straight ass

Like everything Kanye has dropped since 2016

Let’s be nice

The King of Pop & The King of Rap

you love to see it

but but but after Leaving Neverland Drake dropped MJ

where ya at now boys

Drizzy knows MJ innocent got the streets screaming

is it “actually being threatening” though? i get that you can see the lyrical content as having juxtapositions, but is anyone really interpreting this song as being serious in its “threatening” lyrics?

i think the juxtaposition exists, meaning you’re right about that, but i don’t think the effect of a somehow subversive threatening message really comes across to the listeners. i think the juxtaposition is merely a contribution to the whole “streets” idea, but both within drake’s music and outside, that idea is popularly pretty shallowly explored, and moreover, super commodified these days (mostly to appeal to white ppl fantasies. that’s worth thinking about. what are the “streets” today rly)

Drake buckle jacket ain't up against the Thriller one

the boy paying homage to one of the greatest music videos ever made

I mean both Kanye and XXX posted on social media saying that Drake should be first suspected if they were to get killed so I feel like he’s getting across to somebody?

You love to see it

Effortless

i think neither of those ppl represent the more mainstream audience that this song appeals to, so i’m not seeing the relation. also both those ppl r out there personalities n have interesting stakes w drake that rly no listeners have

He isn’t sending threats to the gp tho, just his opps, who are specifically mentioned
The gp are the onlookers in this situation

anyone got alternative artwork?

i might do one but feeling lazy

Drake stans get upset when someone makes a Drake thread but bring up Ye when he has nothing to do with this

Make up your minds

sure i can get w that, but i think it’s a leap to assume that any significant portion of the general public also thinks that way. you n i both have a lot more knowledge on these topics than the typical person who is making tiktoks to this or, just in general, the average person who really doesn’t listen to music in cases outside of their car, at work, at parties, or at the gym (my assumption is that ktt users are probably more likely to be those that just sit n listen to music for the sole purpose of listening, though i know at least some population does this outside ktt obviously)

anywho, my criticism of dude’s earlier post wasn’t that something couldn’t be interpreted from the lyrics and that drake wasn’t asserting himself interestingly, it was that i don’t think this song works to push a narrative or idea about drake that is different than what most people already perceive about him, except maybe that he has now made a song-for-tiktok kind of song. i was challenging the idea that the subversiveness was intelligible to anyone outside stans n fans, basically, n i still think that’s true.

however, even within the community of stans and fans, i don’t think the message is too subversive. what we know of drake now is pretty similar to what we knew before. plus he’s done this idea before; w toosie slide, it’s condensed to a single song

Can’t stop
Won’t stop
Never stop

That’s a pretty disappointing Spotify debut for a Drake song.

SOTY

God’s Plan debuted 2.48m
NFW 2.21m

Toosie Slide - 2.67m

The Boy about to dominate quarantine