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Rick Ross- “Stay Schemin’” (Drake vs. Common)
Essentially, I gutted out the track and left both Drake and Common’s verses for easier listening. Recently, Common [Sense] himself took the proactive approach and unleashed verbal shots at Drake over Rick Ross’ Stay Schemin’; a song which features a Drake verse full of subliminal warnings and insults aimed at Common. The download link below if you wish…
Personally, I think Com is just bored. He’s a certified legend with classic albums under his belt. He has nothing to prove. He doesn’t need to earn the co-sign of today’s rap fan because he’s earned his position in hip-hop when they were still in diapers. With Drake’s growing appeal in our pop culture, it’s not a stretch to say a chunk of Drake’s fans don’t even listen to Common or any music similar.
I myself am a big Drake fan but it looks like he’ll never be a hip-hop artist of Common’s calibre. Not that he doesn’t have the potential to—it has a lot to do with our generation of music and how it has influenced popular hip-hop. Drake’s a different artist than Common and has already developed tools that distance himself from a traditional hip-hop artist i.e. singing (which is one reason Common has this distaste towards him).
These days in hip-hop, beef has become something of the past; at least these two arent afraid to trade bars. Gotta miss those days where there was tension in hip-hop. Not serious, life-threatening tension, but tension through competition and the art of battle rap. This new wave of rappers seem like they’re all on each other’s team; I guess they don’t possess the no nonsense mindset that popular rappers had when I was growing up i.e. Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, The Game, Jadakiss, Ja Rule etc. Where if you do something I don’t like, I’m calling you out. Maybe this generation is scared because many rappers I just mentioned careers’ went cold due to their quarrels.
Even still, these emerging rappers lack the grit that was tied to the typical on-paper rapper. Kinda sucks to see the more ‘hood’ rappers stray away from mainstreams’ eye, but that’s just how hip-hop is changing and how this generation decided to define what’s relevant.
Anyways, even though the justifications of the ‘beef’ are a little blurry, it’s good to have a little sport again.
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