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JPEGMAFIA and Drake

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Key Takeaways

• JPEGMAFIA says rap followers are bored with Drake’s repetitive lyrics and need one thing new.
• He believes Hip Hop is creatively caught and requires extra innovation within the style.
• His feedback mirror a rising generational divide between legacy acts and experimental artists.

Rap followers are completed listening to Drake “complain about b**ches,” not less than, that’s how JPEGMAFIA sees it. In a Tuesday (June 10) interview with Billboard, the “Child I’m Bleeding” artist weighed in on why listeners are craving one thing new, not simply from Drake, however from Hip Hop at giant.

When requested if he thinks hardcore music would possibly more and more crossover with rap — one thing he’s already flirted with closely on I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU — the New York native responded, “I feel lots of people are gonna leap on that.” He continued, “[People are] gonna notice [that] what you guys are doing is boring as s**t. Folks yearn for one thing new, particularly in rap.”

“We don’t wanna hear Drake complain about b**hes anymore,” JPEGMAFIA stated. “We don’t f**king care. He’s 40.” For the report, the Canadian famous person is definitely 38, and whereas loads of his songs admittedly revolve round girls, he’s additionally branched out into extra genres than most artists might dream of. His February monitor “NOKIA” tapped into dance territory, and “Calling For You,” off For All The Dogs, discovered him testing the waters of attractive drill.

This isn’t the primary time JPEGMAFIA took a jab at Drake. He beforehand took shots at the “Hotline Bling” hitmaker on his aforementioned 2024 venture. Most notably, on “New Black Historical past,” he accused folks of “cashing out for PDFs and rapers (No Drizzy).” Then, on “it’s darkish and hell is sizzling,” the Brooklyn native appeared to double down on the identical accusations Kendrick Lamar leveled on “Not Like Us,” with him spitting, “If I present you a Drac’, I ain’t playin’ with children.”

That stated, some would possibly argue JPEGMAFIA’s broader level concerning the state of Hip Hop is fairly spot on. “We want one thing totally different,” he burdened throughout his chat with Billboard. “I’m right here to attempt to present and domesticate that as a lot as I can as a result of rap followers are f**king bored. Their thought of doing one thing totally different is taking different-sounding s**t and throwing lure drums on it.” Notably, Travis Scott expressed similar frustrations with the genre’s production.

“That’s not what I’m right here to do,” the OFFLINE! creator clarified. “I’m right here to actually f**ok you up…And If I’m not, I didn’t do my f**king job. Acutely aware rap has Nas, lure rap has Future, experimental rap is me. That’s it.”