Quarantine's Very Own.
Kendrick Lamar. Kanye West. Jesus Christ?! F### it everybody can get it like J. Cole said on a Yeezy G.O.O.D. Friday track when it comes to Drake's new tape that has the blasphemy to say 'Jesus Is King' flopped. Stinging to tease the 'Scorpion' album follow up coming this Summer. Beefing with everyone like a Saturday Night Live skit. He had ten sips left...DAMN! Everyone except the 'Blinding Lights' thriller of his former OVO product, The Weeknd. The fellow Canuck who is still ruling the number one spot on the charts after all this time (a month these days in music is a lifetime. Especially in lockdown with all other albums from Lady Gaga to Haim pushed back to Summer girl), 'After Hours' on some Michael Jackson walking on the moon giant steps with the good time of his uncut gem. But in Toronto taking care of his 6 like watching it, his former teammate like Kawhi Leonard still has his nose on the keyboard hoping to win for longer like the Raptors now the NBA season is in the refrigerator. And with another Canadian dry, cold as ice that sharp, compelling classic, Drake is back to the old Aubrey dreams that money can't buy. This almost feels like one of his comeback seasons like, 'If You're Reading This...', well you know the rest. Now the man who has better playlists (like the 'Passionfruit' of 'More Life' with the 'Glow' of when all was good with the 'Flashing Lights' of Ye) than albums is back with another one like Khaled. And 'So Far Gone' this is the 'Thank Me Later' breakout star who showed you with 'Views' that 'Nothing Was The Same' like trust issues. Armed with another huge hit that has everyone dancing along-but this time safely at home and not outside their cars with the hand break off now we're no longer in our feelings like, "Kiki, do you love me"-in his laid back 'Tootsie Slide', Drake's making ringtone murder music money like a 'Hotline Bling' dance. So to all those who used to call him on his cell phone, with the whole album on this chilled vibe, "who's bad?"
"How you go vegan and still be beefin" Drake says on the avocado of rap disses on the 'Desires' diamond dancing reunion with Future as they put their really 'Big Rings' back on like Kyle Lowry and Pascal Siakam. Jumpman, Jumpman, Jumpman. What a time to truly be alive like listening to this 'Chicago Freestyle' featuring Drizzy's new hook dressing of Giveon before watching Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls's ESPN 'Last Dance' on Netflix, like we could this courtside Raptor owners SportsCenter moment with the University of Kentucky all day ("Steph Curry with the shot boy"). The laid back feel of the Pearson pure 'Landed', or 'Time Flies' will make your clocks really do that as locked down in social isolation you look for new ways to chill other than extracting the latest Chris Hemsworth war dog on Netflix. As Drake hits bars as well as Thor's own Rake hammers...well rakes. Sans chorus, but all hooks we feel Captain Canada could do this all day. Let alone the 14 tracks over 49 minutes that in itself feels like the classic concise, full length album he's got coming next season. Now as Future comes back with Young Thing for 'D4L', this sounds like the crime classic Firm of a new Nas, Cormega, AZ and Foxy supergroup down for life. This albu...I'm sorry mixtape playlist as dark and street level gutter as the middle of the '5AM In Toronto' night it feels like has got the look down, like the simple but classic, black hoodie drawstring balaclava pulled photogenic portrait artwork of Drake maintaining that social distancing. Six feet away from the lens with a mask on that's not for you, but the people you care about on this dark night Batman.
Stealing away, it looks like Drake's about to take the game again with these 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' for your decks. Just like all you need is those eyes and a Parental Advisory sticker to know this Explicit Content is all him. Reel 'em off. The outstanding' Deep Pockets' opener with no holes that come up with anything but lint, paid in full. Word to Rakim. Or the 'Song Cry' sampling 'When To Say When' that pours more into those who think the coolest rap cat since Jay-Z's glass is half full. He was just f###### with you cats, he's got right back. Half empty? Say when! The competition is all gone when it comes to some of his biggest and best new rest like the 'Pain 1993' that takes it back with Playboi Carti. Or his new signature song, 'Losses'. "Lost you to the game I gotta hug that/I was here when you was asking where the love at". The "Sweet" rapper legends like Common made fun for being emotional, still makes that energy epically evoking in electric relaxation on his own quest like Tribe. "I ain't trying to make songs, these are cold facts" says the man who "does it for the grams, not the 'gram". All before talking about the time "Weezy played that s### for me and Kobe on the bus" coming at us 'From Florida With Love' like Laker LeBron taking his talents back to South Beach. All whilst showing us the hope he has to bring Tha Carter back for his sixth set this Summer, building bridges like Nicki and Meek. And how about the 'Demons' collabo with Fivio Foreign and Sosa Geek for a collection full of canon collabos like his 'Not You Too' Make friends with Chris Brown as smooth as the time Breezy went on a 'Papertrail' with ATL King of the South, T.I. for a 'Private Show'? Still it's the declaration of 'War' that ready to end the game like Thanos, ashes to "don't feel so good", 'Infinity' dust is ready to finish us off. The same guy who told you he "wants this s### forever man" off King James' 'More Than A Game' movie soundtrack shows you it really is bigger than all of that as the scorpion still has something in his tail. Ready to strike when the sun is hot. Banding all this together with one tape that's going to leave the rest winding theirs back in like protecting their necks ('Wu-Tang Forever'), as they tape up their bruised egos and knuckles ready to hit back. But right now if this tape is just a demo, 'Dark' mode Drake is in his own lane. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Deep Pockets', 'Tootsie Slide', 'Losses'.
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