Indie Artist Music Hustle

Money Power Respect, The Last One Betta….Draaake

• Host and Creator: Blonde Intelligence (Ms. Roni) • Season 4 • Episode 60

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Welcome to this week’s Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I am your host Ms. Roni and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire Drake's spectacular fall from grace offers a masterclass in how quickly an artist can squander years of goodwill. What happens when one of hip-hop's most influential figures loses the respect of both peers and fans? The answer isn't pretty.

The recent spectacle of Drake screaming at his own audience to form mosh pits, only to have water bottles hurled back at him, signals a troubling shift in his career trajectory. This podcast explores how Drake's seemingly one-sided obsession with competing against Kendrick Lamar has morphed from friendly rivalry into something far more concerning. The prophecy in Kendrick's lyrics—"the money, the power, the respect, the last one's better"—now rings with eerie precision as we witness Drake struggling to maintain his standing in the industry.

Perhaps most telling is Drake's pattern of disrespect toward others. From dragging opponents' significant others into rap beefs to publicly ridiculing former partners in songs for years afterward, these behaviors reveal character issues that can't be obscured by commercial success. When compared with his earlier beef with Pusha T (which many felt Drake lost but recovered from), this latest chapter seems to be inflicting more lasting damage to his reputation. As the saying goes, it takes years to build respect and only moments to lose it.

The timing couldn't be more symbolic, occurring during the Lion's Gate portal energy with multiple planets in retrograde—a cosmic period that often forces reckoning with past actions. For artists at any level, Drake's situation serves as a powerful reminder that while money and power might come easily with success, respect must be continually earned and carefully maintained. Once lost, it proves incredibly difficult to recapture.

Want more insights on the music industry from both independent artists and industry professionals? Subscribe to our podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and visit www.blonde-intelligence.com to join our community of music lovers and creators who understand that genuine respect is the ultimate currency.

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Music. Welcome to this week's Indie Artist Music Hustle with Blonde Intelligence. I'm your host, ms Bronnie, and I always seek to give you exquisite cranial repertoire. Today is August the 10th. We are still in that line gate, portal Energy. If you need Portal Energy, if you need to get Whatever you need to get in, now is the time. If you know, you know.

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But this week I want to talk a little bit about how Drake lost a lot of respect by screaming at his fans and I think that the competition that he blatantly has With Kendrick by screaming at his fans, and I think that the competition that he blatantly has With Kendrick and it seems to that he's having this competition by himself Is becoming very unhealthy for him, because For a long time In the hip hop industry, drake was one of the main players in hip-hop that, no matter which way hip-hop culture went, he was a part of that culture. So I will say that. But it brings me to talk about respect and how you lose respect and how. Even in that, like that verse, how Kendrick say the money, the power, the respect, the last one's better. How is it? Don't talk about how the last one is better here, rather after the beef is what solidified him as a loss, not in this battle. You start losing in your career. You lost respect from people who were still standing beside you. So, yeah, the last one is better, because look how this is affecting you. When I talk about solidifying the loss now, I know as the AI versions of some content creators. They call them pusha, pusha T.

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Pusha T did have a surgical summer and at the time Drake had the money and the power to kind of like dead the little beef with him and Pusha T without it costing him his career. But he didn't learn. Why would you go and start a beef with someone when the last one that you had kind of like you made people kind of look at you funny. Then you came on to make more music and you know people liked it or whatever. But Then when you decided that you wanted to go Up against Kendrick I don't know why he didn't think about the verse First. He didn't even name you in there like that At first, but he said Don't put no coughing out your mouth, I'm way too paranoid for a threat. So he's saying hey, long as you respect me, I do what I gotta do and, as pusha t say, there's no, too far, you're attacking people.

Speaker 1:

So I think that the actions of Drake after the as they said, that the funeral was meet the grams and not like us was like the repass, and then he just went on a victory lap. But I think that Kendrick I think I don't know Kendrick, I can't speak for him but has really, like, moved past the beef. And then it's time to put your action plan, your action plan hey, yeah, I got everybody attention. Let me go and drop some new music. Oh, I got the Super Bowl. Let me perform at the Super Bowl and I'm going to perform the songs that I'm going to have on this world tour. Label is PG Lane. This is what it stands for. People are going to find out about it, people are going to dig into this.

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So it's like Drake becomes the in the past, the backdrop moving forward, and it's like he keeps trying shenanigans to stay relevant, but it's like the thinking has elevated to a higher level. So some of the things that you're doing don't make sense and, like I said earlier, I think that the competition is unhealthy, because it got to the point that you're losing respect in your profession because that's where you dominated it. So when he said the last one is better. It's better to be respected than all these shenanigans such as um going on the the the streamers liking the derogatory post. Um, why were you? Why was he screaming at the fans to do a mosh pit? Now, I know that might look fun, but for me that would deter me from going to a concert. When I see people jumping around like that, I don't even like to be in a club with people jumping around like that. So, yeah, I look at it, but that's not making me. Ooh, I want to be him.

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So it's like he is having a long life battle with himself and it's like the actions that he's doing. It's like he's not even have any fourth worth out to think, hey, this, where's the PR is like he's out there on a limb and people are laughing about it. But somebody needs to rationalize with him and he's lost respect from his label. You got fans throwing water bottles and tissue at you and when I first heard that, the first thing, now that's bad. I'm going to say that's bad.

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But the first thing that I thought about was Showtime at the Apollo. Remember the early Showtime at the Apollo? A performer come out to perform If you didn't catch the audience right, then they would throw things at you and boo you and you would have to get off the stage. So that's what I was thinking about. They would throw things at you and boo you and you would have to get off the stage. So that's what I was thinking about. But then I thought about a wild bottle hurt and, if I'm not mistaken, one hit him like in the shoulder. That's really not all right and I'm wondering is he going to sue the venue? You know? Because can't just say you know they like to sue, but no, I just feel like that when it comes to you losing respect in your profession and it's damaging your legacy, because no matter, like I said, which way he shaped his era of the hip hop culture, he was part of that and it's just terrible to go down or to tarnish your part of your legacy.

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I don't even know what you would call it now, because he has lost so much respect by suing the label, by always bringing people's significant others into his rap beef, and I just feel like if you haven't had a relationship or you know how some people who've never been married always can give you marital advice, or somebody who has been married several times and the ex-spouse hates your guts. But you want to write books to tell people how to act in relationships. You know those type of people always can give advice but don't have the experience. And I think that him speaking on others, significant others and he really hadn't had, I would say, an adult relationship, a healthy adult relationship that I've seen. And I don't look at whether or not a person has had a lot of relationships or if you know they were long relationships. I look at how does a person feel about you or how do you treat each other after the relationship is over.

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And I haven't well, just bad to say so that he maintained a good relationship with anybody that he publicly dated, because he would go on for years and years and years ridiculing people on rap songs, and the people don't rap. So if they say something bad, it's like, yeah, they said something, that was a quote, but like the music still lives on. So I think it's a lot of unfair things that he's done. And back to the lack of respect nobody respects you, but they got slapped up by puff daddy and a puffy a lover, whoever he want to be over a song, the yeah, the respect is better, but the off side of it is and even with this being lion gate portal, the off the the off side of it is you. You disrespected people so much and I'm speaking when I say you that drake disrespected people so much, and I'm speaking when I say you that Drake disrespected people so much that, yeah, respect is better, not the disrespect. And there's a Liongate portal every year, but when you have so many planets in retrograde right now, if some shit gonna get fixed, then you gonna sit there and you gonna take it, because that's the way it's designed.

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Well, I'm Kiana Keene. I'm an artist. My name is Lauren. As you already said, I am a singer-songwriter. I'm Hal Pems. I originally come from the Caribbean, st Vincent and the Grenadines. My name is Brian Doucette. I'm an East Coast Canadian rocker and then I found myself in Las Vegas, where I'm at currently for dancing for Cirque du Soleil with my own solo. I also learned from music industry professionals. I'm a music producer. I've been producing professionally for about 14 years. I have worked with a couple people in the industry Grammy-nominated Trev Ridge, nisha from 702.

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After I got my deal with Universal Music, after the Alicia Keys and Gunna record and many others that I've done, and then Alicia Keys was the number one adult R&B song of the year, I asked the question that's a great question. Yeah, it's a good question. Oh, that is a good question. Wow, I love all these questions. These are great, like most of the questions that I get are, like you know, tell me about Justin Bieber. Indie Artist. Music Hustle is for the indie artists, their fans, industry professionals and the music lover. Subscribe on YouTube, facebook or the podcast on Apple, spotify, pandora or Blonde Intelligence Facebook page. Don't forget to add me to your playlist. Bye, it's been really fun, especially talking to someone across the pond. That's cool.