I have a mental disorder - it doesn't yet have a name - in which I can listen to entire albums with enormous significance and yet become fixated on only the smallest, most insignificant details. Case in point, Drake's new High Note Flow (trademark pending), which just like his Elongated Pause Flow that infuriatingly became the post popular style of 2010, I'm pretty sure he stole from Big Sean.
Let's me quickly rewind. The first time I noticed Aubrey's High Note Flow was on the "Round of Applause (Remix)". Check out the 1:22 mark:
At the time I hoped it was an isolated incident but nope, Drake busts it out over and over again on his new album "Take Care". Just take a listen to the 1:30 mark of "Underground Kings":
I knew I'd heard that High Note Flow before, and it only took me a couple minutes to figure out it was Big Sean. Check the :28 - :35 mark:
So randomly saying a word in your flow like you just swallowed a tank full of helium is a thing now?
I now turn to you RefinedHype Nation. Who did it first, Drake or Big Sean? Did they get the High Note Flow from another rapper? Like "Contagion", maybe if we track this thing down to its origin we can stop it before it becomes the go to flow for every rapper alive like the Elongated Pause Flow.