Drake - VIEWS (Discussion Thread)

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www.factmag.com/2016/05/02/drake-views-review/

"All this means Views is the first real disappointment from one of hip-hop’s best Big Album artists. His previous three records felt like episodic dispatches from their author’s ongoing struggle to juggle his personal life with rap stardom. But with the chapter on his family issues closed, he offers a musical shrug. With nothing potent to write about, Drake ends his fourth studio album on a knowingly defensive streak (“If I was you I wouldn’t like me either”) and the sound of a blizzard. The frozen sonics lead back to the album’s opening effects and the ironically titled first track, a disregarded lesson for its performer: ‘Keep the Family Close’."
 

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Was a little disappointed now I am loving the album

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You with me
Hype
Weston Road Flows
Redemption (hated this one at first now it's smooth is hell)
With You
Faithful
Still Here
Controlla
One Dance
Grammys
Views

Those Go

Still undecided on the riri track, not really feeling fire and desire. And the pumps and circumstances track to start the album can hit the trash.
 
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Hip hop is hip hop regardless of how you catalogue it, it's diverse not same old boring formula" insert 16 bar verse here, insert a hook, blah, blah" that's why hip hop got stale and stopped selling like that. People want melodies why you think Young Thug and Future so popular and people want rapper who ain't scared to step outside of the box and be different


hip hop is in a different state right now, what people call hip hop these days is what we used to call straight up commercial pop music. Views has very few hip hop moments. there's more singing than rapping.
 

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Yikes

www.factmag.com/2016/05/02/drake-views-review/

"All this means Views is the first real disappointment from one of hip-hop’s best Big Album artists. His previous three records felt like episodic dispatches from their author’s ongoing struggle to juggle his personal life with rap stardom. But with the chapter on his family issues closed, he offers a musical shrug. With nothing potent to write about, Drake ends his fourth studio album on a knowingly defensive streak (“If I was you I wouldn’t like me either”) and the sound of a blizzard. The frozen sonics lead back to the album’s opening effects and the ironically titled first track, a disregarded lesson for its performer: ‘Keep the Family Close’."


they ain't lying, album is far from the best of this year. plus we've been waiting this long for a mediocre project. his plan worked cause he's selling 820k first week.
 

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Pretty average album, it has no identity and it sounds too radio friendly. It's a good pre party cd if you want to play rap music but your mom and them are over :laugh:.


What the fukk is he doing? He used to have defined RnB songs and defined hiphop songs, he's not creative enough to consistently merge the different worlds in a dope way like Kanye. Now the album is not wack, however it's just good and nothing more. Imo he's usually amazing, so I was expecting more than a C+. And I might even remove the + for the fact that he has like 5 fillers for birds on it.
 

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Yikes

www.factmag.com/2016/05/02/drake-views-review/

"All this means Views is the first real disappointment from one of hip-hop’s best Big Album artists. His previous three records felt like episodic dispatches from their author’s ongoing struggle to juggle his personal life with rap stardom. But with the chapter on his family issues closed, he offers a musical shrug. With nothing potent to write about, Drake ends his fourth studio album on a knowingly defensive streak (“If I was you I wouldn’t like me either”) and the sound of a blizzard. The frozen sonics lead back to the album’s opening effects and the ironically titled first track, a disregarded lesson for its performer: ‘Keep the Family Close’."
I really don't get it...I like this album.
 

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Pretty average album, it has no identity and it sounds too radio friendly. It's a good pre party cd if you want to play rap music but your mom and them are over :laugh:.


What the fukk is he doing? He used to have defined RnB songs and defined hiphop songs, he's not creative enough to consistently merge the different worlds in a dope way like Kanye. Now the album is not wack, however it's just good and nothing more. Imo he's usually amazing, so I was expecting more than a C+. And I might even remove the + for the fact that he has like 5 fillers for birds on it.
:whoa: Drake Coli coalition falling apart?
 

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When Meek Mill claimed that Quentin Miller was ghostwriting for Drake, it didn’t necessarily negate his best performances on IYRTITL, but did leave the listener wondering, what if? Perhaps that could explain the sheer wealth of faceplant-worthy lines on Views, from ‘Pop Style’s already infamous “got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum” and ‘Weston Road Flow’s “I get green like Earth Day” through to the title track’s wealth of bricks: “Far-fetched like I threw that shyt a hundred meters”; “Staple in the game / all my papers together” ; “My wifey is a spice like I’m David Beckham”. While the below-par wordplay could be seen as a sign that Drake’s ghostwriters are no longer his woes, the sheer bloat of the album severely exposes his limitations as a rapper.

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Pretty average album, it has no identity and it sounds too radio friendly. It's a good pre party cd if you want to play rap music but your mom and them are over :laugh:.


What the fukk is he doing? He used to have defined RnB songs and defined hiphop songs, he's not creative enough to consistently merge the different worlds in a dope way like Kanye. Now the album is not wack, however it's just good and nothing more. Imo he's usually amazing, so I was expecting more than a C+. And I might even remove the + for the fact that he has like 5 fillers for birds on it.
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Im really tryin brehs...Listened to the album everyday since its release...I am a Drake fan...Not sayin this isn't good but...Its like when you been gettin A's in school ya whole life, and suddenly you get a C....Yes you still passed, but you know you can do wayyyyy better...By Drake standards, he coulda gave a better effort, especially with 20 tracks...Again, no he didn't fail, but his potential is way better than this performance..
 
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