Drake's bloated 21-track album aimed at gaming the streaming system to move 250K first week

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it's undeniable. Personal preferences aside, that's his most enduring and successful work. When it's all said and done, 2 of the 5 longest charting albums of all time will be GKMC and Take Care.


Chart success doesn’t equal classic status. It can be PART of it for sure. But there are tangibles of a classic album that Take Care clearly lacks. Its overly long, with clear filler in the middle portion, not to mention that Drake as the main artist is hilariously (and now ironically) upstaged on his own album by both Kendrick and The Weeknd.

Its not a classic. Drake’s one and only classic body of work is So Far Gone. Which DID, for better or worse, shift the culture of rap music irrevocably. Its a project that will go down in history as the perfect scion of what Kanye West started with 808’s and Heartbreak.
 

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only 250k :dead:
 

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Chart success doesn’t equal classic status. It can be PART of it for sure. But there are tangibles of a classic album that Take Care clearly lacks. Its overly long, with clear filler in the middle portion, not to mention that Drake as the main artist is hilariously (and now ironically) upstaged on his own album by both Kendrick and The Weeknd.

Its not a classic. Drake’s one and only classic body of work is So Far Gone. Which DID, for better or worse, shift the culture of rap music irrevocably. Its a project that will go down in history as the perfect scion of what Kanye West started with 808’s and Heartbreak.

chart success can be an indicator of how important an album is. There's a reason why Take Care is the one that's still super high on the charts 15 years later and not his other stuff (though his other stuff does well too). I'm not talking about it going #1 or selling a ton. Again, leave personal preferences aside. I don't DQ All Eyez On Me because Whatz Your Phone # is objectively garbage. I call a spade and spade and call it what it is even if it doesn't hit me the same way.

This is a list of the ten longest charting albums ever, and I'm removing greatest hits stuff off this list

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
Metallica- Metallica
Bruno Mars- Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Nirvana- Nevermind
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Kendrick Lamar- GKMC
AC/DC- Back in Black
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
Adele- 21
Lana Del Rey- Born To Die


you can't tell the full story of music in the 2010s without mentioning Take Care



As for So Far Gone, it's definitely a classic mixtape.
 

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GNX by Kendrick Lamar to become the fastest hip-hop album in history to surpass the 2 billion streams mark

And he's doing it with only 12 tracks. No promotion, didn't even include Not Like Us on that album.

Go back hiding in ur momma basement, Crodie.


Won’t go diamond Crodie.
 
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