Yasiin Bey, F.Ok.A. Mos Def, Thinks Drake Makes Pop Music, Not Hip-Hop [Video]

In a latest podcast interview, Yasiin Bey stated that he thinks Drake makes pop music that’s appropriate with procuring.

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Yasiin Bey is a legend inside hip-hop, and his a long time of expertise, information, activism, social consciousness, and ability elevates his requirements rather a lot. Furthermore, he not too long ago sat down with The Slicing Room Ground and, at one level, was requested by this system’s host whether or not Drake is hip-hop. Effectively, you inform me: do you suppose that the person behind Black Star and Black on Each Sides is a large fan of the 6ix God? Whereas Bey, previously and greatest referred to as Mos Def, didn’t actually diss him right here, he did level to the business, agreeable, and non-remarkable nature of the sport that Drizzy represents, for higher or worse.

“Like, is Drake hip-hop?” host Recho requested the MC previously referred to as Mos Def. “Why are you doing this to me?” Yasiin Bey replied, and you’ll inform all through the entire section, with some laughs in between, that he’s making an attempt to not go full scorched Earth and be as clear as doable. “Drake is pop to me. Within the sense, like, if I used to be in Goal in Houston, and I heard a Drake music. It seems like quite a lot of his music is appropriate with… procuring. Or, as you already know, procuring with an edge in sure situations.

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“After all, I get it,” Yasiin Bey continued about Drake. “It’s likable. It’s likable… ‘Wooooo! So many merchandise! So many SKUs! Have a look at all these SKUs (stock-keeping items, extra generally referred to as bar codes)! Oh, so many merchandise. I really like this mall! Have a look at this place. I imply, take a look at this place! They’ve all the pieces, all the pieces’s right here! They’ve all the pieces right here! Oh, that is nice. That is the brand new Drake, do you hear it? It’s nice…’

“Okay. What occurs when this factor collapses?” he concluded. “What occurs when the columns begin buckling? Are we not in some early stage of that at this current hour? Are we seeing, like, the collapse of an empire? Shopping for and promoting, the place’s the message that I can use? , what’s in it on your viewers other than, like, banging the pom-poms?”