How Does Drake's Influence American Culture

While researching texts written about Drake, I will first start by introducing the record label company that signed him as an artist. Drake signed with the record label company called Young Money. Lil Wayne founded the company label in 2003 (Young Money Entertainment, 2014). The current/past record deals are: Lil Wayne, Chanel West Coast, Christina Milan, Drake, Euro, Flow, Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz, Lil Twist, Mack Maine, Nicki Minaj, PJ Morton, Reginae Carter, Shanell, Torion, T-Streets, Tyga, and W3 The Future (Young Entertainment). I looked at a biography source for Drake and a blog source that talked about Drake in general. I read an article about Drake that gave great insight into his songs which provides a great start to leading into a
Kot explains how Drake said in his song, “Showing emotion don’t ever mean I am a pussy” (2013). This sentence of his song Take care shows that weakness is cool (Kot). In society, weakness is not seen that way. Rappers needed to show they were immune based on the background they come from (Kot). This cultural idea of weakness shapes how people view rappers should not be. Drake exposes his weaknesses instead of hiding them (Kot). This question brings up who is his targeted audience, but the money he makes from record deals disagrees (Kot). His past regards of who he is keeps people confused by how he reveals himself (Kot). Drake’s song “Find Your Love” conveys a man deeply in love who is thinking what if like he doesn’t have a chance (Drake, 2010). His song is very rhymic to love (Drake). The repeated message of “Find Your Love” is “I better find your love. I better find your heart”(Drake). I think the message that he is giving to society is never give up on somebody and go until you can’t go any further (Drake). At this time Drake is bringing to earth a new look hip hop and rap song that people can immediately connect with as a culture. I find it very confusing on who is target audience is specifically for this song because both women and men can like this song. This song reinforces how love is in society. Drake’s song “Hold on, We’re Going Home” depicts a girl getting captured and Drake rich and more than likely in the mafia or a gang
Drake had a far different upbringing then did some African-Americans. He had to deal with racism at his school because he was a Jew and African-American at the same time which would have formed an interesting stereotype. Also it was difficult for him to be accepted into white culture because he was mixed, but Drake does consider himself to be black. He was challenged classism wise because he was African-American and he had to form his own upbringing. Drake got into the entrainment industry, but then moved on up into getting a record deal for music with Cash Money. His personal identity he believed made him unique as a person even though he connected the most with black culture. I find it highly interesting he connects most to the black culture even though I state above he was brought up by his white Canadian Jewish mother. Drake wasn’t accepted into white culture because he was still part black. There was a reading that we read about what it means to be black. Drake found out being still mixed means he is still black at heart and he accepted that