worst Drake song on the radio this year

"Successful" seems to be the most boring, but I haven't heard any of the last three yet.

― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Successful" has some pretty pompous lyrics that make it hard for me to totally enjoy but the beat and overall vibe are kind of cool and always sound striking in the context of a radio playlist, imo easily the 2nd best song here after "Every Girl"

― @l shilpey (some dude), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 13:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

"I'm Goin' In" (featuring Lil Wayne)

wayne's whining in this is so remarkably unpleasant even by his own standards so i'm voting that. also the idea of drake trying to do southern rap is something i don't want to be approached with many more times. mary j probably second

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

i havent heard "i'm goin in", is it the same hook as the song from that jeezy mixtape?

"best i ever had" is one of my favorite singles this year, as much as i dislike drake as an artist. "successful" was boring as fuck, so that

― k3vin k., Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

um it's the same song...the Jeezy mixtape has the Drake and Wayne verses on it, not just the hook.

― uh oh I'm having a baby (some dude), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 23:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah shows you how much of an impression it left on me/what i think about drake's style that i couldnt remember he even had a verse

― k3vin k., Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah i know it's just funny after the Pill/Wale thing...you're like the Chuck Eddy of mixtapes

― uh oh I'm having a baby (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

voted worst wall hanging

what the fuck is that shit a clock?

― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 24 September 2009 04:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

gotta love the Drake

― Andrew "Nice" Clay (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 September 2009 05:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

i know i'm just a weirdo who gets mad about drums but "Forever" is so so irritating, the way the chorus suddenly shifts to those awkward hi-hat triplets that totally clash with everything else in the song...like the producer was trying to show off but totally fucked it up and wasn't willing to admit it wasn't working.

― goodship journey to lollipop (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 05:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

there's bad and then there's that mjb. what a horror.

― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

true, true.

― goodship journey to lollipop (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

i know i'm just a weirdo who gets mad about drums but "Forever" is so so irritating, the way the chorus suddenly shifts to those awkward hi-hat triplets that totally clash with everything else in the song...like the producer was trying to show off but totally fucked it up and wasn't willing to admit it wasn't working.

― goodship journey to lollipop (some dude), Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:03 AM (10 hours ago)

i don't listen to this song enough for it to really bother me but yeah i know what you're talking about and it's awful.

i just watched the video and i thought it was pretty funny how during his verse when the beat drops they cut to footage of young lebron playing basketball. good idea in theory but it works out being like "swimming etc..." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."NEMO!" / "went to the club and balled...." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."CHEMO!"

― Jacques_Lamure, Thursday, 24 September 2009 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 16:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah i know it's just funny after the Pill/Wale thing...you're like the Chuck Eddy of mixtapes

― uh oh I'm having a baby (some dude), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

super lol

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

"went to the club and balled...." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."CHEMO!"

this is the worst line. bad punchline rappers are the worst.

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

I listened to this album exactly once. Whatever was the one where he was like "I didn't cry when Pac died, but I'll cry when Jay-Z dies"

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

because that shit was creepy

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

shitty jay-z song's on the radio now too prolly

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah i meant to put "Off That" in the poll too

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

if only Jay-Z were alive to see it

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

the only reason "Forever" can't be the answer is because drake has a kinda akonish innocuousness to his hook. it's also one of the only verses from him i can really stomach because it isn't about his sex life

there has to be much more objectable crap up there

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

not if you're a drum nerd!

― iirc flair (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah...I like the rest of the Fab remix but Drake's verse is so ugh...especially when he starts the verse calling a woman "probably old enough to be my mama friend," then admits she has a son several years older than him...by the end you're like jesus dude admit it you're fucking a 70-year-old lady or something

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

also he does the thing where he stretches a word out at the end of the line and begings the next line kinda off-meter like five times in every single verse when it might be actually clever or unexpected if he only did it every once in a while

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 19:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

i am sorry you've listened to so much drak

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

drek

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah sorry they play that remix on the radio every damn day -- i like the beat and the fab verse so a lot of times i'm too lazy to switch the station just for the drake verse

― alship journey to papa (some dude), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

doesnt he have have like 5 songs in the top 25 or something? my sympathies al

― w/r/t/c (k3vin k.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

ok 4 in the top 40

― w/r/t/c (k3vin k.), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

why do u listen to so much radio, al? do you drive a cab or something?

― Please Don't Take My Air JordanS. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:29 (3 years ago) Permalink

i have a long commute that in the evenings coincides with the drivetime mix shows on all the rap stations

― some dude, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

but give me a year and i may be driving a hack cab for loose change

― some dude, Thursday, 24 September 2009 20:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 27 September 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

YOU DA BEH BABY YOU DA BEH, BEH I EVER HAH, BEH I EVER HAHHH

― petition to sloop J0hn D. (some dude), Monday, 28 September 2009 22:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 28 September 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

alright i dig "money to blow"

― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

also whenever i see this thread on site new answers i always think it's about this drake

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

surboard dudes otm about drake's hook warbling being slightly akonish

― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 November 2009 04:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

the acapella on Make It Go sounds SO BAD
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZXY6KHCA

― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

might just take your word for it there if that's okay.

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 15:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

that voice he's doing on "4 my town (play ball)" is hilarious, who the fuck does this guy think he is

― PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! (some dude), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

new single http://www.thefader.com/2010/03/04/drake-over-mp3/

me thinks this is gonna go the way of the "buzz single"

― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 March 2010 01:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

i really thought he was gonna drop a world beater

― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 March 2010 01:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

i can teach you how to speak my language ... Rosetta Stone.

― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Friday, 5 March 2010 01:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

yep...

also "two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER"

― HOOM gang (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 March 2010 01:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

i don't mind that stuff nearly as much as the sensitive stuff "I'M JUST SITTING IN MY ROOM DRINKING WINE AND WATCHING CALIFORNICATION"

i hate this dweeb, but it's not a bad tune

― Jacques_Lamure, Saturday, 6 March 2010 17:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

it's a good song with a good beat, i just think it's a weird singles choice

― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 6 March 2010 17:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

it's not a good song, and fuck boi 1da.

most transparent kanye karaoke of his career so far, sounds like he spent an hour listening to "can't tell me nothing" before he made it.

― some dude, Saturday, 6 March 2010 19:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

obv everyone is talking about the "i planted a money tree/ which is ironic/ because my mom was a florist" line

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:55 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

better yet with this shit is he drops "isn't it ironic that the girl i wanna marry is a wedding planner" the track right before

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

xp ha even as a love below defender, a lot of it is terrible, but the difference is it's never terrible because it's bland m.o.r. soft rock

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

b/w drake and alanis, i'm beginning to think canadian language arts education does not go to the trouble of explaining irony

― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

The song sounds like a goofier version of "Roses" (sonically, not in subject matter; there you'd have to look more at songs like "Prototype") with rhymes written by Lupe Fiasco; ergo, what I am saying is that it is drawing sonically and thematically on different parts of The Love Below filtered very strongly through songwriting sensibilities represented by Lupe Fiasco on tracks like "Superstar", all packaged together in something more harmless and radio-friendly.

It strikes me as mostly harmless, which is why I don't get the outright antipathy leveled towards it (whereas with someone like Drake I totally get why everyone here hates him, because he is offensively terrible).

Thus concludes my dazzling star turn as Cap'n Save-a-B.o.B.

― drop it like it's hot, Elena (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah i wasnt even gonna check if someone'd already done a oh yeah that's right i'm doing alanis morissette gag

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

more a lol canada gag

― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

hey guys how about:

my dad called me up knowing that i still listen
and he still got his foot out
guilt tripping

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

:/

― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

:D

― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop. "Nothin' on You" sounds like contemporary soft rock. Not hearing the connection.

And it is totally harmless. Which is at least 50% of why I hate it.

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

other 50% is Bruno Mars. in spirit of not wishing death on anyone, I'm hoping someone at least severs his tongue or crushes his larynx or something before he has a career.

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

i'm starting to think i should listen to the drake album for the lols

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop.

I mean, I like "Roses" but how is this even accurate?

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

<3 u lex

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.

dude, you cannot turn on hot 97 on NYC without hearing drake, about 10x an hour. seriously. if you don't listen to the critics, do you at least give the radio plays some weight on your gauge?

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

i don't live in NYC? drake hasn't even had a top 40 hit here

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

i know you don't. but it's an indicator, especially if you aren't listening to the critics.

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

what i'm asking is, if you're not listening to the critics, and you're not paying attention to what is being played in the urban music capital of the world, then what are you basing on what you listen to, as a critic?

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

obvs we can't look at sales figures yet cause the album isn't out... maybe then you'll listen

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

GIVE DRAKE A CHANCE

that's all we're saying

― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

non-new yorkers aren't really required to give one fuck about new york, just so you know

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

and lol at ny being the "urban music capital of the world" at any point after 50 cent blew up

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

the billboard chart isn't just NY

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

obv. if by "capitol", you mean the US, my bad, but that word does imply a city.

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

listen im just as stupefied at drake's success as much as anyone else. i find him completely atrocious and i cannot understand why the hip hop community has embraced him.

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

he bringin in that bieber fan money

― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

for the record, uk urban radio is more nyc-centric than it is of anywhere else and drake gets as much exposure as anyone else (top 40 or no). whether that fact constitutes a relevance that demands attention here on the other hand...

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

it does.

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

noted urban music scholar cutty has spoken

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

re: lex not listening to the record?

― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

critical responsibility of uk resident lex to listen to the record

― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

there you go

― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 00:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

― pokám0n (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 00:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

that rosetta stone lyric has the gotta be the worst.

― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 00:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

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― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 4 June 2010 01:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 4 June 2010 01:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

loooool

― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:15 (2 years ago) Permalink

and it's in "deep thoughts" font

― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:16 (2 years ago) Permalink

hahahaha

― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

― r|t|c, Friday, 4 June 2010 02:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

The 2010 version of this is going to be epic.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 17 December 2010 03:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

did the first sequel over the summer: worst Drake song on the radio PART TWO

― some dude, Friday, 17 December 2010 03:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

andy k on his blog compared (i think) drake's vocal tone to a game show buzzer. that about sums it up

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Saturday, 22 January 2011 03:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

leaning on a game show buzzer!

― wee-based god (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 22 January 2011 03:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Marvins Room" is a good contender for 2011.

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha i think this might be his first woozy sadsack R&B song that i actually kinda like. also i kinda doubt it'll be a radio hit, although that's probably wishful thinking.

― some dude, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

ok i just got to the "i've had sex four times this week" part i retract my halfhearted defense

― some dude, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I just realized this guy sounds exactly like Craig David much of the time.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 17 August 2012 22:48 (9 months ago) Permalink

lol woah

― some dude, Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:45 (9 months ago) Permalink