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Dost thou sing withest the Auto-Tune Drizzy? Sounds a bit like it.

We've heard this heartbroken crooning from Drake before, but this production is really different. "All my let's just be friends" just became a caption on 40,000 Facebook posts. Horns and almost jazz opening things up, this is definitely different, although the singing sounds like peak Drake. "Keep The Family Close"Īnd we're off.by sheer coincidence I was just talking about compiling a list of all the audio clips of random women talking on rap records. Then I'll be back later, weeks or months from now, with a follow-up review that attempts to break down the meaning and importance of the album once I've had time to marinate on it. For a deeper explanation of 1 Listen reviews, click here.Īnd with that, let's do this damn thing. Finally.Īs always, this 1-Listen review will be a gut reaction, stream of consciousness account of my first listen with no pausing or rewinding and no editing. I predicted that VIEWS would in retrospect prove to be Peak Drake, the album that later signaled his moment of highest importance, and it's finally time to put the predictions and hypotheticals aside and get to the real thing. And so now we have VIEWS, an album two years in the making that feels less like a highly-anticipated album and more like yet another guaranteed blockbuster that only needs to actually drop to continue his streak of platinum albums. His loose Soundcloud releases garner GRAMMY nominations, every song on IYRTITL, his so-called "mixtape," charted on Billboard. Like he's transcended every other barrier before him, Drake's transcended the bounds of the mere album. Drake's albums have all been massively popular, hugely influential on pop culture, but they've never said anything more than what they said about Drake, and what that says about the millions who like to envision themselves as Drake. The effect is to make his music prolifically relateable-very few know what it's like to grow up as a good kid in a madd city, but we all have enemies trying to drain us of our energy, we've all driven through our respective cities with our respective woes-but has fittingly limited his album's lasting impact on the world. Cole, he never inhabits other voices and perspectives, never even acknowledges a world outside his own. Unlike the other multi-platinum rappers of his generation, Kendrick Lamar, and J. I think that's because his music is so uniformly personal every Drake song is only about Drake and nothing else. Ask 100 people if he has a classic in his catalog and if so what it is, and you'll get 100 different answers. The one weak link in Drake's armor is that, unlike the other acknowledged greats, he doesn't have a consensus classic album.