red eagle

3y

Shaq: "You're a racist"

Mitch: "What did he do racist"

Shaq: "Well he's not a racist"

SHAQUILLE

3y

@DAVIDP called him racist not me

Tubig

3y

seems kinda wild no album yet this year kept the spot for 2 weeks

Sir Swagalot

3y

welcome to the streaming era!

Bobby_96

3y

Lil Baby had a number 1 album for weeks last year though.

Sir Swagalot

3y

my point still stands

Bobby_96

3y

I know but, in general, the standard for hip hop is to top the charts for 1-2 weeks. If you're the hottest one out, you can do more than 2 weeks but that's still the standard.

WTT, for example, was only number 1 for 2 weeks despite all the hype and that was normal in the non-streaming era.

Ironically, Views broke this trend in 2016 when the streaming era started to kick in.

SHAQUILLE

3y

Hes not a racist but he has some ignorant views on how black people should act/behave that are driven by stereotypes when he's not even black

Sir Swagalot

3y

when adele drops, that s*** will be the highest selling album of the year due to physicals I guarantee

Troy Ave Stan

3y

CLB really a classic

Nerds gon hate

mr get dough

3y

Oh ok

Bobby_96

3y

True, albeit her image is way different than it was back when 25 dropped.

Red Bandana

3y

Forgot this album existed

Sir Swagalot

3y

welcome to the streaming era!

Sir Swagalot

3y

welcome to the streaming era!

MyBallsAndMyWord

3y

CLB cover art is pretty amazing honestly if you think about it for more than thirty seconds. The duality of it is what impresses me the most. On the one hand, it’s just simple emojis. Seems very low effort. But this is Drake saying that he wants the music to speak for itself first and foremost. He doesn’t need gimmicks, theatrics, or controversy. Unlike some people. Music comes number 1, as it should.

But a second glance also reveals a striking complexity. The use of emojis is Drake commenting on how the digital age has reduced complex emotions and difficult conversations previously held and expressed in person to simple images, emojis. We’ve become brain dead consumers, whose thought has been reduced by corporations to the lowest common denominators that could never possibly capture the full intricacy of our individual thoughts and feelings.

Corporations like Apple attempt to homogenize us into simple unquestioning sacks of flesh, capable of only communicating through grunts in the form of emojis, not much different than our Neanderthal progenitors. This breeds a knuckle dragging populace incapable of thinking critically about the role technology plays in keeping us under heel and subservient to our corporate overlords. Drake invites us to ponder this.

I think he’s also asking us to reflect on the burden women are forced to carry in our society, and how this burden is further complicated by the intersectional oppressions of race and gender, hence the beautiful diversity of women showcased through this art.

Through CLB’s artwork, Drake effectively makes a bold statement while simultaneously asking very hard questions about our postmodern society.