4/5
Hey Lover Boy.
Nas once rapped, "I take Summers off, because I love Winter beef". All whilst going at 50 Cent. A man who once vowed to retire if Kanye West outsold him with his 'Graduation'. Well these days about a dollar, 50 Cent is still here, Nas has held the last two Summer seasons down with dual 'King Diseases' and rappers readily avoid each others release dates like masks and vaccines do COVID-19 in this new age. All whilst dropping with more surprises than when you come home to a dark apartment on the day of your birth and all you friends pop up from behind the couch as you hit the light and playfully punch your spouse in the arm, before grabbing them in a warm embrace like you never knew all along. Well now the John Mayer Summer season of 80's 'Sob Rock' has taken its 'Last Train Home' for your Walkmans. So expect plenty of tears for your fall beef served as cold as the coming Winter in this game of thrones, watching and going for the head. Mayer's 'Bittersweet' companion Kanye West finally launched his tenth album for his dear Mama, 'Donda' to start the week, after almost a month of listening parties rocking stadiums like concerts. And in our review we challenged the 'Certified Lover Boy' of Drake to counter with his chess move for these two rap rivals. But what's beef? As Aubrey is now answering and giving us his own long awaited album to end the week and start the month, closing out the competition and critics. Forget waking me up when September ends like Green Day for October's Very Own. This one will have everyone singing along like Earth Wind and Fire. Posting those lyrics to their social media's like the billboards in Toronto's own Times Square or Shibuya Scramble in Tokyo of Yonge and Dundas. Just like they already are meme mocking up the pregnant emojis of this album artwork that's leaving everyone 🤷.
Hoot like an owl for the Canadian champ. We thanked him later and he took care. Then 'Nothing Was The Same' for the 'So Far Gone' man who mixtape mesmerised us with stories about wanting to be 'Successful', 'Forever' like LeBron in his salad days. Tossing it up like 'Pac for his Future like 'What A Time To Be Alive' with even 'More Life'. Now when it comes to this '6 God' like 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late', you can't jump over this "Jumpman, Jumpman, Jumpman." Rubbing courtside shoulders with the the superstars, blowing up like the Toronto Raptors this hunt for October co-owns with the chip. So close he could pick lint out of Steph Curry's hair, even if he wasn't really like him with the shot (see Kentucky). More than game though, hold on. We've never really gone home for the man who started from the bottom. Now he's here with 'CLB' after the 'Views' of the city he owns from a CN Tower throne, a 'Scorpion' sting and last years stripped down in quarantine, 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes.' An album all the LeBron James and Kevin Durant superteam leaders have been tweeting and waiting for. But tell me why these lover boys can't be in the video like Kawhi? What it do babee? All as we say 'Hey Lover' to the rapper all the ladies love like they did Cool J, dominating the radio. So if you need love in this age of ghosting, the man of the text message generation is back for more quotable soundbites for your replies. You know the hotline to call on your cellphone. Now if you used to love H.E.R. You will again. It all begins with the "I love you, I love you, I love you" soul sample even 'Ye would be jealous of for 'Champagne Poetry' from Champagne Papi, as Drizzy Drake drizzled us with lasting lyrics again for his legacy. "Champagne poetry/These are the effortless flows supposedly/Something else is controlling me/Under the pictures live some of the greatest quotes from me/Under me I see all the people that claim they're over me/Above me I see nobody." Damn! You haven't seen him flame everyone so "effortlessly" since he had beef with everyone on SNL. Don't take his champagne, lady. He still has three sips left. You'll love this, you'll love this, you'll love this. Not "effortless" like 'Shang-Chi and the Legend Of The Ten Rings' is no "experiment". C/C new superhero Simu Liu tweeting that this is "the moment you've all been eagerly anticipating for years...the culmination of SO much hard work. Today, this September 3rd, history is finally made." He's hilariously talking about this album. One of Drake's best yet. 'Papi's Home'. Slap your cheeks like Culkin, because Aubrey is taking everybody out like Shang-Chi those two goons on the bus. Snap your jacket with swagger.
Movie music like Kanye, 'Donda' clocked in at just under two hours. This 'Lover' just under an hour and a half like a romantic comedy as Drake keeps Lil Baby on 'Girls Want Girls' on an album from the man that has a heart shaved into his head. Exploring toxic masculinity like the time he called up a friend with regret after they objectified women on the phone and expressed how he was going to make an EP about how 'So Far Gone' all that is. Getting 'In The Bible' with Lil' Durk and Giveon on another smooth slow flow before reuniting with Jay-Z after 'Lights Up' ('Thank Me Later') and 'Pound Cake' ('N.W.T.S.') for their big-three in 'Love All'. "Previously on 'Ready To Die'" this song begins interlude inspired like a B.I.G. collaboration as this one as is, as Drake tells us he "never had a lot, this is all I need." As Jay coming out of 'Jail' with Kanye saying "this might be the return of the throne" raps, "Shout out to the family/I don't want no friends no more, not many understand me/Everybody want something/You know the price of everything but the value of nothing." All before rapping with Travis Scott too for a 'Fair Trade' that affords even more. It all gets 'Way Too Sexy' with Young Thug and a back to Future reunion on this time to be alive that even samples Right Said Fred without losing its shirt. 'TSU' is a storm of atmospheric, traditional Drake as the man from cold Canada says he'll make it "snow in this (watch your mouth)". And 'N 2 Deep' Drake also gets his guitar on like when his mentor Lil' Wayne (more on that Young Money later) had a rock out 'Rebirth' after he made it rain with the likes of Fat Joe. Riffing on his signature style, no 'Pipe Down' dropping bombs, "all the things I've down until right now/I need about 1000 pages to write it down." Nothing is bigger right now, this weekend for the man who gave us Abel. Not even the 'Dawn Of Chromatica' from Lady Gaga in a week that's even seen an ABBA reunion, 40 years in the making. But it's 'Yebba's' Heartbreak' that really strikes a chord on the strings. Ladies and gentlemen this is like when The Weeknd told you to get your nose of his keyboard (what were you bothering him for?). Right before 'No Friends In This Industry' (is that were you will hear about Kanye?) gets us back to the regular scheduled programming like a 'PSA' off 'The Black Album' to 'Justify My Thug' for this 'Madonna' singer and kisser. Spitting serious flows on his cut 'Knife Talk' with 21 Savage and Project Pat. But like a '9AM In Dallas' it's the '7AM On Briddle Path' freestyle that raps rings 'round everybody like roses, referencing Greek Freaks for the Bucks. "Lettin' me take the rap for that Casper the Ghost s###/While you findin' all of the loopholes/You n####s move too cold/See the watch collection and assume I got time/'Cause of the ruby rose two-tone/Or switch it to the one I call "R.I.P. Nipsey"/'Cause I swear to God the bezel got sixty of them blue stones/Maybe I'm gettin' too stoned/Calacatta marble for my tombstone/Here lies a n#### that never lied in his new song/Or any of his old songs/They sing them s###s like folk songs/Kumbaya, boom-ba-ye," the champ is here like Ali rumbling on jungle drums. Fast and furious flowing on 'Race My Mind'. Spitting 'Fountains' with Tems and cashing in with Ty Dolla $ign like KATIE ('Remember'?) as we 'Get Along Better'. But with no time to die like a pushed back 007, it's the bond with Tha Carter and Rick Ross-who Drake has just called the best rapper alive (did Thanos click his fingers again?)-that proves 'You Only Live Twice'. Even against the man who told us 'Diamonds' are forever in 'Late Registration'. 'F#####g Fans' will love this, no matter if he loves them or not. Because in Drake's mind he even gives us a sequel to a Kid Cudi classic with the Scott Mescudi featured 'IMY2' like the time they popped bottles on a Will Smith like 'Pursuit Of Happyness'. Check the spelling and read the credits like the lyrics. Because 'The Remorse' here has no mercy for the enemy. Is it Kanye? Or just those who doubted this rapper in Common like 'Sweet'? Hate him now, but be thankful for all this later. Even if of course, by then, it'll all be too late. Take it as read. It won't be long before 'Lover Boy' is certified platinum. Take care all the same as Drake-still with a sting in his tail-enjoys the views from way up there in The 6. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Champagne Poetry', 'Love All (Feat Jay-Z)', 'Yebba's Heartbreak'.
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