May 3·3 repliesshaleiroseFor anyone interested in doing a discography relisten, this is a schedule that works (for solo projects only):
4/22 - So Far Gone
4/24 - Thank Me Later
4/26 - Take Care
4/28 - Nothing Was the Same
4/30 - If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
5/2 - Views
5/4 - More Life
5/6 - Scorpion
5/8 - Dark Lane Demo Tapes
5/10 - Certified Lover Boy
5/12 - Honestly, Nevermind
5/14 - For All The Dogs
5/15 - IcemanFinished Views.
This album continues to be mildly infuriating. To start with the positives, I think it starts off pretty strongly. Keep the Family Close is one of my favorite intros he’s ever done. U With Me? and Feel No Ways are some of his best ever songs. 40’s production & touch is magical all over the album. I like how dedicated to Toronto this album is. And I think the R&B, pop, and dancehall stuff all would legitimately make for a great album.
Which leads me to the negatives. To start, the rapping. This is the first project of Drake’s career where the rapping takes a noticeable dip in quality and backseat to his other genre ventures. All of the rap cuts on here sound undercooked and/or like weaker rehashes of previous songs that he’d already made up to that point. The best one imo is probably Still Here, which is a pretty fun record. Next, the sequencing, I think the pacing of this album is borderline abysmal. That issue starts for me at Redemption, which might be the most boring song in his discography to me, and doesn’t really settle until the end of the album. I’ve never really bought into the whole “seasons” concept, it always felt tacked on and not a fully realized idea to me. Last negative, is that Drake himself sounds very defensive on the album, which makes sense considering this was one year after the Meek beef, but it doesn’t really lend to a satisfying listen upon repeat listens. This is his first album where to me it feels like he’s trying to convince everyone else of his position rather than just asserting that that’s where he is. 6/10
May 3Blue ManNo one knows that zay album exists man. Did you really deliver if no one’s bumping it??
low iq ragebait, listen to it
May 3shaleiroseFinished Views.
This album continues to be mildly infuriating. To start with the positives, I think it starts off pretty strongly. Keep the Family Close is one of my favorite intros he’s ever done. U With Me? and Feel No Ways are some of his best ever songs. 40’s production & touch is magical all over the album. I like how dedicated to Toronto this album is. And I think the R&B, pop, and dancehall stuff all would legitimately make for a great album.
Which leads me to the negatives. To start, the rapping. This is the first project of Drake’s career where the rapping takes a noticeable dip in quality and backseat to his other genre ventures. All of the rap cuts on here sound undercooked and/or like weaker rehashes of previous songs that he’d already made up to that point. The best one imo is probably Still Here, which is a pretty fun record. Next, the sequencing, I think the pacing of this album is borderline abysmal. That issue starts for me at Redemption, which might be the most boring song in his discography to me, and doesn’t really settle until the end of the album. I’ve never really bought into the whole “seasons” concept, it always felt tacked on and not a fully realized idea to me. Last negative, is that Drake himself sounds very defensive on the album, which makes sense considering this was one year after the Meek beef, but it doesn’t really lend to a satisfying listen upon repeat listens. This is his first album where to me it feels like he’s trying to convince everyone else of his position rather than just asserting that that’s where he is. 6/10
Love Views to death and it’s a mega classic but you can tell he had writers block a bit while making it due to his 2015 output and beef
May 3·1 reply
May 3with your phone out snappin like you fabo
May 3
HudsonMantinMovie title 👀
Sounds like it tbh
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3mangotflu
You must be special fr
crine
im talking bout papis silence🫵🏿🤣🤣🤣 
May 3·2 repliesGenuinely forgot this existed did a single drop and flop like last time or he’s still scared to drop?
May 3
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3
CampariMajority of the videos are done by Theo Skudra
so the videos ain't gon mean s*** then
May 3·1 replyshaleiroseFinished Views.
This album continues to be mildly infuriating. To start with the positives, I think it starts off pretty strongly. Keep the Family Close is one of my favorite intros he’s ever done. U With Me? and Feel No Ways are some of his best ever songs. 40’s production & touch is magical all over the album. I like how dedicated to Toronto this album is. And I think the R&B, pop, and dancehall stuff all would legitimately make for a great album.
Which leads me to the negatives. To start, the rapping. This is the first project of Drake’s career where the rapping takes a noticeable dip in quality and backseat to his other genre ventures. All of the rap cuts on here sound undercooked and/or like weaker rehashes of previous songs that he’d already made up to that point. The best one imo is probably Still Here, which is a pretty fun record. Next, the sequencing, I think the pacing of this album is borderline abysmal. That issue starts for me at Redemption, which might be the most boring song in his discography to me, and doesn’t really settle until the end of the album. I’ve never really bought into the whole “seasons” concept, it always felt tacked on and not a fully realized idea to me. Last negative, is that Drake himself sounds very defensive on the album, which makes sense considering this was one year after the Meek beef, but it doesn’t really lend to a satisfying listen upon repeat listens. This is his first album where to me it feels like he’s trying to convince everyone else of his position rather than just asserting that that’s where he is. 6/10
your last sentence is confusing in that Views was the album that solidified drake as the #1 hit maker of rap in the 21st century tho? (after actually finally getting a #1)
- May 3
wild how I just relistened to views and thought the exact opposite lol. drake sounds like he's taking a back seat in Grammys, took ye and j off pop style to rely less on other stars for hits (which was a criticism at the time if the old heads remember) and added majid and dvsn instead, and he even tried to sequence the album as a 'concept' album to focus less on the "self-aggrandizing braggadocio raps" (Metacritic cited reference 3000 times in 2010s) and responded to critic feedback (probably the last time he did so)
and redemption as one of the most boring songs is wilddd, that song is arguably one of his best at showcasing his duality and skill at singing and rapping on production you wouldn't normally expect him to be on (second half is absolute peak)
but I guess that's drake, two people can listen to the same album and have completely different responses lol
May 3·3 repliesICEMAN MAY 15
- May 3·1 replyPALESTINE DATTEN
ICEMAN MAY 15
st lucia?
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3PALESTINE DATTEN
ICEMAN MAY 15
we all don't speak latten goofball
- May 3·1 reply
HOMBRE DE HIELO MAYO 15
May 3What an update to wake up to.
EPI 4 THIS WEEK
🧊🧊🧊
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3·1 replyInfinito
HOMBRE DE HIELO MAYO 15
white man is cold on the 15th?
- May 3·1 replyorangetcovid
white man is cold on the 15th?
No Dave, get your spanish up
May 3·1 replyHe's shooting a music video I'm guessing
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3CRACKASTEPPAVEGAN
He's shooting a music video I'm guessing
- orangetcovid 👌🏿May 3Infinito
No Dave, get your spanish up
- May 3Dr Lee PhD
Genuinely forgot this existed did a single drop and flop like last time or he’s still scared to drop?
You post in here everyday. Why you lying
- May 3·1 replyBad Finger Boogie
Thank you sweet boy
- May 3·2 repliesMattmurdock
your last sentence is confusing in that Views was the album that solidified drake as the #1 hit maker of rap in the 21st century tho? (after actually finally getting a #1)
The album’s performance did, yes, but Drake himself on the album doesn’t sound as confident as he did on NWTS or IYRTITL, it sounds like he’s trying to convince either himself or everyone else that he’s who he is