![]() Nothing Was The Same has major hits, such as Started From The Bottom and Hold On, We’re Going Home. The outro Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2, one of the most anticipated songs with Jay Z, is arguably the best song on the album. This album pretty much has “no misses” and only great songs. This is evident on the cover and deluxe cover where Drake looks at himself as a baby. The album reflects on the journey Drake has gone through to be in the position he is today. This album truly showed people how talented Drake is and had tons of hits, highlighted by Headlines, a fan favorite.Īfter taking a two-year break, Drake released Nothing Was The Same. ![]() Take Care debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 upon release. Take Care is full of influential and great songs, such as Marvins Room, which is the go-to song to listen to when you’re sad, and The Motto featuring Lil Wayne, which talks about living life to the fullest. We’ll now look at Take Care, Drake’s sophomore studio album released in 2011. The album also features major artists such as Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, and Alicia Keys. This album has more of an aggressive flow from Drake compared to So Far Gone but still has an r&b feel. Thank Me Later has great memorable songs, such as Over, Find Your Love, and Thank Me Now. The next album we’ll look at is Thank Me Later, a personal favorite of Drake’s early work. Overall, So Far Gone is not an amazing EP but has some pretty good songs besides Best I Ever Had, like Ignant Shit featuring Lil Wayne and Housantlavegas. The mixtape features Drake’s successor and someone who brought him into the rap game, Lil Wayne, and also features big artists, such as Lykke Li and Trey Songz. The major hit on this mixtape, Best I Ever Had, was Drake’s breakout song, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. This mixtape has a singing and r&b style/vibe, reflecting most of Drake’s early work. The first record we’ll be looking at is So Far Gone, Drake’s first breakout mixtape released in 2009. Before Drake drops another “classic album,” let’s look back at his discography thus far, only including albums on major streaming platforms, such as Apple Music and Spotify. For all intents and purposes, the Drake of Views is the same one we got on If You’re Reading This and What a Time, but if his previous proper album ( Nothing Was the Same) foretold anything, it’s that the man peering down from CN Tower sees things differently than the rest of us.Drake recently teased a video on his Instagram promoting and revealing the date of his upcoming album, called Certified Lover Boy. He isn’t too much for the world, though, ruminating on his position as one of music’s biggest names-and those who’d rather he wasn’t-on songs like “Still Here,” “Hype,” and “Grammys.” Maybe the the most affecting acknowledgment to this end is the fact that “Hotline Bling,” a strong contender for 2015 song of the summer, was such an afterthought by the time Views was released that it appears here as a bonus track. There are references here to specific people (“Redemption”), places (“Weston Road Flows”), and experiences (“Views”), along with nods to the influence of the city’s Caribbean population on “With You,” “Controlla,” and “Too Good” (which just happens to feature Rihanna). “I made a decision last night that I would die for it,” Drake raps on “9.” “Just to show the city what it takes to be alive for it.” Drake’s presence eclipsed Toronto just about as soon as So Far Gone dropped, but the city-and what it thinks of him-was never far from his mind. Views, which followed two wildly successful projects in 2015 that he’d branded as mixtapes- If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and the Future collab What a Time to Be Alive-would confirm him as both, his penchant for immaculate songwriting still fully intact and the pressures of existing as the most popular voice in rap, as well as his hometown’s most successful export, weighing heavy on his mind. ![]() He looks less like the superhero he’d made himself into over the course of a roughly six-year rise as singer-songwriter extraordinaire and more like a troubled monarch. On the cover of his fourth studio album Views, Drake looks down from atop Toronto’s CN Tower, paying homage to the city’s notoriously frigid winter temperatures in a heavyweight shearling coat and high-cut boots. ![]()
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