” this basically means that they took it to far.
The instruments that are used in this song are slectronic drum kits. There is a drum beat throughout the song, also through out the breaks of Drake singing there is a voice from Drake to fill in the gaps like “skrrrr skrrrr.” This is essential to most raps songs to make them sound catchy in a sense. This song doesn’t really doesn’t sound like the others, because it has its own unique beat and vibe to it. Also Drakes way of rapping in the song is very fast paced and the form of the song is “AABA”. This song is not a “rip off” of any other song because the lyrics and beat are all produced originally.
The song “Mob Ties” affected the media in many different ways because it was one of the six sounds that went platinum on the first release date, and people all around the world was talking about the song. It was one of Drakes biggest hits after Gods Plan, Started from The Bottom, and Don’t Matter to Me.
After all this controversy and dissing there is with Pusha-T its not know if the song Mob Ties has any secret meaning to it, that no one will understand but the two of them. It also sets off a tone that Drake is mad at others, and now that he has made it in life, he doesn’t want anyone.
Drake is now one of the most famous rappers to live, he is also a successful business man who owns a basketball team, and many companies. Drake has many songs that went gold, and platinum, also many challenges has occurred from his music like the “KeKe Challenge, and the Gods Plan Challenge. He is listened too all around the world, and is a great person to others, that is why I chose to write about him.