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  • Oct 4, 2021

    More than a decade ago, Drake willed himself from being a former Degrassi star with a promising mixtape into “Drake featuring Drake,” the pop-rap kingpin casting a regal finger in the air to determine global trends. As with many artists, his most exciting work came when he was still fighting his way up the ladder, from the opulent introspection of 2011’s Take Care to the cocksure braggadocio of 2015’s If You're Reading This It's Too Late mixtape, but this year’s Certified Lover Boy recently had the year’s best-selling week of any album—proof that it’s still the Drake era, and we’re just lurking on his girlfriends’ timeline. As Matthew Strauss wrote in his review of that recent album: The Certified Lover Boy is selectively honest, occasionally heartless, and set in his ways. He’ll text, “I love you,” and pretend he doesn’t; he’ll ask for a sympathetic ear, but scoff and leave “if you throw another pity party” about your own troubles. He’s Drake—past, present, and future—and Certified Lover Boy, accordingly, is referential and reverential, an 86-minute omnibus of all things Drake. Being everything at once, the Drake of Certified Lover Boy is also indecisive and even fatigued. Drake is still trying to balance fame, intimacy, ambition, and insecurity, and he’s still learning who to trust—it’s always trust with Drake—but there’s a malaise that lingers across the record, as if Drake has lost himself in the Library of Drake, less sure where he’s supposed to devote his attention while an emptiness creeps into his life and lifestyle.

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    cocksure

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    Fitz

    cocksure

  • Oct 5, 2021
    Fitz

    cocksure

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    there’s a malaise that lingers across the record, as if Drake has lost himself in the Library of Drake, less sure where he’s supposed to devote his attention while an emptiness creeps into his life and lifestyle.

    this hard. sums up these lines on champagne poetry perfectly

    The pressure is weighing on me
    Career's going great, but now the rest of me is fading slowly
    My soulmate's somewhere out in the world just waiting on me
    My chef got the recipe for disaster baking slowly
    My heart feels vacant and lonely

  • Oct 5, 2021
    Fitz

    cocksure

  • Ochocinco

    there’s a malaise that lingers across the record, as if Drake has lost himself in the Library of Drake, less sure where he’s supposed to devote his attention while an emptiness creeps into his life and lifestyle.

    this hard. sums up these lines on champagne poetry perfectly

    The pressure is weighing on me
    Career's going great, but now the rest of me is fading slowly
    My soulmate's somewhere out in the world just waiting on me
    My chef got the recipe for disaster baking slowly
    My heart feels vacant and lonely

  • Oct 5, 2021
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    Cacfork can never get it right.

    WTF is pop rap?

    These yt media will never accept that hip hop is the new pop and dominant music genre.

  • Oct 5, 2021
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    truudatz

    Cacfork can never get it right.

    WTF is pop rap?

    These yt media will never accept that hip hop is the new pop and dominant music genre.

    Pop rap is popular rap, simple enough. Drake is the definition of pop rap.

  • Oct 5, 2021
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    k dog 99

    Pop rap is popular rap, simple enough. Drake is the definition of pop rap.

    You missing the point. Rap is popular.

    There is mainstream rap and underground rap. What is pop rap?

  • Oct 5, 2021
    k dog 99

    Pop rap is popular rap, simple enough. Drake is the definition of pop rap.

    Everything is pop rap once it blows 😆

    Dumb empty term used to ‘other’ drake

  • Oct 5, 2021
    truudatz

    You missing the point. Rap is popular.

    There is mainstream rap and underground rap. What is pop rap?

    Pop rap is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes.

    It not that deep bro.

  • Oct 12, 2021
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    I feel like they hit it right. The music still sounds amazing but it feels like drake the brand got so big that Aubrey Graham the person got kinda lost in it and is not sure how to get out of the cloud of what drake music is supposed to sound like.

  • Joestar 🇺🇸
    Oct 12, 2021
    k dog 99

    Pop rap is popular rap, simple enough. Drake is the definition of pop rap.

    I mean what are Kendrick and Cole then

  • Oct 12, 2021

    took the crown from flo rida

  • Oct 12, 2021
    Lil sleepy

    I feel like they hit it right. The music still sounds amazing but it feels like drake the brand got so big that Aubrey Graham the person got kinda lost in it and is not sure how to get out of the cloud of what drake music is supposed to sound like.

    I’m not sure he got lost in it but I think around views he/ovo seemed to have found a formula to make hits in the streaming era.

    He’s kept us fed with collabs/singles/3 pack what we’ve come to expect of him.

  • Oct 12, 2021

    Drake = GOAT of music