Drake in 2011
Drake is absolutely killing at the moment. Aside from his co-signing of The Weeknd who are at least to my mind the most exciting new act this year, in the past month he's dropped 4 fucking amazing tracks.
Dreams Money Can Buy (featuring a sample from the awesome BTSTU by Jai Paul, amazingly on point choice): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSa4woeeVE
Marvin's Room (which is probably the most straight-talking confessional song that he's ever released): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwyjxsOYnys
"The girl that I would call, is happy with a good guy/ but I've been drinking so much, that I'ma call her anyway and say/ fuck that nigga that you love so bad/ I know you still think about the times we had/ I say fuck that nigga that you think you found/ and since you pick up I know he's not around... I'm just saying you could do better." Who else could write a song like this about drunk-dialing and get you on his side at the same time?
Obviously, the fucking anthem that is I'm On One (with DJ Khaled, Weezy and RAWWWS):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23o-y0VuNT4
And then the new one Trust Issues, a slowed down remix of I'm On One - and there's also the awesome Weeknd remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxEyR_gZKNA / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVCV6hyv7ac
So basically, Drake is showing no signs of stopping after Thank Me Later, and is a complete hero. Er, thoughts?
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tl;dr
Also, apologies for all these slowed down YouTube rips, I have no idea what that recent thing is all about, I assume some sort of copyright shit.
Can you link me to a video
of him actually singing live? I'm curious about what his singing voice is like in person.
Otherwise, I haven't paid too much attention to him post-Thank Me Later, but I'll remedy that now. Thanks for all the links.
I bloody love Drizzy
Really looking forward to hearing the new album. Apparently Jamie from The xx produced some of it. Only heard two of the four songs above.
Would be good if he did something with The Weeknd. Or The-Dream.
marvin's room is amazing
similar in tone to kanye's runaway, but runaway is still the best song in recent memory
Sbtrkt & Drake Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-MkyMgNtss
with links like that...
I can see sbtrkt gettin a mercy
Jhené Aiko's answer to Marvin's Room
http://soundcloud.com/new-music/do-better-blues-pt-2-marvins
Headlines video:
http://vimeo.com/welcomeovo/drakeheadlines
So much love for this track.
New one with Wayne - The Real Her
This is exactly how I like Drake to be:
http://www.hulkshare.com/4x8jp8omv2zq
Is Drake killing music?
Hey seaninkansas
hum
http://troll.me/images/are-you-fucking-kidding-me/uh-hmmmm-are-you-fucking-kidding-me.jpg
drip drip
got a presentation to write
need....to....hold....off....listening....to....this....just....yet
First impressions of Take Care are excellent.
Has a really nice flow to it. Over My Dead Body is a really great opener.
Lord Knows is probably my favourite track. Just Blaze production is brilliant, in fact the production across the whole album is top notch.
gonna give this another go
needs some quality control in a big way on first impressions
I enjoyed it more
but damn if I don't want more moments like Headlines. this shit is sooofffttttt
in a good way still
preferred his earlier work in Degrassi: The Next Generation
not so sure about this rapping malarky he has decided to do. My advice would be to never trust a canadian
much like the last record
some filler, some awesome. that's fine by me. he's going to have one incredible greatest hits package.
'shot for me' is amazing. worse than the filler is that inexplicable shit tacked onto the end of marvin's room, what is that? still the best song he's ever done though.
For the first time in years, I am actually going to wait until the release date, and go out and buy the CD
I'm looking forward to this album that much, I just don't want to spoil it.
First impression: solid, but not blown away
But then again, the last record was a real slow-burner.
Marvins Room still in my Top 5 of the year.
Also, by way of an aside and Sean you may be the best person to address this - is DiS actually going to review this record? Because, to my recollection, Thank Me Later didn't get reviewed and yet it featured on heaps of end of year lists, including many members of the boards. I think the coverage of hip-hop on the site is generally pretty poor (Rolling Hip-Hop thread being the major exception. Case(s) in point: no reviews of releases by The Weeknd, Main Attraktionz, Danny Brown, Shabazz Palaces etc despite them being talked about a lot on the boards. And no excuses about not getting sent them by the labels; all but one of those are free mixtapes.
Yeah it took me ages to get into Thank Me Later
Thought it was a bit boring at first but then it ended up being easily one of my favourites from last year. Went out and bought Take Care this morning, haven't had a chance to hit a full listen yet (80 minutes!) but enjoying it so far.
The first Weeknd mixtape did get reviewed.
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16418/reviews/4143256 - see?
I have still not made my mind up about Take Care. It's far too long for one thing, and quite hard to listen to in one go. Some real good bits in there though.
See,.
Try that again...
See... I can hear why and how people would - do - dislike him. There is an AMAZING lyric early doors on Take Care: "Shout out to Asian girls / let the lights DIM SOME" - I mean, if I didn't have a thing for the man I would eject the CD right there.
But.
Fire up Lord Knows, with Just Blaze on production. Big times. And the self-obsessed thing... that's just part and parcel of this side of rap, no? If anything Drake is less guilty of this angle than the vast majority of his peers.
Anyway.
Gonna save words for the review.
listened to these songs
will never get that time back
kennydope!
props
Nah, Drake's an absolute dude.
Take Care's excellent, and for once someone who can write great hip-hop ballads, rather than the usual obligatory 4-min mawkish warbles, which ruin so many rnb/mainstream hip hop albums for me. It doesn't even feature his best track of the year, 'trust issues'.
I think you mean Club Paradise
Rap as whale song.
I think you mean Dreams Money Can Buy.
Soulfully crooning the phrase "fat ass".
i really hope Drake's seen the amazing Hans Richter movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303G8-8dVWg
Terrible, terrible and mo' terrible.
Auto-tuned gay shit.
Congratulations on being an ill-informed, homophobic troll in fewer than 10 words.
Mo' respect for such brevity.
not homophobic, more homo sceptic.
Drake is just lame. lame lame lame lame lame lame lame. But if you like lame shit, then cool, go listen to it and pretend it's not lame. When you know it really is. Deep down.
Who is this cretin?
and i thought he was banging Rhianna or some shit...i didn't actually
he was. but now you mention it, it all makes sense. his music fits really well with his alleged sexuality.
yeah see this is the problem with p4k handing out good reviews to hip hop
every indie white boy in earshot decides their ignorant opinion needs to be heard.
This is a music forum.
People want to speak about music on a music forum.
thanks for that completely meaningless sentence
camaaannn
not everyone's gonna like the cheesy R&B, autotuned, poppy hip-hop stuff that Drake (and others) do. That doesn't make anyone a 'white indie' stereotype or anything else. It's a whole kind of pop aesthetic that's just not everyone's cup of tea.
half the time I suspect those who rag on people talking about PITCHFORK-APPROVED HIP HOP
are the exact types who would slate Pitchfork as a White Guitar Boys Club if they didn't cover any at all.
It wasn't though was it?
Seems pretty pointless to criticize people for voicing their opinions on a forum but whatever.
reply fail
Emo (all music is emotional)
Gay (he may be in denial, idk)
Hipster (p4k approval = hipster?, have you seen how he dresses?)
Auto-tuned (nope, no auto-tune on this, Stevie Wonder harmonica tho)
Music for teenage girls (and other people)
totally unoffensive (plenty of swearing bro, HE GETS HEAD TOO)
bleached pop (welcome to post 1999)
self-obsessed (who isnt?)
lazy rhyming (listening to Drake for his rhymes... LOL)
total cunt (duh)
^^snooooooore^^
It's like Jens Lekman doing rap
^^Enjoyed this one^^
hit and miss
^^ bingo ^^
it's a pretty decent pop record. just depends if were comparing it to, say, Katy Perry, or some of the better cross-genre releases this year. miles better than the first, a shade or two off the latter. 7/10 territory
Yep.
People comparing this to the classic boom bap pallet = missing the point.
This is way more in line with R. Kelly than it is, say... M.O.P.
Uh, is that the only definition of "hip-hop"?
Dude this is pop r&b music, not trying to pass off as some gritty ghetto street rap opus. i just think you're stacking it against the wrong things. It has nothing to do with the projects and what people in the projects are listening to. I know you can see that music made by black people, with a beat, can extend beyond your narrow description.
There's plenty of street rap out there
if that's what you're into.
there is plenty of decent 'street' hip hop out there, Drake
isn't all that's happening in the genre, it's just the only thing rammed down your throat all day everyday by hip hop media. Hip Hop DX, for example, have Drake's latest twitter, his latest thoughts on his album, his thoughts on J.Cole, jay z, weezy... it's like being in his massive head. It doesn't help that his music is just weak.
-Well hip hop started in black and hispanic communities in New York-
Wiki much?
It has its roots in disco! It became more "tough" later down the line. Hip-hop isn't just one thing, yeah everyone's got their view of what it SHOULD be, but that doesnt change the fact that it means all kinds of different things.
Listen to Roc Marciano's 'Marcberg' for some good NY tough man street rap.
co sign on Marcberg, dude has talent.
is this stuff taken seriously in urban America
Like, do you mean taken seriously by black people?
ooooooooooooowwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
shit getting real in here
Harlem's fairly gentrified these days w/ middle class white people, so probably
(I don't think you know what you're talking about AT ALL)
i think he has an image of kids breaking in front of a boom box
blasting kool moe dee n busy bee starski and talking bout Tyson knocking the shit out of dudes and it all being nice and 1985
I think he's watched Wild Style and Style Wars a few too many times
tbh I was just taking the piss out of your stereotyped, out of date view of things
but really your 'point' is little more valid than someone dismissing some guitar music because "you're not gonna see white kids at a Brooklyn loft party spinning it"
I would be surprised to here anything blasting out a boombox
What with it not being the early nineties anymore and nobody using them but your vision of NY is very sweet.
I am curious where you live?
because unless it is sometime in the past then this does not happen in NY
I know Brighton, I'm English
They have many b/ball courts with people blasting old school hip hop out of boomboxes? I will happily stand corrected but not the first image I have of Brighton
Not for the 5 years that I've been here. You need to stop watching Do The Right Thing, good movie but not NY now
And I made a leap with old school hip but the point still stands.
Pop rap has been around since hip hop has been around..
rap - lies = hip hop
I live in Detroit
and people bump Drake all day here.
Detroit... home of so much good music.
..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNV9OSsMiWw
'course it's taken seriously... all these young inner city kids
bump is shit like lil b and drake, mostly cos it's all they are subjected to via music press. respect for the old school is mostly dead amongst these rapscallions,, tragic
nope. just very well informed
*making it up as I go along
All you need to do is a take a look at the Rock the Bells line up and from being there it was mostly these kids you speak of but seem to know nothing about.
Maybe you are just trolling but it is very cringeworthy what you are saying
eh, making it up. ok. what have i made up exactly.
I don't need to take a look at the Rock the Bells line up, thanks. I don't know if the rest of the post after you mention rock the bells makes sense but whatever. not trolling at all.
OK, maybe not made up but
'all these young inner city kids bump is shit like lilb and drake'
This is just not accurate but anyway I am sure we both have much better things to do then argue this. So I wish you all the very best
yeah well by all i dont mean everyone, but you know.
yes, and you.
Lil B, not really, haha,
dude is just in his own world.
Drake is fairly respected but like I said, more on the pop r&b side of things.
hmm yeh, well white rap artists seem to be flavour of the month
with Mac Miller, Yelawolf, machine gun kelly, v-nasty, kreashawn etc all gettin pushed and hyped. Can't say i'm fond of any of them.
Yela's cool,
pass on the rest. Gucci Gucci is a fun jam though, doubt sh'll have anything else in the tank.
He does use auto tune
Otherwise I'm right with you. So excited to listen to this album. MUFUCKIN DRIZZY YALL.
Yeah, just not like T-Pain level auto-tune.
technically you just have
Man, Drake invokes so much anger in people.
Must be the eyebrows?
I prefer Nick Drake
I prefer Nick Land
I prefer Harold Land
I prefer Harold Budd
etc. etc.
i prefer xtc
important update:
I've just listened to Take Care and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
but why is it (and so many other hip hop LPs) SO FREAKING LONG
oh yeah, farrrr too long.
deleted a few of the less good tracks from my iTunes and it works a lot better now.
This is my favourite Drake track/beat/version from 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFS_Q06DOPo
Fucking trolls in this thread need to grow up
Can't believe I turn my back for a week or two and Drake material drops, gonna check it out quick smart.
Drake rules
Marvins Room rules a lot.
i've been playing marvin's room probably once a day since june or whatever
i can't believe how it seems to just sound better every single time
BUT DOES WHAT REAL BLACK URBAN BLACK PEOPLE LISTEN TO IT LIKE REAL BLACK YOUNG URBAN PEOPLE WITH BOOMBOXES WHAT
are you drunk right now?
i'm just sayin' you could do better
:DDDDDDDDD
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/altreport/2011/11/drake-only-gets-86-p4k-fails-break-100-rap-barrier.html
Some of the beats are great
but the vocals are pretty gash. Overall not awful, but at times awful. Craig David of the decade. Sorry lads.
Nah.
Words: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zvpn
Ok
I'm gonna give the album another chance and see how I feel 'bout it. But as someone who finds Kanye West too pompous and insufferable a personality to enjoy 85% of time-- despite believing he has bags of serious talent and the kind of creative vision most artists would kill for-- I don't have terribly high hopes! Excellent review btw man, and kudos on opening with Rastamouse.
Give the kids what they want.
I'm a late convert to the genre
so my opinion here, admittedly, not worth much (but did include DJ Quik on my Top 10 list): I heard about two minutes of Drake before pronouncing him complete shite.
THE MOST CLICHED RAP EVER.
An honest post I can get behind,
mainly cos you're reppin for the Quikster. Love how he's converting listeners this far into his career. I hope it motivates you to go back and listen to some older Quik.
O FUK I AM LUVINGK THIS ALBUM U GUIZE
There might be a few people in this thread who need to realize that they're not the arbiter of "blackness." I hope they come around. In the meantime, Drake is making emo rap sound like riding on a parade float made of diamond-encrusted Rolexes. I don't even want to know what kind of headspace you'd have to be in to resist this shit.
."Drake is making emo rap sound like riding on a parade float made of diamond-encrusted Rolexes. I don't even want to know what kind of headspace you'd have to be in to resist this shit"
you need to send that to his PR, it should headline every future press release
not feeling it as much asth
fucksake
as I was saying...
Not feeling it as much as the last album but it always takes me a while to get on board with drake his voice can grate on me big time if I'm not in the mood. It's alright though.
The Guardian gives Take Care one star
i like that he completely misses the point of the #paintdrying line
Haha well at least it's obvious he hated it before he'd even heard it
It does annoy me when reviewers bang on about artists and 'first world problems' though, as if everyone should be doing over-earnest Band Aid covers or something as opposed to singing about what they actually know and what people can relate to. Reminds me of a review I read of Lykke Li's Wounded Rhymes that complained that she just went out about 'first world problems' too much, completely ignoring the fact that the record has a song on it called Rich Kid Blues ffs.
Considering it's Alex Macpherson reviewing blog-hype R&B
I'm surprised it got as much as one star.
Pretty awesome.
The production on Marvin's Room right down to the way Drake evokes the character through the lyrics make it really engaging. I'm The beginning to like the title track much more than I did at the start. The guitar loop seems to mingle nicely with the beat and the piano similarly. Take, for example, Drake's entrace; piano and guitar loop intertwining nicely, then ba-dum-"I've asked about you..."
There is a bit of time proximity to the two albums he's now made and I can see a few crossovers between the material and their suitability. I think Light Up and Fireworks would work quite well on Take Care, in a way that Miss You and Fancy wouldn't.
I'd have really like a track from The-Dream on Take Care though, kinda disappointed about that. Shut It Down is decent but I think that combo has a lot more potential than that.
Number five! Crikey.