I guess Drake was unable to reach Young Thug for "Fake Love" and so thought he'd have a go at the chorus himself
― niels, Monday, 31 October 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
awkward patois on No Long Talk
― niels, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link
wow on quite a few tracks
the having a hard time adjusting to fame trope is p tired by now
― niels, Thursday, 30 March 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
i fuck with passionfruit tbh
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
same
His best album since Take Care if I ignore him. The guests and samples are OK to excellent.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
Want to say VIEWS would be a great album if it was cut down to 10 tracks and 40 minutes, but upon revisiting it, I think it would just be pretty good. The dancehall songs are the only ones that feel like expansions on his style, the rest feel like retreads. I like "Feel No Ways" a lot, but can't shake the fact that it sounds like the bitter sequel to "Hold on We're Going Home" (although I wouldn't be totally opposed to Drake further exploring his chillwave side...). Also, the sequencing is terrible. The title track would be a decent closer if the album itself wasn't so exhausting.
Drake shocked me by essentially admitting VIEWS was disappointing artistically ("I was an angry youth when i was writing Views/Seen a side of myself that I never knew" is most direction admission we're going to get) and pivoted with More Life, reestablishing himself critically and further cementing his status as a commercial force. VIEWS will not be his New Jersey.
For what it's worth, here's my ideal VIEWS tracklist:
9U With Me? Feel No WaysHypeControllaOne DanceHotline BlingToo GoodChilds PlayViews
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Views can't be a New Jersey because Hotline Bling is his definitive track imo.
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
― gospodin simmel, Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:49 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this is true
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
Hotline Bling was released 9 months before Views and was only tacked on to juice the streams count
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:03 (seven years ago) link
also true
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
How much of More Life supposedly being better than this album is because of people actually like it more, vs. the Critical Narrative willing a return to form after such a "bitter" and "dark" album? Which is only true for maybe half of this.
I understand I'm the last one not onboard who just doesn't appreciate dude's current alleged genre-mixing genius. I wonder though
― nova, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 02:34 (seven years ago) link
More Life made me like Views better—i appreciate Views's cohesiveness more now
― austinb, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
personally i prefer More Life because it has more good music on it. just one man's opinion
― flopson, Wednesday, 10 May 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
"Travel through the Caribbean with Drake as he tweets passive-aggressively"
― Let’s just do it and be legends, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 10 May 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
lol flopson, fair. I think it's got a few dope songs vs. his other albums which I don't like in general. Find a lot of the supposedly more "fun" material dull per his usual though, just in a different way. + him reverting to his old mopey personality toward the end
That part in "Free Smoke" where he speeds up his flow is cool tho, first time I've been kinda impressed by him stylistically since I don't know
― nova, Thursday, 11 May 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
Today I am going to challenge everyone to just go out and do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy and please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread.
You don’t have to play the song in the background or have some hashtag. This isn’t about streams and all the other tactics being used...just go be kind in any way you can and let’s all watch the world be nice to each other even if it’s for 24 hours.
Thank you
- Drake
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
and you get a car
― warm winds and clear skies, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link
Drake becoming the Oprah of rap is very on-brand.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
"do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy""please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread"
basically as long as you tag Drake it satisfies these two conditions lol
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
His next album will be about being happy and the ridiculous pictures of Drake will reach its peak.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
for something that was apparently the biggest song of 2016 i literally never saw or heard one dance anywhere (and still haven't)
which feels especially weird considering i've bumped into heaps of other drake stuff just moseying about over the years
― heliogabberlus, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 07:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM
I find this slightly repulsive
― niels, Thursday, 22 February 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
that song is SO POPULAR on the radio
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this is a weird hit. I mean, I like Drake, but I’ve listened to this song plenty of times and nothing about it sticks with me. I think we’ve just reached peak Drake, where any song he releases is an automatic #1 based on the obscene amount of streams he’ll get for it. I thought he’d kinda peaked a couple of years back, but I guess not.
― triggercut, Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
yeah but this is radio and at night they take call in requests and it's always this or Cardi ppl ask for
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link
Signs flopped just a few months ago, fyi. This is v catchy.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
it is catchy indeed, but wtf is up with that video
― niels, Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
He’s god.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
hah i had typed that then deleted for some reason. otm. part of me hates this ego-stroking video but part of me is like hm maybe this will inspire some youngsters (or anyone) to do some good or nice? idk
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:38 (six years ago) link
sure, in that sense it's nice
but I can't help feeling like it ends being more of a demonstration of power, a celebration of the inequality that Drake is benefitting from and other people are suffering under, and maybe it's because of all the Trump stuff but that kind of gesture probably seems less innocent to me now than it would have 5 years ago
― niels, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:26 (six years ago) link
for sure
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
Stuff like that’s Never innocent, but not necessarily bad or nefarious either. I like the song. It feels as if he has stripped everything down to the purest, drakiest sound ever. The acapella part in the middle is a stroke of genius. So simple, so effective. So very Drake.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
otm i also only love my bed and my momma im sorry
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Love the b-side "Diplomatic Immunity." Goes from Motor City Casino details (Detroit) to L.A. restaurants to the UAE.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
He sampled Lauryn Hill's Ex-Factor on his newest song. It's pretty good!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Saturday, 7 April 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
yea this knocks
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 7 April 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
New song is great
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
the best bit is the brief break that's just the Lauryn Hill and Big Freedia samples layered over each other
― ufo, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
Fuck the beat is so good
― flappy bird, Sunday, 8 April 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
Drake knowing exactly when to release a single with a Lauryn Hill sample is why he is dominating the charts, dude is just in total sync with the moods and zeitgeist.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 April 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
the same part of "ex-factor" is interpolated in cardi b's latest single
― dyl, Sunday, 8 April 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
as immediate as God's Plan is, it's grown on me
― niels, Sunday, 8 April 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
Did not expect him to come out with a New Orleans bounce song, it's nice though
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 8 April 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
He had one on Views, no?
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 April 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't know, did he?
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 8 April 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
More on this – https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/hip-hop/8297506/drake-nice-for-what-lauryn-hill-ex-factor-samples-kehlani-cardi-b
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 9 April 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, April 8, 2018 6:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Child's Play was described to me as such
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
Thanks, I checked that out, it has a slowed-down bounce sample buried in there, but doesn't feel like a bounce track (it's way outside the tempo range for one thing). The new one has 'that beat'.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
well now i got to know more about NO's bounce, which does deserve a mainstream crossover.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
new album blew me away, i'm sorry
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link