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Thread started 04/29/16 1:10pm

teezee

Drake's new album sucks

Lol don't even waste ur time with it. there are only two decent tunes on the whole thing, 'Feel No Ways' and one you'd probably heard a million times by now, 'Hotline Bling'. Supposedly Drake spent 3 years in the making of this piece of garbage

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Seriously drake, wtf? lol

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What's worse is the hilarious cover.

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whoever made this horrible art has no sense of scale lol. drake's figure is photoshopped on this picture of a tower, but the scales are all wrong! if we do the math we find drake while sitting stands 11 feet tall, lol! Drake is a giant! lol

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But back on a serious note, I found myself enjoying his previous albums like 'Thank Me Later', 'Take Care', 'Nothing Was the Same' and 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late'. But as of lately (since last year) he's began to make some really TURRIBLE music. eek

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I can't defend this shit. Urghh it hurts my ears

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And it's not even his half-rapping/half-singing style. I think he can still work out some wonderful melodies. It's just his raps are so BORING now more than ever. This dude is sitting on millions and millions of dollars and he still raps like his (women) issues are important. Or stupid rap feuds with some no-name. And it's kind of sad given his pop talent. Yeah, he's no Prince but there's something mysterious and engaging about his voice that makes his music so unique

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I hope someday he realizes that his best chance at becoming a great artist lies within his pop appeal and his partner (Noah Shebib, music producer) 's help. In fact, I'd say Shebib is one of the key ingredients in the "Drake sound". His layers of synthesizers and drums blend together very well with Drake's voice. I really like when he works with both dark/moody and bright synths on different songs.

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But I guess for every Hotline Bling there has to be another awful rap song. Sigh. Larry's nephew will never learn

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Reply #1 posted 04/29/16 1:25pm

Shawy89

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I regard Drake's singing voice a faisseau of very disturbing, annoying sound waves that can cause a severe headache and at times, depression.

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Reply #2 posted 04/29/16 1:41pm

teezee

Shawy89 said:

I regard Drake's singing voice a faisseau of very disturbing, annoying sound waves that can cause a severe headache and at times, depression.

falloff

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c'mon at least admit that Hold On We're Going Home and this song are nice

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"too many times i've been wrong

i guess being right takes too long" music

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Reply #3 posted 04/29/16 2:16pm

purplethunder3
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Is that such a surprise? lol

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #4 posted 04/29/16 3:39pm

teezee

purplethunder3121 said:

Is that such a surprise? lol


idk i was expecting something else boxed honestly the dancehall vibe doesn't work for him at all. he should've stuck to making 80s sounding pop ballads a la "Hold On"
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Reply #5 posted 04/29/16 4:06pm

seand67

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Thanks for the warning lol

teezee said:

Lol don't even waste ur time with it. there are only two decent tunes on the whole thing, 'Feel No Ways' and one you'd probably heard a million times by now, 'Hotline Bling'. Supposedly Drake spent 3 years in the making of this piece of garbage

.

Seriously drake, wtf? lol

.

What's worse is the hilarious cover.

..

.

.

whoever made this horrible art has no sense of scale lol. drake's figure is photoshopped on this picture of a tower, but the scales are all wrong! if we do the math we find drake while sitting stands 11 feet tall, lol! Drake is a giant! lol

.

.

But back on a serious note, I found myself enjoying his previous albums like 'Thank Me Later', 'Take Care', 'Nothing Was the Same' and 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late'. But as of lately (since last year) he's began to make some really TURRIBLE music. eek

.

I can't defend this shit. Urghh it hurts my ears

.

And it's not even his half-rapping/half-singing style. I think he can still work out some wonderful melodies. It's just his raps are so BORING now more than ever. This dude is sitting on millions and millions of dollars and he still raps like his (women) issues are important. Or stupid rap feuds with some no-name. And it's kind of sad given his pop talent. Yeah, he's no Prince but there's something mysterious and engaging about his voice that makes his music so unique

.

I hope someday he realizes that his best chance at becoming a great artist lies within his pop appeal and his partner (Noah Shebib, music producer) 's help. In fact, I'd say Shebib is one of the key ingredients in the "Drake sound". His layers of synthesizers and drums blend together very well with Drake's voice. I really like when he works with both dark/moody and bright synths on different songs.

.

But I guess for every Hotline Bling there has to be another awful rap song. Sigh. Larry's nephew will never learn

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Reply #6 posted 04/29/16 5:06pm

Cerebus

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Never been a fan, so this won't be a problem for me (my usual comment on Drake is short and simple, "He's an actor"). But I know a lot of people have been REALLY looking forward to this album, so I hope for them it's not as bad as you make it sound.

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Reply #7 posted 04/30/16 4:22pm

paisleypark4

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seand67 said:

Thanks for the warning lol

teezee said:

Lol don't even waste ur time with it. there are only two decent tunes on the whole thing, 'Feel No Ways' and one you'd probably heard a million times by now, 'Hotline Bling'. Supposedly Drake spent 3 years in the making of this piece of garbage

.

Seriously drake, wtf? lol

.

What's worse is the hilarious cover.

..

.

.

whoever made this horrible art has no sense of scale lol. drake's figure is photoshopped on this picture of a tower, but the scales are all wrong! if we do the math we find drake while sitting stands 11 feet tall, lol! Drake is a giant! lol

.

.

But back on a serious note, I found myself enjoying his previous albums like 'Thank Me Later', 'Take Care', 'Nothing Was the Same' and 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late'. But as of lately (since last year) he's began to make some really TURRIBLE music. eek

.

I can't defend this shit. Urghh it hurts my ears

.

And it's not even his half-rapping/half-singing style. I think he can still work out some wonderful melodies. It's just his raps are so BORING now more than ever. This dude is sitting on millions and millions of dollars and he still raps like his (women) issues are important. Or stupid rap feuds with some no-name. And it's kind of sad given his pop talent. Yeah, he's no Prince but there's something mysterious and engaging about his voice that makes his music so unique

.

I hope someday he realizes that his best chance at becoming a great artist lies within his pop appeal and his partner (Noah Shebib, music producer) 's help. In fact, I'd say Shebib is one of the key ingredients in the "Drake sound". His layers of synthesizers and drums blend together very well with Drake's voice. I really like when he works with both dark/moody and bright synths on different songs.

.

But I guess for every Hotline Bling there has to be another awful rap song. Sigh. Larry's nephew will never learn

All Tea All Shade!!

I really agree with you. I await for him to make a whole album that is like Majid Joardan album.

Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Reply #8 posted 04/30/16 6:17pm

spacedolphin

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Drake sucks

Fixed

music I'm afraid of Americans. I'm afraid of the world. music
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Reply #9 posted 04/30/16 7:04pm

CynicKill

I kinda grew tired of him.

Let me guess:

Groupie drama? (check)

Ex-girlfriend issues? (check)

Haters? (check)

His ability to buy the world? (check)

>

P.S. He's cute tho'.

[Edited 4/30/16 19:08pm]

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Reply #10 posted 05/02/16 8:17pm

purplethunder3
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #11 posted 05/03/16 6:41am

paisleypark4

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CynicKill said:

I kinda grew tired of him.

Let me guess:

Groupie drama? (check)

Ex-girlfriend issues? (check)

Haters? (check)

His ability to buy the world? (check)

>

P.S. He's cute tho'.

[Edited 4/30/16 19:08pm]

Mmm...handcuff him to the bed

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Reply #12 posted 05/03/16 9:42am

Empress

teezee said:

Lol don't even waste ur time with it. there are only two decent tunes on the whole thing, 'Feel No Ways' and one you'd probably heard a million times by now, 'Hotline Bling'. Supposedly Drake spent 3 years in the making of this piece of garbage

.

Seriously drake, wtf? lol

.

What's worse is the hilarious cover.

..

.

.

whoever made this horrible art has no sense of scale lol. drake's figure is photoshopped on this picture of a tower, but the scales are all wrong! if we do the math we find drake while sitting stands 11 feet tall, lol! Drake is a giant! lol

.

.

But back on a serious note, I found myself enjoying his previous albums like 'Thank Me Later', 'Take Care', 'Nothing Was the Same' and 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late'. But as of lately (since last year) he's began to make some really TURRIBLE music. eek

.

I can't defend this shit. Urghh it hurts my ears

.

And it's not even his half-rapping/half-singing style. I think he can still work out some wonderful melodies. It's just his raps are so BORING now more than ever. This dude is sitting on millions and millions of dollars and he still raps like his (women) issues are important. Or stupid rap feuds with some no-name. And it's kind of sad given his pop talent. Yeah, he's no Prince but there's something mysterious and engaging about his voice that makes his music so unique

.

I hope someday he realizes that his best chance at becoming a great artist lies within his pop appeal and his partner (Noah Shebib, music producer) 's help. In fact, I'd say Shebib is one of the key ingredients in the "Drake sound". His layers of synthesizers and drums blend together very well with Drake's voice. I really like when he works with both dark/moody and bright synths on different songs.

.

But I guess for every Hotline Bling there has to be another awful rap song. Sigh. Larry's nephew will never learn

I have no idea what the new album is like as I'm not a fan of rap, but this pic is real. The "picture of a tower" as you describe it rolleyes is the CN Tower in Toronto. The photo was taking a few weeks back.

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Reply #13 posted 05/03/16 3:59pm

teezee

Empress said:

I have no idea what the new album is like as I'm not a fan of rap, but this pic is real. The "picture of a tower" as you describe it rolleyes is the CN Tower in Toronto. The photo was taking a few weeks back.

Yes! That's right, it's the famous CN Tower

HOwever, this goof drake thinks he can just photoshop himself on it like nobody'd notice. lol lol

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Reply #14 posted 05/04/16 3:45am

Chancellor

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I have not listened to Views but according to my Twitter feed the Majority of Men give it a thumbs up...Most of them say it's not his Best CD but it's a Good CD...

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Reply #15 posted 05/04/16 8:52am

Cinny

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I've actually heard good things about it. Forbes reported that on ONE DAY, Drake's album outsold Beyonce's first week.eek

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Reply #16 posted 05/04/16 11:11am

purplethunder3
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Cinny said:

I've actually heard good things about it. Forbes reported that on ONE DAY, Drake's album outsold Beyonce's first week.eek

lol

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #17 posted 05/06/16 6:32pm

CynicKill

Why Feeling No Ways About Drake Is Best for All Involved

There's nothing cute about 'Views' — good

picture-22656-1414617448Dan Weiss // May 6, 2016

Aubrey Graham assumed pop’s pole position on the strength of two key phrases: “Best I ever had,” a title he awards every girl he beds, and “I’m doing me,” a love story for the ages. He caused me instant revulsion, like a Kanye minus all the things that make Kanye bearable: over-smoothed Auto-Tune, beatless soundscapes, unchecked emo lyrics run rampant. (To wit: Let’s keep Noah “40” Shebib from ever remixing The Life of Pablo.)

From there he made rap history with his smash sophomore album, 2011’s Take Care, which established the four Drake food groups: fame (“Headlines”), exes (“Marvins Room”), weird romantic/paternal mentorship intersections (“Make Me Proud”), and a Baz Luhrmann-esque regard for rap history (“Under Ground Kings,” “Practice”). As his sound became more aggressive on 2013’s Nothing Was the Same, he tried to stay a step ahead of his critics, loudly admitting he’s on his worst behavior on one track, and having Jhené Aiko reassure him by massaging a chorus with an “I know you’ve been through more than most of us” on another. His drug of choice is confidence, which doesn’t differentiate him from any other alpha male rapper. What differentiates him is that the struggles he details are relatively mundane: namely, which ex do I want my next girlfriend to resemble most?

I’m to understand that we admire lines like “What you doing that’s so important?” and the admittedly wicked “My excuse is that I’m young,” not because they’re cringeworthy unto themselves but because they tap into the moments where we’ve made ourselves cringe. Drake’s self-consciousness is a weird thing; he raps like he’s in a hall of mirrors, yet not really looking into any of them. Instead, he’s waving to the security camera. Views, indeed.

So for all the self-awareness that’s supposed to set him apart from the rest of pop history, it’s hard to believe that he agrees that “You’re a good girl and you know it” or “Ever since I left the city you / Got a reputation for yourself now” — two key phrases that have extended his career by miles — are paternalistic horror shows. “Hold On, We’re Going Home” is his greatest melody though, and “Hotline Bling” (which is kind of the “Roxanne” of the 2010s) was undeniably the defining song of 2015, for better or worse. You can bet “Redemption” — where he manages to make a former flame having a baby about him — will not do the same for 2016. On the other hand, don’t expect Jay Z’s rumored Lemonade response album to be anywhere near this chilling.

One reason Drake’s fourth official album is freaking everyone out so much is because it’s his least claustrophobic; at times it sounds like his clarion ex-splaining was miked from the grand canyon (or the CN tower). There’s nary a distraction from the words that old fans are shying away from because the new Drake is something of a monster. That is, if he’s to be taken literally. Don’t do that. The reason nasty little snippets from the new album like “I gave someone else your nickname” or “I group DM my exes” — an orgy that only this guy could love — deserve more attention is because they’re definitely not going to be mistaken for reality, and that’s a good thing. The sooner we stop recognizing the Drake “character” as a human being, the more we can appreciate him as art, as grand theater, as Walter White, the geek turned sociopath. Tell PETA his mink is dragging on the floor.

Hua Hsu in the New Yorker this week claimed that Drake’s women are furniture to support someone else’s movie, a deserved put-down. But an even better movie is the one where we realize Drake is an unreliable narrator, where he’s Patrick Bateman and these exes keep piling up interchangeably like fellow suits he doesn’t recognize, like bodies under his floorboards. If any real-life avatar sweats over not having the superior business card, it’s this guy.

Drake’s never been linear enough to merit the designation of “storyteller,” just a detail junkie with stacks of moleskines who can’t organize his narratives into a beginning, middle, or end. You get the sense his relationships go the same way. The woman he chides for borrowing his car to pick up some Kotex — does she live with him? Has he been this petty for months? Is she the same person he’s fighting with at Cheesecake Factory? At the very least, these Hitchcockian eavesdrops into private conversation establish a concreteness beyond his money or the city that he’s from.

But dipping into the toxins of telling a partner you’re too good for them, we know he knows that’s not cute. For the talk of “Drake doubling down on Drake” that this hotly polarizing album is receiving, he could be vocalizing toxicity close to him instead. It’s possible he wasn’t thinking about the domestic violence allegations against his friend Ernest Baker, and has no stake in Future and Ciara’s ugly publicized split. If this is Drake’s jaundiced view of relationships he’s either in or near, Views could be his “Kim,” or the moment where we discover Walter White’s capable of poisoning a child. To paraphrase rap’s airiest pre-Drake outfit, maybe reality’s no longer a friend of his. The less we know, the better. It’s his most self-aware album to date.

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Reply #18 posted 05/09/16 8:23am

Cinny

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CynicKill said:

To paraphrase rap’s airiest pre-Drake outfit, maybe reality’s no longer a friend of his.

HAHA!! This review is awesome lol

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