Drake was Joe without the dust in his technical rapping prime.
08-13 Drake is arguably the best rapper I ever heard.
Scriptures
Dead Presidents
Say What’s Real
5am in Toronto
Dreams Money Can Buy
The Ride
Lord Knows
Last we saw of that guy was on NWTS.
He was also the best Pop/Feature rapper alive and he still is sans the features since he dont gotta reason to kill nobody now.
Stunt Hard
original I Want This Forever
Shot For Me
I’m On One
God’s Plan
Still Here
Elevate
I could go on. Not even gon mention his R&B bag even tho his influence over the genre while impactful has been lackluster, picking up where Ye left off by too often characterizing r&b as sad instead of sensual.
This album, I relied on for the first few listens what is to me Drake’s most underrated persona. Stand up Comedian R&B Drake.
“Like when Chrysler made that one car that looked just like a Bentley iiiiiiiiii”
“I’m nothing like yo man, but I can’t love you neither”
Ratchet Happy Birthday, Sex Tonight, Child’s Play. This is Drake turning Drunk And Hot Girls into R&B.
So naturally this album starts for me on track 18. BBL Love is absurd. There’s a point in this song where he just loses his mind during a run. Super entertaining. Felt like a live performance.
It’s fitting that it follows unbothered Drake on 8am.
Drake completely lost his passion for rap after the ghostwriting nonsense.
Look no further than 6pm in New York. Arguably the worst am-pm track, but he was still rapping like he had energy.
Drake didn’t get into the game to be crowned by dustheads. He learned not to expect much from them broke boys from Ye, who still to this day won’t acknowledge them.
But here’s Drake’s Achilles heel. He cares wat everyone thinks of him.
Real Drake fans know he always used writers. Makes sense because he came up as one. He didn’t learn from Dr Dre as a teen for no reason.
Real Drake fans been knew about Hush and Nickelus F.
Drake wasn’t even that good of a rapper once upon a time, because he was never trying to truly rap. He was trying to use rap as a vehicle to make hit music. That’s not easy. That’s why all his early material is so aggressively mid.
Once he figured out how to make music using rap, he began to dominate real bad.
He was a Dr Dre Puffy Ye type masquerading as Killa Sin or some obscure bar master that made it to the mainstream.
Drake is fueled by resentment and makes a lot of mistakes because of it, but it also pushes him forward.
After the ghostwriting thing blew up, Drake gave up on rap and it hurts him because he truly cares for it.
4pm, Sandra’s Rose, 8pm, Omerta. He’s rapping like it’s a 9-5.
I think part of it is the Travis Scott flow taking over.
Also, nobody is better than him at making technical rap with replay value.
So what has happened is he’s missed a step. Relying on similes giving his records a try hard feel. Sounds like he’s trying to love rapping again, but can’t.
A part of him might feel that he only made it so far as a pop rapper because he’s lightskin. That’s not true. He’s genuinely the best pop/r&b rapper ever. He used to be the best technical rapper but he gave up on it.
And how is that even a bad thing? He’s basically demoted himself to J. Cole status which is still high up there.
But only time J. Cole could hang with Drake on a track was on a song like Looking For Trouble where he turned everybody into amateurs. But even Drake’s verse on All Of The Lights Remix is better than that.
This is a great album, but the one liners don’t pop no more off first listen like when he was on his Wayne shyt but kept your attention for a whole album on his Nas shyt. He still on his Nas shyt, but the Wayne affect is missing. That comes from really having something to prove instead of just being a great artist.
The boy even dissed Weeknd on the tape and nobody cares.
Sucks that all I’m gettin from this album is good music. Rap is not, at its core, merely good music. It’s a device meant to shake u up on the spot.
I like my girls bbw
The type that wanna suck you dry and then eat some lunch with you
So thick that everybody else in the room is so uncomfortable
He not hittin you with that no more. Just Big Sean without the cringe. Go to the club, pop this bottle, bag that model, and call it a night
Nobody reading this autobiography my G, fukk outta here
You wrote more in this post then Drake wrote on his album (Pun intended)
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Guess she hates Drake more
