🦉The Official Drake Thread6️⃣ - Drake & PND Album Fall 2024

[jc619er]

Can't wait for Big Ghost's blog review of this album. Should be pretty epic. 

 

[Shanegerous]

album is pretty solid.
I don't like any of the songs as much as I liked dreams money can buy, headlines and club paradise when I first heard them. 

I like the majority of the songs on this album but I must agree, practice is 

 BY FAR drakes worst song ever. 

I would give it a 7.5/10 I was expecting a little more, but overall, great production and good songs. 

 

[sdsualum]

album is eh. i liked TML upon first listen. I've gone through TC 3x already and I can't really get into it.

 

[ill legal operation]

So much better than "Thank Me Later"...

 

[dmoney82]

Can we get 'The Ride' ?? Somebody?

 

[andrew630]

Pretty solid

 

[kash55]

I like it.

 

[campbellsoup]

Over My Dead Body has been on repeat all damn day.

 

[gambit215]

Originally Posted by ILL LEGAL OPERATION

So much better than "Thank Me Later"...

Negative.....................

 

[Gordonson]

Originally Posted by HelloHipHop4000

Originally Posted by Gordonson

Originally Posted by DatRealBalla12

Is the song sample during "Cameras,Good ones go" an actual track? I need that if soo.. It sounds like The Weeknd to me but im new to
them so im not sure Any Help??

That isn't a sample as far as I can tell. Seems to be a vocal effect thrown over Abel's voice at certain moments. I'm ADDICTED to the little Good Ones Go portion at the end of Cameras though.

No, It's a sample, not Abel.

I thought we were talking about Good Ones Go?

Originally Posted by awwsome

Take your nose off my keyboard...

WHAT YOU BOTHERING ME FOORRRR?!

 

[sonoftony]

i must be the only one that actually likes Practice

 

[nappy]

Damn drake las Vegas tickets selling for 175+ on stubhub. Shoulda got my tix sooner!

 

[pj and bompton]

Originally Posted by SonOfTony

i must be the only one that actually likes Practice

bunch of dudes overreacting because of the sample.

the song isn't NEARLY as bad as everyone says

 

[ex carrabba fan]

Originally Posted by SonOfTony

i must be the only one that actually likes Practice

I lowkey f with it fully knowing it's a joke.

I think I can squeeze it into my smashing playlist

 

[sonoftony]

Originally Posted by PJ and Bompton

Originally Posted by SonOfTony

i must be the only one that actually likes Practice

bunch of dudes overreacting because of the sample.

the song isn't NEARLY as bad as everyone says

this. 
i see it as paying homage to a classic and putting his own spin to it. im not even mad at that

 

[d723]

Look What You've Done is the realest song I have heard in ages.

 

[Gordonson]

I love Practice in a laughing, did dude really just do this kind of way. But that "all of those other dudes were practice" talk is just

 

[dipsetgeneral]

Untitled from justin smith on Vimeo.

 

[scotthallwithapick]

Originally Posted by Gordonson

Ithat "all of those other dudes were practice" talk is just

 

[Methodical Management]

This thread will be unlocked when the album releases.

Mad? Take it up with the geniuses discussing illegal downloads on a publicly searchable web forum.
Oh, and anyone who tries to start a replacement thread before the album is legally available is getting banned.  

 

[Methodical Management]

Now that the album is legally available, this thread has been reopened.
Any discussion re: illegal downloads (including unauthorized remixes) will result in banishment.  You've been warned.

 

[Ace Ready]

11/15/11......

TAKE CARE!!!!!!!!

 

[thatpersianguy]

Admitting a million copies in seven days is any artist's aim, including himself, Drizzy said this time around he is most concerned with fans appreciating his sophomore LP.

"That's the golden number for anyone," Drake said when asked if a million copies in his first week is what he is shooting for. "I doubt that'll happen. That's some Lil Wayne, Eminem iconic sh*t. I don't know if I'm there yet. Whoever goes out and buys it, I'm happy. I'd rather have great reviews than numbers. I'd rather walk out of my house and hear seven cars playing it than hear that I did 900,000." (Billboard)

Former Cash Money Records artist Juvenile recently gave his input on if Drizzy's leaked album would hurt his sales in the long run.

"It's crazy, 'cause the album is stupid. You don't want the album to get bootlegged, but when the album is this good, I don't think it will hurt it. If anything it might help it in the end. I'm definitely squeezing him on my album too. Before this album leak happened I was already back and forth with his peoples to get clearance to do a song." (BET)

 

[thatpersianguy]

​When I spoke with Drake last Friday, it turned out I was just missing the chance to fully discuss his album Take Care, which leaked over the weekend. But this left lots of time to dig into other topics, from his Canadian perspective on racial identity to his relationships with Stevie Wonder and A$AP Rocky.http://
You and I have similar backgrounds, a black dad and a white, Jewish mom. Do those issues of race and identity play out differently in Canada compared to the US?

Well, Canada's like a cultural melting pot, especially Toronto. America, I come here sometimes and I witness, like, real segregation. Like when you go to LA and it's like, "This area's Mexican, and this area's white." That's crazy to me because in Toronto we have cultural areas—"OK, this is Little India, this is Chinatown, this is where there the Greek people are"—but it's not segregated. It's not like you can't go there and participate in the culture. So it's a bit different. I think Canada's very accepting. But at the same time I get a lot of love everywhere in the world for just being diverse, instead of just being straight out [one thing]. I'm all mixed up and people embrace that.

When you identify yourself this way do you ever get questioned on it, like, "Why do you call yourself 'mixed'?" or, "What's wrong with just being black?"

I mean, I'm so light that people are like "you're white." That's what I get more than anything, people saying "you're white, you're not black." But I mean those are whatever, those are just silly jokes. That's like "the light-skinned complex." That's a very American thing as well, light skin and dark skin, like I don't even notice that. Girls will be like "oh I've seen you talk to dark-skinned girls, that's so good." And I'm like "why? I talk to any girl!" I talk to anybody, you know?

Tell me about working with Stevie Wonder.

We had met and exchanged numbers a while ago so I called him when I was in LA, and he came to the studio I was working at, named Marvin's Room. So he came and I had this song looped up named "Doing It Wrong," and it was just playing and Stevie said "40 [Drake's producing partner], turn the music up," and he was just vibing, being Stevie Wonder, sort of got quiet. And then he just went in the booth and brought life to this record, added all these musical pieces. He's just, likem a dear friend of mine and a great person. I love working with him, and we'll definitely work more in the future.

Has he given you any particular advice?

Well Stevie is less of, like, I always feel like individuals who give advice... Stevie Wonder is such a human. He's such a, like, human being, he's such a great, funny, real person, that he just makes me laugh and make me feel comfortable. Tells me great stories, ones that I really can't tell [laughing], but he tells me good stories and leads me in the right direction. He doesn't preach to me or try to make me feel like I'm some young'un that he needs to advise, he just treats me like an equal, like a human being. And I love people that do that, I respect that.

What drew you to A$AP Rocky, and what advice have you given him about stepping up to be the the three million dollar man?

I like his fascination with Houston culture; I've always been fascinated by the same thing. I like that it's less about just him and more about his crew, which is how I live my life. Drake is not one person; Drake is all of us, you know? I like that a lot. And then when I met him he was just so cordial. Like he brought me a bottle of Cristal to where I was DJing at, which was very classy of him. He invited me to his show and even came to the back door and made sure we were good; he's just a very great person. He's a very talented guy, and there's not really much advice to give somebody like that. If he ever asks me about anything I'd be more than happy to have a conversation with him, but he's a good person and he's already on the right path. Much like Kendrick Lamar as well, another guy who's just a great person, good heart, good team around him. I like people like that.

You've talked a lot about your admiration for Phonte. How come another collaboration with him still hasn't happened?

With me and Tay, I kinda dropped the ball on a feature he needed me to do, just being 100% honest. I really wanted to do a record with him, and we actually did do a record for my album, and then something happened with the producer and the beat, and it started getting funny so I had to scrap the record. And then he was like, "Well, can you do this feature for me," and at the time I was trying to find my sound and trying to figure out what this album was going to be about, and I kind of let it slip through the cracks. That was my fault, and I do apologize to Phonte for that. But I still want to make it happen; I talked to 9th Wonder about trying to make it happen, we'll get it eventually. He knows he's one of the biggest influences on my career.

You said you get inspiration from watching battles. What makes the the battle scene inspiring for you?

I'm a huge fan of the battle scene. I've always been a fan of Hollow Da Don. Obviously The-Saurus is nasty; Iron Solomon is nasty. I always watch the URL TV battles even though I was really mad at the last one they did because the sound was so bad. But yeah, it gets me excited in the studio, to watch these rappers, to see them rap for a whole different cause. I rap to make albums; I rap to make radio records. But these guys prep for these competitions where my heart would be beating out of my chest if I ever stepped to another guy and I had to battle him [for] three rounds, long-#** rounds with so many raps to remember. So I get very inspired by that, seeing other people doing the same thing but doing it so differently.

Did you really make a five-figure bet with Nelly on the Hollow Da Don vs. Hitman Holla battle?

Yeah I did. I bet on Hollow because, well I'll always bet on Hollow, he's nasty. I like Hitman Holla but Hollow's just more consistent, and obviously Hollow Da Don won the battle.

So did Nelly pay up on that?

No, Nelly hasn't paid me up. But he will though! [laughing] Nelly will pay up. He's a man of his word.


http://blogs.villagevoice...cky_nelly_battle_rap.php
Solid interview.

 

[thatpersianguy]

And finally, this is the Complex interview that will be a cover story for the December/January issue.

http://www.complex.com/mu...complex-cover-story-2011

Pretty good read overall.