IN MY MIND: IS MY REVELATION COMING TRUE???

That all of this time...I've been overhyping an artist that is average at best???

You know how you listen to a new artist, you feel good about that artist, you thinkin' to yourself, man...this is THAT nigga!!! You start taking the artist's shit to all of your friends, and THEY start likin the shit...well that's how I felt at the time about Drake. I intensely watched Degrassi growing up (well, it aint been that long) more cause all the shit that happened on there, I was experiencing myself or I had friends who experienced it...not to mention the girls on there were hot.

So, the moment I heard Aubrey Graham aka Drake was a rapper...I'm like, "NO FUCKING WAY"!!! This was like around late '06 into '07...everything feels like one big fucking year nowadays.

2006- ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT- a good start, not perfect, but good start.

2007- COMEBACK SEASON- this was the shit that had me re-evaluate everything (at the time I thought "swag" was cool)

until.......

THE WAYNE-BOLA EFFECT!!!

enter throughout 2008...where you begin hearing Drake remix Wayne tracks ("Man Of The Year", "A Milli") you start to notice him in Wayne's videos ("A Milli" again) and he starts to appear at his shows ("The I Am Music Tour") and they even begin to do tracks together....

enter Valentine's Day...and SO FAR GONE is released....

The latest mixtape where it isn't just taking the inspiration of "808s and Heartbreak", they're damn near emulating the album...all I did was remix it...*mixtape on the upper right hand corner*...*SHAMELESS PLUG*

Now, I didn't really feel it as much as "Comeback Season" at first, then the more I listened to it, the more I began to enjoy it, and the more I enjoyed it, the more I started to question, and the more I questioned, the more I began to see what I am seeing now.

I'm beginning to recognize the flaws that a lot of the fans and bloggers are exposing as well. The fact that he doesn't have a lot of range in his singing, or he is beginning to pick up Wayne's bad habits (Auto-Tune), or that when you really think about it, his content is pretty limited (clothes, women, money, blah, blah, blah) and someone such as myself, always goes back to the shit that I can relate to the most (Brother Ali, Talib Kweli, Nas, Atmosphere). It took a couple blogs and many, MANY listens to finally realize that...and then not only that...I think this was the icing on the cake...being one of the recent episodes of Joe Budden TV.

When is Jumpoff on a nigga's dick THAT much...(other than the other members of Slaughterhouse, lol).

Not only that, but they played "Best I Ever Had" at Texture this past Saturday...and this shit was off a fuckin' mixtape. Although, a lot of my tracks are from mixtapes. Heheh.

But yea, this ain't a diss to Drake at all, as two of his latest is on my iPod right now at this VERY MOMENTO. But, like I said, I always appreciate the things or topics I relate to MORE. And honestly, has Drake ever endured hard times? I'm not one to judge, but cot damn, there is a difference between storytelling and just flat out bragging. Drake likes to tread the waters of both. So this shit will do for now, but I'm really waiting for him to pull a Jay-Z's "Minority Report" or a Lil' Wayne's "Tie My Hands" or a Kanye's "Roses". Something that will make us look at Drake for a brief minute as more than just a braggadacious rapper, otherwise we might as well look at him as another Kanye/Wayne clone, that kicks it with Trey Songz from time to time. And believe you me....THIS HERE IS ON SOME TRUUUTHHHFUL SHIT.