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<p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">Is it Hip-Hop or nah?! With new music from BeyonceÌ and <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/drake-has-the-internet-going-nuts-after-dropping-new-album-honestly-nevermind/">Drake</a>, the world is still trying to warm up to the dance tracks from the GRAMMY-Award winning artists. You can&#8217;t scroll down the TL without seeing someone share their two cents, including former Def Jam and Murder Inc. CEO and co-founder Irv Gotti. On Tuesday, the music mogul spoke with <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/06/21/irv-gotti-drake-dance-wave-shouldnt-influence-rap-future/">TMZ</a> at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and explained that Drake&#8217;s &#8216;Honestly, Nevermind&#8217; isn&#8217;t Hip-Hop.</p>
<p>&#8220;Personally, I love Drake. I think Drake is a great person. He&#8217;s a great human being,&#8221; he stressed. &#8220;But I listened to his album, and Drake can do whatever he wants as an artist, but Drake&#8217;s new album is not Hip-Hop.&#8221; Things got interesting when the reporter asked Irv if he felt &#8216;Honestly, Nevermind&#8217; was the demise of Hip-Hop.</p>
<p>Irv stated, &#8220;I hope not! As long as I&#8217;m alive, it can never be the demise of Hip Hop. I gotta get back in the game and find me a n***a. That&#8217;s what that album made me feel like.&#8221; He added, &#8220;It made me feel like going and finding me a raw new DMX, new Ja [Rule], new Jay[Z] and serving n***as and f***ing bringing back great Hip-Hop.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion about Champagne Papi&#8217;s new sound, he might have hinted at this in a previous interview. According to Complex, during his 2020 Rap Radar interview, while discussing his sound, the interviewer said he was stuck in a cycle of constantly trying to make albums that appeal to both his rap fans and his pop and R&;B fans.</p>
<p>The Six God responded and explained why fans will never get a &#8220;10-song Drake classic.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m the only one who has a commitment to do two things every album. I have to give the people that like the singing enough to hold onto, and I have to give LeBron enough bars.&#8221;</p>
<p>Roommates, do you think there can be an artist that can impact the culture like the late DMX, Jay-Z, or Ja Rule? Or is Irv Gotti out of line for making the comparison?</p>
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