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Not a bad album though plenty of filler tracks. Would have been so much better if he cut it to 13 tracks.

Future floated on Grammys :wow:
 

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This pretty much confirms that the boy was using ghosts throughout his whole career. Probably not for every bar, but his whole shyt gotta be suspect right now.

You don't go from "Aye B, I heard your CD, you get an E for effort" to "You toying with it like a Happy Meal". You just don't. You don't go from 5AM to Child's Play. It doesn't make sense.

:patrice:I thought he went off on his straight rap tracks. Views and Weston Road flows in particular.

If we were to go off that then Prodigy ain't writems a single bar between Infamous and HNIC. His fall off on Infamy was far greater that Drake's.
 

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:patrice:I thought he went off on his straight rap tracks. Views and Weston Road flows in particular.

If we were to go off that then Prodigy ain't writems a single bar between Infamous and HNIC. His fall off on Infamy was far greater that Drake's.

The Straight Rap Songs Were Weak, Like Homey Said These Bars Are Completly Watered The fukk Down, Couldn't Believe What I Was Listenting Too
 

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:patrice:I thought he went off on his straight rap tracks. Views and Weston Road flows in particular.

If we were to go off that then Prodigy ain't writems a single bar between Infamous and HNIC. His fall off on Infamy was far greater that Drake's.
I liked Weston Road and Views the best, but I think it might have just been relative to all the trash surrounding them. Child's Play might legitimately be the worst song he's ever released. I actually screamed in disbelief in the car when I first heard it. He has so many of the worst bars in his career on this album. The reason it makes it very suspect and not just a random downturn is the fact that this is his first post-exposal album. Hush isn't present, QM isn't present. It's like he took the training wheels off on some ":smugfavre: I can do this shyt myself" shyt and proceeded to put out the wackest joint of his career. Not a good look for the boy :francis:.
 

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Views really does suffer from lack of depth.

Seems like Drake didn't want to lose his audience with this album because he's too smart not to have more diverse content.

He's playing the pop game more so than true artist growth

He chose money over quality for this album, I don't fault him, females buy more CDs than we do. But I am a Drake fan (leaning towards was) and he needs to stop being argued as a GOAT contender, he also needs to be stripped off those Sprite Advertisements. Let him in to the R&B hall of fame if you want, but he doesn't belong anywhere near rap's Mount Rushmore.

If I sound like I'm in my feelings its cuz I am. I can't believe someone so talented could drop something so uninspired.
 
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How Drake’s Album Represents The Acceptance Of Mediocrity
Written by: Ziggiy

“All you gotta do is dumb it down. You dumb it down ‘cause it’s all there is out there. Nobody is shooting that “C.R.E.A.M.” or that bomb atomically or that Nas shyt. Or that Biggie shyt. It’s just strictly easy raps now. The club, your car, the bytches you fukking. It’s like four different things.”


-Ghostface Killah

Aubrey “Drake” Graham has it all at his disposal. After a $20 million dollar deal with Apple, Drake’s new album Views, will have been viewed audibly by over 200 million streams from the tech behemoths music app. This, along with digital purchases will include sales upwards of 1.5 million copies, making Drake the first rapper since his mentor Lil Wayne to push 1 million copies of an album in the first week. It is no secret that Drake has taken his tried and true formula of R&B infused crooning with boastful and triumphant bars, to great fame and fortune. He has packaged himself neatly into an instantly recognizable and accessible brand of pop music that can be enjoyed by the masses. Drake is that cup of instant Ramen Noodles that sits in the back of your cabinet, gathering dust until the day you realize you are overdrawn on your bank account and payday isn’t until the end of the week. It is available, instantly ready, easily digestible, and yet unfulfilling and unsatisfying, forgotten about almost moments after consumption. The thing about a formula is that once it is mastered it can quickly become old, the lack of new thoughts, ideas, or inclining, manifest as a desire for a new hypothesis. Is Drake capable of either improving upon his formula or creating new and improved ideas to express himself as an artist? For the man who has everything, including a collective of producers, engineers, and yes, writers, at his beck and call; can the cumulative of pawns keep the King atop his throne? If Views is any indication, the answer is no.

To read more:

Come Winter – Drake Views Album Review – FTESWL
Come Winter – Drake Views Album Review

:salute: @Ziggiy
 
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How Drake’s Album Represents The Acceptance Of Mediocrity
Written by: Ziggiy

“All you gotta do is dumb it down. You dumb it down ‘cause it’s all there is out there. Nobody is shooting that “C.R.E.A.M.” or that bomb atomically or that Nas shyt. Or that Biggie shyt. It’s just strictly easy raps now. The club, your car, the bytches you fukking. It’s like four different things.”


-Ghostface Killah

Aubrey “Drake” Graham has it all at his disposal. After a $20 million dollar deal with Apple, Drake’s new album Views, will have been viewed audibly by over 200 million streams from the tech behemoths music app. This, along with digital purchases will include sales upwards of 1.5 million copies, making Drake the first rapper since his mentor Lil Wayne to push 1 million copies of an album in the first week. It is no secret that Drake has taken his tried and true formula of R&B infused crooning with boastful and triumphant bars, to great fame and fortune. He has packaged himself neatly into an instantly recognizable and accessible brand of pop music that can be enjoyed by the masses. Drake is that cup of instant Ramen Noodles that sits in the back of your cabinet, gathering dust until the day you realize you are overdrawn on your bank account and payday isn’t until the end of the week. It is available, instantly ready, easily digestible, and yet unfulfilling and unsatisfying, forgotten about almost moments after consumption. The thing about a formula is that once it is mastered it can quickly become old, the lack of new thoughts, ideas, or inclining, manifest as a desire for a new hypothesis. Is Drake capable of either improving upon his formula or creating new and improved ideas to express himself as an artist? For the man who has everything, including a collective of producers, engineers, and yes, writers, at his beck and call; can the cumulative of pawns keep the King atop his throne? If Views is any indication, the answer is no.

To read more:

Come Winter – Drake Views Album Review – FTESWL
Come Winter – Drake Views Album Review

:salute: @Ziggiy


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