you are an idiot if you think the beat switch on not around is bad

After Hours was super meh to me

Neither of our pasts 'bout to go away
You made me forget about it anyway

I always thought this.

He rushed the album clearly and couldn’t find his focus once the album leaked last year with Not Around also in 2019.

The second half of the album outside of F***ing Fans was just not good.

been runnin s*** so long so effortlessly its boring now

Yeah this era felt kinda just thrown together. That said, I love the album to death lol so I guess it don't matter? But it does not feel like a huge moment like his other projects

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hes 100% right lol theres no correlation between how CLB is doing on the charts and how Drake feels about it

I don't actually think Drake "hates CLB" or whatever but idk what CLB's sales have to do w that discussion

I remember him dming people to take down that or the photo of him with the weird hair style, which was definitely for a video or something album related

Definitely not his cleanest rollout, overall disappointed in the entire OVO crew for letting the ball drop on this one

It doesn't seem like he's interested in cohesive bodies of work anymore. It honestly just feels like his albums are meant to check off boxes that his diverse fanbase would want. Some rap songs for the rap fans, rnb songs for the ones who like them, and so on.

He made hella bizarre decisions with this album that I cant understand even weeks later.

Why would he put Jay Z on a song that leaked last year?? Fair trade didn't need Travis either.

I already know someone is going to say these were creative decisions and we should just understand that but this is completely different man

CLB gotta be the better album, no question. But those singles (including their music videos) leading up to scorpions release were so goat. Will never forget when Lauryn Hills son previewed the first snippets for nice for what on f***ing snapchat lmfao, when that finally dropped as a single i was so hype. Moments like that, you know? He had an insane feature run going for him aswell at the time, everything just felt right.

you right, i somehow confused the beat switch w the one on fair trade. Wasnt thinking straight as it seems cause those prob some of my most played songs from the album, edited that part now.

Drake has been moving quietly since the album dropped I think that’s definitely true. Not sure what’s going on but I like the album so I guess that’s good

some people could just stay quiet but instead wanna come in here n s***post, its just annoying since id love to hear their actual opinion on my take itt. I been part of KTTs drake sxn for 6 years as an active poster and to see the same names defend drake no matter the cause by s***posting abt numbers or whatever just disappoints me. We have to be able to criticize him on this.

Thread title is more of a stylistic device than an actual take on how this man feels

Probably already deep into some new s*** and in a different mood, lotta stuff coulda gone down between the delays

cole already came out this year

he knows its a bad album thats why

This doesn’t surprise me.

Google who his uncle is.

I love the album but I think there's probably some truth in OPs rant lmao.

Between the leaks/covid/delays this definitely isn't the album he wanted to put out at first...everything dragged out so long that I really believe he just dropped it to get it over with and move on to his next project without a 3 year+ wait between albums hanging over his head.

Maybe my opinion changes if he does tour off of this but still idk. Timing just wasn't on his side for this one but album still fire imo

He really isn't into making cohesive albums anymore and it's a shame. This playlist method of making albums is really hurting them. And yeah I completely agree with the bizarre decisions thing you said. I thought he made really bizarre decisions with Scorpion but CLB takes the cake with hella lot more it's so disappointing.

This the first album from him where I'd literally don't agree with 90% of the s*** he did on it and would change almost everything about the album. It's a very long list of things to change idk how this happened.

NOCTA Tapes official release when

You guys are implying that there aren't some deep album cuts on here

i can bet money that knife talk and 2sexy were last minute

imagine the album without lol

There fasho are some deep album cuts on here that people will come back to.

I just cant imagine the same Drake from Light Up and Pound Cake using a Jay Z verse on a random song that leaked a year ago. It's mad to see how much he's on autopilot lately.

All that being said, CLB is probably better than every project he put out since Views and it might age better than Views but it feels more hollow since CLB is basically just a playlist of songs.