SFG may sound dated to some extent i agree but it really set everything off it like but it literally changed how mixtapes were created and distributed the mixtape was grammy nominated bruh

Lmaooo yall dont read do u

NWTS is definitely one of his classics

You know what? OP is well argued

Pop style ain’t bad. I’ve heard enough. If u like it fair play to u but there’s a reason everyone sees take care NWTS and iyrtitl in higher praise than views

Your argument for Views was literally that it just was inescapable for a summer and that it was his most popular album. You even said that critics s*** on it. Hell, even a lot of Drake fans don't like it from my experience.

I agree op but before you guys start staying wb NWTS!!!! Yes it has some of his best rapping and prod but the impact doesnt come close to these 4 so suck it up!

SFG: The impact on mixtape culture, the sound Drake and 40 birthed, the impressive genre blending are some reasons why SFG is considered a classic. You has an artist who dabbled in rap, rnb, pop, indie rock and each of these songs felt like he was a veteran in each respective genre. The boy said it himself when he boasts bout the hood niggas having to get along with the hipsters and his early shows. The versality was scarily impressive. And the drowsy, hypnotic strip club ambience 40 created on this project wasnt don’t before in rap. There was something here for everybody. On Ingant S*** he went bar for bar with the hottest rapper in the world at that time, he crooned with Omarion in Brias Interlude, and he confessed his love for the girl on Little Bit. The mixtape was critically acclaimed and became a quick cult classic landing it a Grammy nomination. You could make a claim that without SFG.

Take Care: Probably his most beloved album just based on the nostalgia album. We all know the rapping on here isn’t as impressive as NWTS. But Take Care just holds that special place in our hearts because of how vulnerable and uncertain Drake is about where he is at this pint in his career but to him he’s simply just enjoying it while it can and a lot of us could relate at that time. It contains various quintessential Drake songs such as Marvin’s Room, The Motto, and HYFR. With impressive deep cuts like Good Ones Go and Look What Youve Done. And I think when it’s all said and done and we’re able to look through an objective lenses we’ll relaize that Take Care is one of the greatest albums of our generation.

IYRTITL: I can’t remember a recent moment in music that was more exciting than the weekend IYRTITL dropped. Out of nowhere on a Thursday night, we all got to hear that beat change on Know Yourself that made all of us bop our heads even harder. This album is def not without its controversy, but if the music is great, the music is great. Ironically this album many “rap heads” choose when commenting on Drakes classic records. This album solidified him as a mixtape legend and the most popping thing in rap. It was very experimental for drake, who isn’t really known for stepping outside his comfort zone which he completely dominates. Songs like Madonna and Star 67 really highlighted the project and gave it such a polished sound. It could one of the best winter albums to date.

Views: This was the album where Drake transformed for rap megastar to global music superstar. You couldn’t escape this album in summer 2016 no matter how much you wanted to. Controlla and One Dance ruled the charts and the clubs. Too Good and Feel No Ways were Drakes best pop performances since Hold On Were Going Home. But like a lot Drake albums the critics were loud and and unforgiving. Most were expecting a rap magnum opus with moody beats like were teased with in 2014, but Drakes path was derailed by the ghostwriting allegations changing the whole sound of what was supposed to be VFT6, instead we got a pop rap classic. And whatever Views was supposed to be Drake must be sure glad he scrapped it because of his plan was truly to make the product jump off the shelf and to be the biggest thing in music, the album we got was the best way to do it.

I do agree those three are better than Views, but Views gets a lot of undeserved hate and sounds better as time goes on.

I'm dying at case study

My arguement was that the album opened up a new mainstream fan base for Drake allowing him to become a true global star and the soundtrack to that summer was Views I also mentioned how although it wasnt what the game was expecting, the album did what it intended to do which is why its a classic

Didn’t read this at all but no he doesn’t

this site in a nutshell

Kanye has 5 undeniable classics and two potential classics. That’s 7. That’s the bar

SFG, Take Care, NWTS all solid albums but Views is deff gluten free dancehall. Can't call that a classic imo

Drake stans on KTT2 might be worse than Drake stans on KTT1

This man said Drake has 4 classics but then said his only album that could maybe be a classic isn’t a classic. A mess.

You need to understand theres a diff between a great album and a classic

i thought we got away from these drank stans when we moved to ktt2

And did SFG really "birth" that sound? Maybe you could argue that he popularized it but that sound was kinda startin to pop off with 808s & Cudi's tapes

Doesn’t matter how many times you put em in place they keep coming back

Oh really? Please send me a link to where Ye or Cudi are making slow rap and rnb stripper ballads over atmospheric, minimalistic instrumentals?

edit: But i agree that 808s allowed for male vulnerablity to be seen in hip hop even though Drake took the more of the beatings for his soft subject matter than kanye

I wholeheartedly agree with op i was at a party and they still playing old drake from 5 years ago like it came out yesterday.

Keep all the drake classic talk in this thread

The tape you cite as birthing that sound literally has a verse over a Kanye instrumental on it my g. Lol & Cudi's A Kid Named Cudi tape deff had him over atmospheric instrumentals

Drake stans so delusional man wtf