Drake Has A Good Relationship With JB
Drake spoke to ImFlashy on a number of topics including why he declined the XXL 2010 Freshmen cover. Drizzy also said that he has a good relationship with Jordan Brand, which should come as no surprise. As a matter of fact, Drake is rocking Silver Anniversary Air Jordan 9′s. Check out this short video. Spotted at RR
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Man, that was a dope video…..
DRIZZY WHAT IT DO SHAWTY cant wait till those drop
Honestly though dudes of his stature are gonna get free sneakers either form their stylist , or from a sneaker rep. JB is rolling with ole boy because he is a safe bet and kids tend to follow artist with no real substance just a good image. JB good hustle folowing the status quo but will you give him a sneaker or stand by him when his albums flops I highly doubt you will . Any body with enough connects can get a JB rep or Nike Rep.
Artists with no substance include those such as: Flocka Wacka(Wack-duh), J Gutta, Gucci Mane, etc. Wouldn’t put Drake in that Category. Drake has talent and these other fools do not. Too bad Flocka Wacka didn’t suffer a fatal shot, it would have been a good day for the rap game.
Yoo El Chupa Negro, I totally agree dude, but cats like drake is def not Hip Hop at all wats so ever either.
rrl .. thats were its at all day.. good look on that.. the confidence in the jordan brand comment was nice.. like really.. you can tell he good money on that
Free GUCCI!!!
Toronto stand up. Any artist that is presentable to the public with even mild celebrity status will get to build great relationships with companies. At the end of the day its all about what makes money for them and Drizzy has the spotlight so why not roll the dice on him while he’s hot. Just hope he is smart about what he gets in return for his free advertising of JB.
why cant he stand still durring the video, hes bouncing around like he has a.d.d.
DRAKE IS SOFT
lol.. right cause every artist gotta be a g right? lol half these cats yall think are hard are far from it
No crap Drake is soft. He doesn’t claim to be anything other than that. He isn’t a gangsta. He’s chill. He doesn’t act like a fake gang banger like most others in the game.
I have a good relationship with JB too. They release kicks, I go to the store and buy the ones I like, I then rock or stock them. Seriously though I don’t like those anniversary IX’s only ones in the series I want is the XI’s.
@mr. madison
Drake is a G. He is a Good Guy. Lol. There aint nothing wrong with that. I rather be a cool dude than a cold dead gangsta anyday. LMAO
^ fa-sho, I want those XI’s as well. Drake sings & raps….also has an actin background so the kid’s multi-talented in my opinion.
two words to describe Drake- Overrated and Wack
it must be nice to be born rich with a wealthy family
it must be nice to have a mom that buys you kicks
it must be nice to be on a show named Degrassi
it must be nice to be put on Young Money with a weak resume
it must be nice to rock FAKE purple Air Jordan V’s at an early photoshoot
it must be nice to have someone else write your lyrics for you and make millions
it must be nice to have so many guy groupies
it must be nice for him NOT to win a Grammy
it must be nice to have those PE Ray Allen VIIIs
it would be nice for me to shut the f^%$ up
it must be nice to hate on him because he knows G4 pilots on a first name basis
liked his music when he was Drake…not so much now that he’s “Young Money Drizzy”…can never forgive the fake purple and black J’s, ever. All fashion credibility is lost.
Drizzy drake is the s**t. he’s an artist above his level. I prefer that lil wayne didn’t put him in young money but other than that Drake is going to be here for a long time so if you don’t like em he’ll grown on you like weezy’s weed and if you do like him then, ” thank him later “.
not to mention i saw drake’s bitch-ass wearing a pair of fake jordans so idk how he’s talking about having a relationship with JB when he can’t even distinguish reals and fakes. he was wearing a colorway that never came out and never will. (PURPLE 5′s) come on now.
@mr madison
YES 98% OF TODAYS RAPPERS ARE SOFT AND NOT WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE
THERE IS A HANDFUL OF REAL DUDES LEFT, 90% ARE FRAUDS AND DO NOT LIVE WHAT THEY RAP ABOUT AT ALL, TRUST ME I KNOW THIS MY GUY
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AND AS FOR DRAKE
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I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE KID… IF U GUYS KNEW HIS FULL PAST UD AGREE
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I CANT RESPECT SOMEONE WHO BOUGHT THERE WAY INTO THE INDUSTRY
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HES NOT REAL, AND HE DIDNT GRIND FOR HIS SUCCESS, HE BOUGHT IT
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THE KID GREW UP RICH
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HE WAS MAKING OVER 120,000$ SINCE HE WAS 13 YRS OLD
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HE PAID 30,000 FOR A MEETING WITH LABEL EXECS
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HE PAID ANOTHER 40,000 FOR 2 PEOPLE TO INTRODUCE HIM TO OTHER LABEL EXECS
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HE WOULD DO SHOWS AND NOT GET PAID, BUT INSTEAD PAY THE CLUBS TO PEFORM.. HE WOULD GO TO THE CLUB AND SAY “LISTEN I DONT WANT ANY MONEY BUT I WANT TO PERFORM HERE, I WILL PAY YOU GUYS TO LET ME PERFORM HERE”
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IT TAKES HIM 5 DAYS TO WRITE A SONG…
HE CANT GO INTO A STUDIO GET A BEAT FROM A PRODUCER AND WRITE IT RIGHT THERE WITH THE GUY HE HAS TO SAY “OKAY GIVE ME THE BEAT LET ME GO HOME AND GIVE ME A WEEK” THATS NOT A REAL ARTIST
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AND NOT THAT THIS MATTERS BUT HE CANT FREESTYLE EITHER HE HAS TO MEMORIZE ALL HIS RAPS FOR HIS RADIO APPEARANCES WHERE ITS “TIME TO FREESTYLE”
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SORRY BUT I CANT RESPECT A LAME KID WHO PAID TO BE A RAPPER AND BOUGHT HIS WAY INTO THE INDUSTRY, THAT AINT HIP HOP
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I COULD GO ON WITH MY “YOU DONT KNOW THE REAL DRAKE FACTS” BUT WHO CARES TO YOU I WILL JUST SOUND LIKE A “HATER” WHICH IM NOT
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I JUST SPEAK FACTS
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DRAKE IS NOT REAL, AND NOT REAL HIP HOP AT ALL WATSOEVER
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AND IF HE WASNT WITH LIL WAYNE HALF YALL WOULDNT KNOW WHO HE IS NOR GIVE A FUCK ABOUT HIM EITHER.. HALF A YALL ARE DICKRIDERS LOL
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IF I SEE DRAKE IN THE STREETS IM SONNIN HIM ON THE SPOT!! TRUE TALK
LOL WOW I DIDNT KNOW THAT WAS THAT LONG I GUESS I KINDA JUST WENT ON MY “I DONT FUCK WITH DRAKE” RANT …. SORRY
AND ALSO IM NOT SAYIN U GOTTA BE A G AND HAVE A RAP SHEET , BE A KILLER, DRUG DEALER PAST ETC… BUT I AM SAYING THAT IF YOU GREW UP RICH, AND YOU COME FROM MONEY, WHY DO YOU WANA BE A RAPPER???
THERES TONS OF OTHER THINGS YOU COULD DO TO HELP THE WORLD OR DO BUT NO YOU WANA BE A RAPPER LOL ??? <—- SMH
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DRAKE AT AGE 16: "HEY MOM IM GETTIN BORED WITH THIS ACTING STUFF I THINK I WANA BE A RAPPER NOW"
you not really saying anything i dont know.. rock cats been doing that shit for years.. but it’s a problem cause he rap? that’s not even his main thing.. my thing is this stop hating on cats cause they doing something that you think you could be better at or your homie could be better at. plain and simple.. he understood the game and had to ends to make his shit work.. yeah he bought his way in.. but he also wrote for dre before we knew his name… name one artist other then cudi that made a reach and exposed “hip hop” heads to something more than the same boom bap. that.. gets respect before anything else to me.. but yall the same cats who think cudi gay cause he wear pants that fit..but wont take into account the creative genius behind his grind. im beyond that shit.. i make music on the side and ive always made more then hip hop.. i love MUSIC not rap .. PLUS everyone know he got cake dude was on tv for years.. he likes music he did it and went in.. gonna hate on that? shit jay and dame went to the first meeting at def jam with 30k like is this what it takes.. and the answer is a lot of the time YES. its take money to make money.. what my dude say.. scared money dont make no money.. and well he had it.. gotta love a cat who not scared to say i lease my bently.. but what does it matter cause the hoes dont care.. and thats my point.. his fans dont care.. and all the oh he paid for this paid for that.. shit dont matter.. most people who made it big paid for it one way or another and for someone in the biz you should know that. my partner is the chief engineer at one of the dopest studios here in the A and not no patchwork.. lol.. i know the biz too just in case you were curious.
lol … Drizzy Drake haha… Almost everyone is fake now days… I barely listen to new rappers anymore. The fact is i don’t even listen to radio anymore because that ish is straight up wack… But i do bummp Drizzy Drake…
“I AM STILL FLY”….
Hold up yall cant be dissin my mans drake. Yea he had the fake 5′s on n all that. But In my opinion he is WAY better than anybody you can name on mainstream right. IMO he is better than little wayne bcuz he talks about the same stupid stuff on every freakin song but in a different way. So….
Drake was on a teen soap opera. His credibility as a rapper is warped by that fact. Sorry, can’t get past that.
Question: If Lil Wayne has been rapping since 9 or 10 and Baby has been looking after him since then and he had money is he “Gangsta”. Lol. He been rich since 13, Cash Money bought a lot of meetings and Wayne isnt shit but the shorty who older heads said stay in the corner and watch what we do. He never sold drugs for real. He always had money.
So I cant buy the idea that just because Drake is a “safer” rapper he isnt real. He isnt talkin about anything out of his lifestyle.
Tribe Called Quest damn sure weren’t no hard rocks from queens dudes were regular ass cats . Oh by the way Royal Swagness Drake says he is not here to rap for a long time just until he gets a job acting which is quite funny because Kid Cudi got on a show before he did . Drake just starting listening to rap music. I hate to put you on blast but your statement and many others posted border on being a stan and naiveity . Tribe ,de la soul , souls of mischief, Little Brother , never tried to get gangsta they just wrapped about what they knew and what was relevant to their interest. Drake is stuck rapping about clubbing, losing a girl, being infatuated with one , and getting one. Dude is just not a rapper he is just an entertainer that happens to rap.
he doesnt have any connection with JB…0% connection with JB.
what would JB doing talking to this fool?
Do you know who his connection is? the owners of the factories/sweat shops in asia making the sneakers…
he’s got a good relationship with the factory owners….what a joke…
i work at a sneaker shop in the north east…we have a jb account…does that mean that I personally have a good relationship with JB myself? no…i’m just a retailer…
sad part…if drakes got a connect with a factory owner in asia…the shoes are probably fake…
Nike has contract with factory owners to make 30,000 pairs in a specific style….
factory owners will make 50,000 pairs, instead of 30,000…
factory owners will ship the 30,000 pairs to USA Nike….
the 20,000 left over? maybe 2,000-5,000 pairs are factory defects/variants, or b-grades….
which leaves about 15,000 pairs, that arent licensed by nike…which make them fake…
not literally FAKE fake….just unlicensed…because it’s not a distributed by nike…it’s distributed by factory owners in asia…
thats why we see all these sellers in china getting all these sneakers 3 months ahead of the release date…
My uncle used to be the ambassador of my country in china, and my cousin had access to most of these factories back when i was in high school. Long story short i don’t trust no sneaker in my collection unless it’s straight from nike, and yea i got every single receipt of mine =))…
lol alot of people going to hate on me but i can’t care less. I knew about this game 7 years ago so i don’t trust no one … I guess im a sucker for Real Nike, lol i mean real.
@ el chupo negro, little brother’s music is so weak. I can’t even tune in for 5 seconds to listen to that s**t. guess I’m going to get the same heat like Drake from you guys because I’m not going to be a hard core gangster rapper and all I’m going to be talking about is women’s f***ed up relationships, partying, & different lifestyles like tagging.
It’s funny. All of you talk about hip hop but yet you forget that Lupe is the best out right now.
Little Brother are way better than drake son matter of fact Phonte is one of Drakes favorite rappers. Anyway that is irrelevant is funny I thought you were going to school for fashion now you wanna be a rapper interesting career choices. Is not about how hard you are its about being realistic and diverse. Drake is not diverse or realistic if you listen to the Minstrel show which you probably won’t you will see they tackle more issues than Drake without being hardcore they spit about being lonely on the road, selling out for stardom. Honestly if you come across as another fabolous Drake hybrids nobody will pay attention to you at all .Thats just facts because there is somebody doing that already named Drake and it would be interesting to know if you actually are a real tagger not just some kid who draws graffiti art on a sheet of paper
Real Recongnize Real Fellas, all my real Hip Hop Heads know wats up, while yall other cats who dont have good taste in music, listen to this crap of today, meanwhile I’ll keep bumpin some MF Grimm, Mf Doom, jedi mind tricks, Immortal Technique, Lupe Fiasco etc. Just to name a few, real MCs not wack Drake or Lil wayne bull shit.
Those “purple” 5′s were custom from an artist in Canada, with the close ups you can tell that they’re metalic 5′s. Ugly ass customs but not fake.
Good call Haux but honestly alot of people are fed up with a rich kid coming in the game buying everything. Remember at one point in time you had to be a well rounded great m.c if not you were laughed at an nobody would ever listen to your tape. Drake is none of that. He is the suburbs lil wayne light skinned ,no tats, and well shaven.
@ el Chupo Negro. I’m doing both. I’m a multi talented person. first I’m going to school for fashion and later down the road , hip hop will catch up to me. I already written 34 songs. one called ” Getting up ” a type of song for graffiti artist. another called ” 23 years ” and another called ” new era. “
RoyalSwag: I’m not trying to be an dick, but if you’re writing a song about graff, please don’t call it “getting up.” I’m into graffiti and I can tell you right now that you’ll get ragged on by the graff community just because of the title. No disrespect intended, I just want to give you some advice.
Anyway, what does Drake need free Jordans for? He’s still spending Degrassi money. lol.
@ BigFoot NJ, I have another name for it I just don’t want to give the real name of the song then some underground rapper on here will use it for their music. thanks tho. I’m into graffiti art, painting, drawing, and ceramics so I know how us artist be like. lol
@BRINX who cares if he bought his way into the game he makes good music period and he raps bcuz he likes to do it just cuz you come from money don’t mean you shudnt do what you like to do
I have a RELATIONSHIP with JB & NIKE too….. they are the PIMP and I am their HOE!!!!!!!!!……
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I guess if you are gonna name drop, JB is a great start….
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CHRIS BLACK….. I CAN SEE THAT YOU KNOW YOUR HIP HOP…. BUT PLEASE DO NOT MENTION LUPE FIASCO (DOPE RAPPER) AND MF DOOM IN THE SAME BREATH….. WE HAVE SEEN LUPE FIASCO BEFORE HIS NAME IS TALIB… AND WE KNOW THAT TALIB WILL RUN CIRCLES AROUND HIM. LUPE IS NOT BRINGING ANY THING NEW TO THE TABLE NOR IS KID CUDI…. VERY TALENTED CATS BUT WE’VE SEEN IT BEFORE THAT’S WHY THEY GET CATEGORIZED WITH THE COMMONS AND MOS DEFS……. WE’VE SEEN IT BEFORE.
OH YEAH….. the whole anniversary collection can stay on the shelf for all I care.
Good thinking. I wouldn’t want anyone stealing my ideas, either. Nice to see there’s at least one artistic person on here. I’m trying to go to college for architecture after next year and I need to get my portfolio started.
that last post was @royalswag. and am95, that’s the first time i’ve heard anyone compare lupe and talib, but wow, that’s definitely true. mf doom is dope, too. madvillainy and mm..food were solid albums.
9th is better than DOOM hands down.
ROYAL SWAGNESS said Little Brother is Weak? I HAVE HEARD EVERYTHING NOW. SMH
I’m sorry G-Roc, but I gotta go there…
#1. The shoes are okay.
#2. So Drake isn’t a real rapper because he came from a wealthy family? I don’t see how him buying meetings with LEGIT money is different from a lot of these big-time rappers who did the same thing with dope money…
Fact is this: the boy did what he had to do in order to get where he wanted to be. I’m not mad at him.
I wouldn’t say I came from a wealthy family, but my parents made sure that I didn’t need anything or want too much. So yeah, JRa, it is VERY nice to have a mom that buys kicks! I wouldn’t trade her for the world! That doesn’t make your kicks any more authentic than mine. But keep it real, you weren’t buying your own kicks at ages 8,9, or 10, were you? I was 14 the first time I used my own money to buy some kicks, just like a lot of people. And I still have them to remind me to understand the value of a dollar. So please stop bad-mouthing the privileged kids!
Who cares about what anyone did to become what they are but in this video why does drake act like he’s all that with some anniversary 9s that ain’t that big of a deal and if he was rockin fake kicks ur shoegame is over just like fabolous and his fake 6s