Drake’s Corporate America Hit Survivor Explained Pt.1

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[00:00:00]I got a little bit more time on my hands than usual. Not really, I am raising my son full-time, but I have been just dealing with some things that have been a transition for me. And what I was actually wanting to start off this conversation about today is this Iceman situation. This Drake album, I see that the internet is not feeling it, and I don't get it, man. It's like Drake is one of the greatest artists that we have of our generation. You know, we grew up listening to Drake. And then people are kind of just taking this album and just giving a lot of what happened in the past and expecting something, I guess, different than what he has delivered.

[00:00:29]But in my opinion, like I feel like he gave is exactly what is the era that he's in. Like he's in an era of some level of adversity that he's feeling, and I feel like this Iceman persona is, you know, fitting of that adversity.

[00:00:41]Granted, it may not be the same adversity that people are actually facing. Like yes, he's a multi-millionaire artist. He has a lot more of the pleasures of life that would make you feel like, "Oh, he's not going to do anything." But me personally, like I said, I have more time on my hands. It's kind of similar. Like I heard a lyric of his in the in the album, and he said, "I'm a corporate America hit survivor."

[00:00:58]And on a way more minimal scale, that's kind of like the reason why I'm having a little more time on my hands. It's like it's the corporate Africa hit survivor.

[00:01:04]It's like, yeah, just to give you a little bit of insight. Since I've been here, I've been working in tech for some time, basically 3 years. And I was working as a UX designer for a company that provides software, basically, and yeah, I was very thankful for the job, and I was able to actually like transition from my hip-hop background and use that same creative skill, but now in a way that was a little bit more um adding value in the tech space. So, it's still design. It wasn't necessarily the software development. It was more so designing applications and just giving the feel and the look of these applications. So, boom, I'm in a job.

[00:01:37]I'm working corporate for the first time. Like I spent the most of my time when I was in America, I was just doing hip-hop. I was traveling, being able to perform, but things kind of slowed down with the pandemic. And then I had to transition into tech. And then, you know, I got the skill, and I was able to execute it here in South Africa. So, I got a job. And everything's going fine.

[00:01:52]And the way that I got the job is by, granted, you know, when I was learning about the skill, you had to build a portfolio of your work. And the work that you would, you know, you just show that you have the skill and that's how they was able to discover me. You know, you sending in your CV, you sending in your uh portfolio of the work that you was able to do in this in this field.

[00:02:08]And then they would be like, "Okay, you're good enough to get this job." So, I'm on the job.

[00:02:11]I'm doing my thing, you know, doing I'm in a new space cuz it's an office space.

[00:02:15]It's like I'm The funny part is I didn't know that they had as much of a big Indian population in South Africa. I mean, it's maybe obvious to people that are here because of uh the history. But, you know, coming from the outside, I didn't know. I thought it was going to be mostly, you know, black people and a few white people sprinkled in there cuz they had this huge Indian Indian population and it's mainly in the tech space. So, I'm going to the job. I'm expecting, you know, a little bit more of a diversity.

[00:02:35]But, it's a majority Indian people in this job and I'm the only American person and there's a few black people sprinkled in there. So, it's already like a isolation in a sense. And I'm just keeping to myself. Everybody has this predetermined thing about Americans as well. And I'm a black American.

[00:02:47]So, it's like a whole different isolation. So, I'm just doing my job, keeping to myself, and making my way through this corporate environment.