Albums Drake - Certified Lover Boy (Discussion Thread)

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FreshAIG said:
I'm hearing a lot of complaints of it sounding the same as all his prior work, but to be honest, 99.99% of rappers have a signature sound and when they stray away from it the results are usually terrible or underwhelming. I guess if you're saying his content can grow and expand more, I can see that and agree to an extent. But as far as the switching up the sound production wise, that's not really fair to expect that. And Drake switches up his flows and delivery.

I always thought being diverse in rap can be overrated, and a lot of fans just say it because they think it's what you're suppose to say. It's only dope if you're dope at multiple styles, which most rappers rarely are. It's like taking a player who scores in the paint and trying to make him a 3 point shooter. Sure, you can do that and make his game more "diverse", but if he's shooting 20% from the field doing it, is him being "diverse" really a good thing? No.
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Great post. :clap:
 
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FreshAIG said:
I'm hearing a lot of complaints of it sounding the same as all his prior work, but to be honest, 99.99% of rappers have a signature sound and when they stray away from it the results are usually terrible or underwhelming. I guess if you're saying his content can grow and expand more, I can see that and agree to an extent. But as far as the switching up the sound production wise, that's not really fair to expect that. And Drake switches up his flows and delivery.

I always thought being diverse in rap can be overrated, and a lot of fans just say it because they think it's what you're suppose to say. It's only dope if you're dope at multiple styles, which most rappers rarely are. It's like taking a player who scores in the paint and trying to make him a 3 point shooter. Sure, you can do that and make his game more "diverse", but if he's shooting 20% from the field doing it, is him being "diverse" really a good thing? No.
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Not real the same sound per se, but HIM sounding the same. When he do features and rap collaboration, he makes sure he switches the flow. On here not so much, and the Singing drake is really sounding repetitive. He should probably let other singers come in and handle them duties more. Like he really is trying to hit notes , but has no back up vocals and background singers ( which would make his shyt tighter) that solo melodic shyt is over extending its stay. But salute to Drizzy for knowing what his fans like and taking over Labor Day weekend.
 
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toetoe said:
Good point, i don't think any of my favourite rappers(Nas, Ghost, Mobb, Styles, MOP and Sean P) actually "switched it up" at any time in their career.(Jay and Jada tried a couple times, and failed :huhldup:)

Drake's big problem is actually the length of the albums, cause after going through them you always feel you "heard it before". If he could short them down to 12-13 tracks, people wouldn't complain to such an extent of "sameness".
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Yeah his big issue is over saturation
 
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FreshAIG said:
I'm hearing a lot of complaints of it sounding the same as all his prior work, but to be honest, 99.99% of rappers have a signature sound and when they stray away from it the results are usually terrible or underwhelming. I guess if you're saying his content can grow and expand more, I can see that and agree to an extent. But as far as the switching up the sound production wise, that's not really fair to expect that. And Drake switches up his flows and delivery.

I always thought being diverse in rap can be overrated, and a lot of fans just say it because they think it's what you're suppose to say. It's only dope if you're dope at multiple styles, which most rappers rarely are. It's like taking a player who scores in the paint and trying to make him a 3 point shooter. Sure, you can do that and make his game more "diverse", but if he's shooting 20% from the field doing it, is him being "diverse" really a good thing? No.
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Excellent post.
 
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Da_Eggman said:
It is what it is Drake will never make truly classic album
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Take Care was a classic album. So Far Gone was a classic mixtape. What A Time was a classic collabo project.

The whole classic album thing is a internet obsession it doesn’t matter in real life. Drake got way too many records both singles and b-sides people love and every single one of his albums was a moment.
 
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ISO said:
Take Care was a classic album. So Far Gone was a classic mixtape. What A Time was a classic collabo project.

The whole classic album thing is a internet obsession it doesn’t matter in real life. Drake got way too many records both singles and b-sides people love.
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Really believe If You’re Reading This should be accepted as a classic too honestly.
 
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