Quote (eboyd)
He has potential. Not a shitload, and like I said, I liked his verse here a little bit, but you said he had the sickest verse when, to me and most others, even mainstream fans I've spoken to, it is obvious that Eminem's verse was lightyears ahead of Drake's. Will Drake ever be one of the greats even by the potential he has shown thus far and by us thinking he's probably only going to get better? Probably not. Nas, for example, started out at a younger age than Drake and at a skill level that far exceeded where Drake is at now. Even people like Capadonna came into the game at a higher skill level. I'm not saying he's wack, but he's one of those cats you just don't mind hearing on a track once in a while but the media and labels are turning him into this sensation and he just doesn't have that potential, although, to be fair, he definitely is closer to it than any of these other pop sensations that have been given light in recent years. Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, and as a rapper, even Kanye fall short of the mediocrity that Drake possesses (although I could argue for the ghostwritten rhymes Kanye had on "College Dropout" and the occasional track that makes me think "if Kanye wrote that, then I give him props").
I never really got into Kanye or even checked out College Dropout, I thought he sort of killed (in a bad way) that Rakim, KRS, Nas & Premo track.. He was definitely out of place, sort of like Maino on that Rakim track.
