not a fan, generally speaking. tried a bunch of times with so far gone/thank me later/take care and none of them really do anything for me apart from the odd track. found the acclaim that take care in particular got genuinely baffling, itās a competently executed but ultimately quite boring rap album so idk why it blew up the way it did. quite like him when heās in swagger mode though (i.e. 5am in toronto), which is why āif youāre reading thisā is the only thing of his iād consider listening to.
also quite like him when he pops up on ygās stuff. something about the production yg favours really suits drake i think, he should do more stuff like it himself.
that first one he just totally bites playaz club but who cares, he sounds great on it.
Really good pop star with lots of good songs and lots of good features. Easily grasped lyrics and then just piles upon piles of hooks. Not that interested in his albums but heās a popstar, albums donāt really matter.
Nice For What is a perfect pop song, and itās a lot more than just a (very well executed) Lauryn Hill sample. I think there are 8 actual hooks in this song??
Passionfruit is such a silky 2am slow dance banger :
Feels like heās been pretty influential. The whole of Radio1 sounds like him these days. Not sure if he can be credited with that though (did he appear before that Weeknd House of Balloons tape?), but that particular kind of luxuriant smooth rānāb sound telling tales of hedonism sans any anger or aggression seems to be everywhere.
Couldnāt hum you a single note heās written aside from āHotline blingā¦ hotline blingā. Still, a one.
Main think I know about him is he apparently appears at various sporting events claiming to support a whole bunch of different teams, the man cannot be trusted.
Despite knowing next to nothing about basketball or Drake I was still aware enough of his ubiquity on the Raptors sideline during their Championship season to be annoyed by it.
Undeniably capable of making great pop songs. Think heās been so successful by essentially being a pop star dressed up as a rapper - the first time his brand was in any danger was when he foolishly let himself be baited by an actual rapper (pusha). Each album is about 50 songs long for that sweet streaming cash, but youāre guaranteed 2-3 bangers per album. Also undeniably influential - all of pop sounds like him now and you frequently hear people trying to do his thing. Content wise heās laughable, bad punchlines, misplaced woe is me bullshit, an absolute clanger of a line on every other song.
Kanye West - 808ās and Heartbreaks pioneered that sound. I think Drake actually rapped over one of the tracks from it which led to him getting signed.