Drake: Views

There it is

Views from the 6 was such a good album title

this, however

yeah i dont know where the views are coming from. are they still from the 6 or from a different position on the number line?

so depressed Popcaan was cut from Controlla

#torontoslang

I don't think there are any other views than Drake's in his universe. So he probably cut "from the 6" because, you know, someone else could have viewed something from the 6 too and he wanted to avoid the confusion.

And yeah, the missing Popcaan makes me all kinds of depressed.

Future's verse is great tho

they're playing the whole album (minus previously released singles) on trevor nelson's show rn - http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra

The Rihanna track is good.

why you gotta fight with me at cheesecake

pretty boring album so far

someone shouldve talked him out of putting 20 songs on it

0 songs would have done just fine.

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

How much of More Life supposedly being better than this album is because of people actually like it more, vs. the Critical Narrative willing a return to form after such a "bitter" and "dark" album? Which is only true for maybe half of this.

personally i prefer More Life because it has more good music on it. just one man's opinion

"Travel through the Caribbean with Drake as he tweets passive-aggressively"

lol flopson, fair. I think it's got a few dope songs vs. his other albums which I don't like in general. Find a lot of the supposedly more "fun" material dull per his usual though, just in a different way. + him reverting to his old mopey personality toward the end

That part in "Free Smoke" where he speeds up his flow is cool tho, first time I've been kinda impressed by him stylistically since I don't know

Today I am going to challenge everyone to just go out and do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy and please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread.

You don’t have to play the song in the background or have some hashtag. This isn’t about streams and all the other tactics being used...just go be kind in any way you can and let’s all watch the world be nice to each other even if it’s for 24 hours.

Thank you

- Drake

and you get a car

Drake becoming the Oprah of rap is very on-brand.

"do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy"
"please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread"

basically as long as you tag Drake it satisfies these two conditions lol

His next album will be about being happy and the ridiculous pictures of Drake will reach its peak.

for something that was apparently the biggest song of 2016 i literally never saw or heard one dance anywhere (and still haven't)

which feels especially weird considering i've bumped into heaps of other drake stuff just moseying about over the years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM

I find this slightly repulsive

that song is SO POPULAR on the radio

Yeah, this is a weird hit. I mean, I like Drake, but I’ve listened to this song plenty of times and nothing about it sticks with me. I think we’ve just reached peak Drake, where any song he releases is an automatic #1 based on the obscene amount of streams he’ll get for it. I thought he’d kinda peaked a couple of years back, but I guess not.

yeah but this is radio and at night they take call in requests and it's always this or Cardi ppl ask for

Signs flopped just a few months ago, fyi. This is v catchy.

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?

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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