It's hypercritical, sure, but that's what comes along with the crown. It's slightly worrisome that he doesn't shift gears on his latest offering, the mixtape-cum-album, If You're Reading This It's Already Too Late. The biggest rapper in the game, the most promising leader of the new pack, and he's already hitting cruise control after three albums? But there's a foreboding sameness that's lightweight distressing. But for every verse that saw The Boy completely blacking out ("Draft Day") or experimenting with new flows (the last half of "Days in the East") there was a "6 God": undeniably fun, but admittedly a cruise control amalgam of flows and topics already covered on tracks like "Started From the Bottom," "Worst Behaviour," and "The Language." Are the verses still fun and ready-made for you to bellow in unison with the squad in the most lit of situations? Yes, of course. Because now that the 6 God has achieved absolute power, the question becomes, what is he going to do with it? True to his formula, Drizzy took last year off but still dominated with a slew of loosies and strategic guest spots. The crowning moment was supposed to be Nothing Was the Same, the album with which he completed and cemented his ascension. Because really, Drake’s legacy quietly depends Views From the 6.
And while that piece was simply me being pessimistic just for fun, there was a kernel of truth to the dark prediction.
A few weeks ago, I teased the possibility of Drake’s next album being his first creative brick.
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