TrueWarrior wrote:Finally DLed Drakes album. I think its weak. Way too soft for me, but I should have expected that. This is basically just baby making music. Not my cup of tea. I got B White for that.
Like I said, he's 3 mic Drake. In other Drake news, he allegedly challenged a Smack/URL rapper named Hitman Holla to a battle. Said put up 100,000 dollars and he'd do it in a convo with friends. The friends called Nelly, who called Holla (he's from St. Louis). It'll never happen, no way they'd let him do that...but man...I'd respect him a lot more.
I'm 12 tracks deep on Recovery and it's far and away a superior product to Relapse and Encore. About half these tracks are extremely introspective and people won't feel that, but if you're going to shout out Drake's songs about his ex (there are a lot of those), then no way should you whine about a track covering his drug addiction in semi-story form and his couple of break-up songs...They've got way more depth and as someone with a family history of drug addicts I teared up a little at Going Through Changes (no homo). What's dope is that he has a couple of tracks that pretty much are break up tracks but with hip hop, and I really love the way he works the concept.
Technical side, his multi's are pretty sick. Not many are forced at all (unlike half Relapse), and his lyricism is just sharper on a whole. His delivery is okay not great. He yells his songs a LOT and I could see people getting annoyed by it. No accents so far, beats are a bit repetitive but it helps the album flow from song to song fluidly. His flow, surprisingly, is a bit repetitive (and I kill Drake for that)...luckily his schemes are fresh and his multi's are catchy as hell. He also relies on others for hooks a lot, but in a good way not a bad way.
I REALLY like this album. He's a vet and it shows after bumping so much of the next gen stuff. I think, if you weren't feeling Em on MMLP, SSLP or Eminem Show...you probably won't feel this either...but for those who find those as classic or borderline classic, there's a lot of vintage Em on this album.