![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Drake's fellow Young Money upstart Nicki Minaj adds to the gender ambiguities, out-manning her host on the diabolical "Up All Night", and the album's steamiest pairing has him teaming with The-Dream for the uber-slow jam "Shut It Down". Blige spiritually co-signs the sentiment by adding some subtle harmonies as the song draws to a close. ditches the "superficial gold-digging bitches" he once praised on songs like "Whatever You Like", instead opting for a single lady with her own BMW and Jaguar in the garage. His relatively progressive and gentlemanly style is contagious, too on the soon-to-be smash "Fancy", T.I. "I was only trying to get ahead/ But the spotlight makes you nervous," he says, sounding more committed than a host of melisma-drunk heartthrobs. The brilliant and spare "Karaoke" finds him singing about a girl who can't deal with his newly jet-setting ways. Whereas the unofficial mainstream hip-hop LP rulebook previously demanded a couple "ladies' night" tracks that were often pandering, insulting, or both, Drake lives for such softness. But instead of lashing out against his would-be wifeys à la 808s and Heartbreak or falling into token misogyny, his relationship with women is more complicated. Simply, Drake is in love with his own lovelessness. Even though he's a rich and handsome 23 year old spreading his music around the world in a five-star fashion, Drake really wants to be in the bottom bunk, hooking up with a girl next to the laundry basket at Totally Normal University, as he raps, "I wish I wasn't famous/ I wish I was still in school/ So I could have you in my dorm room/ I would put it on you crazy." Elsewhere, the irony is not lost on him, but he's not taking anything back: "I know that niggas would kill for this lifestyle/ I'm lookin' forward to the memories of right now." Sounds like a sweet existence.īut there's a problem. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. ![]() ![]() Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things. ![]()
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