Simpin Ain't Easy: The Official Thread For Drake's Sophomore Album, TAKE CARE

it's good that lex didn't have any opinions about this album before he started listening to it

i didn't though? i had opinions about the singles, and about drake. i listened to the album in order to have opinions about it specifically.

you're really gonna claim you listened to this with fresh ears?

are people not allowed to opine on artists they already have opinions about...

i already loved ciara, should i not have talked about or reviewed basic instinct?

actually though i listened to it For Work.

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:02 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha, that's all i was wondering; you'd just seemed v ambivalent about the idea of curiosity listening wrt records that you know you're gonna hate, i can see how professionalism is something diff.

no i get the curiosity thing, i was just SMHing about everyone leaping at it the minute it leaked as though they couldn't wait, as though they had nothing better to check out first, in a way that they wouldn't for many other artists

whether you hate or love drake, ou can't deny this isn't a big cultural event

i don't really like the idea that the "biggest" albums should automatically be at the front of the queue when it comes to what we choose to listen to, or that the "conversation" is more important than the music

i trust everyone will be on the meshell ndegéocello album as soon as it's out next week? or because she's not a platinum-selling artist does that make you want to bother less?

yep, it makes me want to bother less. in fact, I don't think I'm gonna listen to it at all now.

shut up you 2 that was a hilarious lex liveblog

i will not apologize for eagerly anticipating and listening to the drake album

I think it's a bit odd to castigate people for listening to the Drake album right when it leaks or whatever. I listen to all kinds of music all day every day, as I'm sure most people on here do. It's not gonna effect my ability to listen to other stuff if if choose to download Take Care when it leaks. Right now, for example, i'm listening to the Cousin Fik tape which Lex recommended on the gun sounds thread. It's really good!

"that was a hilarious lex liveblog"

otm

She said, “you’re such a dog”, I said, “you’re such a bone.”

.............

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 12:52 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i just have to come back to that because I CAN'T EVEN. WHAT.

He boned her, you see.

hexmurda hex hawking
Nigga, I DO NOT hate @drake. I actually have a lot of respect for his mgmt. I just think he makes music for niggas who collect dandelions.

loool

GUILTY AS CHARGED *reveals extensive dandelion collection*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumYKJSl354

One thing I think is off-putting about the Weekend's presence here is that Abel's character is way skeezier and creepier than Drake ever is. Drake's conflicted, but he seems to ultimately have this empathetic streak to him that the Weeknd only ever shows obliquely.

"I'm really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr." — Drake

the rest of that quote is actually p interesting and maybe even v otm

full quote:

I'm really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that shit doesn't matter. No one gives a fuck about that shit. Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they're just taking these images and living vicariously through other people's moments. It just kills me. Then you'll meet them and they're just the biggest turkey in the world. They don't actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It's scary man, simulation life that we're living. It scares me.

So, on "Look What You've Done": first verse about his mom, second his uncle?

does it hype him up and make him catch a body like that?

xp

fyi drake shows up in gis for "biggest turkey in the world".

i don't really like the idea that the "biggest" albums should automatically be at the front of the queue when it comes to what we choose to listen to, or that the "conversation" is more important than the music

i trust everyone will be on the meshell ndegéocello album as soon as it's out next week? or because she's not a platinum-selling artist does that make you want to bother less?

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:25 (7 hours ago) Permalink

Look how far we've all come.

full quote:

I'm really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that shit doesn't matter. No one gives a fuck about that shit. Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they're just taking these images and living vicariously through other people's moments. It just kills me. Then you'll meet them and they're just the biggest turkey in the world. They don't actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It's scary man, simulation life that we're living. It scares me.

― markers, Tuesday, November 8, 2011 3:53 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah sarge this was super deep *farts*

xpost that said I'm keen to hear the Me'Shell!

for all that most of his songs are centred around either A Girl who he places on a pedestal or His Own Navel, he's remarkably bad at characterisation - i don't feel like there's been a single interesting detail about anyone he's described. it's just totally empty of personality.

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 5:17 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is otm.

Otherwise, big lols at lex's spleen.

Look how far we've all come.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 17:19 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha otm. if anything this is bizarro ilx because of deej & lex's posts, not j0rdan's

stop posting itt immediately & go post in the heavy d thread

New mixtape: Simpulacrum Life

yeah sarge this was super deep *farts*

― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 5:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i didn't say it was deep

it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school

hmm

I love this album. Sorry for all the mean things I said over the last three years, Drake.

finally, some sense itt

Ladies and gentlemen, the gangsta Salem has arrived

yeah another dude who thought MBDTF and WTT were hot likes this album i'm getting hype xp

I have never not thought that Tim! What do you think? Drake is automatically more worthy of attention than Meshell?

Whiney did you seriously like WTT and Stupid Fantasy??!!

I'm on a bus jamming LTTP atm and my mind is still being blown by it a year on - every word every sound - I'm sure you'll all think that because it's not a ~cultural event~ like Fucking Drake we shouldn't be talking about it though

I love MBDTF and like the beats on WTT but hate the " rapping"

Also how is the guy with the Kim Kardash lyric as his display name the one it's implied is out of touch w/pop culture

Xp kmt

lex idk how it is over there but i can't act like everyone on my timeline isn't talking about this, shit last night less than 24 hours after it leaked it was all people were talking about on the basketball court

^

That's kind of how it was over here! Make no mistake every time all the critics on my timeline get excited about a thing - make no mistake I HATE THAT THING and think they have incredibly poor taste

idg whats so unexpected about my posts on this thread i'm pretty much *shrugs* abt it & wont listen that much, p much fits in w/ how i reacted to my big dumb beautiful fantasy, its one of those things that's so major it'll impact hip-hop whether u want it to or not so its kind of a must-hear

i think of "must-hear" as "something that is really excellent"

stop talking like industry people

all these arguments are the ones made by PRs every day that i have to studiously ignore in order to find and hear the music i actually think is deserving of coverage