“Music was boring without Drake” doesn’t hold up under its own weight because Drake never left
Mal & his kind don’t even realize this foolishness diminishes all the songs Drake has been dropping post-beef pre-iceman. I don’t want to hear SS4U doesn’t count because it was a collab because that 21 collab album “counts” & I don’t wanna hear it was an r&b album because honestly, nevermind “counts” people just won’t admit that Drake was deflated after the beef & started dropping mid. He knows that even if Aubrey’s angels don’t & that’s why these latest projects feel way more intentional & received a lot better.
This idea that the entire business is contingent on one person is a lie and it destroys the value of the industry as a whole if it becomes true. Essentially treating Drake like Amazon where he takes up all the market share, ruins smaller artists opportunities to grow like Amazon does with mom & pop stores while also allowing Drake to get away with mediocrity because all the alternatives get bought up (him appropriating sounds) or the labels just dumping money into making him #1.