Deep Album Cuts Vol. 261: Drake
Drake surprise released his 7th album Honestly, Nevermind last month, and as I wrote the other day, I like that's kind of a change of pace for him.
Drake deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Uptown (f/ Bun B and Lil Wayne)
2. Up All Night (f/ Nicki Minaj
3. Unforgettable (f/ Jeezy)
4. Lord Knows (f/ Rick Ross)
5. The Ride (f/ The Weeknd)
6. Connect
7. From Time (f/ Jhene Aiko)
8. 10 Bands
9. Plastic Bag (with Future)
10. Hype
11. Weston Road Flows
12. Sacrifices (f/ 2 Chainz and Young Thug)
13. 8 Out Of 10
14. Sandra's Rose
15. Time Flies
16. Fountains (f/ Tems)
17. In The Bible (f/ Lil Durk and Giveon)
18. Currents
19. Overdrive
Track 1 from So Far Gone (2009)
Tracks 2 and 3 from Thank Me Later (2010)
Tracks 4 and 5 from Take Care (2011)
Tracks 6 and 7 from Nothing Was The Same (2013)
Track 8 from If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015)
Track 9 from What A Time To Be Alive with Future (2015)
Track 10 and 11 from Views (2016)
Track 12 from More Life (2017)
Tracks 13 and 14 from Scorpion (2018)
Track 15 from Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020)
Tracks 16 and 17 from Certified Lover Boy (2021)
Tracks 18 and 19 from Honestly, Nevermind (2022)
I hesitate to write about Drake because when someone you don't particularly like is that massively successful at what they do, I dunno, it's easy to sound like Skip Bayless talking about LeBron or something. And before Drake, I found something to like about rap's biggest stars pretty easily. If I didn't take Ja Rule too seriously as anything more than a fun singles artist, it was fine, because neither did anybody else. But Drake is not Ja Rule -- even adjusting for the inflation of the streaming era, Drake is probably the most commercially successful rapper of all time. His 13 unbroken years of ubiquity dwarf Jay-Z's 8-year pre-retirement run, and even if he doesn't have a single album as big as those Adele records, his overall Billboard accomplishments are starting to put him in Elvis, Beatles, Michael Jackson levels of popularity.
And listen, the first time I heard Drake's voice, I don't think I would've predicted him becoming the biggest rapper ever. I still kind of hear the guy who sounds like mid-period Lil Wayne on the verses and Trey Songz on the choruses even now, as he's added dozens of other influences that he mimics with varying degrees of success. But beyond my basic dislike for his voice and his aesthetic, he's obviously made some good music and has collaborated with a lot of my favorite artists, so I really tried to highlight the stuff I dug the most on each record -- two from each proper album, and one from each mixtape or 'playlist' or whatever he wanted to call his stopgap projects since his breakthrough, So Far Gone. Some of these songs like "Up All Night" and "10 Bands" have been mix show staples, and thanks to streaming most of these songs have charted on the Hot 100, but they're not the big ones.
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