2 lines out of Drake's entire catalog represent him as an artist? You guys are being ridiculous (although the irony is....Drake really was an actor. HA!). I've gone through this ad nauseum.
We all talk ****. We all talk bigger than we are sometimes. Yes these guys are artists. There will be some poetic license.
But we don't all completely adopt new personas and personalities. We don't all take another man's name, appearance and lifestyle and make them out our for the sake of "entertainment".
I've sold drugs before. Would I ever go as far as to pretend I'm some kingpin? Talk mad reckless about **** I had no involvement in. Lie about being a CO on top of that. Hell no.
I named 4 guys. You picked out 2 lines from one guy who is otherwise referred to by some as the "kitten whisperer" to try to make a point. Drake's music is 99% soft and we know this.
I laughed at those lines too...but why shouldn't he say them. Apparently none of you care about honesty, credibility or sincerity in your music. So of course these dudes will start feeding you ********.
I can't even remember Nas claiming to be a Coke kingpin. Jay shot his own brother. That Snoop record was for a movie soundtrack about.....an undercover cop.
And not every record or lyric is meant to be literal. Ice T's Cop Killa didn't mean he was killing cops. He was more dealing with the very real feelings cats around the way have for police. How they fell as opposed to what they do. It's still a reality.
Ghostface (Dennis Coles) really had the paper that funded Wu. He didn't get that selling Girl Scout cookies. You know how Eazy E founded Ruthless?
TI? Maino? Gucci? Keef? Game? Young Buck? One dude says 50 is an actor, the next man says he's not.
Not everyone is even trying to be a "gangster" with their music. Kendrick is an actor? Chuck D today is still talking about the **** he did 30 years ago. Rakim, same. Kanye? The Roots?
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I tend to gravitate towards music with integrity and subconsiously, or even intentionally, ignore these buffoons out here. **** all that "but it's good music". Mad times the **** ain't THAT good and I can find something better.
But for every example you can try to provide, I can do the same. I'm not denying there aren't guys that stretch it.
But I'm not prepared to just call every rapper an "actor" because VERY few of them are really taking it that far. And I'm not about to say "half the stuff has been made up". What scientific equation did you use to come up with that number?