Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours-- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. Or how he got with Rihanna last year. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Sounds like a sweet existence.
This is a very telling paragraph.
― da croupier, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:16 AM (20 minutes ago)
this is like when people defend dane cook
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
just as Drake's dramatically exposed selfishness is unique to hip-hop
HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD AN EMCEE BEFORE
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahahahaha
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
idk how a critic can praise it, nor how guys can relate & girls find it dreamy, since the personality painted is smirking sneaky hypocritical douchebag.
pretty sure the ladies find drake dreamy for the same reason they found rick springfield dreamy. and as for why guys want to identify with a smirking sneaky hypocritical douchebag, well...
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
grandeur
GRANDEUR?
are you fucking shitting me. only grandeur drake's familiar with is the empty void where wit and humour and substance and likability should be on this record
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
naw he's saying selfishness is found in hip hop more than elsewhere
― dat nigga del griffith (zvookster), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ha okay I misread that bit that made me incensed but the part that follows which was quoted upthread that basically says "woe is Drake, he grew up a television star in suburbia" makes the part I yelled about completely incomprehensible; pretty sure that whining about being privileged is neither unique to hip-hop nor pervasive through hip-hop
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys are making me want to actually read the review instead of just watch people freak out about the number score on other msg boards
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
well between excerpts the entire thing is pretty much posted on this thread
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't think pfork still had reviews as soul-baring as this one
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Drake's stories are better than yours
i feel sorry for ryan dombal suddenly
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
damn right, they're better than yours(, Ryan)
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
haha tempted to run with the Rick Springfield 2k10 line to describe Drake but afraid that would be unfair to "Jessie's Girl"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
well in 2010 famous friends are worth more than having at least one great song
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
this is seriously some bullshit
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
like people can relate to drake because hes not from the hood or hes been on tv since he was a kid?
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder what Ryan would have given He's The DJ I'm The Rapper back in the day, or was it too low on grandeur
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
is it okay if i just hate this album without listening to it and save myself some time? Agreed?
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
agreed. did the same thing with the blueprint 3 and it worked out great
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
well the big difference is that He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper actually WAS a wholly relatable album of suburban-friendly narrative rather than ungrateful, repellent narcissism, so likely it would have been dismissed for being fake and cheesy
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
haha totally, which is kinda what i meant by "low on grandeur"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
otm otm otm xp
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
He's The DJ I'm The Rapper is also A FUCKING RAP ALBUM
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm sure Drake's is a rap album, but in the sense Toto IV is a rock album
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:00 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck lil wayne for this basically
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
not satisfied with falling off after the carter iii he decided to take the whole rap game with him
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
aw fuck, I'm gonna listen to this just so that i can be justified in my frustration with this fuckin guy but only once, i will ONLY LISTEN ONCE and then he has to leave me alone
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah maybe i'll listen to this just so i can be mad about it.
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:06 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^otm
have no problem panning this without listening to it...slavoj zizek
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
not really sure wtf this world has come to tbh
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao http://tombreihan.tumblr.com/post/701262542/youre-the-guy-who-reviewed-that-drake-album-ryan
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
shipz just retweeted someone claiming hating on drake is the equiv of hating on justin t circa justified, which works precisely up to the point that you listen to their music, so i did a smh and clicked on it to see who it was and it was the washington post's lead critic ;_; the weak critical game possibly distresses me more than the weakness of whatever game drake thinks he's playing.
though i did get a slightly confrontational tweet from some girl asking what kind of music DID i like then if not drake, and i seem to have got her into both lady leshurr and yelawolf! some good has come of this!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i like CR as a critic up to a point, just when he's wrong i'm like oh fuck no
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
in the -ve column, i have received FIVE emails from drake's uk pr in the past two days :(
xp i'm not really familiar w/him at all
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't remember who said this, but in some thread somebody said the problem with drake and wayne and nicki, and this type of punchlines in general is that the old school dudes used to deliver killer, amazing punchlines in this cool-ass, deadpan manner as if it was nothing but a thing, whereas this type of rhyming delivers super stupid and lame punchlines as if they were so fucking amazing
it's the stupidity coupled with the smug self regard* that i can't handle
*and maybe this part of it is jay's fault
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Richards is one of the few music writers out there I really dig; he seems pretty genuinely open-minded and enthusiastic about stuff.
― Becky Facelift, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
the problem is that Drake is a shitty rapper.
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
xp i don't think that's really limited to old school dudes, more just any rappers who don't happen to be these shitheads
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah maybe yr right, but that got at the thing that irritates me so much about it
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
for peeps that don't go to Doc Funk
http://docfunk.blogspot.com/2010/06/deep-thoughts-on-drakes-thank-me-later.html
looool
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
heh
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh you could do this kind of thing to a lot of good rappers too and it would still be funny.
its been said many times but the difference with drake is how he and others present him and OMG NEXT LEVEL SHIT
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
*and=as
http://cdn.giantmag.com/files//2009/05/drake1.jpg
linked in those comments
― goole, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes you just have to ask yourself, are you a star or a spangled banner
― teflon donk (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
also i feel i need to say that for someone apparently trading on being some sort of attractive heartthrob, drake is REALLY UGLY IN THE FACE.
another point of difference between him and justin-circa-justified
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
does he seriously say "toodles, bitches"?"
― I have been forks-style since day one (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/artists/10706-trey-songz/
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link