Fair enough, definitely will not disagree with you cuz you sound way more informed. I found him (and I guess his era if I’m being honest) too overtly manufactured and obnoxious to really engage with. I do imagine bro worked his ass off, and yea must have been a confluence of factors, many of them his own personality traits and effort. Maybe what irks me is people regard him as egocentric and cocky when to me he seems the opposite, just extremely fragile and fake because he’s hyper-aware of his own shortcomings (and worse, absolutely correct about them). I guess that describes a fair portion of “egocentric” personalities anyway though, thorny and fragile.
Your assesment of that era of rap is 100% spot on. That was a very braggadocious and flashy era leading up to the financial collapse in 08. Dj Khaled was music for nightclubs, it was “gangster rap” for the masses, it was radio play accessible without being edited to death… and it sold.
I dont know the man but I think it was a lot like what happens to a lot of people in entertainment, you have to fake it till you make it. Nobody wants to hear songs about how you’re going to climb to the middle. But eventually at some level of success you need to stop huffing your own farts and show some humility and I dont think he ever has.
Fair enough, definitely will not disagree with you cuz you sound way more informed. I found him (and I guess his era if I’m being honest) too overtly manufactured and obnoxious to really engage with. I do imagine bro worked his ass off, and yea must have been a confluence of factors, many of them his own personality traits and effort. Maybe what irks me is people regard him as egocentric and cocky when to me he seems the opposite, just extremely fragile and fake because he’s hyper-aware of his own shortcomings (and worse, absolutely correct about them). I guess that describes a fair portion of “egocentric” personalities anyway though, thorny and fragile.
Your assesment of that era of rap is 100% spot on. That was a very braggadocious and flashy era leading up to the financial collapse in 08. Dj Khaled was music for nightclubs, it was “gangster rap” for the masses, it was radio play accessible without being edited to death… and it sold.
I dont know the man but I think it was a lot like what happens to a lot of people in entertainment, you have to fake it till you make it. Nobody wants to hear songs about how you’re going to climb to the middle. But eventually at some level of success you need to stop huffing your own farts and show some humility and I dont think he ever has.