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

hey j0rdan i liked yr pusha t review btw

this m'shell is pretty good! though i guess i'm surprised you like it lex! it seems to have a certain sorta boring respectiblility that i don't associate w/you

if kelly clarkson had a 2 chainz feature

thank you m@tt

lex how wld u feel abt another critic or even just poster coming into a thread abt mariah carey or idk any other pop star u think has value & criticizing ppl liking or even just listening to it as "fuckin herd mentality!" ? u are being ridiculous imo

most of the posters itt were not drake fans and only listened to it because it was this week's critical conversation

m@tt remember i love sade

if any artist leaves me NO motivation to listen to their album just to 'keep up' it's Drake -- he'll have like 20 songs in heavy rotation over the next year, a quarter of which will be from this album. i really don't feel like i'm missing out on anything.

xxxpost j0rdan's been posting about how he's been thinking this might be good for months!

you should prob give it a spin, it's pretty great

xpost yeah def get the sade thing

it's just sometimes lex i feel like you shit on certain things because they have kind of an "NPR" appeal you know?

maybe when it's on spotify i'll put it on but the idea of hunting for a leak and making a point to put it on my ipod and spend an hour with it at work is like NO

i won't argue w/ that

(i hope you were making a reference to the nicki minaj line there)

what is NPR? i only know it as that place that ann powers writes for, often excellently

yessss

this m'shell album is good! liking it more as it goes on

what is NPR? i only know it as that place that ann powers writes for, often excellently

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 7:23 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

national public radio..sorry..i guess here it is shorthand for a certain kinda boring adult middlebrow appeal? like i bet there's a BBC radio station that would be equivalent in tone (bbb6 maybe?)

radio 2! and haha yeah 6music as well even if it likes to think of itself as hipper.

all i'm trying to do is interrogate what records get default critical attention and why. really hate it when every critic on my timeline is talking about the same mediocre major label release, all of them seem beholden to the same blog leak or press release. they all seem to be followers, not leaders

fight the power bro

I think lex just gets mad when critics pay attention to something that didn't get the lex seal

fwiw the only thing i've written publicly about drake was pretty much primarily critical so al's complaint doesnt really register for me either

which complaint?

that we listened to the album so we're all drake stans collecting dandelions

well yeah obv not everyone itt is a fan but j0rdan and whiney are pretty disappointing tbh

fwiw if i was asked to publish a review somewhere that didn't have to be positive at all i'd download it right this second

lex keep fighting the good fight, drake is garbage, y'all are turning into dandelion enthusiasts

i knew there was a reason i clicked on this thread

time for the Blue Slide Park thread

lol

http://pitchfork.com/news/44569-drake-hates-tumblr-likes-leaks/

kind of... perceptive?

http://hugsfromdrake.tumblr.com/

so, not much talk about the rapping on this rap record. is it any good?

Certainly better than the shit trashbag flow of his previous abortions. Dude isn't Kane or anything but def gets the Rick Rock Honorary most improved trophy

*Rick Ross

I counted one hashbag on the whole record

three songs in, nodding my head to the production for the most part - i've always much preferred drake's r&b side to his rapping - atmospherically this alright. drake's rapping has certainly improved from his nadir but improving from actively bad to inoffensively ignorable isn't a game-changing achievement or anything.

still, not despising this like i thought i would

after four songs still no grocery bags i've noticed but then he's not really rapping all that much

from sales of this album he should finally be able to afford that surgery to move his eyes closer to the center of his face

"underground kings" is pretty underwhelming, people are feeling this? in this environment it'll be the hardest thing msot people hear on the radio but it's solidly soft-serve as far as rap bangers go. what 'city' is he 'doing it for' again? lol

did kendrick just say "nymphet"? i could use more nabokov references in my rap generally

nikki had to go and ruin the best flow of the record with a grocery bag

wow i'm fucking with "lord knows"

well the back half or so of this is kinda just there, huh

so this album was kind of a pleasant surprise in some respects - you just wait for drake to make you want to turn it off but the best thing that can probably be said about this is that it's extremely listenable (not sure how that'll apply to repeat listens). sarge otm when he said that drake made the best album he had in him - which is still just a 6/10 or so but much better than i was expecting - he admirably suppressed his most hateable tendencies and rode his strengths, which mostly is his atmosphere - even if it comes off a bit samey

sarge should be shot for comparing the production to LTTP, though, straight up

Ironically I wasn't motivated to listen to this any time soon but lex's visceral hatred is weirdly compelling?

OTOH I tend to trust k3vin on these things and there are a lot of 6/10 records out there.

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

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

"time for the Blue Slide Park thread"

"from sales of this album he should finally be able to afford that surgery to move his eyes closer to the center of his face"

Neanderthal killing it itt.

Good summary KK.

otm

"lord knows" is definitely the cut off of this - i honestly can't tell if i actually dig drake's rapping on that or if that beat obscures the tone of his voice so much that the competence he brings to the table is enough

i'm no rawse fan either but he brings it too

well the back half or so of this is kinda just there, huh

rly tho

Huh, this was kind of dull on first listen, and I *liked* TML!

there's a small sample of esg's swangin and bangin on HYFR (gotta do what i gotta do)

record is fucking amazing

in what regard