The difference here being that Snow came from an impoverished background and grew up in the neighborhoods Drake likes to rep..

Vox offers no counterpoint argument. Drake lives in LA and spent almost his entire life in an affluent Toronto neighborhood. He's known nothing but privilege for almost his entire life. One can only imagine Vox' take on other artists who co-opted dialect or reimagined their background to add faux authenticity.

Right. Because they and all promoters should now stand up to ICE. Sorry dude, this provision has been in promoters' contracts with foreign bands for decades now.

NY gets stadium and arena show.

There's going to be many many sold out shows on this tour. ROTR just happened to be on sale before Met announced their tour.

Do you cut yourself with all that edge?

Exactly:

I suppose you think they should have declined the cash they were being offered. I bet you'd do the same thing.

How dare Hammett mature and not do the same things today that he did in 1987.

LOL. No. Death Magnetic is light years ahead of the derivative, generic garbage Anthrax passes off as music.

Not to mention that back in 2001, Lars made it clear that illegal downloading wouldn't hurt Metallica or Madonna, but would hurt new bands and artists who'd lose financial support and find it increasingly more difficult to earn a living. That is EXACTLY what has happened. Lars' framing of the message was bad, but as…

Wow. This was horrible. It's no wonder MegaTurd is quickly falling off everyone's radar. For all the crap Metallica gets, at least they still deliver live and have a listenable (if not entirely metal) catalogue. This is so derivative, boring, and lackluster. It's no wonder kids listen to dudes with MacBookPros.