![]() ![]() ‘N 2 Deep’, meanwhile, is responsible for the ickiest line on the record ( “Baby, that pussy was so worth the wait”), while this ‘Papi’s Home’ lyric has to win the pettiness award: “I remember that I told you I miss you, that was kinda like a mass text”. “Under a picture lives some of the greatest quotes from me,” from the Beatles-sampling ‘Champagne Poetry’, takes his Insta-caption-rap to a meta-level, while “Heart is on my sleeve and my body is in the hall of fame”, from ‘7am on Bridle Path’, is probably the one lyric here that will flood your timeline. ![]() We bare witness as Drake muses on sexuality ( “Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too” – ‘Girls Want Girls’), loyalty ( “If it was ride or die then you should’ve been dead right now” – ‘Pipe Down’), gives us a CSI: Miami reference ( “With the ho ratio, I’m like David Caruso” – ‘7am on Bridle Path’) and acts as a look-out as his model mates tend to their bad habits ( “Lock the door to the bathroom ’cause they doin’ something that is not Pepsi” – ‘Papi’s Home’). ‘CLB’ is full of these cringeworthy one-liners too. Drake’s the rapper that launched a million captions, basically. Then there’s the oh-so-painful pun “Got so many chains I feel like Chain-ing Tatum” (from ‘Pop Style’). Take this ‘Views’ highlight too: “You toying with it like Happy Meal”. After all, who can forget “You could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice” from ‘Best I Ever Had’. The usually-brilliant Young Thug, meanwhile, serves up these regrettable lines: “Molest me, caress me… I been kickin’ shit, might need a prosthetic”.ĭrake has always had a knack for lyrics that are so bad that they’re good. “Money, cars, and all this jewellery make a bitch look sexy,” offers Future. And even worse than the sample itself, and the purposely corny video, are the song’s lyrics. Have you ever thought to yourself, “you know what, I really want to hear Drake, Young Thug and Future hop on a sample of Right Said Fred’s kitsch uncle-dancing-at-the-christening classic ‘I’m Too Sexy’”? Nope, no one ever has wanted that.īut here we are, this exists. Speaking of which… The Right Said Fred sample will offend your ears You could say that Drake wasn’t looking to make a “pop record” with ‘CLB’, but then the track ‘Way 2 Sexy’ contradicts that. ![]() Many must have wrongly assumed that his 2020 banger ‘Laugh Now Cry Later’ would find its way onto ‘CLB’, but that has been curiously left off the final tracklist. Even ‘Scorpion’ had ‘Nice For What’, ‘God’s Plan’ and ‘In My Feelings’.įor years it has felt like Drake could conjure up a hit in his sleep. ![]() ‘Take Care’ had its title track and ‘Crew Love’ ‘Nothing Was the Same’ had ‘Started From The Bottom’ and ‘Hold On, We’re Going Home’ ‘Views’ had the chart-demolishing ‘Hotline Bling’ and ‘One Dance’. No matter the overall quality on display on any given Drake record, each one has always come with a least a handful of hits that have cemented their place in a Best Of Drizzy playlist. One of the most surprising things about ‘CLB’ is its distinct lack of singles. On 2015’s ‘Back To Back’, Drizzy boasted at having the “Midas touch”, but it seems like he still hasn’t quite realised that not every single studio off-cut needs releasing.ĬREDIT: Prince Williams/WireImage/Getty Images The hit machine grinds to a halt The running length could have been even longer too, seeing as the past two years have also seen Drake release a mixtape and an EP. Sure, there are some memorable tracks here (‘Champagne Poetry’, ‘Fair Trade’, ‘You Only Live Twice’), but at 21 tracks and 86 minutes, ‘CLB’ is a bit of a slog to get through – simply weighed down by the considerable amount of filler – ‘Race My Mind’ and ‘Knife Talk’ among the most instantly forgettable on the record. Drizzy himself seems to be aware of this too, previously promising that this LP would be “more concise”. We all know that Drake can top the chart and conquer streaming services at his whim ( ‘CLB’ has already broken Drake’s own Spotify record), but what most fans have wanted for a fair few years now has been a more focused effort from the Toronto star. Drake was one of the first major artists to churn out such bloated, 20 track-plus albums that were basically overstuffed in order to maximise streaming revenue, and changed the landscape of hip-hop releases in doing so. When it comes to streaming numbers, less is definitely not more in terms of song count. ‘CLB’ doesn’t learn from the mistakes of ‘Scorpion’ Should we expect the pair to soon be invited into Kanye’s passive-aggressive group chat? Well, we wouldn’t bet against it. The most surprising guests on the ‘CLB’, however, have to be Kid Cudi and Jay-Z – the former being a long-time close pal of Kanye’s and the latter recently reunited with his estranged little bro on ‘DONDA’ highlight ‘Jail’. ![]()
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