Itās all about familiarity. You keep stage names because thatās what the marquee says, thatās what CDs say. Yes you can choose to change it and Iāll agree the people with young in the name not changing it is a little goofy too. But itās better than a nickname you have no tie to. No one is putting āThe Boyā on a CD. It has zero weight but he chooses to use it. Why do you think Lady Gaga still goes by that even tho at this point she could go by her real name and still do well? Because the name has weight at this point. Thatās what stage names do.
Drake doesnāt put āthe boyā on a CD either, he just refers to himself as āthe boyā. Also it has nothing to do with familiarity especially for the artists Iāve mentioned. The is no other lil flip, there is no other young dro or dolph, they all couldāve dropped the youngā¦ in the streets a nigga would say aye bro play some dolph or you fuck with that new dro? If a DJ was welcoming young buck to a stage not one fan would be confused if he just said buckā¦ like I said your argument doesnāt hold weightā¦ but letās take it further, Iām sure youāve heard in real life or even on TV someone call their friends my boys, Iām from Detroit and we call each other my babyā¦ I see grown men all the time say ā cmon my baby wonāt you let yo boy hold some real quick I got some shit in the Floā another case of grown men calling themselves āboyā Drake just uses it as a moniker and says āthe boyā still has nothing to do with ageā¦ yall can pretend like Drake is weird for doing it but if yiu a hood nigga or at least been imbedded in this hip hop shit then you know this aināt nothing newā¦
Why yall always go to some gay shit when your argument donāt work? And why yall always act like WEāRE on some weird shit bc we donāt let you hate in peaceā¦ you literally couldāve scrolled
Hereās why. My favorite artist is Ye. Now watch this āYe has done some incredibly immature and embarrassing things, especially over the last 3 years. Being nearly 50 and writing lyrics like āone in the pink one in the stinkā shows a level of immaturity you would think he would have grown out of as a grown man and a dadā
See how I can be honest about the rappers I like when theyāre being immature or not acting their age? Itās because Iām not about to ride or die for another man to the point Iām on reddit defending him like his woman would.
Go listen to drake thatās cool. I like some Drake songs. But if you canāt see that a 40 year old grown man calling himself the boy is corny as fuck then youāre dick riding plain and simple.
Again Iāll say Ye is my favorite artist. But Iām not about to be out here defending his honor like it matters. Donāt like Ye? Think heās immature? Think heās a POS? Great youāre prolly right. Still not about to defend his honor.
Ok, so whatās the difference between defending his honor and continually hating on someone? Just as much as I defended Drake during this argument youāve attackedā¦ itās not different from when the entire east coast of fans didnāt fuck with the west coast and vice versaā¦ have you never been to a barbershop? Niggas will argue for hours about LeBron or Kobe or Iversonā¦ how old were you when Jay and nas had their beef? The lunch room had crazy arguments during that timeā¦ Iām saying that to say everyone defends their favorite artist or ball player or whateverā¦ itās not new
And Yeās controversial opinions and actions are widely different from calling yourself āthe boyā as a moniker when youāre a rapper. If you think itās corny cool, but youāre literally just hatingā¦ and I know one of two thingsā¦ either youāre not a true hip hop fan or you at very least not a hood nigga bc that shit is common depending on where youāre from.
The only thing I attacked drake for was being a corny ass 40 year old calling him self the boy. Drake is one of the most successful artists of all time. Heās got the ability to make a good album at any point. The only knock on Drake musically is that he phones it in. The 3 piece album he dropped this year isnāt bad but itās also by far not his best work and thatās been the story of Drake for a while. Heās the super gifted guy who doesnāt have to study to pass the test but heās not getting As either. And heās good with that because decent still makes him 20 million dollars an album.
To the point of ye. Notice I didnāt mention the controversy? I said heās been doing immature things and pointed to immature lyrics. Because that is very comparable. āReach for the pop corn oops thatās my cockā is middle school shit. Calling your self the boy is middle school shit.
No one is talking about some barber shop whoās better shit but you. All I said is dude can be a corn ball sometimes and the boy is an example and you just couldnāt let that go. I got nothing better to do today so Iāll just engage but genuinely? defending drakes nickname is a weird hill to die on my guy.
I brought up barber shop shit bc you mention arguing for someoneā¦ and Iām showing you itās not a weird thing at all bc thatās the type of shit weāve always done in this cultureā¦ and Iām still defending him calling himself the boy bc itās part of the culture hence why I brought up conversations we have as a someone from Detroitā¦ Iām starting to understand the disconnect though, you donāt understand calling yourself āthe boyā (even as a 40 year old man) is kinda like a flex in the hoodā¦ like a nigga would say āyou already know she gone come fuck with the boy, these hoes stay fuckin wit meāā¦ I think you donāt be around older hood niggas to even know how regular that shit isā¦
Iāll give you that it maybe a little less corny for him. Given what you just said. But you as a grown man calling him āthe boyā does not get less corny. Iām sorry.
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u/IndigoBlunting 13h ago
Itās all about familiarity. You keep stage names because thatās what the marquee says, thatās what CDs say. Yes you can choose to change it and Iāll agree the people with young in the name not changing it is a little goofy too. But itās better than a nickname you have no tie to. No one is putting āThe Boyā on a CD. It has zero weight but he chooses to use it. Why do you think Lady Gaga still goes by that even tho at this point she could go by her real name and still do well? Because the name has weight at this point. Thatās what stage names do.