He should drop Yves Slatt Laurent as a single, its viral on TikTok and in general a banger, would be good to have some preview of the album beforehand

What Drake lied about when he’s dropping music?
I’m f***ing shocked
Literally fell to my knees right now

Yeah that’s where the disconnect is. That’s an album promo and I just feel like for some reason Drake relies on self promo more than the music. The tour is a reflection of that too. You hit it right on the nail.

Drake is not all famous people. He stopped doing press & all the industry s*** over a decade ago. Pretending like this isn’t tied to the album doesn’t make sense to me.

I’m not a Ye stan lol I don’t stan any artists

Fr, I don’t understand why rap fans are the only fans that have to deal with that bullshit.

Any other genre, artists are announcing a release date months in advance with the cover, title, and a single all ready to go.

There’s no reason why we should have absolutely no info about this album other than the title and it was announced almost two months ago

Niggas gonna violate but that’s why I love Tyler’s approach to music. He doesn’t say anything until it’s time for the album. His team doesn’t tease anything until he makes the first move. You get a video, announcement, track names, artwork, then the album. Then he follows up immediately with more info + a tour. He keeps things simple but sweet.

Because “Drake” is the brand & it’s what he’s cared about most for a very long time.

Because it’s literally not tied to the album at all. He does not mention a word of the album except those few shows where he said he’s releasing it. If you have a studio album coming out wouldn’t you at least talk about it in an interview? People who don’t go to his shows or follow him closely have no idea an album is coming out.

He started doing that after Scorpion. The music always came first. We barely would hear or see him out like that.

That’s how all rollouts should be. Not cryptic dialed in bullshit.

Exactly, it’s always clean and efficient with Tyler.

Soon as his rollout starts, you know exactly what you’re getting and when you’re getting it.

Besides him and maybe Cole, I don’t think there’s a single other major mainstream rapper who doesn’t either completely bullshit or force some mysterious silence with every album rollout

The dog mascot recently

KTT & Twitter doing more promo for the actual album than he is

Good news is at least he hasn't said anything about delays so no reason to think it wouldn't come this month. He also does not need to drop a single either

The funniest part about all this complaining is that as soon as the album drops, everyone is pressing play at midnight. There is no need for a proper rollout when that happens.

Promo is crazy for this album lol. He doing all the social media influencer and s***

This is a music forum where can discuss all things music, have opinions and still be fans. Stop being dense lmao

You could also argue there’s a reason that Tyler does his rollouts like that & it’s because he actually has to for the album to do well. He can’t afford to wait until the day of for an Instagram post & sell 600k. Drake can.

Of course we are, we just don’t like being dragged along and blue balled for months at a time while we get our 1000th dialed in post.

What’s dense about what I said? I said earlier today that his music management is embarrassing & it needs to be addressed. But if you’re Drake, why would you? There’s no reason to fix it if whatever you do is going to work for you.

Last time Drake did 600K was when he dropped an album that was highly anticipated for three years and actually had a short week-long rollout once the release date was announced

this.

Yep just because he CAN surprise release and get a lot of streams doesn’t mean that’s how he should it. He got what under 300,000 first week for honestly nevermind but a full week of promo for CLB gets him the best selling first week hip hop album of the decade. Why should he settle when he can continue to be the status quo?