Drake profile in NY Times
kitchenknight
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/arts/music/13drake.html
SS Catnip.
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Cringe inducing
So many bad looks
SS Catnip.
Posts to come in this thread:
Facepalm
Cringe inducing
So many bad looks
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I have basically been struck dumb by this dude's corniness.
He is the rap Lady Gaga--a thoroughly uninteresting person whose subject matter is limited to closed loop meditations on fame.
a rich kid with family ties in the music industry, who starred in a major TV show as a teen, is manicured by a who's-who of rap industry kingmakers and records angst-ridden paens to his hard work and the tiresome/exhilarating life of fame and wealth. For this, he is crowned the savior of hip-hop. GIve me a break.
I don't think that article was discussed here
now THAT was SS catnip!
like JP said, the article lays out all the pieces but fails to make any connections. so uncritical.
Caramanica never digs in; Hirschberg's notorious for it.
Perhaps the most glaring example of FAIL:
No effort whatsoever to press him on his claims that "home was overwhelming" or why his allegedly "character-building" teenage struggles were any rougher than those of the average middle-class suburbanite.
Perhaps I am disconnected, though.
Drake: already over? What say my Soul Strut stans?
isn;t this a scenario where a cabal of agents and "journalists" has simply foisted him on us? i mean he clearly has zero musical talent and he doesn;t even have a visual hook or whatever like that feathery justin bieber's hair or lady gag's costumes..
As for that MIA article, didn't the NYT show their asses and end up having to withdraw a lot of it, including some of the more contentious allegations/observations?
I think there was some controversy over who actually ordered the 'truffled fries' while eating at the Beverly Hills Wilshire or some shit
lies! the media is full of lies!
I am aware of two issues/corrections, neither of which really impacts the main thrust of the article:
There was a block quote, and the Times ran a correction in which Hirschberg admitted to reversing its two halves. She didn't backtrack on her claim that MIA actually said all of those things.
MIA poasted audio suggesting that Hirschberg had, in fact, been responsible for the selection of the controversial truffle-oil fries.
Fucking hell.
Yes--there was a small but vocal group that was riding hard. Of those, only Drewn now has sufficient character to admit it, though.
Pretty much--but his popularity is very real.
Why you gotta air out Nahright like that son?
Ah, OK. To be honest, I thought the whole thing generated more of a furore than it warranted.
Lynn's article was a big point of discussion the other week when I had some friends over, most of them from an older generation (i.e. 40+) of music writers, and they spent a good deal of time trying to decipher Hirschberg's tendency to go after ambitious women with a mud-smeared comb. Personally, I never thought I'd have much sympathy for MIA but somehow, Hirschberg managed to create it.
BTW, Faux - you ever read Jon's clothing store reviews in the NYT? I find them to be more entertaining and much more "off the cuff" (no pun intended) than his music writing, which I see as being constrained to fit into the newspaper's voice (K and SFJ wrote in a similar style during their tenures at the Times; I don't think it's unique to either of the "Jons" or Nate or any of those guys).
the article had some eyebrow raising quotes from him
I agree--the facts that she is a talentless hack and a self-important, yet generally uninformed, fraud were not exactly revelations. Nice to see them more widely disseminated though.
Yes--I find them generally to be even more uncritical. I was actually going to poast one in this thread for grins.
The few tracks I've heard from Drake are pretty corny and he has one of those Kanye West flows (and I can barely handle that shit coming from Kanye West).
BUT I'm a huge Aaliyah fan and Jeezy's got a decent verse on this one:
(Not a good look? How do I insert graems?)
you're tripping. drake is the marvin gaye of our times. this is his "what's going on"
2. Aw, Drake may never be able to properly fall in love. Poor him.
3. Drake does have plenty of fans though, that's for sure.
ah, so that was just my soul being pierced by his gaze...lovely.
The Times has featured excellent rap criticism/reporting in the past--certainly far superior to anything that runs in the explicitly hip-hop oriented print world.
Yo - we both have conflict o' interests in discussing Jon here so I'll leave the first part of your comments aside. I would say that your "death of iconoclast-oriented rap journalism" is late by at least half a decade. The change in the late '90s wasn't that people became more cosign-friendly (this had almost always been the case at all the major rap mags), it was that the publications themselves upgraded in stature, circulation and self-importance.