worst Drake song on the radio this year

"Successful" seems to be the most boring, but I haven't heard any of the last three yet.

"Successful" has some pretty pompous lyrics that make it hard for me to totally enjoy but the beat and overall vibe are kind of cool and always sound striking in the context of a radio playlist, imo easily the 2nd best song here after "Every Girl"

"I'm Goin' In" (featuring Lil Wayne)

wayne's whining in this is so remarkably unpleasant even by his own standards so i'm voting that. also the idea of drake trying to do southern rap is something i don't want to be approached with many more times. mary j probably second

i havent heard "i'm goin in", is it the same hook as the song from that jeezy mixtape?

"best i ever had" is one of my favorite singles this year, as much as i dislike drake as an artist. "successful" was boring as fuck, so that

um it's the same song...the Jeezy mixtape has the Drake and Wayne verses on it, not just the hook.

yeah shows you how much of an impression it left on me/what i think about drake's style that i couldnt remember he even had a verse

yeah i know it's just funny after the Pill/Wale thing...you're like the Chuck Eddy of mixtapes

voted worst wall hanging

what the fuck is that shit a clock?

gotta love the Drake

i know i'm just a weirdo who gets mad about drums but "Forever" is so so irritating, the way the chorus suddenly shifts to those awkward hi-hat triplets that totally clash with everything else in the song...like the producer was trying to show off but totally fucked it up and wasn't willing to admit it wasn't working.

there's bad and then there's that mjb. what a horror.

true, true.

i know i'm just a weirdo who gets mad about drums but "Forever" is so so irritating, the way the chorus suddenly shifts to those awkward hi-hat triplets that totally clash with everything else in the song...like the producer was trying to show off but totally fucked it up and wasn't willing to admit it wasn't working.

― goodship journey to lollipop (some dude), Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:03 AM (10 hours ago)

i don't listen to this song enough for it to really bother me but yeah i know what you're talking about and it's awful.

i just watched the video and i thought it was pretty funny how during his verse when the beat drops they cut to footage of young lebron playing basketball. good idea in theory but it works out being like "swimming etc..." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."NEMO!" / "went to the club and balled...." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."CHEMO!"

lol

yeah i know it's just funny after the Pill/Wale thing...you're like the Chuck Eddy of mixtapes

― uh oh I'm having a baby (some dude), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

super lol

"went to the club and balled...." *CUT TO LEBRON*..."CHEMO!"

this is the worst line. bad punchline rappers are the worst.

I listened to this album exactly once. Whatever was the one where he was like "I didn't cry when Pac died, but I'll cry when Jay-Z dies"

because that shit was creepy

shitty jay-z song's on the radio now too prolly

yeah i meant to put "Off That" in the poll too

if only Jay-Z were alive to see it

the only reason "Forever" can't be the answer is because drake has a kinda akonish innocuousness to his hook. it's also one of the only verses from him i can really stomach because it isn't about his sex life

there has to be much more objectable crap up there

not if you're a drum nerd!

yeah...I like the rest of the Fab remix but Drake's verse is so ugh...especially when he starts the verse calling a woman "probably old enough to be my mama friend," then admits she has a son several years older than him...by the end you're like jesus dude admit it you're fucking a 70-year-old lady or something

also he does the thing where he stretches a word out at the end of the line and begings the next line kinda off-meter like five times in every single verse when it might be actually clever or unexpected if he only did it every once in a while

i am sorry you've listened to so much drak

drek

yeah sorry they play that remix on the radio every damn day -- i like the beat and the fab verse so a lot of times i'm too lazy to switch the station just for the drake verse

doesnt he have have like 5 songs in the top 25 or something? my sympathies al

ok 4 in the top 40

why do u listen to so much radio, al? do you drive a cab or something?

i have a long commute that in the evenings coincides with the drivetime mix shows on all the rap stations

but give me a year and i may be driving a hack cab for loose change

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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alright i dig "money to blow"

also whenever i see this thread on site new answers i always think it's about this drake

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

surboard dudes otm about drake's hook warbling being slightly akonish

the acapella on Make It Go sounds SO BAD
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZXY6KHCA

might just take your word for it there if that's okay.

that voice he's doing on "4 my town (play ball)" is hilarious, who the fuck does this guy think he is

new single http://www.thefader.com/2010/03/04/drake-over-mp3/

me thinks this is gonna go the way of the "buzz single"

i really thought he was gonna drop a world beater

i can teach you how to speak my language ... Rosetta Stone.

yep...

also "two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER"

i don't mind that stuff nearly as much as the sensitive stuff "I'M JUST SITTING IN MY ROOM DRINKING WINE AND WATCHING CALIFORNICATION"

i hate this dweeb, but it's not a bad tune

it's a good song with a good beat, i just think it's a weird singles choice

it's not a good song, and fuck boi 1da.

most transparent kanye karaoke of his career so far, sounds like he spent an hour listening to "can't tell me nothing" before he made it.

The song sounds like a goofier version of "Roses" (sonically, not in subject matter; there you'd have to look more at songs like "Prototype") with rhymes written by Lupe Fiasco; ergo, what I am saying is that it is drawing sonically and thematically on different parts of The Love Below filtered very strongly through songwriting sensibilities represented by Lupe Fiasco on tracks like "Superstar", all packaged together in something more harmless and radio-friendly.

It strikes me as mostly harmless, which is why I don't get the outright antipathy leveled towards it (whereas with someone like Drake I totally get why everyone here hates him, because he is offensively terrible).

Thus concludes my dazzling star turn as Cap'n Save-a-B.o.B.

yeah i wasnt even gonna check if someone'd already done a oh yeah that's right i'm doing alanis morissette gag

more a lol canada gag

hey guys how about:

my dad called me up knowing that i still listen
and he still got his foot out
guilt tripping

:/

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:D

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop. "Nothin' on You" sounds like contemporary soft rock. Not hearing the connection.

And it is totally harmless. Which is at least 50% of why I hate it.

other 50% is Bruno Mars. in spirit of not wishing death on anyone, I'm hoping someone at least severs his tongue or crushes his larynx or something before he has a career.

i'm starting to think i should listen to the drake album for the lols

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop.

I mean, I like "Roses" but how is this even accurate?

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

<3 u lex

i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.

dude, you cannot turn on hot 97 on NYC without hearing drake, about 10x an hour. seriously. if you don't listen to the critics, do you at least give the radio plays some weight on your gauge?

i don't live in NYC? drake hasn't even had a top 40 hit here

i know you don't. but it's an indicator, especially if you aren't listening to the critics.

what i'm asking is, if you're not listening to the critics, and you're not paying attention to what is being played in the urban music capital of the world, then what are you basing on what you listen to, as a critic?

obvs we can't look at sales figures yet cause the album isn't out... maybe then you'll listen

GIVE DRAKE A CHANCE

that's all we're saying

non-new yorkers aren't really required to give one fuck about new york, just so you know

and lol at ny being the "urban music capital of the world" at any point after 50 cent blew up

the billboard chart isn't just NY

obv. if by "capitol", you mean the US, my bad, but that word does imply a city.

listen im just as stupefied at drake's success as much as anyone else. i find him completely atrocious and i cannot understand why the hip hop community has embraced him.

he bringin in that bieber fan money

for the record, uk urban radio is more nyc-centric than it is of anywhere else and drake gets as much exposure as anyone else (top 40 or no). whether that fact constitutes a relevance that demands attention here on the other hand...

it does.

noted urban music scholar cutty has spoken

re: lex not listening to the record?

critical responsibility of uk resident lex to listen to the record

there you go

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that rosetta stone lyric has the gotta be the worst.

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loooool

and it's in "deep thoughts" font

hahahaha

http://cdn.giantmag.com/files//2009/05/drake1.jpg

The 2010 version of this is going to be epic.

did the first sequel over the summer: worst Drake song on the radio PART TWO

andy k on his blog compared (i think) drake's vocal tone to a game show buzzer. that about sums it up

leaning on a game show buzzer!

"Marvins Room" is a good contender for 2011.

ha i think this might be his first woozy sadsack R&B song that i actually kinda like. also i kinda doubt it'll be a radio hit, although that's probably wishful thinking.

ok i just got to the "i've had sex four times this week" part i retract my halfhearted defense

I just realized this guy sounds exactly like Craig David much of the time.

lol woah

Drake
with Miguel & Future

Thursday, October 31
Verizon Center

Hmmm, interesting

dammit drake, stop associating yourself with people who don't suck

Best I Ever Had still his best song ever and he should have retired immediately after it