Drake: Views

I'm not listening to it and that's final *crosses arms*

This is probably the most "3 am and insomniac" album he's made yet.

lol this is trash he should make an album with mark kozelek

you're all still gonna find a way to get it in the 77

the back half of this is a lot stronger than the front imo, like controlla on I fuck w

think its time to ditch 40 as a producer

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

this like Lemonade for dudes

ew

listened to about half while I was drunk and:

- production is real pretty
- it's too long (even just in the half I've heard) and moves like it (unlike say the fetty album which is paced well for 20 damn tracks)
- weston road flows was great
- that's about all I got rn

I'm not listening to it and that's final *crosses arms* otm

^^

4thed

like, I don't envy the colleagues who have to write 900 words on this twaddle and the Beyonce parallels we'll read

more like boos from the 6th

uh, from the 6

https://mobile.twitter.com/noz/status/717387281762377728

^^

― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, April 29, 2016 10:06 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4thed

― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, April 29, 2016 10:16 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cheers for solidarity but I am physically located in TO which means my resistance is futile :(

The only drake song I know is hotline zing. Will I like this?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/28/drake-all-pervading-master-hyper-reality-rap-hip-hop

grimey simey piece

has anyone said "views from the 6/10" yet

probably

i woke up late

could this be his New Jersey?

it's just so long. so long.

I was gonna say, it feels like we've reached peak Drake.

Sorry for using that phrase, but it seems like the Drake market is saturated and people are gonna start getting sick of (or at least bored with) him.

Probably wishful thinking.

i would always argue that his best tracks are his less known (non-album, deep cuts), but the ten tracks of the second half + hotline bling would have been enough to be a good album. it's a shame because the better tracks here have the potential to convince the non believers.

there's literally nothing that will "convince me" wrt this clown

also yeah, his ubiquity is a disservice to his craft. there's another universe in which he has much less success and is still just this dork who's really good at playing the rapper. instead I guess we are all tired, I know I am.

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.

it is catchy indeed, but wtf is up with that video

He’s god.

hah i had typed that then deleted for some reason. otm. part of me hates this ego-stroking video but part of me is like hm maybe this will inspire some youngsters (or anyone) to do some good or nice? idk

sure, in that sense it's nice

but I can't help feeling like it ends being more of a demonstration of power, a celebration of the inequality that Drake is benefitting from and other people are suffering under, and maybe it's because of all the Trump stuff but that kind of gesture probably seems less innocent to me now than it would have 5 years ago

for sure

Stuff like that’s Never innocent, but not necessarily bad or nefarious either. I like the song. It feels as if he has stripped everything down to the purest, drakiest sound ever. The acapella part in the middle is a stroke of genius. So simple, so effective. So very Drake.

otm i also only love my bed and my momma im sorry

Love the b-side "Diplomatic Immunity." Goes from Motor City Casino details (Detroit) to L.A. restaurants to the UAE.

He sampled Lauryn Hill's Ex-Factor on his newest song. It's pretty good!

yea this knocks

New song is great

the best bit is the brief break that's just the Lauryn Hill and Big Freedia samples layered over each other

Fuck the beat is so good

Drake knowing exactly when to release a single with a Lauryn Hill sample is why he is dominating the charts, dude is just in total sync with the moods and zeitgeist.

the same part of "ex-factor" is interpolated in cardi b's latest single

as immediate as God's Plan is, it's grown on me

Did not expect him to come out with a New Orleans bounce song, it's nice though

He had one on Views, no?

I wouldn't know, did he?

the same part of "ex-factor" is interpolated in cardi b's latest single

More on this – https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/hip-hop/8297506/drake-nice-for-what-lauryn-hill-ex-factor-samples-kehlani-cardi-b

I wouldn't know, did he?

― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, April 8, 2018 6:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Child's Play was described to me as such

Thanks, I checked that out, it has a slowed-down bounce sample buried in there, but doesn't feel like a bounce track (it's way outside the tempo range for one thing). The new one has 'that beat'.

well now i got to know more about NO's bounce, which does deserve a mainstream crossover.

new album blew me away, i'm sorry

There is 13-14 worth of great stuff on this record, but as always with Drake there is also 10 absolute duds.

New Jersey predictions turned out to be off didn't they?

https://pitchfork.com/news/drakes-scorpion-went-platinum-on-its-release-day/

I wanted to trim it down to the tracks I enjoy and thought I'd be left with roughly a single album worth material (around 13-14 tracks)... but I ended up with 20 !
So yeah, I really like this album.
btw there's a dedicated thread ya'll :
Drake - Scorpion (June 29, 2018) ~it's a double album~

xp riaa counts streams and digital sales ("streaming equivalent" and "track equivalent albums") from pre-release singles toward album certifications now. consequently it's normal for albums to be eligible for certification immediately upon release.

the album's total first-week 'consumption' total as reflected on the billboard charts will likely be a bit less than what views pulled, inevitably broken streaming records aside.

(since i've seen heavily-rt'd twitter threads getting this point very wrong, i should point out that the way riaa handles things is NOT the same as how billboard does it. billboard will count streams and sales for "god's plan" "nice for what" and "i'm upset" towards the album's first-week total, but only those attained during the tracking period i.e. after the album was actually released. none of the streams/sales "god's plan" racked up while it was #1 on the singles chart will impact scorpion's placement on the album chart.)

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