Drake - VIEWS (Discussion Thread)

[Hyperion]

Views shoulda been the Intro.

Personally NWTS is my fav Drake Album.

I still remember when it Leaked and hearing Tuscan Leather for the first time like

Having Tuscan Leather lead into Furthest Thing was perfect. I still love how it does that.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Its not about what I define as classic

I'm asking what calling something classic does in real meaningful sense? There's no HOF of rap albums. You don't get bonuses if fans think your album is classic

All classics are personal classics anyway.

There isn't but heads know what is classic and what isn't....just because there are no certain accolades that a rapper gets for dropping a classic album really doesnt mean anything....they are however talked about for years....for example I will use Redman....he has dropped classics....does he have a grammy?....no....but he is respected among the masses....and is a hip hop legend.....and no not all classics are personal classics....I'll disagree with you big time on that....

 

[Da King]

Feels No Way at clubs/house parties gonna be :banderas1:

best joint on the album

 

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By JON CARAMANICAAPRIL 29, 2016

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  Review: On ‘Views,’ Drake Is Still His Own Genre
  
  
  By JON CARAMANICAAPRIL 29, 2016
  
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  Drake handing out T-shirts last Sunday in Toronto to promote his new album, “Views.”CreditCole Burston/The Canadian Press, via Associated Press
  Drake’s career has been built on collapsing walls, and “One Dance,” one of the early singles from his new album, “Views,” is a vivacious fulfillment of his promise as hip-hop’s great syncretic hope.
  
  Rapped and sung, sprinkled with patois, made in collaboration with the Nigerian Afrobeats star Wizkid and sampling Kyla’s “Do You Mind” (a smash on Britain’s funky dance music scene in the late 2000s), “One Dance” is a transnational dance-floor lullaby, one of Drake’s breeziest and most accessible songs, and also one of his savviest.
  
  But “One Dance,” gentle as it is, is also about fear. “Streets not safe/but I never run away,” he sings, in a dulcet voice.
  
  “I pray to make it back in one piece/I pray, I pray/that’s why I need one dance,” he continues, connecting his urge to live with his urge to move.
  
  It is perhaps the purest distillation of the current state of Drake: globally ambitious, ruthlessly effective, skeptical and wary. A pop star with rap star anxieties. An emperor wondering about the state of his clothes.
  
  “Views” — Drake’s fourth solo album, not counting umpteen mixtapes and other ephemera — finds him a conqueror between territories: fending off attacks from below, maintaining his grip on turf he controls and wondering what might be next.
  
  Crucially, it’s not the acidic Drake that’s taken center stage in the last year and a half, on the mixtape “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” and his collaborative album with Future,
  
  “What a Time to Be Alive.” Those releases showed Drake at his most indignant, a left-field turn from the emotionally lavish music he’d built his reputation on.
  
  “Views” shows how Drake’s original sound has become a genre unto itself — not just as a template for others but also for Drake himself. The framework pioneered by him and his right-hand producer, 40 — tender, lush, soothing melodies about romantic vulnerability — can be used for songs about heartbreak, but also for songs about competitive stress, mistrust and fear.
  
  Not that he’s abandoned one-sided relationship talks. The most vivid one here is the fretful and class-concerned “Childs Play”:
  
  You wildin’, you super childish, you go to CVS for
  Kotex in my Bugatti, I took the key and tried to
  hide it so you can’t drive it, and put on mileage
  Then you find it, awkward silence
  
  On “U With Me?,” which recalls his excellent “Paris Morton Music 2,” Drake looks for love on his phone: “I group DM my exes/I tell ’em they belong to me, that goes on for forever”; “three dots, you thinking of a reaction still.”
  
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  The cover of Drake’s new album, “Views.”
  But love is, increasingly, about money, too. “Sell my secrets and get top dollar/Sell my secrets for a Range Rover,” he says on “Redemption,” then continues: “Who’s gonna save me when I need saving?/Since ‘Take Care,’ I’ve been caretaking.”
  
  Drake is more preoccupied with cadence than most rappers, and of course, more able to make unexpected juxtapositions between rapping and singing than anyone else. And thanks to his flirtations with dancehall, Afrobeats and grime, he is as flexible as ever. That’s why the most exciting moments on “Views” may be structural: Drake rapping in gnawed-off chunks like 2 Chainz on “Hype,” or with streamlined Jamaican inflections on “Controlla,” or with the dead-eyed stomp of Chicago drill music on “Pop Style.”
  
  “Views” is dauntingly long, and Drake still hears his inner narrative as biblical epic — take the album’s opener, “Keep the Family Close,” where he sings with resignation and pomp, “All of my let’s-just-be-friends are friends I don’t have anymore/How do you not check on me when things go wrong?” He typically ends his albums with what could be termed a talk track, an extended rumination on the state of his feelings. On “Views,” there are several such songs sprinkled throughout the album.
  
  But there are risks to effectively becoming your own genre — understudies and comers will do what they can to follow what you’ve already done, but so will you. Overall, “Views” contains Drake’s most straightforward lyrics, and his emotional excavations aren’t as striking as they were a few years ago, when they had the sting of the new to them.
  
  Drake is becoming more walled off as a person, too. He uses social media brilliantly, but not revealingly. He has largely forsworn the news media. Last year, reference demo tracks for a handful of his songs recorded by Quentin Miller, a frequent collaborator, leaked online, suggesting Drake may not have written his own songs, but Drake barely addressed the controversy. When the rapper Meek Mill publicly accused Drake of false advertising, Drake replied with great songs, not an outburst.
  
  Given the intensity of that controversy, it’s notable that, as of this writing, Drake hasn’t released the songwriting credits for “Views.” There was even a transparency hiccup during the album’s release. Drake’s producer 40 posted a list of the album producers on his Instagram, then posted an update including names of producers he overlooked in the first post.
  
  The only public interview Drake has done for “Views” came Thursday night, when he sat for a brief chat with the Beats 1 radio host Zane Lowe. Despite the controlled setting — an employee of Apple Music speaking with one of the company’s biggest celebrity partners — there was honesty that couldn’t help but peek through: the way Drake began swallowing words when tiptoeing around why the original version of “Pop Style” that included Kanye West and Jay Z didn’t make the album, or his gritted-teeth replies when discussing his occasionally frosty history with the Weeknd, a onetime collaborator.
  
  Most vivid, though, there was the heavy muscle and heavier patois he employed when talking about younger Toronto artists following in his footsteps while taking shots at him — “coming for the don,” he called it. If Drake was betraying even a hint of vulnerability or frustration on those other topics, here he was bulked up and on message.
  
  For the last seven years, Drake has recentered hip-hop around melody and feeling; turned his hometown Toronto into an aesthetic hotbed; and become one of pop music’s most transformational, and doubted, figures. But all that has come with a price: the realization that the only way to protect your heart is with armor.
  
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[Redwood]

I'll just leave this here.....
.....

It's ironic, but if someone calls their album a classic, nine times out of ten, it's the exact opposite.

 

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[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

@WickedGames
@Kitsch
@Krazy
@District Line
@HoopDreams94
@Beng Beng
@Wise
@Morning Scruuub
@Therht


I know you guys didn't miss Drake biting C Biz with the flow on Grammys

 

[Apollo Creed]

Having Tuscan Leather lead into Furthest Thing was perfect. I still love how it does that.

For me if

1.Tuscan Leather
2.Furtherst Thing
3.Lord Knows
4Cameras
5Look What you've done
6. You nd the 6
7.Weston Road Flows
8. Legend
9. 6pm in New York
10. Views
11. Paris Morton Music 2
12.Free Spirit
13.30 for 30 Freestyle

Was an Album Tracklist for Drake it would be a Hip Hop classic

 

[aliG]

does anyone have a link?

 

[thatrapsfan]

Look: It’s still early. As I’m writing this, Views is something like 14 hours old. Some of these songs might take a month or two to strike an emotional chord; Drake songs do that sometimes. But after playing it on repeat all day, I have to report that Views is a bloated, self-regarding bore. When the album hit the internet last night, I made it through maybe six songs before falling asleep. That’s not entirely Drake’s fault. I have two young kids, which means that I am always tired. But I can also tell you that I goddam sure did not fall asleep the first time I listened to Lemonade.

Drake Views Album Review

CAC journalist gets it right

 

[Da King]

Overall after a few spins it's a solid B


I don't get the hate for calling this soft, dude is a jew cac who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, I'm not trying to hear spit about hood shyt, just give me some jams to fukk these hoes

 

[Dreadknox77]

Listened to the album last night , gave it a few more listens today....

After a much consideration....not really .... shyt is trash..

 

[Hyperion]

For me if

1.Tuscan Leather
2.Furtherst Thing
3.Lord Knows
4Cameras
5Look What you've done
6. You nd the 6
7.Weston Road Flows
8. Legend
9. 6pm in New York
10. Views
11. Paris Morton Music 2
12.Free Spirit
13.30 for 30 Freestyle

Was an Album Tracklist for Drake it would be a Hip Hop classic

If this was Nothing Was The Same? It would've been undeniable. That's a fukking monster of an album. Especially using 30 for 30 Freestyle on a body of work like that.

Now I wish this WAS the actual NWTS album.

 

[Dushane Hill]

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@Kitsch
@Krazy
@District Line
@HoopDreams94
@Beng Beng
@Wise
@Morning Scruuub
@Therht


I know you guys didn't miss Drake biting C Biz with the flow on Grammys

Just made a post about it lol

 

[Music Fiend]

The album is gonna be a lot like Panda. It'll grow on us.


Disappointed tho. Not even due to the hype, I'm more disappointed that it's still the same drake as a year ago. Here I was thinking we were gonna get a couple "underground kings, lord knows, dreams money can buy, club paradises, and the ride."

It's a chill listen but should have had more bars over harder beats that weren't trapper drake.