Sep 3, 2021

Eh, I haven't had time to really focus on both albums yet but I really doubt I'll go back to Donda more than this. Maybe if I remove a lot of tracks.

This is one of his worst albums though, no doubt. It also feels like the singles are missing since they were too old to be included. Like there aren't any stand out tracks, which every Drake album has.

 

Sep 3, 2021

Thought my torrent had some mistakes for a second. I never really use Spotify since the pandemic started

 

Sep 3, 2021

It will always amaze me how his ability to make a solid album has honestly been stunted for a full decade now.


Remember how most people were taken aback by "Yeezus" at first and bashed Ye for going wayyyyy off-kilter and unconventional with his approach, but in time, we grew to rank it as either number 2 or 3, if it isn't his absolute best (It isn't to me, but I'm not mad at people who have that opinion in the scope of things leading up to this particularly polarizing generation where/when, the more left-field you are, the more celebrated it is. That is, even if your execution is sloppy, unfortunately. So it's even more difficult to sift through the mediocre "Hotep Hipster Basura" before you find something above-average that stands out in those categories/sub-genres.) in his catalog/discography?


Okay. Now let's try to remember how well "Nothing Was The Same" was received initially by critics and newly-attracted casual listeners for boasting the first few moments in his career where/when Drake decided to shed candid light on his assertive and toxically masculine side (Because they felt as though he successfully defeated that "Softie Predisposition Reputation" he had already deliberately established for himself and the spectating public, earlier on in his career.).


So, with this in mind, what people who grew an affinity to him for at the time were primarily paying attention to, was the extractable qualities which made his sense of character development that much more intriguing.


Barring all of that though, without the backstory of how Drake's career had been heavily followed and covered for 6 years, by then; dare I say it, "Nothing Was The Same" is actually mid, in aging.


It sounded better initially than it does now, actually. And I wasn't truly impressed by it back then either. Drake has got one d----near-classic album in "Take Care".

"So Far Gone" is a classic mixtape though. People fascinated by Drake's "GROWTH" (*Pause* It wasn't meant in that context, but we know how the mind works, so I had to just lay that caveat out in the open for The Sxn80 Boys and Girls/Men and Women to see, transparently.) aren't really "LISTENING TO THE MUSIC" because, if they did, they'd cringe at how much cornier his lines have become, over the past 6 or 7 years!!!!!


Or how weirdly coercive, entitled, and presumptuous he is/can be, as it pertains to self-awareness versus the honest general consensus of who he is, morally and/or sociologically.

 

Sep 3, 2021

"toxically masculine side"

You guys too obsessed with all that s---, this is rap not Ed Sheeran

 

Sep 3, 2021

And I still love most of NWTS. He fell off with Scorpion by making it way too long. If he had made a short album with the best of both CDs, it would have been way better. Streams f----- tracklists up.

Take Care, NWTS, Views, IYRTITL, More Life and WATTBA were all dope imo. The decline started with Scorpion, and that last tape I always forget what it was called, the one that he dropped since he couldn't drop CLB because of the pandemic, that was way worse than CLB btw.

 

Sep 3, 2021

Views.

 

Sep 3, 2021

Dark tape demos that didn't even sound like demos. When Drake tried to take over tik tok with Toosie Slide

 

Sep 3, 2021

Only did a first listen so far but this is a way tighter package than DONDA. Need to sift through it again, but seems like a solid release..

 

Sep 3, 2021

Don't really agree. At least it was a fun memorable album. Not a classic at all. But it wasn't bad.

 

Sep 3, 2021

I like this

 

Sep 3, 2021

Weird a--- project, but these were dope

 

Sep 3, 2021

I'ma bump this for a full two weeks at least and see how it goes.

 

Sep 3, 2021

just ask for an autograph. don’t be weird

 

Sep 3, 2021

Whatsup with those long as albums man

 

Sep 3, 2021

And no selfies without permission. Respect private space.

 

Sep 3, 2021

Streams over quality this year

 

Sep 3, 2021

f--- that s---

 

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