Unless you are living beneath a prehistoric igneous rap rock ,the bets are shamelessly high that you are going to stay that way if Drizzy had not landed on your Ipod’s playlist recently.
After his series of successful mixtapes, Room for Improvement, Comeback Season, and So Far Gone, which eventually turned to an EP, Canadian Rapper Drake just could be the most unstoppable force in the rap world. Ostentatiously, you can hear him along with likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, Jeezy, and lately, with Eminem. And with his protégés, Young Money and Lil Wayne finally securing his official studio album, Drake is set for, well, a very awing fame.
Thank Me Later is a boastful autobiographical product accompanied with semi-gesticulating influences of Kanye West’s egomaniacal lyricism and Jay-Z’s Herculean ghetto-slash-street talks. It prudently guides tones of fame and adaptability to its most subjective. It glides, stagnates, and tethered on issues of disappointment, emotional blunder, and his infamous regrets over prematurely ended relationships. Similar overtones hovered all over, there is a quandary as to whether it would end like the way it began.
“You never see it coming, you just get to see it go.”Taking off is but a beautiful thing in his Fireworks featuring the enigmatic luring of Ms. Keys. And if you are looking for a purpose, “you put the tea in the kettle and light it then put your hand on the metal and feel it”, Drizzy’s Karaoke besmirches fame with its repercussions but remained not forgetful, thankfully.
Dealing with closures was crooned seductively in The Resistance urging us that regretting and forgetting are but a part of it. Drake’s Litany of Acute Narcissism is heavily rendered in Over. “I’m doin’ me, I’m doin’ me!” I couldn’t be more gratuitous.
Stand-out phrases apparently come from Show Me A Good Time’s “I’m the Osiris to this sh*t right now, go to God for the hits right now.” Up All Night featuring – this may shock you – Nicki Minaj and Fancy with collaborators T.I. and Swizz Beatz are tracks alluring to being grateful and overkills being praiseworthy.
With Aaliyah’s version of The Isley Brothers’ At Your Best resonating, Unforgettable is the most ---- just please refer to the very title of the track. Now, getting caught up in the blitz and glamour of Hollywood has never been paparazzi-free but Drizzy just handled it quite deliriously yet steadily on Light Up.
Miss Me featuring Lil Wayne has been cemented as the most revealing of his tracks. It is the People and The Daily Mail of his official creation. What could be more overt than proclaiming his hots for Ms. Minaj? Only Slim Shady can join in that notoriety.
High school love and its shenanigans are all over on his Cece’s Interlude. Although I think Drake clearly redefined the meaning of Interlude here. Isn’t an interlude supposed to be an earlier description of the next track? But heck, I may be just dense and so within-the-structure about it.
Find Your Love is undeniably a Kanye West’s product of imagination. I couldn’t be more certain but West’s Robocop is easily reverberating. The auto-tune driven track rallies quite heavily on serenading your desire whilst you hit it Drizzy-like. While Thank Me Now is a not so astute way of taking back his LP’s title, you can find no hollowness in the rendition and ironically, the subtlety in it will wear off with Drake thanking us intead.
While I find Drake’s first official LP to be heavily stuck on not so numerous subjects and some acclaimed influences evidenced by some audio déjà vu’s incepted by his cohorts, it is unavoidable to laud his fresher takes on issues he has been dealing with alongside with his effective croonings and enigmatic come-ons. The album may be not as distinctive as it tries to evoke but it sure is quite compelling.
Thank Me Later Rating – Fisizzle.
Drake’s first official LP is going to be released today.
