Drake doesn't write his own lyrics (Update 7/29/15: RIP Meek Mill)

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Most artists doesn't write his own lyrics

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FIFY and I'm using "artists" loosely

Isn't this about as shocking as finding out that Arnold was roided up in the 1970s?

The genre really doesn't attract folks with singular talents (or hasn't in decades - old school rules), particularly not today. Image and name recognition is 110% of the market. The lyrics are largely interchangeable, repeated and repackaged. Ditto for the beats, which are, by now, the samples of samples of sampled samples of samples. Auto-tune makes all singers sound the same, particularly the females. What little "songwriting" that is done, is primarily done by song banks and the same groupings of collobarative producers/songwriters.

This is true of most pop and modern country music as well. If there was much of a rock scene any longer, it would be true of the bread and butter acts there, as well.

It is what it is - people don't get into music to make art - maybe they never did - they do so to make money. They then do whatever it takes to make money. The difference is, back in the day, there weren't machines or an infrastructure set up specifically to disquise an absolute lack of talent (and I'm not talking about talent deficiencies, but outright lack) - Bob Dylan wrote great songs, so no one cared if he sounded like he was singing through a kazoo. Elvis could sing a Denny's menu and sell millions of copies, so the powers-that-be commissioned songs to be written for him.

But - as talent is no longer required at any phase of the operation, you get what we have now. "Talentlessness" (I may have just coined a new word - deal with it.)

Who gives a shite? I just want good music and don't care who writes it.
Also don't care about Drake or Meek as a person. But if he is trying to say that this guy Miller has written Drake's 2-3 mixtapes (early on) and all 5 of his albums, plus say about 50-100 features, I would call bullshite.

I can't believe people still care whether or not hip hoppers write their own lyrics or not. I remember when Gillie the Kid came out and said he wrote a lot of Wayne's lyrics. It got talked about for a couple weeks then Gillie disappeared forever and Wayne went on doing his thing. It really doesn't matter

Drake responds to Meek with a warning shot Charged Up
Good song, and Meek now knows Drake isn't gonna be playing around with him for much longer

"@MeekMill: I can tell he wrote that 1 tho......"