I don't understand this. Like i feel like im in the twilight zone. People are in here losing their minds over songs...some that are years old being released. I've heard almost every song on this "album" like the delusion is real
A lot of people haven't heard these songs in years or ever. You haven't even heard EVERY song on this tape. Plus these songs now being widely available and easy accessible in one collection has us reminiscing.
After some people felt like Views and Scorpion were disappointing, this feels like a breath of fresh air and reminds us all how fuego Drake can really be.
It's essentially a greatest hits of just loosies. Not everyone that likes Drake follows his music super closely, especially when he was dropping random songs at 3am or songs were leaking.
Like this is 10 years old and has less than 300k views on YouTube.
A lot of these songs are kinda the same way. Jodeci freestyle has 1.5 mil after 6 years. Days in the east has 9.5 mil after 5. Paris Morton Music almost has 3 million but that's after 2 years and on his official page. Old versions have less than 3 mil over almost a decade while the official version's music video has 156 million.
So for years, even on Drake's official YouTube channel these songs weren't huge. 5 am in Toronto has 20 mil after 3 years, but his behind barz freestyle has 36 million after a year.
It's easy to forget that while Drake is huge, a lot of people have only heard singles or the real buzzing songs off the album. Not the random shyt he drops in between on the OVO blog. Even on SoundCloud, his loosies do on par or less than somebody like XXX who was hitting 20+ mil consistently and even 70-100+mil on some shyt in comparison to draft days 29 mil or we made it's 31mil - I don't wanna do this anymore has 138million plays. More than a bunch of Drake's loosies combined
So thats probably why people are getting excited about this. People either haven't heard them before or forgot they existed. There is no delusion. Not a lot of rappers could do this and have an actual solid album either. Some nikkas couldn't even do this if they just made a collection/greatest hits of album cuts/singles. A lot of these still sound surprisingly fresh and original in today's climate.