ha ok drake saturation still very much present, I just heard literally 4 drake songs across a few different stations in the past 10 minutes
― marcos, Friday, 29 April 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
- weston road flows was great
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, April 29, 2016 9:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea this track is good
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 April 2016 22:12 (eight years ago) link
this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake. and he's older than me even.
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
Sampling this, I thought Kanye's rapping on "30 Hours" was straight and dude helped with that, so for all I think dude's flow lacks spark/spontaneity sometimes I think it's just the voice
― nova, Saturday, 30 April 2016 00:47 (eight years ago) link
at no point in the last 7 years have i ever even wishfully gone "ok, Drake's had his moment, he'll fade away now" but this album feels like Carter 3 in the sense that it feels just a little bit past the peak moment it could've capitalized on (i.e. last fall just after Meek beef/"Hotline Bling" blowing up) and it'll be hard for him to ever get back to that same moment. i could see him have a long profitable career decline like Jay-Z though, still ubiquitous but with some palpable sense of lost urgency.
"Hype" and "Weston Road Flows" and "Too Good" felt like the initial highlights to me.
― some dude, Saturday, 30 April 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
As far as peak Drake, 90% of Snapchat is still people driving/lip-syncing or smoking weed to Drake.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 30 April 2016 05:29 (eight years ago) link
i'd like to listen to this, but until it's on spotify, i'm not going to go out of my way. same with lemonade, tbh, but if it doesn't end up on spotify within a few weeks, i'll prob dl it on iTunes.
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 April 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
sorry, dumb post.
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 April 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
I wish Too Good was a Rihanna song, sans Drake
― warm winds and clear skies, Saturday, 30 April 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
Lol jaymc that's the post I was gonna make then thought the better of it.
― Spottie, Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
damn I need one of those drake floaty pens
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
tidal is p good tbh. im enjoying my trial
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 1 May 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Nice try Jay
― Andrew (nf), Sunday, 1 May 2016 06:38 (eight years ago) link
feel like whenever i listen to new drake material i am rly just subconsciously scanning for early memes
― r|t|c, Sunday, 1 May 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
p4k bodyslammed this album
― flappy bird, Monday, 2 May 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
views from the 6.8
― some dude, Monday, 2 May 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
oh cool a Socrates quote
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
Alf, see my wall for an alternate reaction
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 2 May 2016 21:59 (eight years ago) link
The second half of this is definitely more "adventurous" sonically but I dunno if that makes it any better?
This reminds me of Take Care in that there's aspects of a few beats that I like, but they still have this overall distant feeling that doesn't connect, "9" being a good example. "Hype"/"Grammys"-style shout flow still goofy imo.
Dude is the reverse of certain other rappers I like who are eccentric/difficult-to-defend in some sense, he seems pretty normal & some of the criticism I see focusing on his persona I think is off-base, just never been sold on him as a rapper or his production aesthetic, the latter of which seems to get little criticism
― nova, Monday, 9 May 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
Jesus Christ put this thing on 5 seconds in he's sadsack whining that his friends don't call him pick up the phone be an adult dipshit
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 May 2016 12:39 (eight years ago) link
Those aren't his friends. He's whining about how his ex-girlfriends who said they'd be his friends after the break up aren't calling him. lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 14:08 (eight years ago) link
friends, how many of us have them
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2016 14:10 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOEDtqdbWAg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 May 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
"this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake. and he's older than me even."
that reads suspiciously like something drake would say. 'why you trying to make me feel old... and you aint even older than me, i know...'
― StillAdvance, Friday, 13 May 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
He's whining about how his ex-girlfriends who said they'd be his friends after the break up aren't calling him. lol
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, May 13, 2016 2:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao this is even worse
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
lol StillAdvance
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 13 May 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake.
i have exactly this, the fact of him being a cool guy who the cool kids like is far beyond my comprehension
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I just learned this morning from an article in FACT, which referred to Larry Graham as "Drake's Uncle," that Larry Graham is Drake's uncle.
WTF mind blown
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 16 May 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
^^Teenie Hodges is his other uncle. And his pops played drums for Jerry Lee Lewis.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 16 May 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
industry plant
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 16 May 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
Or a gifted musician from a family of gifted musicians. Your choice.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
i love the partynextdoor song on this
― de l'asshole (flopson), Monday, 16 May 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=5151329.0
Looks like the CD edition of this is changed and edited down for time. There's literally no reason to do this when this album would be pretty much a textbook double album candidate if it wasn't crafted specifically for streaming.
I would say "well shit, to get it under 80 minutes, all they had to do was take off Hotline Bling, it is demarcated as a bonus track after all", but I know exactly why they didn't do that
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 07:24 (eight years ago) link
Surprised there's not more love for "one dance".So good. This will be my summer jam !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
it had its week
― da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
One Dance is perfect.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
like what someone else said whenever I hear it I just want to put on the Kyla song
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 13, 2016 7:39 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, May 13, 2016 9:08 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
advice still applicable
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
When he did "Hype" on SNL I was surprised he didn't transition into a ballad after the first verse
That song really displays the issues that are still there with his rapping, this over-rehearsed, every syllable precisely mapped out deal. It starts ok and the transition into the hook works but that's it.
― nova, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
crikey this really died a death on here quickly huh. i think Feel No Ways is his best ever song; i didn't notice it at first but it's a wonderful thing.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
i was talking to my brother about Views today, I said Drake took a massive L with it, then he reminded me it was #1 on Billboard for 13 weeks straight
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah really depends on the measure you use. As an album it was a failure, but as a financially successful mass... mission accomplished.
Gotta believe this album will mute a lot of the excitement for the next one, though, so his career may still suffer for its mediocrity down the line
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
i really like my edit of this that cuts out 1/3 of the songs
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Do you have a link? I do remember good songs being in there, but they're packaged with so much redundant emptiness I haven't had the energy to sift them out
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
I also really, really hate the singles on this album ("Too Good" exempted, if that even counts). NWTS felt like an over-padded disappointment initially, too, but it had the knockout singles to keep me coming back enough for the rest to grow on me
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link
basically i just flat cut out anything that doesn't have at least a tangential connection to R&B
u with me?feel no waysweston road flowsredemptionwith youfaithfulcontrollaone dancechild's playtoo goodfire & desirehotline bling
you could still trim some fat there but this was basically my quick way of making the album listenable
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 September 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
i kinda count summer 16 & 4pm in Calabasas as Views tracks and among the best of this whole batch
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
― flappy bird, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Evan R, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
def a new jersey
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
yeah biggest New Jersey since Born This Way I'd bet
― Evan R, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
downtown wippin on the wadio
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link