orangetcovid

3y

no views slander tolerated on this side vibey

math fifty

3y

I just cant get over the fact that this nigga parading his son around everywhere now

Pusha’s the only reason this kid has a father in his life thats crazy

erosion

3y

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Just finished listening to “Rich Baby Daddy” this is the nigga y’all cape for?

Elemental

3y

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

math fifty

3y

I just cant get over the fact that this nigga parading his son around everywhere now

Pusha’s the only reason this kid has a father in his life thats crazy

erosion

3y

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Just finished listening to “Rich Baby Daddy” this is the nigga y’all cape for?

Skinn Foley

3y

Brother it is three in the afternoon on a Friday if you are in the club right now you are either a stripper, a bouncer, a d*** dealer, or a s***addict

2words

3y

Kanye west hates Jews and proper diet/exercise

erosion

3y

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Just finished listening to “Rich Baby Daddy” this is the nigga y’all cape for?

jynth

3y

this album is crazy. can’t wait to run it at the gym

Zack From The Six

3y

Are you seriously downplaying the fact that the biggest rapper ever released a surprise house album?

JeffersonSteelflex

3y

Earl is younger than Drake.. make it make sense

Deeeboi

3y

Wish pusha came around your mother too

Zack From The Six

3y

Are you seriously downplaying the fact that the biggest rapper ever released a surprise house album?

americana

3y

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+

2words

3y

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

THEREALHNDRXXFREE

3y

All the kanye stans alone in their house hating

All the drake fans out with a girl listening to the album play at the club

Easy to see who is winning

jynth

3y

this album is crazy. can’t wait to run it at the gym

Mmm Hmm

3y

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

There's been plenty of superstars that have taken risks

Drake just took 20 years to take a risk
That's why ur in shock

Listen to more music fam

Impossible

3y

indeed.com

Mmm Hmm

3y

U fake ass nigga lmao

THEREALHNDRXXFREE

3y

All the kanye stans alone in their house hating

All the drake fans out with a girl listening to the album play at the club

Easy to see who is winning