If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Drake just dropped another album.

If You're Reading This It's Too Late, the new Drake record is out on iTunes.

There is also a 14 minutes video somewhere but the thing is unwatchable, I won't bother posting it.

First hook: Oh my god, oh my god if I die I'm a legend.

this is the worst day on earth

worst is like, a sanskrit colloquialism that means "best" right

So far this is like he was really proud of Wu Tang Forever and decided to expand on that song. A good thing for me. 6 Man is perhaps my favorite yet.

yeah i'm really enjoying this. drunk tho

not sure whether it's good or bad that my previous drinks of the evening are wearing off while listening to this

does it make sense to suggest him switching it up stylistically feels a lot less awkward than on previous records?

this sounds kinda great to me

Did he just say 'I'm Game of Thrones with you Mama' ?

yeeeeep

goddamn j0rd u r right about that second partynextdoor track

everything is deeply upsetting

wow i'm really angry that partynextdoor actually produced that track and "legend" too fuck this earth

can't believe i almost missed this as i was on a thread about old people's sweets.

wow i'm really angry that partynextdoor actually produced that track and "legend" too fuck this earth

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, February 13, 2015 12:59 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes so random

that sounds infinitely preferable xp

someone let me know when the instrumentals show up

also "jungle" is one of 40's best beats ever

it's all on YouTube btw folks.

his soundcloud songs are mostly hit or miss for me individually and this sounds like a bunch of those woven together but idk i think as full project it sounds pretty great together

it's easily the most anti-pop thing he's ever done though

loving '10 Bands' so far.

this is pretty amazing

'Madonna' is great.

just gonna throw this out there, but my new dream collab is drake + julianna barwick

also the outro of "preach" -> interlude w/ PARTYNEXTDOOR is absolutely incredible

Just spinning "Legend" for the first time now, and to think I was about to go to bed after checking ILM

Love his flow on "No Tellin"

First listen done. Other obvious highlights for me are "Star 67", "You and the 6" and "6pm In New York."

I dig it, but it doesn't reach even close to the high water mark of Nothing Was the Same. No anthems like "Hold On We're Going Home" or GOAT beats like "Pound Cake" or any of the other million awesome things about that album but it already grew on me a lot from the beginning to the end.

The internet can't seem to agree on whether this is just a mixtape or his pre-mentioned album Views Frrom the 6 with a new name. Where do you guys weigh in? The fact that he's selling it on iTunes and that he's following the "Beyonce'd!!!!!" model of doing shit I'd say album, but the lack of any singles plus the fact that it doesn't <sound> nearly as good as Nothing Was the Same suggest mixtape. Either way Drake hasn't weighed in and we don't know if there's gonna be a physical release or not. What do yall think?

wow this mustve been why I had that fever dream last nite

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Jamila McCoy · Top Commenter · Northeastern University
That's exactly what I said when I first saw it drop on iTunes was what's up with all the damn numbers, especially the 6's my sister said maybe drake worships the devil. Lol.

Was it not common knowledge that he had a mixtape coming early in the year? LOL at this being described as a "project" in the initial rush to report it

Listening now, and it's welcome, but it's very clearly a mixtape

Kinda hoping he explores that weird "high-pitched" register from "Company" further, just slightly Durst

"6PM in NY" is like

available on spotify now, for those who don't wanna buy but don't feel like stealin'

This is my favourite thing he's done

I think in general the best stuff here was already out (6 god, how abt now) but his unreleased stuff is usually always worthwhile so im pleased he put this out

No Tellin' No Tellin' No Tellin'

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/arts/music/drake-and-kanye-west-proven-paths-to-stardom.html?_r=0

Caramanica re new Drake

Part of the burden of bringing softness to hip-hop’s center is the perpetual urge to balance it with something rougher. That’s the phase Drake is in now: on top, defending his turf, while trying to keep his heart pure.

And the memes begin:
http://instagram.com/p/zDm-DnyIbS/?modal=true

so, I haven't listened to much Drake before, but he seems to mention his relationship to a "city" in every other line. Is he talking about some place in Canada?

well, yes. a Canada of the heart

real heads know drake reps Moose Jaw

http://i.imgur.com/u3KFEza.png

this is pretty good

i think it was some dude(?) but anyway someone retweeted someone who said that the album cover looks like a chick-fil-a cow suicide note made me lol

please-do-not-speak-to-me-like-Im-that-Drake-from-five-years-ago.htm

lol who is drake biting on '6 man'

matrix references in 2015 god damn u drakey

been vibing the travi$ scott song

"it's so hot in here" truthers can

worse still are "badass" truthers

I just heard hotline bling played four times on the radio in like an hour and a half

The only songs I'm hearing more are good for you and the hills

Win Oriented Esteemed Studs

Legit lol at this thank u

What is "Good For You"

selena gomez

there's no way that's what he means by woes, that sounds like some rapgenius shit lol

some OVO guy sold the press on the idea: http://www.thefader.com/2015/02/13/what-does-drake-really-mean-when-he-talks-about-his-woe

LOLZ at all you grandpas who think that Drake is still relevant to millennials. Listen pops...we have moved on to Silento.

Lmao

I have to confess to not listening to much Drake (being more busy trying to find my teeth in the lake, or w/e), but I think this is a great song, and I also think it's really myopic and just a bad reading to see the lyrics as endorsing some kind of butthurt MRA POV about women. I mean, butthurt yes, but much more in a pathetic way that the song is self-aware about (although the speaker is not).

even the video, doing his lame little dances in his sad little room

When he says "ever since I left the city" I picture him moving out to some near suburban attached development to save money, living in a clean but kind of sparely decorated apartment, a lot of blank white walls.

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/9/99/Racecar.png/revision/latest?cb=20101120195045

lol dying

every time this thread gets bumped i'm a little scared that drake dropped another stupid album

just a stupid single, adjust your ire accordingly

well, he dropped that months ago

every time this thread gets bumped i'm a little scared that drake dropped another stupid album

― Viva la Wu Tang or Meth and All His Friends (some dude), Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's about to

i heard some really really good dancehall cover version of hotline bling on local radio last night, just caught the last 20 seconds or so, but i can't seem to find it online (it's pirate radio and they don't really keep playlists on their clunky website), there's an elephant man one but i don't think that was it

dunno if this is it, but this is currently my favorite version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF1LnQk4EaU

anyone know if it's possible to get hold of the actual instrumental track somehow?

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/drake-hotline-bling-sweater__oPt.jpg

Hehe

I enjoyed this article, most of the technical stuff is complete gibberish to me but somehow still a good read http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar12/articles/it-0312.htm

lol in that article - "In hip-hop, you must write your own raps. If someone else were to write them for you, you'd have no credibility whatsoever, and you'd be out of the window immediately"

good to know '40'

ahahaha

thread title wil be true in 6.5 weeks

rev that bella blair tune was great, thx, not the one i heard (now i do think it was maybe elephant man) but i dug it and had some good lines ("stiff like ply board")

anyways re: the original most annoying thing is that radio cuts off the coda whenever they play it, only one station in town plays the whole thing, the instrumental coda is one of the best parts

I feel like dude's vocal tics have got more obnoxious since "Worst Behavior"

As in idg how "runningthroughthrSIXwithmyWOES" is a meme/quotable whatever

Also "Metro Boomin on production WOW"

I'm hearing a remix in my head where after each Drizzy "woes" a chorus of early-60s type girl singers chirp "oh NOES!"

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/blossompedia/images/e/ee/Resizer.jpg

does jumpman have a crow cawing in the background? luv it obv

stole the idea from Bobby Shmurda clearly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc40zIaCw6U

this is...amazing?

it is amazing that my hatred of "Hotline Bling" covers and my hatred of viral Jimmy Fallon musical bits got together and had a baby

haw

i mean i know that we all view askance rock covers of rap/r&b songs but to me this doesn't come with the usual baggage, he just goes for it. and i'm not really a fan of the original either but he and the band really pull it off imo, it's just really tight

i'm aware this makes me a normie dad

yeah this is fantastic - love that he picked the ROlling Thunder look

but kinda weird too right since it's a positively 4th street parody?

yeah, it's a blonde on blonde sound/delivery with a rolling thunder look !

the new drake >>> the new kanyes

getting bored of aggro drake

'real friends' is better than drake's new song

don't really care which is better cuz i don't see myself choosing to listen to either but drake has seemed to hone in on a pretty repetitive sound whereas kanye's new stuff can at least surprise

ty dolla is better than drake but drake's new song is better than real friends
this is a different aggro drake btw. He has finally absorbed the loose future flow, obv the endgame of wattba

just listened to summer 16 pretty lame :/

he has a really big swimming pool as i understand it

a Toronto rapper has been playing snippets of unreleased Drake songs he's threatening to leak, and one of them features Drake singing Nico's "These Days," it's pretty horrible

https://twitter.com/yoyotrav/status/713586309705637889

Someone saw Royal Tennenbaums!