“Honestly, Nevermind”: A Brief Moment For Drake To remember…Where He Is At This Point in His Career.
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Judging A Drake Album Presents A Fair Share Of Reflective Walls For Me. Like The One's Mimes Create. Any Explicit Critiques Are Blocked By “Affections.” “I got mad love for the boy, yeah, that's my twizzin (21).
I'm A FAN first. A Fact I Seem To Share With Very Few Amongst The Reviews I Have Read; New York Times And Pitchfork. I Think Those Publications employ Disemboied Writers To Critic Pieces Such As These To Negate Biases. So Yes I Am Biased.
He’s one of Maybe Five Colossuses In The Music Industry, Not Just Pop or Hip-Hop. No Matter How Many Voices Bellow Beneath, The Edifice Of His Decade Long Career Never Shakes. Now Drake’s This Self Diluted Media Pariah. Far Too Easy To Forget His First Mixtape Sold 6k The First Week. When Record Labels We’re Betting On Southern Crunk, Now He DisplacesHis Records For Streams.
If You’re A Drake Fan, Like Me, and You Still Have your Downloaded Copy Of “Certified Lover Boy” Dock In Your Apple Music Library, You Most Likely felt Mortified. Those 21 Tracks Were A given to Slap Through To Next Summer. Now You Have To Move That; It’s So Last Year’s iPhone. As Of Thursday Night, The Cool Kids Have The Latest, Experimental Sounds From The “6 god”.
Drake With Valor Of A Championship Caliber Team Or A General watching Enemy Forces retreat Wants To Keep The Going. “I’m Going To need A Few Bands Just To See How Long The Run Has Been.” Because I’m The Only Person In The World Without Twitter At Point, I found Ou About The New Album “ Honestly Never minds” After The Video For “Falling Back” Dropped. The Video Has Collected A Few Runs On Account Myself Since Then. I Pause Briefly Just To Wonder Why Drizzy Drop a Project So Soon. . Only Nine Months Ago Another Chapter Of Dialogue In the Number 1 Album “Certified Lover Boy.” While Radio—As If I Listen To Radio—Play For Any Other The Aside From “Way 2 Sexy” Tepid Reception, Which Why Anyone Would Want To Listen To That Song Boggles The Mind. Drake Killed The Streams (Again).
Nevertheless, Despite Drizzy Laboring Through knee Surgery To Put “CLB” He Didnt Bother to Fortify The Themes And Build On The Attempt To Blend Into Some Unfinished On The Record; he Dampened The Heart Of It a Bit. out Of Nowhere
Here Comes His Seventh Album. Not A Playlist, Mixtape, A Lost Tapes, as Deluxe Or Remix: Even If that’s How This Record Runs Some Times. By popular Demand Or Otherwise, We Got A record. From the information I Glean From Sources, Drake Spent About Seven Months Working On 14 Tracks. Just Seven Months.
Perhaps A Record Label Dispute Push Him To Complete A Project. Maybe The Pop-star Raise Inspiration From His Abandonment Issues. He dealt With His Therapist, He Confessed In Church Hill Downs. He Can’t Afford To Let His Fans Be Swept Away By Someone Else. Perhaps Spurred By The “Anticipated” Kendrick Lamar Release, Drizzy Wanted To Wash Away The Taste Of The Competition From The Airways. He’s Selfish Like That.
He Displaced Kanye’s “Donda” Back In September. After Kendrick, Drizzy's Former Sparring Partner, Flopped, Both Commercially And Critically With The June Release “Mr. Morale And Big Stepper.” What Better way To Hold The Grown Over The Former West Side Juggernaut? the Six gods Reside High Above, But He’s Never Far Away From Not Throwing A Low Blow.
With The Release Of This Album, His Seventh Full-Length LP Project. His Third Project In Three Years Not To Mention the Luxury Clutch Hand Bag Of High Profile Features, Both Future And Jack Harlow's Billboard Topping Drake Holds The Crown Of Pop/Hip-Hop Content King.
With Only Two Days On Digital Circuit And Streaming Platforms “Honestly, Nevermind” Enter Rubric Maze Social Context With Its Blend Soap Opera Tribal Pop Optics Of An Bootleg African Movie. Drake Took To Airways Late Friday Night To Announce The Album; Then, Like A Theif In The Night, The Album Appeared Almost “Immediately.” On Top Of The Fact, Afro Beats surfaced Through Jumbling Order Of Apple Music Spatial Audio High Risers.
A Move So Far Out Of Left Field, You Couldn’t Call The Release Anything But A “surprise.”
Drake Coupled The Album To A Poem, Dedicated To the Lost Of Drake’s Friend and Fashion Industry Mogul Virgil Abloh. The Poem Serves as a Prelude To A Poetry Book That Will Follow The Release Of Another Joint.
“I work with every breath in my body,” Drizzy Wrote. “cause it’s the work, not air, that makes me feel alive… Because no one knows what's on my mind when I go to sleep at 9 & wake up at 5 - unless I say it in rhyme.”
As A Creator, I Commiserate “Strangely” With Drake. He’s Humble And Honest. When The Poem First Lines Mention “Humbleness,” Im Taking Aback At The thought Of Drake, Showing Humility. But He’s Earnest in His afflictions. Being A Creative Drags A Heavy Toll, An Exhaustive Expressive reflection Of The Mind, Tantamount To Carrying A Cross. You Bear The Stripes Because That’s The Gift Was Given To You.
Of Course Drizzy continued: “I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes, and asked my current insight on the times.” The Entire redirect Enter The Planes of Self-Delusion. It’s Almost To Say Put your Time Away, For Me. which A lot Of Us Already Do For Regardless, in His Music. Of Course, Few People have Earned The Right To Declare Themsleves A Voice To The Masses.
“I Was paying Mama’s Rent When I Was Turning seventeen.”
I’m That Writer. I Will Almost Always Venture Across The Stone No One Sometimes Bothers To Tread. as A Music Reviewer-Critic-adventurist. I Don’t Want Just To Hear The Song And Read The Lyrics; I Want to Build A Character Rig For The Artist and Study The Emotions That Pull Them Left To Write Foward And Back. That Means Being Wrong, as A F; I Want Some Level Of Intimacy With My artist, With My Muse, As I Paint The Picture Of What I Understand Of Their Music.
Some May Think, “Oh, You’re Doing Too Much. Are The Songs Good Or Not?” But Understand I Come From a Background Of Being A Christian Leader. Studying Biblical Prose. Biblical Poetry, Biblical Narrative, These traits Developed In me The Imperative To Understanding Language, Tone, Structure Even Cultural Relevance. All Of These Facets Meant The Difference Between an Elevation Or Respect Amongst Ranks or A “Pang” From The Holy Spirit When I Racked Up The Latest Charge On The Books For The Devil To Levy Against Me. On Top Of That, Christian exists Within A Rarely Debatable Space, He Who Understands The Most Scripture Has The High Ground.
More Over I want To Place My Mind In The Body Of The Artist; “I Wanna Be down With What You’re Going Through.” Because Practicing Instilled In Me, The Knowledge That Beneath Understanding Lay the Keys To Reception.
Creators Have To Bare That Burden To Feel The Fulfillment Of Creativity And Purpose Or To Bury Some Unwoven Wound From Their Pass In The Acceptance Of Fame: Which Drives Their Existence and Their Dread. Ad Drizzy Himself Captioned On Instagram: “ The Reward For Work Is More Work.” Being In Some Ways can be Compared To Sisyphus Bushing The Boulder To The Top Only To Once Again Be Cast Down To Revisit His Path Day In Day Out.
Drake’s Remedy To This Creator Quandary A Dance Record, As Listed In Apple Music.
The Album Has Since Spawned A Following Of Its Own. Since The Sudden Release, The Internet Purveyors Have Pushed Blogs, podcasts, Tweets, Reviews, and Commentary. There Are Blogs And Discussion About The Tweets Drake Inspired:
Drake Simply Kicked The Jack Back And Watched The Turnstiles Roll Out. Regardless Of How The Album That’s A Win For The Man Who Said He’s A “Lesbian” Too.”
“One piece of intellectual property inspires a feeding frenzy,” And In Today’s Music World Drake Controls The “Content Industry” In Artistry Lens. One 14 Track, Mixtape Like Soundscape, With Less Than An Hour Of A Sometimes Tone Indifferent Drizzy. The Hour Feels “Longer” Because Drake Sing And Lullabies Most Of The Album Except For The Last Track, “Jimmy Cooks,” Which Could Be a Prelude To “Scary Hours 2”. The Internet, The Land—predicated on user-generated content. Even The Cover Art That Feature The Words “Honestly Nevermind” Laid Out In Some Gothic Script Stretch To “Toon World” Exaggerations Has Garner Debate.
Some Shrewd Youtube Commentor Keen To The Addresses of This Technocratic Extolled A Similar Belief:” Drake knows what he's doing. The content, audience, and business behind these songs. It’s just not for everybody, but weeks and months from now, people will be playing them on a routine.” You Know A Record Won’t Be Ignored By The Airways Based On Its “Vitality”—How Fast The Internet Digital-Industrial Machine Can Engineers Replica Like A-One The “Host” Story Line From West World Spun Out Of Control.
Without Having To Release A Scathing Massively Overrated Diatribe On Massively Overrated Big Sean Song To Prove It.
“Genre, medium, and format are secondary concerns; in some instances, they seem to disappear entirely.” And That’s Drake M.O. On Records. He Has To Have a Pop Record, A Rap Record, A Sing Songy Record.
Maybe Drake The Revenge The Best Way Revenge Anyone Can Be Delivered By Proving You Are Better Than The Offender. The Idea Of Revenge This Late In Bcareersreer Seem Petty, But Drake has Petty. “All That Talk About “The Best” You Know How Sticky It Gets.”
Of Course, My Thoughts are No More Than Conjecture, But I Think Drake's Purpose is to keep the Summer Time For Himself With this Record. As Far as Theme, structure Tempo Goes, It’s Dance Infuse With Pop. Crown Land Views Joints Like One Dance and Control On Spin Like Old R&B.
After a Year In The Works, Drake Hit The Airways With “CLB” With Patented Brand Of What Noah “40” Shebib Accounts As: “A combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of the truth which is inevitably heartbreaking” I Don't Think This Album Expands On That “Heartbreak” Much. Drake And “CLB” Caught Hands. Critics Panned Drake For His “Laboring” Hour and a Half and His “Please Every Fan Approach” Unfortunately, I am That Every Fan. I Love CLB Except For “Way 2 Sexy”.
In Truth, “Honestly, Nevermind” is The Kind Of Thing You Say To Avoid expanding On Previous Utterances And This Album Doesn’t Expand On Much On Drake’s Ethos, His emotion His Credibility As A Writer: “know What I’m Feeling, Know What I’m Feeling.”
What October Very Owns Latest Does Expand On, Drake’s Catalog, His Character, and The Drake Industry Complex.
He’s 35 Now; the Innovations Of “25 Sitting On 25 Million” The 2010s Are Done. Drake Achieve the “One Cohesive Sound” Even If That’s Not Reflected In His Vocals. Be Sure The Vocals On This Record Aren’t The Main Thing. Jersey House Music, With Its High BPM and High Toned Drums, Are Designed To Reach Out To The Body and Pull A Passenger Of The Percussion Unto The Dance Floor Or The Shopping Mall.
"Why Drake [does] sound like he's singing in the shower on every track? I'm heated," tweeted one user. Another wrote, "I laughed when Drake started singing on the second track so let me go to bed and try again in the morning. Drake Earned Some Reprimanding From Fans About Style Choice, Literally. If You Thought Drake’s Braids We’re Immature, And That Heart In The Head A Similar Cosmological Misstep. The Music On “Honestly Never mind” Rather Reflect This Tonsorial Artistry. Drakes Maturity Has Come Under Fire For Some Time Now. When I Wrote My Certified Lover Boy Review-Ish-Thing, I Read Through a Few Critical Discourses Only To Find “My Idol” Of Sorts Torn On The Barb Wires. AGrown Man Calling Himself A “Lover Boy.” A Grown Man-Ish Having An Idol Who Calls Himself A “ Lover Boy” Buts Boys Have To Grow. And This Growth Can Be In On direction. Whiles Drake’s Immortal Soul Draws Consternation From Fans When It’s Not Inspire Appeal.
A “classic conundrum” For Creatives And Business Presents Itself: How You Navigate The Waves of exploring And exploit algorithm. In Truth, The Algorithm Speaks More Like a Guiding Principle Tenet Than “Conundrum.” A Creator Or Business Has To Exploit What The Entity Does Best To Grow But Explore Further Reaches To Remain imaginative And Sharp. Sort How I “Exploit” My Insights In Sports writing But Veer Into Music Critique. Ever Offering Doesn’t Have To Win Over, But The Best Results Are In Feild Are found With Those Who Dare To Brave Uncharted Realms And Keep Growing. And You Have To Take On An Obdurate Point Perspective Because Your Bond To Lose a Place On The Status Barr Here
Think About The Golden State Warriors For An instant. “No matter how much they won, they were never satisfied, never satiated. And they never turned down a seemingly untoward idea in search of more winning. “A Snippet Of Of David Aldridge Writing For The athletic.
The Warriors Shuffled Their Roster And Their Approach Since Their Last Championship In 2018. Four years They Still Rounded To Form A Championship Model The Warriors Used “Stubborn,” “Relentless Drive Back To The Title Just As The Dynasties Before Them.
Drake, Who’s Pals With Warriors, Star Steph Curry, And Name Drops The NBA’s Three King On Occasion, Has Seen That “insatiable” Will To Win First Hand.
Of Course, The Rush To Return To The Top Doesn’t Come Without Unleaded Missteps, As The Warriors Learned. Often The Approach Means a Product Meant To Placate The Market Because You Are In Control Of That Market. Think Of Marvels Most Recent Critical Tepid Movies That Are Carrying The Box Offices. With Two Of The Most anticipated albums, I Speak of Course Of Jack Harlow And Kendrick Lamar’s LP Flopping.
Future Release A Standard Sucessful LP “I Never Liked You” That Shot Uo The Charts With No Promo.
A Suddenly Transcending Drake Ditched The Win-All- Talk-About- Latest-Transgression-Tell-All-Best-Seller And Ran With the Reigning Champion Sound Of Earning Streams. Because Artist Like Drake Don’t Care About Their Music Earning Justification Through Faceless Critics Or Grammy Awards, “you’ve already won if you have people singing your songs word for word.”
Drake Produced A Dance Album. Good Or Bad That’s the Only Frame To Judge “Honestly Nevermind.” Pop stars Turn To Dance In Their Twilight Just Look At Sean Paul.
The Vocals, The Arrangement, And Lyrics Are Peripheral Here. No Classic “Drakism” To caption Instagram Photo With Unless Your Brazen Enough To Write: “Your P**** Is Calling My Name Come On Baby Let’s Stop Playing.” Drake Sprawls Through And Over Refrains About Faded Love Interest divested In The Life Drake’s Built. “Drake's still fretting about lost love.”
Honestly, It’s Not The Worst Writing Drake, Or Drake’s Entourage, Or The Ghost Of Drake’s Past Have Perpetrated Over His Career. f Course, It’s, The Noisy Writing, Has More Justification Here Than Anywhere Like “in My Feeling.”
The “Track Falling Back” Gives A Stress Voiced Drake Speaking Over His Empire Of Bodies. He’s Also Not Abashed About Toss Transient Lovers Off Of The Cliff and Into The Ocean; Be Sure To Know, That Ocean, Its A Deep One. Drizzy Drops A Upbeat Number Like “Sticky.” Those Special Tracks Where He Dances Between Two Parallels Or Rap and Singing. The Track Feature A Quick Syllable Twisting Tap Dance Of French And English Dusting Of that Drill Cadence From “Demons” From “Dark Lane Demo Tapes:
“ I still turn to a CEO so the lifestyle she respect
Ayy, two sprinters to Quebec
Chérie, où est mon bec?”
When You’ve Achieved The Level of This Productivity. When You Reach Heights That Dwight Howard Could Like Drake Has You Reserve The Right To Mulligan Even Though The Album As More To Offer Than Leftovers. When Your Name Crescent The Billboard Charts A Record Such As This One Feels More Like A Garbage Time Buckets In A Basketball game when Your Up 20: Free Rain and Cosmetics For The Score. All Added To The Light of Being Drake The First Born In A Changing Consumption Industry.
“I’m A Night Owl, F*** A Pigeonhole”
“ Jimmy Cooks” The Only Unadulterated Rap Song On The Album: Produced by Vinylz, CuBeatz, and Tay Keith. All Frequent Collaborators With Drake. I Would Have To Guess Cubeatz Cut a Sample Of Playa Fly’s “Just Awaken Shaken” Vinyl, Laid The Jazz Pattern, And Tay Keith Made The Whole Track Slap. Still, The Ensemble Made The Mix Masterful. Possibly The Best Track On The Record. A Rap Genius Annotation ExplAins The Song Ode, Origins And Connection Of To Drizzy Days Acting As Jimmy Brooks On Degrassi Drake Enlist The Fiendish Lyricism Of His Frequent Collaborator 21 Savage. “Jimmy Cooks” Marks The Fourth The Two Have Link Up And The Second Memphis Grungy Style Hip-Hop Champion Last Year With CLBs “Knife Talk.”
Drake Tags 21 In With An Intro “I let my nigga 21 tell it, you a….” On The Menacing Monologues. The Symphonic Jazzy Trap Bass Drum Kick Up To “Kai O Ken” And 21 Kind Of Rises For Another Of “Knife Talk,” Fun House, Slaughter Slapping.
“Let my brother drive while I shoot, team effort (21)
Askin' all these questions, bitch, you must think you Nadeska.”
21 And Drake Work Well Off Of Each Other. Despite The Dark Subject Matter, The Block Spinning Gremlin Takes Time To Love To Drizzy:
I got mad love for the boy, yeah, that's my twizzin (21)
And Their Combo Works. 21 Gives Drake Dance Album A Dour Thuggish Tone Drake Provides 21 With Stupid Exposure.
Shoutouts To 21 Savage For Slapping Double On Features. After Cooking On Pharrell’s “Cash In, Cash Out,” Then Taking The Chords And Over Powering Drake On “Jimmy Cooks”
The True Of This Project Is Not Whether Drake Succeeds or Fail But Whether He Or Anybody Else Can Learn from It.
