the last album can be 10 tracks

more chunes for my head top till then

im not a big drake fan so im positive id like his albums a s*** load more if they were shorter

but I respect what he has to say about it. Cudi is my favorite and I'll take a long ass album over a short one every time, but I also understand how that then alienates some potential fans. It's a lot to get into and not all of it is as good as his best s***.

But I'm sure the real fans appreciate drake's long albums, and even though I might not really enjoy it I definitely respect him for it

if there's songs you dont like just dont listen to them lol

Needs to do the Ye syle and do 7 track. Scorpion was boring half way through. Good songs here and there, but would've been amazing if he shortened it.

Damn, someone who’s not a Drake fan who gives a critique without slander.

This. He tries to do so many different things and it ends up being not that cohesive, despite having several great tracks.

I think he should do something in between. Do a 10-15 track album, with most tracks rap focused and have 2 or 3 rnb tracks mixed in. The issue is when you have 25 tracks, it can seem all over the place. Having a shorter album (usually) makes it more focused.

I’m taking 40’s side. Short and concise causes a lot of pressure to make sure the songs are of the highest quality.

He’s breaking the simulation

IYRT had it right

I’m sure they could both meet in the middle and it just comes down to prioritizing sounds they want to include on the album.
I also agree NWTS is his best and most cohesive album but then again he wasn’t exploring the dancehall and uk/drill sound back then. I get why he feels the need to include each sound on the album but do we really need a dancehall track if it’s not adding much to the album.
Ideally I would like a 12-14 song album with 1 or 2 deluxe tracks.

Longer albums = more drake

Anyone who argues otherwise is a hater

I’m in the middle I don’t enjoy listening to 25 track albums anymore but 10 tracks is also too short. I’m good with a solid 16-18 tracks.

It was a great album with a few misses. If Drake pandered he would’ve made the 10 track all rap album years ago like people want him to. You can say a lot of things about dudes career but being a panderer isn’t one.

95% of the crowd was w him, he’s just too insecure to handle the other 5.

Take care had 20. Just sayin

TL:DR

I'm definitely more on 40's side. Drake's excuse doesn't make sense because given his best projects, how much music he puts out and on how many different platforms/ways he has shown to be willing to put out music, there should be multiple ways to please everyone without comprising the quality of his albums.

People keep giving the excuse (even 40 himself) that he has different styles to showcase and different fans to satisfy as a reason to be making as many bloated albums as he does but I think that's bullshit for a couple of reasons:

1. He has proven he can balance different styles well on Nothing was The Same and If You're Reading This It's Too Late.

On NWTS, for example, he had an almost perfect mix of Lyrical/Quality Rap (Tuscan Leather, Furthest Thing {Second Half}, Wu-Tang Forever, Worst Behavior {Third Verse}, From Time, Too Much, Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music II), Hit/Club Rap (Started From the Bottom, Worst Behavior, The Language, 305 to My City) and R&B/Pop (Furthest Thing {First Half}, Own It, Hold on We're Going Home, Connect)

Really good ratio of different styles that flowed seamlessly together through unique song structures, beat switches and transitions. Only real criticism is that The Language wasn't as unique as some of the other songs on the album as it didn't have any of the things I mentioned (could have used a lyrical 3rd verse or something) and 305 to My City should have been switched with Come Thru from the Deluxe version as it is by far the more superior/unique song that fit way better thematically with the album.

His weaker albums had bad ratios. Views for example had too many Hit/Club Rap and R&B/Pop compared to the Lyrical/Quality Rap which is why it wasn't received well because he is a rapper first and foremost. A rapper that people put up there with one of the greats so of course if he doesn't have enough lyrical/quality rap on his albums, no matter how good the other type of songs are, they are going to be received poorly.

If it did have more of that I'm pretty confident that Views would be his best album because despite the lack of Lyrical/Quality Rap songs, it still had some of his best songs on there (U With Me?, Feel No Ways, Redemption, Controlla, Too Good, Fire & Desires). That album is him not balancing the styles well even though it did have a lot of quality songs on it. More Life is the same as well even though it did balance it a little better.

The big problem comes from an album like Scorpion that not only doesn't balance the styles well, most of the songs aren't even good enough to make up for that because it actually has some of his worst songs (Peak, Ratchet Happy Birthday, March 14). Which brings me to the next reason...

2. Drake had the perfect opportunity to please every part of his fanbase with Scorpion and fumbled badly.

Fair enough you say that you can't do one thing on an album but Scorpion was a double album. Perfect opportunity to make a project that had one side 10-12 song album that contained mostly Lyrical/Quality Rap with a sprinkle of Hit/Club Rap and another side 10-12 song album with mostly R&B with a sprinkle of Pop and whatever other singing genre you want to incorporate like Afrobeats or something.

IT WAS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY. But what do we get? Something that was really inconsistent. Why was God's Plan on the rap side? It's basically a pop record. Why was Nice For What and March 14 on the the singing side? Those are rap records through and through. Fair enough if maybe they were put on like that because it was more about fitting a theme.... but there wasn't one. The title of the album is just random it doesn't pertain to anything. There isn't really a story or point to this project. Once again there isn't enough lyrical/quality rap or high quality songs in general. Only song on Scorpion that I would say is one of Drake's best is Jaded.

3. You have too many albums like this and you still make mixtapes.

All most all your albums at this point try to mix your different styles together. At this point why not try to switch it up and just make a project with one or two styles instead of five or six. It wouldn't kill you because you already have. Take Care and If You're Reading This It's Too Late only really have two or three styles to them and most people say those are your best projects what a coincidence!! Nothing Was the Same has more styles but that project blends genres together so well in each individual song you don't even notice. Not to mention you make mixtapes Drake. Why not just have your albums be mostly about making hits with rap and pop and your mixtapes be about making high quality music with lyrical rap and R&B?

Idk how you could listen to views, more life and scorpion and think drake should continue making 20+ track albums

All three of those projects would be a lot better if some tracks were taken off

Im fonna fw with like 99% of it, but those extra 3, 4, 5 tracks can really drag an album out

40

More Life was great and critically well received.

Most people hated on it because of the UK stuff

This is actually the complete opposite

Still has some meh tracks

I side with 40 because then hes not all over the place which may make it a more concise project.

40 is right in a sense but how you tell drake to make shorter albums but rank nwts in his very bottom tier of drake albums lol I’m
Just saying love 40 but he makes no sense in this matter

12 tracks with maybe 2 or 3 bonus is perfect.

Best way to put it