I ran into a handful of people blasting Circadian Rhythm in their cars in the past few days. Haven't had that with Drake in a while.

picking random examples from the top of my head but

do you think Real Friends by kanye is lazy? its just a frank dukes loop with drums. probably less function went into it becasue they didn't change the key or anything. just looped it and added drums

Pick Up The Phone by travis, 4pm in calabasas by drake are just frank dukes samples untouched (by your standards) with drums. tunnel vision by kodak is just a cubeatz sample with drums. jimmy cooks is just 2 cubeatz samples with drums.

if these were all from splice they'd be low effort and lazy, expecting more musicianship

also on musicianship , would you feel the same if he chopped vinyl? if he took 8 bars from a soul sample or some old synth record and added drums? thats lacking musicianship too.

the musicianship argument is a whole new one because that basically looks down on most of rap production

are splice loops LESS musical than a frank dukes sample? are they less musical than a vinyl record with 4 bars that loops throughout a beat? whats the difference that makes them less musical

if the circadian rhythm samples came from a vinyl record that Carnage found, and he flipped them the same way, would that make them MORE musical? if the content of the samples were the same? ofc not

Those are different because those samples were sent to those artists so the beats are basically co-productions between the sample makers and the drum layers.

Those Splice loops were available for literally anyone in the world to find and use.

Even crate digging and finding something on a vinyl to chop requires more care, effort, and attention.

I’m not looking down on rap production at all. But finding a cheap/free sample on a database that is publicly available for anyone to use, choosing three samples and barely making them your own, then throwing the most standard and basic of trap drums underneath it is the definition of lazy production.

The problem is that Circadian Rhythm sounds lazy, even without the knowledge of where the samples came from. That knowledge just makes it even worse

That trumpet synth stinks in the beginning but when it’s with the vocal sample in the chorus

I HIT THE WEED TOO HARD!

This was supposed to flop but the people won't let it. Now niggas crying Drake still on top "How tf I'm still up?" is already aging like wine

one of his better songs in a long time

Fair

no face way colder

Ehh it’s ok

Niggas still haven’t delivered an actual list of the TWENTY people who are against Drake?

song is crazy infectious for how simple and short it is

got old after 5 spins and aint been played since lets be honest

I hit the weed too hard 😵‍💫 You send a 8 minute voice note straight from the heart ❤️

Snoozer of the year

Nah but really this is the best song his dropped this summer. Still not that great tho

Beef definitely effected what would have been the typical reception of this

I need your s*** out the crib

I think it’s bringing bad luck

My biggest gripe is how short it is, needs another verse

kendricks song came and went, meanwhile niggas bumping all of drakes new songs

i think it's also that umg is not pushing anything drake to weaken his position ahead of reup