Yeah but Kendrick did it in a way where he wasn’t trying to be a streamer or be included, just let them all react to his music and stayed out the way, the way Drake tries to be in the streamer world just looks pathetic to me, like the old nigga at the club buying 21 year olds shots

Like what’s the inherent difference between a personality like Funk Flex premiering your song or a fill in the blank streamer?

They’re both going to be cartoonish characters.

Yeah, they twist and turn narratives to suit what benefits them or their alliances in the industry.

It is just phony, when acting like they are being objective.

The hooks Drake came out to the gate pumping out really is incredible. Say Something is just so

More hooks coming May 15 🥳

nah he did preview iceman lyrics

i really see TML as a classic

AND WE GON BE ALRIGHT IF WE PUT DRAKE ON EVERY HOOK

Shoutout Wayne man. Top of the world and still let his artists eat what a GOAT

For me, NOKIA was the 2025 song that lit up any setting it was played at (and still does). Deserved to be a number 1 record but alas…

On ICEMAN, the top of my wishlist is that he has even one song that is that level of fun/catchy/universally loved. 🤞🏽🤞🏽

I get it man. But idk it’s not really this egregious thing to me personally.

I think Drake gives sit downs to certain people to come off as accessible to a demographic that might be considered the cheap seats in media even though they kinda are, even if we hate to admit it, more prominent today than figureheads in hip hop media. And I think he also looks at the Elliot Wilsons of the world as feeling entitled to a sit down. That’s why they get so flustered when he sits down with that bird chick bobbi or whatever.

yeah but thats why kendrick had a historic drop off in streams and drake is at all time highs

Respect your take. It’s the Drake album I play the least. Played it in full yesterday while cooking and…man…to me it’s clearly Drake’s worst project. I think every album after (and SFG) are way more polished and skillful executions of what he was attempting on TML. Like some of the hooks on that album seem so out of place with the rest of the song.

Plus - He’s spoken about it himself, but you could definitely hear/feel the label influence on the project.

I’ll take Drake shooting the s*** with streamers over Jay Z super polished and scripted interviews with GQ or NYTs any time.

Tonight

@mashallahwallahi appreciate and respect the thoughtful takes 🫡

Don’t think we’ll ever experience anything like it again…

EPISODE 4 - MAY 14

will it be a disappointment?

classsic incoming

There’s big precedent for a classic, genre redefining Episode 4 dropping in May…just have to look in galaxy far, far away

That label influence resulted in some of his most timeless and biggest hits so it’s not a negative imo. tml is still going strong to this day

Agreed on timeless hits piece. I think the lows of TML are more present and lower than any other “album”

FATD worse imo

You gotta track the trajectory.

First the journalists were mad that the hip hop artists were starting to run it up in the podcast game.

So this was Elliot, B Dot, Ebro, Rosenberg, etc.

Now it’s the streamers competing with the podcasters and so it’s a similar reaction, just further down the chain.