Music
Feature: The many faces of Drake
Listening to urban radio in 2012 is like eavesdropping on a close cadre of megastars. As if to preserve some semblance of monoculture against a rising tide of niche success stories, programmers lean hard on a handful of rappers and singers the way Judd Apatow leans on his narrow stable of actors. The same performers (Rihanna, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, et al.) repeatedly combine and reshuffle until they blur into a monolithic sex-charged ego trip spilling ceaselessly from pop music’s Mount Olympus.
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