This whole idea that Beyonce needed to sabotage Kelly and Michelle to stand out...
Not when she has 100x times more stage presence than both of those basic backup dancers.
Not when she's 100x times better singer than both of them.
Not when she's 100x times more beautiful than both of them.
It's enough if you watch this video of Beyonce and Kelly performing at the BET awards. Beyonce made Kelly look like some X Factor reject.
Kelly was out of breath before she even got to the stage
Drake changed rap. He reshaped the landscape and forever altered the things that we expect from big rap stars. Before Drake, sensitive souls like Andre 3000 and Kanye West made a point of showing what rap stardom could look like if you dropped all the tough-guy stuff, but none of them came across quite so ferociously, defiantly wimpy as Drake. A suburban Canadian half-Jewish child star who simply cannot stop rapping about his feelings, Drake seems like exactly the sort of guy who, say, N.W.A would’ve happily robbed once upon a time. But through craft and charisma and canny decision-making, he’s pushed himself into a position as one of rap’s dominant figures and prime influencers. On a song like A$AP Rocky’s “****in’ Problems,” Rocky and Kendrick Lamar sound like really good rappers, but Drake sounds like a star — a star whose top-dog status has helped create a climate where former Drake opening acts like fashionista Rocky and twitchy Kendrick can come close to stardom themselves. At this point, he’s redrawn the battle lines enough that you have to take him seriously, even if you don’t want to. And now, with Nothing Was The Same, Drake has made an album of defiantly simpy sad-bastard new-wave R&B, and it’s one of the most anticipated and satisfying rap albums of the year.
