It is if he can come come thru musically

I don't think he can make a hit single anymore, especially without features. The closest thing he has right now is Nokia and the catchy parts are all Elkan

Drake is never rapping well again. Kendrick repeatedly called him a pedophile, probably the most heinous allegation you could level against somebody, and the best thing he could come up with in response was the Heart Part 6. If that didn't get his pen working then nothing will

Well, that's different. According to that tweet, the person is being impersonated.

It's actually 5. GNX, DAMN, GKMC, TPAB and MM&TBS.

Fanum? Duke? YourRage?

this. so much this.

i think he’s got two ways to come back:

the scorpion route where he produces multiple undeniable hits (at this point even one hit would be huge) or the project route where he drops the album that his haters have wanted to hear from him for years. something focused with more mature lyrics.

i dont think these bloated 21-23 song albums that seem designed to get as many first week streams as possible are going to cut it anymore, at least in terms of the pure mainstream.

or the heroin addiction route

maybe this is the scheduling conflict he cancelled them shows for

mans got an appointment with the dog food

The last group of people Drake should be trying to appease are his naysayers. It doesn't matter what he does. They'll never like anything he puts out.

Last thing niggas wanna hear is a conductor-only tape anyway. He can still do his thing, covering his bases and allat, just with a much smaller team/circle, as counterproductive as that sounds. Keeps the focus intact.

Gotta go the hits route, a huge % of his fans are casuals that just want fun music to play in the car. They don't want an album of Lemon Pepper Freestyles

I don't even think Drake does these big albums for fw streams tbh, I think it's more he's too obsessed with pleasing all his different genre fans. that's why the last few albums have a spanish song, a few r&b, a few rap etc. you need a lot of songs on the project to do that

he has "ruined" the hit potential of 10+ songs in the last 3-4 albums with silly intros/outros. if it was about streams i don't think he'd bother with that

im not saying he should appease his naysayers, im saying if he made an undeniable album then it would have more mainstream staying power beyond the fans that stay loyal to him no matter what he puts out.

nah im not at all saying he should make something dusty to appease critics, just something more interesting and focused than a tracklist that seems like he needed to have X rnb songs, Y rap songs, Z international crossover songs etc

hes made that album a couple of times now and its only gonna work so much.

All Drake needs to do is whatever the f*** he feels like doing, you know, the same thing that's made him one of the most dominant, successful and influential acts in mainstream music. It's many songs/albums Drake has released that, left to fans, he'd have never put out because they'd have told him that isn't what they wanted, and many of those songs and albums are beloved today.

Drake is a versatile artist. You don't pigeon-hole musicians like that.

What does something "undeniable" mean in 2025? That's the question, isn't it? Take Care is probably his most beloved album and that s*** has 20 songs. Meanwhile, you have other albums like Views, More Life and CLB which also have 20+ tracks each and are beloved as well. Albums like Honestly, Nevermind dropped to very harsh critiques but have grown on people as time has passed.

The thing with Drake is that there's no set way he can move that would appease any set of people. Those who will like his albums for what they are will and those who would rather complain about what he should be doing instead will do just that.

I know that for me, I started enjoying his albums more when I stopped trying to engage with that for what I wanted them to be and started engaging with them for what they were. Only then could I fully appreciate them for how good they were. Some people will never get to that place and that's fine.

I’ve been saying this exact statement on here for months and they call me crazy

He has the biggest group of casual fans out of any artist in music, they not tryna buy any physical copies of his

It’s funny because he held on to every beef for every project afterwards until the next beef happened

The Meek beef was referenced on What a Time, Views, and More Life

Then the Pusha/Ye beef happens

That was referenced on every project from Scorpion to For All The Dogs

Then the Kendrick beef happens

And so far that has been referenced on the PARTYNEXTDOOR collab R&B album and will 100% be referenced on the next solo project he drops

Drake can and should obviously do whatever he wants. we’re purely talking about what would need to happen for him to get back to where he was, and imo its either drop hits or make a classic

i say undeniable but really i mean a quality album that doesnt feel focused grouped to appeal to as much people as possible, which has been the case for recent albums as someone else pointed out.

when i listen to NWTS or TC they sound like a cohesive body of work which is why i think they have the staying power they have. thats a more satisfying listen that just having a big tracklist thats probably going to have different skips and favourites depending on who you are. thats why i admire HNVM even though i wasnt crazy about it cause at least if you liked or disliked it you probably felt that way about the whole thing lol

That's fair enough but then again, you also have albums like More Life, Views and CLB, which appease both his rap, R&B and pop fans and they have all had insane longevity as well as them aging well.

It's easy to say he should "just make a cohesive body of work" but that doesn't necessarily guarantee success, especially when he's at a point in his career where regardless of how good the actual music on a project is, people will judge it harshly simply because it's a project by Drake. Remember that for as many beloved projects as he has, he has NEVER been a critic darling and people usually hate/harshly critique his music before eventually coming around to it. That's been the story his entire career.

I don't think Drake has to do anything to get back to where he was because he never left. 2024 was supposedly the year he suffered a devastating blow to his career but the numbers don't reflect that at all. He was the biggest male act globally of 2024. He was the most-streamed male act on Spotify across all credits in 2024. He was the most-consumed male act in the US in 2024. In each of those metrics, he was only behind Taylor Swift.

Again, maybe I'm just at a different point but it seems more like you want him to give you a version of himself that's reminiscent of his work from 12-15 years ago and by all indications, the guy who gave you that is long gone. He's admitted as much in his songs. All he can do now is move forward.

I would argue that even a cohesive Drake project will have different sounds and styles. Nothing Was the Same is a predominantly rap album with pop and R&B songs, same goes for Take Care. If You're Reading This It's Too Late is a rap mixtape with one of Drake's all-time R&B cuts. Honestly, Nevermind is a dance album with one of his biggest rap hits of the decade. That's simply who he is. His mainstream introduction was So Far Gone, a rap mixtape that displayed an array of influences ranging from southern rap, pop, R&B, alternative and electronic music.

I feel like even with songs like Nokia, Meet Your Padre and Die Trying, $$$4U still plays like a cohesive R&B album but other people might feel differently.

I guess I'm just at a point where I'm not trying to suggest to Drake what he should do. He's an insanely talented musician who has hit the mark way more times than he's ever missed in almost 2 decades of consistently dropping music. I trust that he knows what to do and I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.

So Far Gone is drake’s classic

views is one to me as well