Yasiin Bey on Drake

[@85MAYS]

This shit aging like the finest bottle of wine

[@chrish813]

The most finest wife around

[@magshype]

ah stop he got cooked by kendrick but drake is still a good artist, if anything you lot should be giving drake a lot more respect for taking on the assignment regardless. they both gave us a great moment in hiphop and drake was no slouch.

[@takeover5478]

@@magshype Drake still way more powerful than artists like Kendrick, and will continue to be. Probably gets paid off of his music.

[@waketp420]

​@@magshypeno respect for predators

[@magshype]

@@waketp420 because kdot said it, it suddenly becomes fact, do yourself a favor, grow an opinion by yourself, jesus are you seriously gobbling all this horse shit up as fact, shame on you.

[@MR.FREEDMAN]

"It seems like a lot of his music is compatible with...shopping" 😂

[@anthonyjohnson6790]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@j.lewhip-hopplanet1490]

"With a edge" 😂

[@montoya-400]

​​@@j.lewhip-hopplanet1490what does it mean (french Mos fan not native english speaker)

[@Jeremiah-wl9dm]

@@montoya-400He is saying that Drake’s music caters to a commercial audience. His lyrics and physical appearance are edgy enough for white suburban folks without being considered “ghetto” or “hood”. Drake makes white people feel comfortable and edgy at the same time.

[@justtester_9962]

​@@Jeremiah-wl9dmDegrassi was a show for suburban kids. What made people think that Drake would be different?

[@Cajanek026]

Not KZbin suggesting this the day after Not Like Us dropped lmaooo

[@91toinfinity]

😂😂😂

[@olodiandrew219]

Same

[@langa77777]

KZbin nasty bitch 💀💀💀

[@alexmachesu7735]

Same

[@crosbyshadung1586]

Fuck wit Drake no mo and the algorithm catching up

[@BrittneysBlessed]

People thought he was hating. This aged like fine wine.

[@freedomm]

Yasiin Bey is too honest for the industry.

[@OriAlSirr]

people missed the message and got out of it what they wanted. kayne said the same shit once on the breakfast club some years ago and no one said anything. lets be for real these artist are paid to target the youth so drake making music to a older crowd wouldnt work for him. ive never heard that man rap. drake a wannabe tough boi sining on a mic. so yea drake is target music.

[@mad-mullah3117]

😂 what honest it's not him ..what happened to him he is moist

[@freedomm]

@@mad-mullah3117 Calling Drake corny his not moist.

[@salvatorescarcella7361]

And that’s why we love him

[@keithprice1950]

​@@OriAlSirrGriselda are liked by old and young, so is Roc Marciano. Drake isn't liked by old and young because he's simply not talented enough. He's pop only.

[@RonaldJames-eo2hc]

Asking someone like Mos Def about Drake, you already know what the answer is gonna be. This man is true hiphop

[@vr6one]

Mos Def is a top 5 lyricist of all time. Drake, needs a ghost writer. Nuff said

[@hoemendo3011]

The Jews pay for homebody

[@fwowncwown]

“Shopping with an edge.”💀

[@gathianigathiani1760]

💀💀💀💀

[@MetalizedButt]

Don’t push me cos I’ll shop with an edggeee (boom diggy bang-di-bang-di, boom bang diggy~)

[@brewticuslee]

Best line for sure. 😂

[@lakeshaoliver-4285]

I’m dead 💀

[@qhoffa9568]

“It’s likable, it’s likeable” 😂

[@BallerBrownsWorldMusic1]

Word… 😂😂😂

[@jjmcg9184]

I started gradually bustin out laughing 😅😅

[@KarateEMouse]

Lmfao that second one took me out 💀💀💀💀💀

[@panchoramirez2965]

he answers like katt😂

[@imscotturnotx1]

"Look at all these SKUs" I'm fucking deceased 💀 💀

[@KJdadon15]

Man this aged gracefully

[@larryfoster8820]

KZbin recommending this to people is wild lol

[@DroolRockworm]

@@larryfoster8820 How is this a surprise at this point KZbin has been doing this kind of thing for about 4 years now at least, ever since slightly before the pandemic

[@5hydroxyT]

I love how commenting on Drake quickly led him to the collapse of modern civilization

[@bisqueybusiness2339]

thats always how i feel when i hear drake 😂

[@leomignault525]

that guy does great commercial music. he is civilization collapsing made music. can't lie, he represent that reality very, very well. not yet sure this realness has the same resonance than the realness that's discuss a lot in hip-hop. could be.

[@joyouswriting]

​@@leomignault525 the way you nailed it. Lol. 💯

[@ethos500]

I think all he was saying is what does Drake's music have to say about what is happening around us? What does it offer his listeners? There's a place for pop music in hip-hop, no doubt, but if that's all you are then you're not hip-hop and that's okay. Hip-hop speaks to conditions in your soul, your block, your county, the world.

[@tonytouch9751]

​@@bisqueybusiness2339 same here

[@MAC_HAMMER]

This hits SO much harder after Kendrick kickstarted Drake's collapse

[@takeover5478]

Kendrick didn’t start it, the industry did.

[@corsinivideos]

@Kcam9608 You mean like Diddy used hiphop as a tool to extort his artists for decades and do mad mad degenerate sh*t? Hip hop sold out and was sold out by it's own people long before drake was a thing. Drake has just kept the music commercially successful. Lets not forget all the stripping females, the fake trap gangsters the druggie rappers, the mumble rappers etc that all helped contributed a lot more to its downfall. Irony is weather you are a drake fan or not he will actually be remembered as one of hip hops biggest figures and having some of its biggest songs after the era of true hip-hop in the mainstream truly died.

[@takeover5478]

@Kcam9608 Hip hop has been a tool for everyone.

[@nightangel3578]

​@@takeover5478precisely. Kpop is a prime example of how hip-hop is a tool.

[@NeasTube]

He won't collapse. He'll continue to collapse hip hop.

[@jankolbe2879]

"It seems like a lot of his music is compatible with... shopping" BARS

[@jaxx-ld2bu]

I fell the fukk out when he said that!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭

[@darrellhicks9024]

Drake said this about other niggas music on Major Distribution…..the irony lmaoo

[@bmason1292]

The pause before he said it was diabolical asf😂😂😂

[@MsFreshadenu]

So many products.... Dude. He cooked him so precisely.

[@montoya-400]

What does he mean by that, because I don't keep up with Drake at all, is it like he's just dropping stuff just to drop stuff and it's commercial no substance?

[@MsFreshadenu]

@@montoya-400 the lady lays it out in the video. He's safe. Formulaic. Corporate friendly. If rap was cinema, he would be Finding Nemo.

[@blodiaaa6990]

@@montoya-400 l think when he says so many products, it could be alluding to how many albums Drake drops, and how many boxes Drake ticks off with each album. There's stuff for women, stuff for men, stuff for tiktok, he uses a fake british accent sometimes to appeal to the UK, uses a fake Jamaican accent to appeal to his Toronto fanbase, he's got rnb songs, female anthems, pop songs, etc. The man released an entire awful house album as well. He doesn't seem to be in the music biz to actually create great music. He's in it to rack up numbers, appeal the largest amount of fanbases as possible. He refuses to mature in real life and with his music because the kids are his largest audience. There's a reason why the only thing Drake fans use to argue him being the goat is his album sales and streaming numbers. You never hear them talk about the QUALITY of his work, only the quantity. Drake is a machine, not an artist.

[@dannyknightblade4592]

​@@MsFreshadenu So is mos def or whatever he's currently calling himself. He's commercials too; he's just not as successful as Drake is.

[@lonnylonso]

@@dannyknightblade4592 no he's not, never was

[@chrislowles]

SO MANY PRODUCTS SO MANY SKUS THEY HAVE EVERYTHING HERE

[@Adam444Tv]

LOOK AT THIS MALL!

[@kellypittman7004]

Drake is a Pop artist. Mos Def is a Hip Hop MC. Big difference.

[@Ril014]

Drake would lyrically run laps around mos def

[@kellypittman7004]

@@Ril014 you lost your mind.

[@kellypittman7004]

@@yanaa.musicc exactly. somebody just rambling.

[@akaibs]

@@Ril014😂😂😂😂 nah you’re delusional

[@Hhuhater]

@@Ril014i found the guy who doesnt know anything about rap 😂

[@MillionaireLid]

“Compatible with Shopping” is Hilarious

[@RavenStarrEvans]

Finna comment "Look at all these Skuuuuuussss" every time Drake drop now

[@Seen_not_heard]

lmao

[@anikatrahan6647]

Im never shopping the same again...EVER.

[@Hush-puppy]

“You make music that pacify em”…..KUNG FU KENNY

[@NikkiDreadlocks]

😩 THE WAY HE SAID SHOPPING 💀🤣

[@peters5090]

😩😩😩😩

[@peters5090]

😩😩😩😩

[@peters5090]

😩😩😩😩

[@ediomondon7672]

….SHAUPING…

[@rahayasantewa]

LOL, he cherry-picked it.

[@mrlij6534]

this was a more effective roast than DMX, lol. DMX just straight up said i dont like him, very direct- Mos cooked him brilliantly. i love this mall, it has everything, lol

[@olodiandrew219]

The algorithm sending this to rub salt on drake losing

[@UriyahRecords]

Seeing his response to that question in larger context makes the answer so much more hilarious and spot on 🤣😭😭

[@quan144]

He doesnt sing like drake on thet song lol u sound dumb ​@@darrel7589

[@absentmindstate]

@@darrel7589Wtf are you saying. UMI says has nothing to do with drakes music. Have you read the lyrics? The content is not commercial.

[@UriyahRecords]

@@absentmindstateexactly, when the last time anyone of us heard my UMI says in a mall?

[@elijahstraight402]

​@@UriyahRecordsThe fact is "UMI says" was featured in a commercial some years ago. Can't remember which one, but I'm sure you can find it online. That said, Drake's music is a commercialized brand of Hip Hop. There's no other way to put it. It is what it is

[@TheCompleteJeff]

The look on his face after he repeats “it’s likable”😅

[@alm4655]

I was afraid Yasiin wouldn't be forthcoming. So relieved he answered this without restraint

[@LoneStarVII]

He has to be careful or he'll backtrack again.

[@p-jaywade1333]

​@@LoneStarVII That dude lives in Africa (unless things have changed and he relocated back here). He's not worried about cancel-culture in the states because none of those MFs are his audience, and he has no endorsements from a big company, so he can pretty much say what he wants without any push back.

[@DOPPELGANGR]

​@@p-jaywade1333 He don't have no audience in Africa too. So I don't know....

[@pixelcultmedia4252]

@@p-jaywade1333 Why would he get canceled for calling Drake pop-music? The stakes here aren't that high, man.

[@johnnyterra1309]

​@@pixelcultmedia4252 well he also claims Drake is a sign of a dying empire.

[@sauldavidson6292]

Kendrick sample this shit for an outro on one of your songs

[@SebbyPlaysMusic]

Yooo that would actually be brilliant for a throwback to "bitch, you could live at the mall."

[@ericparker163]

"So many Skus!" 🤣

[@mukulseth]

The prophecy - Mark this date May 4th, 2024. 1:50 "What happens when this thing collapses... What happens when the columns start buckling?"

[@illeagle666]

I feel like he was talking about society rather than just Drake

[@Nick-kk9ei]

​@@illeagle666Nope. Definitely drake.

[@africanzungu7350]

I hate Drake, he was absolutely talking about society

He was talking about both 2 things can be true simultaneously

[@illeagle666]

My thoughts exactly

[@vuuvovuuv]

"is drake hip hop?" followed up by the loudest silence

[@mutsembi]

“I LOVE THIS MALL” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@LiamborninDC]

That 2nd "It's likable".

[@sweetaliena]

The fact he was dragged for speaking this truth. I wish DMX was alive for this moment.

[@masilomoshesh1475]

I’m very greatful as a Gen Z to have grown up with Millennial siblings. I got “Black on Both Sides” and “Blackstar” on vinyl.

[@jamk2668]

As a Millennial, I'm very grateful that I grew up with Gen X siblings.

[@lukewilliams5380]

Both classic albums and, in my opinion, in the top 5.

[@JonahIsrael]

Nice!! That's a blessing!

[@rythmikeffect]

❤👏🏾👏🏾

[@christopher399]

If you enjoy hip hop, you'd probably discover those albums eventually anyhow.

[@farrellcityking1]

“So many products! So.. so many SKUs. Look at all these SKUs! Ahh.. it’s so many products. I LOVE THIS MALL!!!” 😂

[@KCMGT23]

Everything’s here !

[@leomignault525]

I bought this one a house I bought this one a mall I keep buyin shit just make sure you keep track of it all

[@skyhwkz8]

Yasiin went to the future and came back to tell us...somethings going to happen

[@eyespy3001]

Drake is just Taylor Swift with a beat

[@dawb86]

"Why are you doing this to me?" LOL, he already knew Drake's fans would be pissed in the comments. 🤣

[@TheSkaOreo]

Damn. He’s out of line…but he’s right

[@_azurejake]

Soon Drake is going to start dating an NFL player

[@JonahIsrael]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@blodiaaa6990]

@@_azurejake he might already be dating one

[@gingb8425]

The prolonged silences are very telling 😅

[@jganaut]

The pauses are too hilarious

[@LVC85costa]

Drake is one step on the ladder closer to an AI rapper giving the label 100% profits

[@Gemneye6]

BINGO

[@myxalplyx]

Have you heard the A.I. generated drake songs? He's already been replaced. 😅

[@magicknight13]

@@myxalplyxtotally agreed, the AI generated Drake songs literally sound exactly like his actual songs lmao

[@erickmack4131]

@@magicknight13had one on my playlist for weeks before I realized it was a fake

[@loriannrichardson7644]

🎯 and mindless listening while you're shopping in Target (🎯 ) too. 🤭

[@sourceeee]

The silence is killing me 😂😭

[@SOUNDMINT2]

"whats in it for the audience aside from bangin the pom poms" lmfao im dead

[@dopenesslight7243]

This has aged beautifully

[@yubtubtime]

Beyond just hating on Drake, which is pure comedy gold, Yasiin Bey's dropping some of the most direct and incisive cultural criticism you'll hear today

[@BlaccHokage]

This aged so beautifully

[@Fr49050]

“Umi Says” is better than anything Drake has ever done or ever will do. That tune is heartbreaking, hopeful, beautiful, and empowering all at once. It’s an inspiring call out to his community. And that’s just ONE of his cuts. Name a Drake tune that even comes close, I’ll wait.

[@gadeyeye6268]

"shopping with an edge.",🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾💪🏾 peace and blessings brother god.

[@frogery]

"You never gave us nothin' to believe in"

[@drewyager4020]

This interview is still gold and will always be gold

[@Theshamanomar]

Mos Def is Pure Hip-Hop and a complete legend.

[@TheGoldenpk]

Mos definitely, (see what I did there, lol) a complete legend!!!🙌🏽

[@DukesVerrill]

Shopping with an edge, still got me rolling.

[@la8niteson]

Whispering, "Why are you doing this to me?" at the start showed true inner turmoil. lmao

[@freedomm]

2:00 "What happens when the columns start buckling, are we not in some early stage of that?"

[@Ebs321]

Daaamn

[@louaista]

“It’s likable” is CRAZY lmao

[@deonlepharaoh]

Remember everyone, just cause you rap., it doesn't make you hiphop... rapping is only one element of hip hop not the definition of hip hop

[@leecourtney1225]

Preach Hip-Hop is a culture. Rapping actually came way before Hip-Hop anyway and be traced back to the 20s. In fact I would say Gil Scott Heron and The Last Poets were rapping in the 60s 70s also some of the greatest Hip-Hop albums of all time Entroducing, Donuts, Petestrumentals etc feature no rapping at all. In summary Drake is a RnB/Pop artist who raps. Not my thing but no shade as he has done pretty well for himself 🤣

[@blairhicks7129]

Can I just say I love the way he takes his time to really think through what he wants to say before answering.

[@BlvckAdam]

This aged like fine wine

[@thefamily512]

If he could only stop changing his name all the time and being edgy

[@stylesdani]

In light of this beef, how prophetic was this interview?

[@edison1]

everyone has always been afraid to say it, but not anymore.

[@dsouth6826]

Soooo... are we gonna act like he didn't foresee this? Or are we still gonna call him a hater?

[@heartgold5646]

They not like us, so they gone flip flop. These people always been “not like us”…

[@russallen2011]

This is education; not hating.

[@redcast104]

i’m out of the loop so forgive me if i’m missing something. but i thought we all knew drake was inoffensive, formulaic, poppy for like 7-8 years at least?

[@dsouth6826]

​@redcast104 True indeed... But I was commenting more along the lines of him reaching these heights with "said formulas and tactics," and it eventually having to come to some type of end. Kinda brings me to the old clichè "The bigger they are the harder they fall". Not saying Drake will fall, but he's definitely in the latter end of his music career. (Just an opinion)

[@ericparker163]

@MihWah-mr8hkYou think Yasiin is worried about.....sales? Look at all these skus!

[@elqord.1118]

this man needs a podcast sharing his views

[@lilwiley10]

He already has a podcast with Dave Chappelle

[@BrotherMalMusic]

Not with takes like this. There’s a clear answer to the goofy question he asked at the end, and the answer is, _”all of the other types of music he makes besides the one you’re complaining about”._ I’m not the biggest Drake fan but if you’re not 7 years old and you listen to enough music then you know Drake has fit into more pockets and lanes of music on a successful and believable level than any other rapper there is. All of his music isn’t bubblegum pop, and a hip-hop “legend” pretending that’s the case is weird. If he wanted to, Drake could drop a double album of any type of music he’s done in the past. Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper can’t make anything listenable outside of classic boom bap, and some of the “greats” that realize that and don’t like it, show it in their hot takes. If you never have, never will, and probably can’t do what Drake does on a scale of music that goes beyond classic raps, then it’s kinda pointless to talk about how “pop” he is, because he did the classic raps _first_ and he did it for years.

[@elqord.1118]

@@BrotherMalMusic I agree with most of this but let's be honest Drake was never respected as a pure classic rapper. Classic rapping alone isn't what made him famous. He combined things in ways very few could /did before him. Drake always was rap for people that don't usually or hardcore listen to rap. For hardcore rap fans Drake was a nice option but never taken seriously. For those casual rap listeners Drake was a serious rappers and perhaps even allowed them to get more into rap which is good. But let's not sit here and pretend that Drake would have been a hall of fame rapper. His singing, his beats, his persona, his marketing, everything came together beautifully for him. Rap didn't carry him.

[@BrotherMalMusic]

@@elqord.1118 I’m not pretending like anything, I’m stating facts. I grew up on rap music. Drake came up under and beside Wayne, literally one of the best artists to rap. Some of Drake’s oldest shit is him barring up with Wayne on a song for 5 minutes, no hook. I repeat, that’s his _oldest shit,_ before he perfected the singing hooks, before he ever went “pop”. Before Drake got super fame, he was literally known for _rapping._ I wasn’t a casual rap fan and I took him seriously because he was rapping seriously. That goes against what you’re trying to say, you can’t just make a general statement and speak for everyone. There are plenty of people that were deep into rap, more than anything else, and Drake was a part of the palette of rappers to pay attention to. Him going “pop” or “r&b” or whatever else is after he went hard trying to fit in with _actual rappers_ and trying to get respect from rap legends. And a side note is, the main reason people penalize Drake for going beyond rap is bc he’s so good at it, to a point where he doesn’t feel “hip-hop”, and his appearance doesn’t help that. But there are countless cases of contradictions. Andre 3K went pop asf, saying roses smelled like doo-doo and we sang along. Let someone say what they’re saying about Drake about Andre, we’d all treat them like a degenerate. 3K is still top 10 for half the “real rap fans” you ask, despite going pop. Wayne had a whole damn rock / skater era. Tried his hand at legit _rock_ albums. ROCK, my nigga. Let someone use this same logic about Drake with Wayne though; somehow it’s _different_ right? Eminem is the most pop rapper to ever rap besides Drake himself. Ironically, he fits the description of your last point more than Drake. He is literally the biggest white rapper so most of his fan base are probably casual rap fans. But contrary to your point about having casual rap fans, Em is also still top 10 for half of anyone you ask, so your point can’t be valid for Drake and not Eminem. I was gonna make another point with Nikki Minaj but you get it. I get the point about Drake, it’s just the fact that you have to ignore half of his career for that point to hold weight, and also ignore all of the artists that did the exact same thing as him, but just reached a lesser audience and / or got a pass for it; AND also ignore the fact that almost no one who hates the fact that Drake can do so much more than rap, can even sound believable if they tried to do the same. Then, Mos Def isn’t even just coming for the pop aspect, dude said “what happens when this all falls apart” or something like that? My nigga, Drake has been one of the biggest artists for over a decade now. Nothing is falling apart 😂. If Drake pulled a Kendrick and didn’t drop an album for 4+ years, the hiatus would shake the industry damn near as much as his next album. It would be the talk of the year, easily. And he could come back with any genre. I wouldn’t even put Drake in my top 20 favorite rappers until last year, and I’ve been listening to him since ‘08, _at least,_ so this isn’t even bias. It’s just logic.

[@davidflores6011]

Yasiin has a podcast shared with Talib Kweli and Dave Chappelle called "The Midnight Miracle" on Luminary- Sheetz amazing!!

[@MrAwesomePersonality]

This will forever be funny to me cuz I live in Houston and heard his music at IKEA 2 weeks later

[@shangxian]

Yasiin Bey spoke his truth and said it like it is so eloquently ... Props also to the interviewer. The pacing of her interviewing is great and opened the space for interesting dialogue to happen.

[@Becauseimme]

The Truth

[@wunclerlaufenbumcorneliusu7047]

THE truth

[@awene4675]

"His truth" what a nonsensical, cowardly concept!

[@shangxian]

@@awene4675 actually, i said "his truth" and that he "said it like it is" (meaning, he spoke *the* truth). people can read more carefully. being kind to people online is free.

[@awene4675]

@shangxian it seems to be that the notion of "his truth", which is commonly used to imply that truth is subjective and, therefore, does not objectively exist, is incompatible with the notion of "the truth", which suggests that truth exists objectively and independently of human subjectivity. Thus, it seems your sentence is self contradictory. I was responding to the apparent ridiculous implications of the former, and not necessarily to your statement. But I can understand how my response might have sounded like an attack to you, and I apologize for that.

[@fresnoniiji]

this aged well

[@tabalitigi]

holy fuck this hits different today

[@robertbarnett1991]

Target in Houston is too generous Drake makes music for Wegmans in Martha's Vineyard

[@Hollywdq]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@brebanks6241]

The accuracy 💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣

[@daltonbedore8396]

i dont even know what wegmans is but that makes the comment seem even more legit

[@nononoleavemebe]

'his music is compatible with shopping' lmaooo

[@jdachamp365]

Yeah Kendrick brought me here, Mos Def always gon keep it 💯

[@johnrudolphdrexler]

Her smirk right after asking the question. She's knows what she's doing

[@PhilosopherFromMontreal]

I do not think she does. She just got lucky.

[@deonwalker2582]

I feel like I need to watch this a few more times AND put a calendar to revisit in 5 years. “What happens when this all collapses?”

[@BrotherMalMusic]

If anyone thinks it’ll “collapse”, they first need to figure out what they mean by that, then they need to figure out why tf they think it would all of a sudden happen to an artist like Drake. Dude is over a decade and a half into this music thing and he’s breaking records, all while catering to the wide fan base he has and still dropping different things for different people. Idk what Mos Def is on about in this clip but he honestly sounds ridiculous. Drake’s hold on music is literally going nowhere. If he pulled a Kendrick and didn’t drop an album for 4 years, I guarantee his next drop would be the most anticipated and talked about album to ever drop. Being considered a “legend” and acting like you don’t understand that is wild. The biggest Drake hater could understand he’s not going anywhere.

[@2Muchpjp]

​@@BrotherMalMusic he was talking about the collapse of america and possibly capitalism

[@BrotherMalMusic]

@@2Muchpjp If that’s the case, that wouldn’t be a Drake issue, but it sounded like he was making it one. Maybe I’m still misinterpreting, so lmk if I am.

[@Diribssa123]

​@@BrotherMalMusic I honestly think the dip from Drake's discography quality and his image started with the Story of Addidon. The lack of creativity, him forced to be a father now, how he came from a healthy household, him being a culture vulture. The cracks became more noticeable and it definitely affecting how he should maneuver his career moving forward.

[@takeover5478]

@@BrotherMalMusiche’s saying his hold on music isn’t good for music. Drake is the one being chosen to bring in A.I. music.

[@yuchichan4815]

I have mad respect for Yasiin Bey. He is conscious.

[@chaosmusic6759]

Stay woke

[@StreetfighterU]

We wuz kangz

[@paceyourself5652]

@@StreetfighterUracist

[@blazejon]

He's hot garbage

[@dannyknightblade4592]

He says what he says for attention and to please his small hat overlords. He acts as if he isn't commercial. Hasn't he starred in big hollyweird movies? He's like Katt Williams- pretending to expose others while he obediently serves the same establishment he pretends to fight against.

[@WizDomSon]

Drake is mall pop, hahahahaahah...Bey is beyond his time. Shopping with an edge!!!! Hahahah

[@boskibombay]

This man is a national treasure!

[@BitcoinOnlyCentral]

1:05 it’s like able 😂😂😂 I yelped brother

[@smusund42]

This is prophetic

[@RamiroBojorquezJr]

And this is why this man is a GENIUS

[@nomad_333_]

One of the greatest to bless the mic 🔥🔥🔥

[@dopescorpio]

0:20 that look with the silence is funny af 😂😂

[@Star-hg1kt]

What a fitting mind interviewing Yasiin Bey. She really helped simplifying it for Drake fans LOL.

[@diorgasmask]

“Shopping with an edge” 💀💀💀

[@drsus0]

i love to find out that artitsts i like , always stood on the right side of the argument. and MAN!!! the prophetic tone it took too!

[@burntnikesock212]

The fact ppl cooked Bey when he first said this, but now everyone wants to act like he was always right (he was, they just didn't agree until it became popular to say) 💀

[@hasanabir115]

Exactly! Now that Kendrick is bringing the same points, everyone collectively hates Drake. It's unbearable when people pass off legends like Yasin as "out of touch" while them lacking any sense of today.

[@b_cuziwant2]

His response makes it clear why him and Dave are good friends 🤣 Truth is the best comedic material 😂

[@viperrecords3288]

@@blackgirlinadoggoneworld😂 Wow anyone who doesn’t like Dave the problem is THEM

[@lalucy3495]

I love hip hop and glad everyone in the hip-hop industry felt the same way

[@dreamsoflorien8237]

"A lot of his music is compatible with.....shopping" I'm 💀 ☠️ 💀

[@og_mante5138]

He wasn’t wrong. They used to play Hotline Bling in Winn Dixie where I used to live😂

[@jtw3002]

I love how people had a problem with this before the beef and now they are nowhere to be found hahaha

[@tanzoniaflakes5068]

I saw this when it first aired and seeing it now, it just hits so differently.

[@drumcarpenter]

Who else is here again after K dot killed him? 😅

[@mattyh7614]

Supermarkets are like a mausoleum for music and Drake is the curator

[@mystereo9041]

"Why are you doing this to meeee" hahahahaha that had me cracking up.

[@breezbree7464]

So this must be why Drake was so butt hurt w/Mos Def and got him black-balled....in true male Karen fashion.

[@AnthonyRecenello]

"in the sense that it's charting like pop music?" ooooo whyd she have to go deeper 😬🤣

[@johnsushi2007]

“Shopping with an edge” is so goddamn funny.

[@tretre4435]

At first he was trying to be tactful or polite... Then he just said F it! Lol

[@TheAbstract9000]

Yasiin is brilliant. No two ways about it.

[@gripthemoney77]

Mos just telling the truth and I'm a Drake fan...enought said...

[@bestialoculapsus]

Interesting dialogue needed now more than ever. When you see his view on Palestine and also on Drake, you clearly get this man is lucid as no other people in the position and platform he is on.

[@dannyknightblade4592]

His views are all safe and approved by his handlers.

[@TeeTee-zm2re]

​@@dannyknightblade4592handler's can't be Jewish

[@johnnyterra1309]

​@@TeeTee-zm2reDrake is partially Jewish. Now all makes sense....

[@oso1165]

The "its likeable" and smirk/chuckle after is hilarious 😂😂😂

[@jrodri14ii]

Bruh I’m Mexican, but I grew up in LA in the 90s. No lie, I remember when I first heard ice cube and Pac. And then letting myself dive deeper into stuff like Q Tip or Andre 3000 or what have you. Just being mesmerized by Kurupt, Nas, DJ Quik, and Warren G. Mexican music, to me, even the newer pop and rock shit of the era, simply did not compare. I guess it’s because I saw shit like the riots go down, or the Rodney king beating on TV. And. Songs. Like Changes really made you want to believe in something greater. It was crazy because I would hear this music, much of it mainstream, and I would wonder if the black people i saw on the bus and on the streets really were this way. I eventually learned not to internalize it too much, because it wasn’t my experience. I was not living their experience, and in a sense, to think that the particular sounds I liked represented black people stereotyped them. So at some point I went more into Latin music. This was around the time 50 and game popped off, and Kanye was everywhere. (Though, Nas. From the Illmatic to the Stillmatic, always resides deep in my heart). But, for the life of me, I never, EVER, understood Drake when he got big. I figured it was probably because missed something after I stopped listening to rap. Legit the first time I heard of him was from a white girl in Idaho lmao. And as I learned more about him, I couldn’t grasp how he could become what he did OUTSIDE of being pop. Being a rapper that spoke deeply never made sense to me outside unless they were poor. And almost universally, they were a lot darker than Drake lmao. And even if it wasn’t the case, they were from difficult, DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, as was the case with Eminem. So, I didn’t understand how someone like Drake could look up to 2Pac and pose in such a strong way, unless he was acting. Which guess what, he was! Hell, even Tupac should never, ever, be taken as a pure representation of blackness. I learned that because the black kids I grew up with would say, “man, y’all Mexicans like Tupac a LOT.” Lmao. He was an actor and even went to acting school. IMO, Tupac should have walked into what we see trained actors like Timothee Chalamet or Zendaya walk into. Pac, as an actor, was simply amazing. He did experience a lot of difficult things, but he was also acting out a lot. Which is what lead to his tragedy. That complexity of him, and his understanding of the value of acting, is what gave us things like juice. Go look at that, and you’ll see a boy ACUTELY aware of the camera. Of the perspective. Of the interpretation of the character. And the fact that he ALSO was from the inner city made him so amazing. Lmao, but drake is the exact opposite. Drake is fabricated and trained. Him saying he loves Tupac is so on point at his disconnect from poor kids growing up. Everyone identifies differently in difficult situations. And Pac, as much as I love him, was the most marketable thug of his era. But, back then, you were competing with either stuff like Nirvana and Britney Spears. There wasn’t a formula for the thug. You got what was available, and Pac was it at the time. The full transition into a broadly marketable thug was still far away. So, Drake is a talented middle class kid actor who got his shot. It’s like when J Lo went around rapping “Im still Jennie from the block”. How do you take that seriously? So I’m 100% with this take. Because Kendrick Lamar, as much as I don’t like some of the things he says, at least I know the intensity of his music is not fabricated. If you’ve spent dark nights alone on a bus or train anywhere between Long Beach and Wilshire, and not had a way out of the madness… his intensity makes so much sense. And you listen to Drake, and learn about his story, and your first instinct is, “This is what a thug would look like if Disney was trying to market him to my kids.” And guess where you would hear that playing? In target, so you could have your kids walking around and hear him. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@soulstart89]

I really appreciated that write up. I relate to a lot of it even growing up in the uk. The only thing I will add is 2pac mum, stepfather and grandma was part of the black panther so he prob experienced situations but I agree he was a well educated kid where that thug life really was (as much as I like him) a role. 2pac was highly conscious and intelligent at such a young age. It always confused me why he would go straight thug considering his intelligence. It was like at a young he was able to see the patterns of life, yet he played the thug role. On commons album “like water for chocolate” the second to last track is “a song for assata” is about 2pacs gran. I relate to you regarding Drake. It’s bubble gum pop to me and I don’t listen to it. My ear has evolved more to jazz as I’ve gotten older. All the soulquarians and that era have either passed (rip dilla) or stopped making new music.

[@majourpayne]

Mos didn't tell one lie! When he first said this people claimed he was hating. Shiiid ,seems like he was prophesizing what we are witnessing now.

[@jwconglomerate332]

His music is compatible with shopping. Fuck bruh. That shit is verifiable. And the fact that Yasiin took his time to analyze his response, you know that shit was genuine.

[@kingcosmo5731]

At this very moment it is collapsing.The 6 God is now , the 69 God and you should all run for your lives ….😂😂😂

[@ItsMaceo]

Lmaooo that “hey hey hey hey run for your lives” took me out 🤣

[@AngeBiampandou]

"Let me hear you say OVHOE" 😂😂😂

[@smashingairguitars]

"what happens when this collapses?"