On this day, 3 years ago, Drake released Scorpion, his fifth studio album and first double album. While it set and shattered several streaming and chart records, to truly appreciate the album, we need to do a general overview of Drake's 2018 — commercially to better understand how dominant of a year it was — perhaps the most dominant year of any rap artist in music history.

Here are some of Drake's achievements in 2018:

CLB soon enough!

today, 3 years ago, I smoked a bowl with a friend, listened to the first 3 songs off of this, said "ya know, you have to admire his ability to write songs so formulaically" and then left shortly after

CLB soon fawad

What are your favorite songs/moments off the album?

3 years? What the f***

3 years ago i was picking up weed with my boy and we were like oh s*** new drake

Leaving me

Dipping out on me

Alreadyyyy

God I remember being at work when this dropped. We were closing for the night and I was the supervisor so me and my manager played this while we counted the safe and did the paperwork for the night. Got through Side A when we finished.

Went to bed and listened to aside B in the morning

This album also served as the soundtrack to my LA trip that year. Being drunk and singing Ratchet Happy Birthday on the street in Santa Monica is a key memory lmao

Jaded came at such a good time

Some of my takeaways from Scorpion, 3 years later:

• Survival is one of Drake's best intros. Very underrated. I personally have it as his third best intro after Tuscan Leather and Over My Dead Body.
• Emotionless, it's lyrical content and as a song in general, has aged very well.
• Jaded is a timeless Drake song.
• Nice for What and In My Feelings will be ringing out every summer for years to come.
• After Dark is underrated. It's easily one of the best R&B sounds Drake has ever made.

Timeless bop.

Scorpion definitely isn't a perfect album but it's a very good album. I feel like it'll age just as well as Views did, if only because of the many standout moments on the album. Like Views, 2 songs on the album defined the summer of an entire year. The rapping on Scorpion is also very solid throughout.

I definitely enjoy and appreciate it more now than the year it dropped because I've had 3 years to keep revisiting it.

• Mob Ties
• Jaded
• Nice for What
• Nonstop
• Finesse

My top 5 after 3 years, hbu?

• Survival
• Is There More
• Nice for What
• Jaded
• After Dark

I probably play 5 of them more than any other songs whenever I revisit the album these days.

Karena Evans really came thru with the visuals this era, wonder if she'll ever direct another Drake video

She's busy directing TV episodes now so I doubt it. She'll be moving into directing movies soon.

finesse the best song on there

out of body song

March 14 still makes me feel shivers. Such a thoughtful track, the feels on every Drake outro are incomparable.

always felt a deep sense of pain for lil bro. Just wanted to spread pure happiness and was suppressed by a demonic western norm of excellence

Big Scorpion 🦂 OUT NOW

• Nonstop
• Sandra’s Rose
• Is There More
• Jaded
• Finesse

HM: Survival, Mob Ties, CTAJ, THYF, Blue Tint, Final Fantasy

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