That's the biggest check the X man's probably received in a minute, God I hope he gets a GRAMMY from this. Phone's ringing, could we be looking at a "Marvin's Room" part two? Goddamn! He just sampled and quoted DMX. This background noise at the end's got me still hooked though-Is that another song?-a lot of great small touches so far. He'd die for it-die for what? The success? His city? Deathwish Drake just doesn't carry any weight.
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Wait, does this song have a hook? Dude just rhymed "jang a lang" with "major thangs." That's exactly the kind of Drake line you make fun of at first and then find yourself singing along to at full volume the next time you're alone in the car. Way more impressed with the production than the vocals so far (only on song two though).
Whatever that female vocal sample is, it's perfect. Pretty typical Drake confessional, mid-tempo jam. His time hanging out with Future is finally paying off. Switched it up to the raps here, shout out to Moms, apparently he's got to take pills to go to sleep now. Distorted guitars, jazz cymbals, could definitely be some new sonic ground covered here.Ĭhange of pace, these sparkling synths sound like a fairy having an orgasm. Don't know how much I'll be coming back to this one, I'm a wife and multiple children past "let's just be friends" anthems, but I'm definitely intrigued. The mixing and mastering on this are already excellent, shout out all my people behind the scenes making music sound amazing who never get the credit. Dost thou sing withest the Auto-Tune Drizzy? Sounds a bit like it. We've heard this heartbroken crooning from Drake before, but this production is really different. "All my let's just be friends" just became a caption on 40,000 Facebook posts. Horns and almost jazz opening things up, this is definitely different, although the singing sounds like peak Drake. "Keep The Family Close"Īnd we're off.by sheer coincidence I was just talking about compiling a list of all the audio clips of random women talking on rap records. Then I'll be back later, weeks or months from now, with a follow-up review that attempts to break down the meaning and importance of the album once I've had time to marinate on it. For a deeper explanation of 1 Listen reviews, click here.Īnd with that, let's do this damn thing. Drake's albums have all been massively popular, hugely influential on pop culture, but they've never said anything more than what they said about Drake, and what that says about the millions who like to envision themselves as Drake.Īs always, this 1-Listen review will be a gut reaction, stream of consciousness account of my first listen with no pausing or rewinding and no editing. The effect is to make his music prolifically relateable-very few know what it's like to grow up as a good kid in a madd city, but we all have enemies trying to drain us of our energy, we've all driven through our respective cities with our respective woes-but has fittingly limited his album's lasting impact on the world. Cole, he never inhabits other voices and perspectives, never even acknowledges a world outside his own. Unlike the other multi-platinum rappers of his generation, Kendrick Lamar, and J. I think that's because his music is so uniformly personal every Drake song is only about Drake and nothing else. Ask 100 people if he has a classic in his catalog and if so what it is, and you'll get 100 different answers. The one weak link in Drake's armor is that, unlike the other acknowledged greats, he doesn't have a consensus classic album.