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  • Jun 19, 2022
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    SMH.

    The Drake cope i have been seeing is absurd. The absolute mental gymnastics some of y'all are resorting to in order say this album is good is embarrassing. This is not Drake "being experimental", this is the culmination of Drake's culture vulting tendencies at their absolute worst.

    Happy father's day, because i'm about to son you drake stans

    BECAUSE SOME OF Y'ALL HAVE THE ATTENTION SPAN OF ADHD GOLDFISH, I'VE SPELLED OUT THE IMPORTANT BITS HERE

    1. Drake culture vulture,

    2. Drake album no experimental, just bad dance music

    3. Drake album take things from other people, naughty Drake

    Okay, with that out of the way, let's actually detail my point here.
    It's not a secret that Drake is a culture vulture, just as he's picked up and just as quickly let go of Dancehall, random accents, NOLA bounce, and drill, he's now decided to feast on Jersey Club and Baltimore club music.

    I've seen so many people defend this album saying 'bUt hE'S trYInG SOmeThING NeW, he'S iN a DIFFenereNT LaNE, UOOOHHHHH, he'S EXperimENtINg"

    Shut up, no he's not. This is nothing new for drake. Drake has done plenty of sung vocals over dancy rhythms before. Here's just a few.

    So he's incorporated some different drum patterns, ok? it still sounds like a drake dancy track. He hasn't really taken any creative risks, like incorporating some of the more electronic elements heard in Baltimore Club and Jersey

    Here's Drake's sticky

    Now here's Sticky remixed by an actual Jersey Club producer

    and here's a baltimore club mix of "currents" just for good measure

    Drake's "dance" music sounds completely sanitized when you compare it to the actual music it's supposed to be taking inspiration from, with the all the character and rawness taken out. I mean, he managed to make the Jersey Club bed squeak sound lifeless!!!

    Speaking of taking, for an album supposedly inspired by baltimore club and Jersey club, there's a noticeable absence of people from the scenes involved in the project (excepting Carnage/Gordo, but he's not really a fixture in these scenes)

    his producers do sample Rye Rye's voice on "Currents" (what? adlib heard around the :10s and throughout)

    aaand, it's turns out that Rye Rye wasn't credited (or paid)

    BONUS THIEVERY:

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  • Jun 19, 2022
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  • Jun 19, 2022

    Ok cool, hook ‘em 🤘

  • Jun 19, 2022

    dont care didnt read your p**** is calling my name

  • Jun 19, 2022

    ktt2 investigative report

  • Jun 19, 2022

    this a good thread op
    delete senseless comments off

  • Jun 19, 2022

    it’s super experimental house music the public doesn’t understand yet!

  • Jun 19, 2022


    end of transmission or however @citizenkoom says

  • Jun 19, 2022
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    it's the trout mask replica of 2022 you wouldnt get it op

  • Jun 19, 2022

    Ban, lock

  • Jun 19, 2022

    You typed all that on a Sunday morning

  • Jun 19, 2022
    snoozer

    it's the trout mask replica of 2022 you wouldnt get it op

    Trout Mask Replica at least had the decency to be interesting to listen to

  • Jun 19, 2022
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    Conscious album

  • Jun 19, 2022

    I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time
    I work with every breath in my body cause it’s the work not air that makes me feel alive
    That’s some real detrimental s*** but that’s that s*** my perfectionist mind doesn’t really mind because no one knows whats on my mind when I go to sleep at 9 & wake up at 5 - unless I say it in rhyme
    I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes and asked my current insight on the times
    But I remember every single time someone shined a light in my eyes
    I purposely try to forget what went on between some ppl and I because I know I’m not a forgiving guy even when I try
    My urge for revenge wins the game against my good guy inside every single fckn time
    I got plans I can’t talk about with more than like 4 guys because the last time I shared em with someone on the outside…well that’s another story for another night
    I was tryna get thru that statement to get to saying I’m not @ a time in my life where pats on the shoulder help get me by
    I’ll take loyalty over an oh my & emoji fire
    I know if it was a dark night where all the odds were against my side & my skill went to whoever took my life they’d done me off with a big smile & maybe evn post it for some likes
    I know everyone that tells me they love me doesn’t love me all the time especially when im doing better than alright & they have to watch it from whatever point they at in their life
    I got here being realistic
    I didn’t get here being blind
    I know whats what and especially what and who is by my side
    Honestly…Nevermind.

  • Jun 19, 2022

    I think Sticky is cool tbh Its so many Jersey club producers Drake could have went crazy with, I would assume it's the same for Baltimore club

  • Jun 19, 2022

    Happy father's day, because i'm about to son you drake stans

  • Jun 19, 2022
    JJThaJuiceman

    Conscious album

    this is lowkey a conscious album

    drake putting dance music back into clubs so kids stop getting sturdy to murder music and dance instead of shoot eachoether

    being so serious

  • Jun 19, 2022

    The culture vulture but he never does anything different angle never made sense

  • Jun 19, 2022
    Unforgivable

  • Jun 19, 2022

    I will say this. Drake is good at hopping between different waves and styles of music and making it listenable but he only makes the most surface level strain of that kind of music

    I cant speak to house music because I dont listen to too much of that but his afrobeats s*** and his dancehall s*** is way worse and more vanilla than the actual artists who make those styles of music

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