Drake: Views

agree w/ VHS re: the second half of the record

with few exceptions, he'll prob always be a love him or hate him rapper (and those on both sides will continue having to LET YOU KNOW those feelings in no uncertain terms). kanye is prob the only hip-hop figure who's as thoroughly polarizing at this point

it is funny 2 me that ppl so much feel they have to be a part of w/e the cultural discussion is w/r/t drake that they post like no way am I listening to this

that seems to not happen w other artists or other high profile media does it? I know im not posting on every Marvel movie thread 'no interest never seeing this'

^ i want to do this whenever i see a marvel movie thread tbf but yes OTM

i have no interest in ever seeing a marvel movie!

easier to escape marvel movies.

i absolutely disagree

it's easier to escape marvel fanboys, the movies' presence is inescapable but neutral. no one says they identify with captain america

i work for a video game company so i may be an edge case but i can absolutely tell you i ehar people discuss the relatability of spiderman and batman more often than that of drake

Drake peaked with "Hotline Bling," a brilliant song. This album bores me. But I was never a big fan to begin with. My brother on the other hand has been telling me about Views from the 6 for two years, hyping it as his magnum opus. Even he's unimpressed. Says that Drake is only interesting when he's the underdog.

LOL
https://twitter.com/RacksOnZach/status/725896611004473344

it's easier to escape marvel fanboys, the movies' presence is inescapable but neutral. no one says they identify with captain america

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, April 29, 2016 3:29 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is a whole world waiting for you out there

i briefly went through this just like a 30 second samples or whatever on itunes, most of it is bad, a few decent moments but i think we have past peak saturation drake

i thoroughly liked hotline bling prob the best thing he's done but there is a LOT of garbage on this

but i think we have past peak saturation drake

meaning that i can't see this being as ubiquitous as the last few? idk i could be wrong.

i thought IYRTITL was more fun than this

ha ok drake saturation still very much present, I just heard literally 4 drake songs across a few different stations in the past 10 minutes

- weston road flows was great

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Friday, April 29, 2016 9:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this track is good

this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake. and he's older than me even.

Sampling this, I thought Kanye's rapping on "30 Hours" was straight and dude helped with that, so for all I think dude's flow lacks spark/spontaneity sometimes I think it's just the voice

at no point in the last 7 years have i ever even wishfully gone "ok, Drake's had his moment, he'll fade away now" but this album feels like Carter 3 in the sense that it feels just a little bit past the peak moment it could've capitalized on (i.e. last fall just after Meek beef/"Hotline Bling" blowing up) and it'll be hard for him to ever get back to that same moment. i could see him have a long profitable career decline like Jay-Z though, still ubiquitous but with some palpable sense of lost urgency.

"Hype" and "Weston Road Flows" and "Too Good" felt like the initial highlights to me.

As far as peak Drake, 90% of Snapchat is still people driving/lip-syncing or smoking weed to Drake.

i'd like to listen to this, but until it's on spotify, i'm not going to go out of my way. same with lemonade, tbh, but if it doesn't end up on spotify within a few weeks, i'll prob dl it on iTunes.

sorry, dumb post.

I wish Too Good was a Rihanna song, sans Drake

Lol jaymc that's the post I was gonna make then thought the better of it.

damn I need one of those drake floaty pens

tidal is p good tbh. im enjoying my trial

Nice try Jay

feel like whenever i listen to new drake material i am rly just subconsciously scanning for early memes

p4k bodyslammed this album

views from the 6.8

oh cool a Socrates quote

Alf, see my wall for an alternate reaction

The second half of this is definitely more "adventurous" sonically but I dunno if that makes it any better?

This reminds me of Take Care in that there's aspects of a few beats that I like, but they still have this overall distant feeling that doesn't connect, "9" being a good example. "Hype"/"Grammys"-style shout flow still goofy imo.

Dude is the reverse of certain other rappers I like who are eccentric/difficult-to-defend in some sense, he seems pretty normal & some of the criticism I see focusing on his persona I think is off-base, just never been sold on him as a rapper or his production aesthetic, the latter of which seems to get little criticism

Jesus Christ put this thing on 5 seconds in he's sadsack whining that his friends don't call him pick up the phone be an adult dipshit

Those aren't his friends. He's whining about how his ex-girlfriends who said they'd be his friends after the break up aren't calling him. lol

friends, how many of us have them

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

"this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake. and he's older than me even."

that reads suspiciously like something drake would say. 'why you trying to make me feel old... and you aint even older than me, i know...'

He's whining about how his ex-girlfriends who said they'd be his friends after the break up aren't calling him. lol

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, May 13, 2016 2:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao this is even worse

lol StillAdvance

this makes me part of the problem, I know, but no artist makes me feel old, decrepit and out of touch so much as drake.

i have exactly this, the fact of him being a cool guy who the cool kids like is far beyond my comprehension

I just learned this morning from an article in FACT, which referred to Larry Graham as "Drake's Uncle," that Larry Graham is Drake's uncle.

WTF mind blown

^^Teenie Hodges is his other uncle. And his pops played drums for Jerry Lee Lewis.

industry plant

Or a gifted musician from a family of gifted musicians. Your choice.

i love the partynextdoor song on this

http://www.kanyetothe.com/forum/index.php?topic=5151329.0

Looks like the CD edition of this is changed and edited down for time. There's literally no reason to do this when this album would be pretty much a textbook double album candidate if it wasn't crafted specifically for streaming.

I would say "well shit, to get it under 80 minutes, all they had to do was take off Hotline Bling, it is demarcated as a bonus track after all", but I know exactly why they didn't do that

Surprised there's not more love for "one dance".
So good. This will be my summer jam !

it had its week

One Dance is perfect.

dj khaled got a copy of drake's poetry book

Drake sent Khaled his poetry book pic.twitter.com/jbBvLsxnYl

— Drake Direct (@DrakeDirect_) June 27, 2023

gotta love khaled

“The boy out here killing trees to have five words on each page”

Seriously, I’d sooner buy a DVD of Khaled reading and reacting to this book than to buy the book

(But might buy copies for my son and I so we can goof on it hard)

Jack Handy 6 God

Hahaha

lmao

Every now and then, when Drake decides to stop sounding like an insufferable White Lotus character, sing-whining about botched luxury vacations and the women who have supposedly done him dirty, he can still be one of the best bar-for-bar rappers on the planet. “8am in Charlotte” continues in the tradition of his head-down timestamp tracks, unloading tangy punchlines over dinner party boom-bap.

ryan dombal otm (if slightly ott)

must admit I fuck with those punchlines over dinner party boom-bap, finding this very enjoyable, lil wayne inspired wit

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