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

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

yeah god forbid you know the popular albums in the genre you cover

ugh -- do we hate Drake that much that we're actually defying him to entertain us. as much as I've clowned Drake, shouldn't we listen to the album first before we clown it? or at least listen without fingers in our ears?

that would be a good argument if Drake wasn't about to sell some ridiculous number of copies. no one is asking you to respect the album but knowing it -- esp for someone like you, for whom this album is, like, dead center in the middle of two genres you cover -- is kind of essential for your job

imo

xp to lex

Look how far we've all come.

― Tim F, Tuesday, November 8, 2011 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

OTM this thread is a beauty to behold

you've all listened to all of eminem's output in recent years?

does drake selling lots of records make him more worthy of your attention than meshell? that's all i'm asking. as someone who has listened to both.

xpost actually yes I have, lex

i think y'all should be interrogating what the zeitgeist is and how it's being formed and who is forming it, is what i'm saying, not blindly and slavishly following it

xpost unless you're including The Re-Up in that, but yea, even the mediocre Encore and shitty Relapse albums...

xp my sympathies

THE TRAUMA OF LISTENING TO ALBUMS I DIDN'T LIKE

"I'm a professional political reporter. I have to try EXTRA HARD to ignore Herman Cain so I can focus on the candidates deserving REAL coverage."

i mean if "it's popular! it sells lots of copies!" is your primary metric for what albums you prioritise hearing, well, i do feel very sorry for you

is lex going through some sort of pre-mid-life crisis here or what

eminem isn't getting play on the radio stations i listen to; drake is. drake is squarely w/in hip-hop & R&B in a way Em hasn't been since his 3rd album

i say this as someone who, i'm fairly sure, has heard more "major" albums in the last few years than any of you except maybe whiney

i mean if "it's popular! it sells lots of copies!" is your primary metric for what albums you prioritise hearing, well, i do feel very sorry for you

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:39 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who said anything about 'primary metric'

ahahahahah "the radio stations i listen to"

i say this as someone who, i'm fairly sure, has heard more "major" albums in the last few years than any of you except maybe whiney

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:40 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so you admit your position is totally incoherent

IF THAT'S YOUR POSITION.....WELL IT WASN'T LAST NIGHT

is that a Drake lyric

IF THAT'S YOUR POSITION.....WELL IT WASN'T LAST NIGHT

― Neanderthal, Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:41 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmao

is that a Drake lyric

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:43 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its meshell

so you admit your position is totally incoherent

no, i prioritise what i find interesting, which often happens to be major albums, but not nec because they're major albums

look the thing is the number of copies drake sells is irrelevant here. it's a red herring. if that was the case you'd just be listening to the top billboard albums and there are a ton of those you'll never bother with. it's because you want to be part of the ~critical conversation~ so you follow what other critics are talking to. fucking herd mentality!

how on earth are meshell and drake being set up against each other itt. i def prefer the former but cmon dude. u sound like a rockist talking about how if only the pop charts could understand REAL ART

guys while you are listening to Drake, Me'Shell is playing "Leviticus: Faggot" to EMPTY ARENAS! THIS IS ON YOU

u sound like a rockist talking about how if only the pop charts could understand REAL ART

yep. word for word

it's like all of a sudden Lex is grandpa simpson

they both make moody "soul" records. one has done a fantastic record but critics are not talking about her so you're not either. the other has made a dreadfuk record in line with his dreadful career but OMG IMPORTANT SELLS RECORDS ROCK CRITICS LOVE HIM LET'S TALK ABOUT DRAKE AND NOT MESHELL