Drake Posts Drawing Without Giving Credit To The Artist
Drake is not a type of person who is reluctant in posting artwork and memes created by fans on his Instagram account. While there are instances when he would give the artist credit to his over sixteen million followers, when he posted a drawing of Adele and him online, he was not able to acknowledge the creator. Due to this, the artist, Dave Valeza, went to Twitter and indicated that he was “incredibly sad” but he refused to feel defeated.
The artist revealed through an email to MTV News on Monday that he played with the idea of the English singer and Canadian rapper playing a game of phone tag when their respective songs came out. He also thought about the assumptions of the two stars for each other. This was how he explained the original concept for the work, which started a month ago and looked into the phone references of the “Hotline Bling” and “Hello” of Drake and Adele, respectively.
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The artist went on to post his work on Instagram, Tumblr and Twitter. The illustration was only reposted by the rapper over the weekend or nearly a month later. The artist was not acknowledged on the post. Valeza said he was working the entire day on Sunday and he was only able to get a small amount of reactions from other people online. He added that he was not able to fully respond or react aside from some tweets during his break. He only got a complete feel of the situation after he got off work at around 10 PM.
He said he would be satisfied with a tag or a mention linking to his Instagram account. Since visibility is important for artists, their visibility is hurt when their work is posted online without any credits. Due to this, famous rappers like Drake should link to their sources or post credit for the work they repost on social media.
headcanon: drake and adele have been playing a long game of phone tag; it's only exacerbated their assumptions about one another.
— Dave Valeza (@brainvario) October 25, 2015
i must've called a thousand times // you used to call me on my cell phone pic.twitter.com/DR4H01ARL1
— Dave Valeza (@brainvario) October 26, 2015
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on Monday November 23 2015, 11:32 PM EST.
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