Drake: Views

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.

like what someone else said whenever I hear it I just want to put on the Kyla song

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

― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 13, 2016 7:39 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, May 13, 2016 9:08 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

advice still applicable

When he did "Hype" on SNL I was surprised he didn't transition into a ballad after the first verse

That song really displays the issues that are still there with his rapping, this over-rehearsed, every syllable precisely mapped out deal. It starts ok and the transition into the hook works but that's it.

crikey this really died a death on here quickly huh. i think Feel No Ways is his best ever song; i didn't notice it at first but it's a wonderful thing.

i was talking to my brother about Views today, I said Drake took a massive L with it, then he reminded me it was #1 on Billboard for 13 weeks straight

Yeah really depends on the measure you use. As an album it was a failure, but as a financially successful mass... mission accomplished.

Gotta believe this album will mute a lot of the excitement for the next one, though, so his career may still suffer for its mediocrity down the line

i really like my edit of this that cuts out 1/3 of the songs

Do you have a link? I do remember good songs being in there, but they're packaged with so much redundant emptiness I haven't had the energy to sift them out

I also really, really hate the singles on this album ("Too Good" exempted, if that even counts). NWTS felt like an over-padded disappointment initially, too, but it had the knockout singles to keep me coming back enough for the rest to grow on me

basically i just flat cut out anything that doesn't have at least a tangential connection to R&B

u with me?
feel no ways
weston road flows
redemption
with you
faithful
controlla
one dance
child's play
too good
fire & desire
hotline bling

you could still trim some fat there but this was basically my quick way of making the album listenable

i kinda count summer 16 & 4pm in Calabasas as Views tracks and among the best of this whole batch

i was talking to my brother about Views today, I said Drake took a massive L with it, then he reminded me it was #1 on Billboard for 13 weeks straight

― flappy bird, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah really depends on the measure you use. As an album it was a failure, but as a financially successful mass... mission accomplished.

Gotta believe this album will mute a lot of the excitement for the next one, though, so his career may still suffer for its mediocrity down the line

― Evan R, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def a new jersey

yeah biggest New Jersey since Born This Way I'd bet

downtown wippin on the wadio

'too good' is the definitive drake song imo

nothing about it on paper is objectionable, together/apart duet, muted/nullified demeanour, lovely melody, all classic all adds up... except him, in his purest form, at his nauseating snide hostile manipulative insincere paternalist weasel worst

j0rd otm, this album is totally salvageable just too many songs on it

first album to top a billion streams.

It's the first album to top 1 billion streams on Apple Music, other albums have done it on Spotify (Lean On is nearly there on its own)

I think the length of the album is a big reason why the album has racked up as many streams as it has--in the new economy, more tracks = more streams.

first album to top a billion streams.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:28 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard Drake bought a new 75 inch TV with the earnings

It would amuse Don 'n' Glenn

The string outro on "Feel No Ways" is nice. "Hold On, We're Going Home" still his only timeless song imo.

"nothing about it on paper is objectionable, together/apart duet, muted/nullified demeanour, lovely melody, all classic all adds up... except him, in his purest form, at his nauseating snide hostile manipulative insincere paternalist weasel worst"

I don't get this from "Too Good" at all, it seems pretty genuine.

I think the length of the album is a big reason why the album has racked up as many streams as it has--in the new economy, more tracks = more streams.

― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:38 PM (five days ago) Bookmark

well people can press stop

I guess Drake was unable to reach Young Thug for "Fake Love" and so thought he'd have a go at the chorus himself