"Honestly Nevermind was one of the biggest risk any superstar has ever taken"

Do u Only listen to Drake?

You sound like them old heads that used to wear baggy jeans in 2010 that were hating on Drake and them then lmfao

Music.

Drake has only taken two Ls in his life. They were handed to him by Rihanna and Pusha T

Noname gypsy said she don’t need white fans

Dude still can’t address it because it’s the truth man. Niggas claim they don’t like drake that much still drawn to just the fascination of the subject of drake . It’s strange I’m just trying to get it

If I don’t love someone music I can’t dedicate that much time

He ate up Drake fr

I’m halfway through, haven’t seen reactions yet but this is solid so far, nothing special for Drake standards but it’s definitely better than most of the mid released by mainstream rappers the past years

This is like CLB without trash ass GWG and In The Bible

Don’t see this having big hits like Scorpion and Views though

Gave us some of his best verses this year. The Fall Off bout to be special

When we’re talking about an album like the Earl album and comparing it to this

I get that it’s a preference thing

But do y’all realize that making an album like this drake one is way more ambitious and difficult than making one like Earl and al? I say this respectfully but if you make music you know

That’s funny cause I always see you hating on everything that’s not Drake (kanye included) but go off my g, I peep your game papa

Party X Drake

If he cut the tracklist down to like 12-15 songs this woulda been gas

It's not bad as is but it's just overlong. We don't need an 84 minute Drake album in 2023 lol

he NEEDS to lean into outside production and features on it or i fear it’ll be more of the same. not a bad thing but just personal pref

Yall sound like old heads listening to an Earl Sweatshirt and Alchemist album 😭 😭 It's giving geriatric

Slime you out to Tried our best is pretty f***ing flames

sometimes less is more bro

I’ve listened three times:

What I wanted: I didn’t really need much from this project. I didn’t need concise ideas or some complex topic. All I really wanted was for him to bar out (I’d missed it for a while) and for there to be cohesion in the sound, maybe through transitions or through common producers. I also wanted some new features!

What I expected: I expected for this album to be more R&B/dance focused with a bar-out here and there. I thought he would make a shorter album this time around too

What we got: This album is 90 minutes long and 23 tracks, spanning all kinds of genres that Drakes covered before. We have bangers across much of the beginning half, even dipping toes into the rage sound. The midsection of the album really slows down, with a few drumless R&B joints and downtempo bangers before picking back up with some dance tracks and faster joints featuring SZA, Bad Bunny, Sexyy Red, and Yachty. The album closes out with two pretty slow tracks as well. There’s samples, sound bites, transitions, cameos, and beat switches everywhere

What I Liked: I loved the diversity here. Drake spent a lot of this album trying styles I hadn’t heard him on before, especially on Rich Baby Daddy, Gently, IDGAF, and Calling for You. Some of the singing tracks, like BBL Interlude and Members Only, were great. Daylight’s Adonis feature actually hard. Basically all the features showed out and did their things. The production was pretty interesting, but I’ll have my criticisms.

Drake also had some good writing on parts here. The tongue in Cheek lines, his references to Rihanna and Universal, nods towards other beef, the absolute masterpiece of 8am in Charlotte, very nice very nice. The bounce on songs like Another Late Night, What Would Pluto Do, 7969, Away From Home and Rich Baby Daddy immediately put them in my downloads. Some of the narratives in this tracks remain entertaining and engaging.

What I Don’t Like: This album lacks exactly what gave HNVM and Her Loss their charm, which was a sense of identity. Even if the sound wasn’t uniform, attitudes and sequencing gave the albums a sense of direction that this album lacked to an extreme amount. Why was the Bad Bunny song here? Why did the album end on an R&B track that could’ve been in the midpoint? What exactly is the reason for a Yeat song being here? WHY IS BARK RADIO ON TWO SONGS FOR THIS AND NOWHERE ELSE? It all makes no sense, there’s no narrative or idea that helps this project move forward. Drake said this was an old drake album, then a summer sounds album, then an r&b album, and yet it’s none of those things because it tries to be all of them. It’s the same hole that CLB fell into

However, CLB was not nearly as cringe and as half-baked as some of the moments here. WHO is DJ POOPERSCOOPER and HOW did he get a minute on the song that had Chief Keef for 8 bars? WHY is there a DJ Screw song shoved in here, especially in the middle of the R&B segment? WHY is there a minute long interlude in the middle of Calling Your Name? WHY did they choose to use the word “gangy” on Members Only, which sounds TERRIBLE when they sing it 16 times in a row? WHY was this Bad Bunny collab picked by anyone to be on ANY project? There is no reason any of these things couldn’t have been eliminated or improved on to increase the project quality.

My criticisms of the production and performance by Drake continues. Calling Your Name’s beat it terrible, I’m tired of beat switches, especially when drake had the opportunity to go toe to toe with Cole on the same track . I’m tired of Drake bringing bland and terrible Melodies for 15 minutes straight on tracks with little to no drums . I’m tired of producers trying to sample flip like 40 and not coming near to flips like Virginia Beach.

Conclusion: Idk, I didn’t want much. Drake’s inflections and energy were getting more interesting even if his bars became a little less focused. 8am really excited me, and the features all did a great job. The production kinda fell flat for me and drake sounded so bored that even the good lines passed through me. Maybe I’ll come around

6/10 / C+

Cole gave Yachty a better Verse than he did for Drake

I agree. What type of production and features you lookin for on it?

I feel part of Cole’s fans really set him up for failure lmao

Disagree I feel like that’s just what people are running with because it’s all they got lol

It has the epicness of a Dark Fantasy or Fireworks type intro. Made perfect sense for me and was the perfect hype way to start the album. What an experience, the album dropping and hearing Frank. Unreal

YOU don't need a 84 min drake album in 2023 fam speak for urself lol

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