“What’s the point
If I’m guarded?
Double D-Up, hos -
Dolly Parton.”
-Nicki Minaj on Drake’s (but really Nicki’s) “Make Me Proud”
“What’s the point
If I’m guarded?
Double D-Up, hos -
Dolly Parton.”
-Nicki Minaj on Drake’s (but really Nicki’s) “Make Me Proud”
Drake, I really like you.
Your voice is smooth like a baby butt and you’ve got swag coming out your ass. Your last album was original because it was super confessional, totally self-centered and a little bit whiny. In 2010, you singlehandedly stopped my folk-only rule and reminded me how much I long for urban cred in a non-ironic way.
You overcame the odds by getting out of that wheelchair and using the curb of Degrassi street (so close to my house) to hoist yourself into the driver’s seat of some nondescript SUV where you drove to Atlanta and had sex with a lot of nameless girls. You’re a self-made man with style and maybe a couple of STIs and illegitimate babies.
And I like your new album. It’s 90s R&B cheese with an italian edge. Does that make sense? No. But that’s how it makes me feel. And it makes me feel good.
What bothers me are the little things that hint you’ve changed. These little things aren’t experimentation, but a solid sign of ideological changes. You’re throwing out your image of only cool Canadian, ever, who talks a lot about his feelings to become that guy who makes the same grunting noise as Kanye West, tries to copy Lil Wayne’s oily, creepy drawl while adopting a Caribbean accent. It’s only kind of cool, but it’s also totally weird.
Be Drake again.
Make Me Proud - Drake f. Nicki Minaj
listen to this song and then read this awesome column from Sarah Liss in The Grid on Drake’s very own brand of sexism masked as female empowerment.
Drake, I love you, but you’re from Toronto - when did you pick up a Caribbean accent?
Also, Nicki Minaj is the baddest bitch ever.
1. In 1 image, his cover has shown the world what I have been trying to explain to everyone as a migraine. This guys gets it.
2. He does it like Kanye does it on 808s and Heartbreaks, except he can actually sing.
3. He cracked the signature reverb on almost all of Drake’s tracks and makes it sound better.
4. There’s a hint of R&B-infused rap from the 90s like Bell Biv Devoe, which also includes those old-school themes of mysterious girls doing no good, which I love for some reason despite not actually believing in it.
5. He addresses issues of family in african-american culture in the same way that Kanye does on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but analyzes it from various perspectives, except always in his own voice.
6. ”How many gold plaques you want inside your dining room?” / I said I want a full house / They said, “You got it dude!”
7. The above song oooooozes sexy times. We should survey people who have listened to it and ask if they immediately sexted their significant others…
8. You know how in pop songs and rap songs, there’s one artist who sings the chorus, one artist who raps the rap, and another artist who gets really aggressive during the bridge? He does all of that. On his own. Better than anyone else.
9. The story-time ending about summer camp that essentially explains everything my brother and I have been saying about camp people our entire lives.
10. Have you ever like, fake-danced inside your body? Where you’re sending all your energy to your muscles, but you’re also making sure that nothing moves so you don’t look crazy in public? The last 6 hours.
