Play Me Some Simpin, Mane: Drake - Nothing Was the Same

the production on here is so much better & less gauche than on 'take care'

imo

I wish '5 am in Toronto' was on it, really. I like that song better than any on NWTS.

^^

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BU8w7B4CcAAiZyP.jpg

ha

http://theshadowleague.com/articles/drake-officially-shut-hip-hop-s-door-on-gen-x-with-nwts

Let a hundred Drake songs bloom and crush your head

http://www.stereogum.com/1489451/the-drakeography-the-100-best-drake-songs/franchises/listomania/

stop that!

there are 100 drake songs

need to sit down.

putting 'money to blow' at 94 is criminal

as is the entire concept obv

there are 100 drake songs

that's where I was, too

everything drake ever did, ranked

this guy is such a dullard

"Us" remix didn't make the top 100?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQTHP1yYbkE

I keep thinking about how this song is about "no new n*ggas" and then new guy Drake takes it and makes "No New Friends."

ah yeah, i totally forgot about that song, it was good. that whole ranking was pretty bizarre imo, but then if i loved drake i guess i'd like more songs than just the small number of ones i do.

reviewed the album: http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2013/09/album-review-nothing-was-the-same-by-drake/

rap

game

cronut

so good

For 212 of the last 222 weeks, at least one song by or featuring Drake has been in the top 10 of Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop airplay charts – he has literally never left heavy rotation on rap radio once since becoming a star, a level of sustained market saturation that virtually no act has ever enjoyed in any major radio format ever.

holy shit

That's a very good review some dude.

thx

the funniest thing about that stat is it'd actually be 216 weeks if i'd counted "All of the Lights" since he's one of the million unbilled backup singers on that.

yeah that was O__o

good otm read

lol rtc

o i c take that back-- lol some dude

lmao

If Drake isn’t really much of a rapper and isn’t really much of a singer, one supposes he deserves some credit for fusing both skills together so inseperably – the way Kevin Smith can pad out his resume as “actor/director” when putting Silent Bob in his movies.

Y'all do know that this album is going to be considered a classic, right?

applause for some dude, brilliant review

Y'all do know that this album is going to be considered a classic, right?

lol "consensus"

cosigning the praise for some dude's review.

Love the idea of significance p**n.

it feels way more like this is the New Jersey that confirms Take Care as Drake's consensus classic imo

Well that's what you want to believe. This one is equally good and will be equally big.

that wouldn't make it a "classic"

We'll see.

i think most people on this thread HAVE seen ie listened to the grim thing

a classic exists only in the ears of the listener

Take Care had 7 big radio hits, all of which either were singles or sounded like obvious singles by the time it was released. NWTS has a couple big ones so far but I dunno, I don't hear the same kinda songs that are gonna keep it on the radio a year after the release date. Obv should never underestimate Drake's grip on the radio, I'm just saying I'll be surprised if this equals TC's success.

sort of feel like drake fans' constant insistence on how "relevant" he is and how he embodies our times and how his albums are consensus-acknowledged "classics" is totally illustrative of shipz' line about significance porn

The Black Album is one of Drake's top 5 favorite albums, all he really learned from Jay-Z is how to act so important that people feel important just by listening to you. He has 3 albums and they're all Black Album style career recaps.

ilm isn't about significance porn is it though, with all the weezy and kanye threads from the past five years

We got a lotta Drake threads too. I'm talking about the content of the music, not taking issue with people listening to and discussing hugely popular artists.

yeah that's true

what's this album's "Velcro Fly"?

wrt significance porn, is it taken as given that this album owes a conscious debt to kendrick's?

this ain't no new jersey imo

he's had two top ten singles off this album already

a New Jersey is a hit album with hit singles

i mean, when i think of a contemporary new jersey i think of lady gaga, this is nowhere near as clumsy—it's a refinement of his pre-existing aesthetic

The Black Album is one of Drake's top 5 favorite albums, all he really learned from Jay-Z is how to act so important that people feel important just by listening to you. He has 3 albums and they're all Black Album style career recaps.

― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:24 AM (1 hour ago)

can i guess his other 4?

some ugk album
aaliyah
some coldplay or radiohead album
some kind of wu tang related album, probably liquid swords

Idk. Ship is a great writer and all but he writes off one of the most distinct voices of his generation as basically a plagiarist who can't sing or rap but who has nonetheless dominated the charts for years now doing just that. It kinda feels as if some part of the puzzle is missing.