Drake - Honestly, Nevermind (Discussion Thread)

[Yecht]

Respect Drake for stepping out of his comfort zone and trying something different. Was an early fan but haven’t rocked with breh in a minute based on his sub-par music and general lame nikka tendencies these last few years.

As a breh who fukks wit house music heavy I respect the attempt, but it’s lacking in a few areas.

Beats are too repetitive/monotonous. Because production is the centerpiece for house music, there needs to be more texture and depth to the production. Most of the beats on here just seemed liked a simple loop so they got stale quick.

Like other brehs and brehettes have said, Drake’s vocals aren’t strong enough for house music. A lot of his vocal performances were flat/one-note so it left me wanting a lot more.

I would love to see him run it back and attempt a few more house tracks. If he gets A1 production and does something similar to what he did on A Keeper performance-wise, he could make a splash.

Solid take on the flaws with this album. As someone who doesn't listen to house music, this is the first thing I've read in 2000 pages from the self-proclaimed fans that actually helps me to understand better where he fukked up. I thought the repetitiveness was one of the primary calling cards of house music, but I guess a fan notices the nuances.


Let me ask you this though: what would it say about House Music and the musicians that make it if Drake could randomly drop a flawless House album? Same thing in reverse, imagine if David Guetta dropped Illmatic 2 tomorrow, what would that say about rap? When Lil Wayne dropped Rebirth, while it was basura and got rightfully trashed, it wasn't getting ripped for not being Nirvana's Nevermind, nobody expected a rapper to make a great rock album.

 

[Yecht]

Text Go Green was originally for CLB

Where you hear that at? Just curious. That's the best track on this IMO, but I think it would have sounded out of place on CLB

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Where you hear that at? Just curious. That's the best track on this IMO, but I think it would have sounded out of place on CLB

 

[Canada Goose]

I've had "Down Hill" on repeat ever since this dropped


We try, try, ttrrr try

 

[Doctor Wily]

Yep looks like Drake beat beyonce to the punch.

 

[Busby]

Fantano gave him the “NOT GOOD” stamp

 

[Arithmetic]

He should be embarrassed. Pathetic.

 

[Black Mamba]

Fantano gave him the “NOT GOOD” stamp

Who the fukk care about this fukking CAC

 

[TheNig]

This shyt is terrible.

It's like, he released that mid ass Push diss on Jack Harlow shyt and it didn't gain any traction. So he said fukk it and went a different route.

Not saying that's what happened. That's just how it looks.

He tried to go Joeboy/Musa Keys but his singing is too whiny to do that.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

So Drake found out Beyonce was doing a house album and released his first?

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Yep looks like Drake beat beyonce to the punch.

It all makes sense now. His album isn’t good but if he would have dropped it after Beyoncé dropped it would have been even worse for him. He tried to step on her release now his album about to become a afterthought in less than a month. They both doing the same type shyt but Beyoncé can actually sing. I know it gotta hurt to see everybody sh*t on his project and seem like they loving Beyoncé song.

 

[KingofthePenguins]

It all makes sense now. His album isn’t good but if he would have dropped it after Beyoncé dropped it would have been even worse for him. He tried to step on her release now his album about to become a afterthought in less than a month. They both doing the same type shyt but Beyoncé can actually sing. I know it gotta hurt to see everybody sh*t on his project and seem like they loving Beyoncé song.

That is what makes his insistence on trying to sing on those songs so perplexing. He should have been rapping his ass off on those house songs as verses, and then sung a catchy chorus in a range suitable to his voice to break up up all of the monotony of those songs. He could have even done that melodious sing-rapping thing, but he tried to give high notes etcetera with struggle vocals. Even Beyonce is rapping on her house song and threw Big Freedia on to not make the song appear monotonous, but the supposed best "rapper" in the game ain't rapping. I guarantee you that Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Childish Gambino etcetera would go off on a house song and then have another person sing a nice hook. Well, Childish Gambino would probably sing his own since he can actually really sing. People have been rapping on house beats since the 90s, but he oped to give an album of just straight up caterwauling and warbling

 

[The Phoenix]

I haven't liked the last 2 or 3 Drake albums. I like this one.

 

[OfTheCross]

This is a poor mans Weeknd DAWN FM.

Yes. this is accurate

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Y’all just now admitting drake is a bad singer, don’t know how he’s been getting singing passes for 13 years…