Where did it get those niggas?

He’s about to do 600K + first week

This is the music business

They would trade their evolution for drake’s stagnancy in a second

I do think that, even for his standards,

This was like the lowest of low hanging fruits as it pertains to a drake album. But it’s still a drake album

Girls want girls in the Bible way 2 sexy no way you would find those on TC, SFG, or TML. Pretty jarring.

It’s like as his career is getting longer and longer in the tooth he’s trading in a bit of artistry for being relevant and in the clubs which is wild because he’s drake but that’s really the only explanation that there is for this

Bro the dude always been the same idk why y’all expecting some like punk drake rap

his most eclectic beat is probably still the Jai Paul one

nah he did more left field ones than that

This is really what it is tbh. WATTBA + One Dance/Controlla really shifted his career a lot

word the Deep Pockets beat is pretty different for him than the BTSTU sample

I have no idea why he feels like he needs to be a full fledged Atlanta or Houston nigga to get in the clubs

It’s drake so the songs will always be good, but idk just my opinion but his earlier work felt a bit more tasteful and there was a level of artistry that just isn’t there now.

Girls want girls Is like an 08 YM posse cut
In the Bible feels like it would be perfect on demo tapes. Ditto for knife talk
Papi’s Home beat would have made for a completely different record in the past. Gorgeous sample but childish material on it

Etc

Im okay with drake sounding like 2011 as lo ngf as he doesnt add too much filler but Noah did tell us in 2010 that Drake was going to evolve rapidly and in 2021 he still sounds like 2011. They lied bro. They brought this on themselves. I wish i could find the interview but they definitely acted like drake was going to change drastically

He holding that Everstone..

Just say it bro. Drake turned ghetto

Tbf I don’t remember a lot of Drake cuts being played in the club aside from his features tbh I think he kind of wanted to shead the lightskin simp meme away and decide to meme himself so bad that it reflected in his music

I cant name two drake albums that sound the same

content wise they do he is the same exact person with very little character development

don't tell me you one of those people who want drake to rap about current world issues

No I just want him to find love and stop being a whiny toxic f***boy

This what it really come down to man. People feel like they have Drake figured out. They feel like his formula is predictable and he never really does anything that surprises anyone or at least he hasn’t in a long time. Last time I would say he “surprised” people with a new sound/style for an entire project was IYRTITL. After that he expanded his sound on different songs here and there with dancehall, world music drill etc but he never gave us a full body of work with a new sound so his versatility is taken for granted.

People take that and run with it and equate his recent output as “bad music” or “mid” which is the part I don’t get because I love every song on CLB and even DLDT, Scorp, More Life, and Views are all at least 95% good music when you really go track for track but once people feel like they have you figured out people stop appreciating what you do.

Also I feel like Drake is a very modern artist that is a product of the streaming era and I love that about him but his approach is off putting to some. His projects have a very mixtape feel where the tracks never really seem like they are related in any meaningful way. They are basically playlist of the best material he’s recorded recently typically bookended by Lyrical/Introspective freestyles. Artist like Kanye, Kendrick, and even Jay to a certain extent all typically take the old world approach to making albums where all the songs are just pieces of a larger puzzle.

For example “For Free?” from TPAB isn’t a banger or hit in its own right but a serves the greater purposes of what Kendrick is trying to say on his album. Things like that, all of the Jazz instrumentation, the poem he has being performed through the album, even the a***og recording that was used on all the vocals and instruments really string the album together in a beautiful way and bring the concept to life.

With Drake albums you never get stuff like that. It’s just dope song, after dope song until it’s over. He doesn’t really seem to want he’s albums to “say anything” thematically as a whole. I don’t have a problem with that but I get why some do. They take that criticism wayyyy to far tho because at the end of the day the music is still good regardless.

They want some of that Top of the morning 🤓 sound

Drake has essentially went on record to talk about why he doesn’t do that stuff

Basically called it pretentious and “lets the music do the talking@

Wait wait wait, you saw the title Papis home and you thought it wasn’t going to be over the top brag rap

No

They'll call it trash if it dropped today.

They think Drake is a pokemon.

He only needs to find better topics for his music.