Still up in the air on this one sometimes I love it, other times I skip it.įeaturing Swizz Beatz & T.I. Nicki murdered this track though: “Wait…fixtate/What other bitch you know made a million off a mixtape?” Damn. I feel like they tried to mix a really lyrical song with a street type anthem/banger, and it comes off sounding weird and awkward, especially when Drake sings: “I would die for this niggas!” Nah, we don’t believe you. Not gonna lie, I wasn’t really feeling this one too much either. But good filler.įeaturing Nicki Minaj Produced by Boi-1da & Matthew Burnett Still, because he only shows up for about 10 lines in both of the verses, this has to be classified as filler. “I ain’t tryin’ look like I lie to these niggas that I came up with that’s my team/Never would I let a woman come between/What we doing right now, this our dream/ Wu Tang Clan, niggas want that cream.” Drake does show up with a few lines, though: You want to hate this song, but then the chorus comes in like: “How did I end up, right here, with you?”, and you’re sold on it again. I absolutely love this song this is one of those guilty pleasures. When I first heard this song, I knew it was filler, but it was GOOD filler. The first of Kanye’s contributions to the album. Produced by Kanye West, No ID, & Jeff Bhasker Even though I played this song to death, the flow of the album makes it so when you listen to tracks 1-3, (or even just “The Resistance”), you HAVE to listen to “Over”, which is something I have to credit Drake for. The beat on this one is crazy and the hook itself started it’s own catch-phrase: “What am I doing? What am I doing? Oh, yeah, that’s right, I’m doing me!” Drake killed this song in every sense of the word. I think is the song that everyone wanted to hear from Drake he needed to prove that he was going for Hip-Hop on this record and that’s what he does with this song. I really liked this song after my first listen, but I’ve started to like other songs much more with repeat listens and this one doesn’t stand out as much. “I’m 23, with a money tree/Growing more too, I just planted a hundred seeds/It’s ironic, ’cause my mother was a florist,/and that’s how she met my pops and now my garden is enormous/It’s happening Penny Lane, just like you said/I avoided the Coke game, and went with Sprite instead.” The hook on this one is a little suspect, but Drake spits some good verses on this one overall:
Despite the fact that I wasn’t really feeling the last song, it flowed right into this one. This album is already feeling amazingly cohesive. Some people will probably love this one, but it just wasn’t for me. Drake’s verse on this song isn’t memorable enough to make up for the singing on this one. I want to like this song, I really do, but I just can’t. Overall, I’m really leaning towards a skip Drake sings pretty badly on this song and it’s not very catchy at all. Still don’t know how I feel about this song. Alicia Keys definitely did her thing on the hook here her and Drake just work on this song. It’s starts out slow, with the sound of fireworks in the background, but Drake quickly commands the track with some good lyrics: “I’m just such a gentleman, you should give it up for me/Look at how I’m placing all my napkins and my cutlery.”.
Let’s find out.įeaturing Alicia Keys Produced by 40, Boi-1da, & Crada Who else do you know could put out a mixtape that sounds like an album and get two Grammy award nominations that same year? The question on everyone’s mind is whether or Drake can transition that talent to an album, or if he’s already leaked his good material. After three amazing mixtapes, touring with Weezy, and a couple top ten singles later, Drizzy was able to put the whole “Wheerchair Jimmy” thing behind him and become one of the most talked about rappers out. Arguably one of, if not the, most anticipated albums of the year, the Hip-Hop rookie with the most buzz out of anyone else in the game right now is back with his debut album on Young Money.