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Originally Posted by noisereductions
Yeah new warren g is good tho.
If youre reading this is my fav drake album in a while. A sloppy druggy mess.
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Real talk: it's my favorite Drake album ever, period.
I've always kinda had one foot out the door when it comes to Drake. His first three albums have enough cringe-worthy moments to substantially detract from the quality of the really great moments.
Plus, you know, the whole Canadian-teen-soap-opera-actor-turned-sweatpants-wearing-half-rapper is just a hard ass sell in general. Especially since he rarely really lets rip, and tends to write from the perspective of semi-creepy lover boys who haven't yet crossed the line into stalking. It makes the fact that he's clearly hoping to occupy Jay-Z's former spot as the world's most populist rapper all the more difficult to bear. At least Hov came from slangin' packs in Crooklyn.
But I digress... If You're Reading This... has an entirely different type of energy. I have been to Toronto enough to not buy into Drake's overly embellished depiction of it as some kind of legendary metropolis** ... but whether by accident or as part of some larger plan, Drake dropped the best album of his career in the form of a surprise "mixtape"; the first entry in his catalog that sounds truly original (even though it still owes a lot to The Weeknd production wise.)
** (It's fucking
Toronto for Christ's sake... It is the least badass of the Canadian cities... Montreal is the real cultural epicenter, the city with all the class, all the culture, and that strange dreamlike, almost magical vibe that comes from the juxtaposition of the familiar with the exotic.
Vancouver is one of the greatest "hip" cities in North America; progressive and socially innovative. A beautiful and dangerous city that ranks somewhere below Seattle but above Portland in the Pacific Northwest's most desirable locations. But
Toronto? Nah. Fuckin' Hockey, maple syrup and polite bearded people. It's like the Cleveland of Canada. I still like the place, but I wish Drake would stop pretending it's the Chicago to his Kanye West.)