Drake's outsourced masculinity- "FATD- Scary Hours 3" Analysis

[@elishaarup1910]

AVAA! "Drake outsources masculinity" deserves a peabody award or something, Prof.😭

[@fas0288]

Dry

[@shrimpscampin]

"he's not dangerous, he's just mischievous" im gonna think about this every time drake implies or outright says people find him a threat 💀💀

[@dansaunders1655]

A riddling trickster

[@bennybombo]

“He outsources masculinity from Future, and 21 savage” from 15:00. Kendrick just broke this down 5 months later after calling Drake a pdfile repeatedly. Not Like Us is fantastic

[@kimaya4503]

Thisssss 🎯

[@sostalestill8295]

Ohhhh, this is wat the Professor means? I wasn't getting how one can outsource masculinity, especially in music.....this is funny as hell🤣🤣🤣💔

[@anjiwhatever5644]

There is a verse that implies that Drake borrows the swag that comes from black culture from these black artists ​@@sostalestill8295

[@nopillzero]

Outsourcing masculinity is NASTY work

[@ThinkerHaistTV]

Yuck!

[@evanbowser3586]

You run to Atlanta…..

[@kmarcol1]

Houston, Jamaica and the UK

[@kaws1205]

When you need a few dollars

[@danielsaremone2528]

​@@kaws1205 you are not a colleague, you're a fxkn colonizer

[@trev999]

I literally spit out my sparkling water laughing, “as a representative of white america”

[@Ben-mr6rt]

The only reviewer who appreciates how crazy Drake x Conductor is!

[@NightHawkExpress]

Watching these drake reviews after his public downfall is hilarious, props to you for recognizing how weird, shallow, and insincere he is

[@DominicHolder-nn3um]

I appreciate you recognizing 0-100. I remember hearing that song in Summer 14 & I was floored when I took it in.

[@MIent1313]

If I could change the quote at all I would say Drake outsources HYPER-masculinity. Or maybe black bravado

[@Elle44289]

He steals the work. He is theJLO of rap.

[@FedericoVincenzo]

AVAA Professor, I believe Lil Yachty doesn’t actually produce the songs, he just links up the producers with the artists sort of like DJ Khaled or Rick Rubin. Still shoutout to him for getting Drake over a Ovrkast beat! (Btw are we going to get a Sampha review?)

[@DesignzRUs]

why you say that? He has beats he fully produced himself

[@eliakia]

By his "brother" he means his close friend Chubbs, shooter fr 🤣

[@Yoyoambassador]

Ovrkast is a artist as well releasing music, he produced for earl sweatshirt as well and I believe u would like his music dropping as well. Hope he’s in ur radar

[@Yoyoambassador]

Also produced for mavi as well

[@traplover6357]

Drake and Conductor mixtape is needed after this listen. 😂 Also, the comparison of how Drake keeps being modern vs Kanye can easily be deciphered when comparing Drake's collaborations with Carti in Pain 1993 and Fivio Foreign in Demons vs in Kanye's Off The Grid. Kanye really uplifts them to their max potential while Drake just seems to mimic them in their lanes.

[@souvikdeb808]

Drake always rides modern waves of music instead of making them his own. I remember his awful Spanish mimicry of reggaeton in the song Mia or all the times he tried to sound like a british drill rapper. Now he is straight up copying yeat. He is exactly what the mainstream music market wants him to be. A fascinating musical character who mostly makes background music for big shopping malls and clubs.

[@TUNNELING322]

“Is this bars”?

[@auriginaladhi]

Love the Danny la flare shout. I found his immaculately dusty beats on destiny child from rome streetz. It was amazing

[@WuntaykTimmy1]

15:07. Brudda juss had an epiphany 😭

[@shummers]

Skip to 15:00 for the thesis!

[@johndamario2546]

Love Drake and this was a fantastic breakdown, great video 💯

[@DesignzRUs]

brother in hiphop slang means the same as homie. And yes Drake has shooters lol. He was found by Rap-A-Lot / MobTies. Look up J Prince in Houston

[@kodirawr]

It'd be cool if you could do a review of Katie Dey's new album "Never Falter Hero Girl". Seems like it's not getting much attention but it's easily one of my favorite albums of the year.

[@mardiaslime]

you are great, thank you. yes to all your questions for the comments

[@chrissims1957]

Alchemist is the god father producer of boombap rap 2005 - 2024

[@wahoo4uva]

COT. DAMN. Your review is GOOD. Outsourcing his (toxic) masculinity…he *ABSOLUTELY* does that. His misogyny has been obvious, so has weaponizing his money, but this outsourcing idea never crossed my mind. Thank you for that ASTUTE observation. 🎯 And he absolutely is NOT perceived as a threat by White America. I’m a WOC, yet when I first heard that line in that song, I said to myself, “NO you’re NOT. They LOVE you!” It was so satisfying to hear you validate that. I screamed with laughter at your commentary on this (and many other things). I *thoroughly* enjoyed your analysis of this EP and Drake as an artist. As a fan, I WANT to like his music (and him). I was so pleased to hear SH3 because FATD was disappointing and lackluster for me. I liked every song on SH3. Your criticism of it is constructive and fair, though! Lastly, calling out that, “I’m never enough” says it ALL about Drake (and the reasons why he feels that way) was SO sharp. Another “ah ha! yes!” moment of the video for me. You nailed it again. 🎯

[@professorskye]

Thanks for the kind words

[@yoyocritic]

I’m pretty sure he’s talking about Wayne when he references his brother 14:40

[@Jegarozar]

Nah it’s about Chubbs

[@lyleugleman9799]

AVAA, but I have one critique. drake IS in fact a great rhyme writer. the ghostwriting allegations were blown way out of proportion during the beef with meek, plus drake literally wrote the entirety of 30 hours for kanye (minus the victoria’s secret line). there’s plenty of extremely valid criticisms to throw drake’s way - his pedigree as a writer isn’t one of them. if you wanna criticize specific bad verses by him, of which there are plenty, that’s totally fair game though.

[@professorskye]

That’s cool, thanks for that. I haven’t looked that much into the allegations. I just figured it was true given his status.

[@thetruest7497]

Agreed. As much as Drake has written for others acknowledged and unacknowledged his pen isn't in question. Do people think QM was writing his verses when he was a nobody rapper child actor in Canada? Plus why don't people ever use this form of criticism for naS when it's literally the same "ghostwriter" attached 🤔

[@FromTheHipp]

"he ghostwriting allegations were blown way out of proportion during the beef with meek" - you couldnt sound more like a drake stan.

[@aw11348]

@@FromTheHipp He's right, though. I'm no Drake fan, but he has lots of writing credits on other people's songs, and he even wrote a book of corny instagram one liners. He definitely writes most of his own stuff -- good and bad

[@FromTheHipp]

@@aw11348 no. hes not right. he was insanely disingenuous about his contributions and it was the change of an entire sound for him. which was an entire shift of career for him. a sound which was somebody elses whole sound. him writing for others doesnt absolve him of this as his entire ethos as the time was that he did all of his own writing(authenticity). he was proven to be unauthentic. there is a reason why he never donated to anybody the fact that other people write for him. because he considered this his hallmark and it would have been a lie. its miserably lazy to be such a stan that you cant even own that about who he was/is. the OP's original comment was that it was overblown. it was not.

[@Mjhaider1985]

AVAA! Please cover Dave Matthews

[@beanofdean]

what badclocker are we all using on yt these days? anyone hook me up

[@ApplePi1]

You got android?

[@subhasmusic]

Very useful frame of thinking when listening to Drake

[@Nomashopping]

Outsourcing masculinity is spot on. I felt it when you said it too 😅❤

[@nopillzero]

23:33 nahhh this man is VICIOUS

[@brianmichaels444]

I don’t understand how drakes pen is still questioned when he has ghost written for plenty of peoples favorite artists and it’s been proven. He had reference tracks yes, but stop dismissing his work as a writer too.

[@Brendanrobinson171]

It’s when you piece together everything Drake embodies. The culture (Black Americans) will never accept him. His pen is verified, his character isn’t.

[@breezybreeze12]

Who has he written for ? All I know is some Kanye records that were decent. We know his pen is good but the only way he can pump out all this material is from constant reference tracks and ghostwriters. Let’s be honest

[@QueenSamiyah]

​​@@Brendanrobinson171 good observation. As a black American I can't say we don't accept him, even with his character in question, hip hop culture doesn't hail him as the greatest rapper because he does NOT represent it authentically! Any race that truly appreciates/ understands hip hop knows exactly the lane that Drake belongs in... Pop. His character and how he appropriates the culture for money is another topic entirely but we've all appreciated some of his music and talent at some point.

[@Six-bw3ir]

His pen couldn't compete with kendrick it wasn't even close and it showed how subpar his pen actually is when compared to someone who actually does this shit and loves it

[@saidabouj5650]

AVAA! LMAO at F my A. I haven't even listened to this song.

[@KenIbeanusi]

pretty inaccurate to compare drake to a dre or kanye as far as writing. Drake is obviously a skilled writer and you can tell he studies a lot of different pen styles (even being a huge doom fan). You can pretty consistently trace his evolution as a writer too. He might have relied on some song references earlier on in his peak but i doubt his pride would let him continue at the moment with that, especially since the situation with meek mill a few years back. Also he has prolifically written for other people, including kanye lol, I don't think you need to wonder if current drake bars are actually drake bars

[@lugebeatzz8747]

You can tell when Drake hasn't wrote his lyrics. When his bars are more descriptive and have great rhyme scheme i usually doubt it. Drake is good at deceiving 1 liners with double entendre, also you can tell the wittiness that falls short. I think Drake co-writes a lot.

[@IllusionistBeatsOfficial]

Dre helped write his own lyrics for his solo stuff, and Kanye's self-written era (e.g., All Falls Down) was infinitely better than anything Drake has ever done. I'd say it's a fair comparison.

[@QueenSamiyah]

The way Drake outsources masculinity.... Brilliant

[@ethanlammar5554]

Day 215 of Asking you to Review Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youth

[@judahtrippin]

I wish Professor Skye would review my Drake diss

[@TrentLeboeuf-i9q]

I mean You could always go look at the credits to see if he had help. Drake uses writers for album filler 0 to 100 isn't better than The Catch Up lmao. You should try listening. I think you're confused as to why do you even like Drake. Yall don't understand his place because his place never Been on top this long.

[@fullmetal1766]

12:08 I'll answer for your professor NO

[@gripthemoney77]

Drake is "HIM"....He is the G.O.A.T....

[@josechamu240]

Oh yea thats fire. “Outsourcing masculinity”. Wow.

[@slimmoe]

Drake stayed hot thats true but the other side to that is that he stayed hot by adopting whatever is hot at the time., which is to say that his evolution is stagnant. When Kanye makes an album you know it be different it wont mimc whatever is hot at the tiime but he will do something new fresh adn thats what will keep him hot thats imo is whats different between kanye and drake. And thats true part of hip hop thats makes it different from other art forms is success but also authenticity.

[@R4NG3LW0ND3RZ]

That’s not to discredit what Drake does though. It’s incredible in it’s own way just like Kanye. Because there has been artist, that, do whatever is hot and fall on their ass and fail. But Drake does every style and does it really well🔥 Rage, Pop, Dancehall, R&B, Trap, Conscious Rap, UK Drill, and he’s able to fuse two styles into 1 song and make it sound well. Like in Fear Of Heights, which mixes 2 styles. There’s an R&B part at the beginning, then jumps into this Rage shit and goes tf offfff🔥 Other artist can’t really do that. Or on Broke My Heart off Scary Hours He was rapping consciously then hops in an R&B bag🔥 It’s just incredible and refreshing. And the transitioning is always smooth. Race My ‘Mind does that too.

[@slimmoe]

@@R4NG3LW0ND3RZ drake R&b and rap is his signature thats how he changed the game but I do feel like him adopting other styles does affect his authenticity.

[@R4NG3LW0ND3RZ]

@@slimmoe Not really, cuz he can still do both really well and play around with other styles ans sprinkle them on his albums to add variety. I personally love it❤️

[@iwannagotothemooon8666]

17:20 "eminem and anyone whos white" 😂😂😂 these light jabs are hilarious. also "outsourcing masculinity" is a dope title for some art piece i will definitely steal that term and give you no credit for it🙏🏿👏🏿thank you

[@architrv7442]

AVAA

[@mert111]

What does avaa mean

[@electricman68]

@@mert111awesome video as always

[@jacobcrosby275]

As a rap listener. He's not respected at all as a rapper by many at all ima be honest. The ones that do are listening to him with much deflagration in regards to their attention spans.

[@kmarcol1]

Rap ≠ Hip hop. Hope kendrick taught you that

[@QueenSamiyah]

That part

[@lugebeatzz8747]

It can be a bastardized hip hop

[@WaveyJamey93]

I find it hilarious that your drake bar is 0-100 when he didn't even write that one

[@Followmybliss777]

Unpopular opinion: Drake sucks

[@calmnrelaxed]

As bad as those fans are (and they are horrible), what's worse are academias with a megaphone who amply their opinion (not facts) through their credentials (real or imagined) and pass their opinions off as facts. I guess there's a niche and for everything under the sun (to include champing criticism for a clearly, uninterested fan base. But hey, anything to help grow a youtube circle is fair game.

[@orielsy]

So true. I just stumbled across his channel cuz of the beef but I've come away disgusted. He often speaks as if his opinions are facts or will even lecture on the themes touched on in the song. As if he was part of the target audience. It's ridiculous.

[@thetruest7497]

Ehhh not a good video 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

Why’s that

[@thetruest7497]

@M.Dot47 comes off as someone outside the culture attempting to do inside the culture commentary. When he identified as a white liberal it made sense, he sounded like Joe Biden on the Breakfast Club instead of Bill Burr performing with Black comedians. That explains how he could come to the conclusion that only 1 of the 6 songs is good where the culture is pretty consistent that all 6 are 🔥🔥🔥. He doesn't have the perspective, context or nuance to do this video. Not to say there can't be disagreement there can be and I kill a number of sacred cows myself, but my context and nuance is correct.

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

@@thetruest7497 I pretty much agree with everything Skye says in this review and I am not a White Liberal. What’s your point? And what’s "the culture"? Bunch of 16 year olds on IG? Nah bro. The point of Drake outsourcing his masculinity also was great insight, wouldn’t you agree?

[@thetruest7497]

@M.Dot47 you sound outside the culture too. I mean, it's not about NOT being a white liberal. The fact you don't understand that reference pretty much sells you out.

[@ArmLegLegArmHead47]

@@thetruest7497 bruh ☠️ Aubrey is a culture vulture if anything 🤣🤣🤣 stop it with the assumptions

[@adityaranpura3431]

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