1) Over My Dead Body – Great intro to the CD. Starts off slow and calm, the singing says that even though things have changed, I’m still the same. You can tell this is the message he has for most of the CD. On this song he spits bar after bar of quotables. “got me on these white women like Seal, Nigga. Slave to the Pu$$y but im playing the field, nigga” .. Slave, Field Nigga.. great world play. “Shout out to the asian girls, turn the lights ‘dim-sum’”. Each line was great on this one. Good way to kick it off. The second verse you can tell his swag is turned all the way, he just sounds like he is feeling himself and knows that you have to either respect or check this album.
2) Shot For Me – I knew this was coming. I knew the singing wasn’t going to be too far away. This one is ode to his past chicks, the ones he feels that he made. He wants them to know that he made them who they are, and then he made it. He is the reason why they are out drinking their sorrows away.. and he request they take a shot for him. He is really rubbing it in on this on, letting her know that she HAD a good thing and he never cheated. If you missed it in the first verse, actually says their names, and gives them a toast by the end of the song. The one thing I didn’t understand was the SWV sample at the end of “Anything”. Maybe that’s the girls talking, “anything you want me to do now, I’ll do it”.. too late.
3) Headlines – We know this by now, good lines, nice video. Wont waste too much of your time.
4) Crew Love – This is one of the joints I had to repeat. This Drake being accompanied by the Weeknd. This song is a ode to the groupies that’s tryna get that chance to touch and get close to the crew. I feel this song so much. I just wish the Weeknd would sing a lil bit louder and clearer so I could understand. “They loving the crew” is something I can hear my self saying on one of these future nights out with my FFR people. The cockiness is on 10 on this one. I like that though. Sometimes you just wanna flex. I wish it were just more lyrics on it. I need another verse from Drake on this one.
5) Take Care – This is Drakes duet with his lost love RiRi. This song is about loving and losing love. I guess Drake wanted to have RiRi on recorded saying that she will take care of him. Whatever it takes buddy. I can tell he did this for himself, he don’t care what we think about this one. This is a sample of Gil-Scott Herron’s “I’ll Take Care of You” which is fitting. This is a nice song though. It has crossover potential; I could hear this will shopping at Macy’s. Laugh if you want, that’s money.
6) Marvin’s Room/ Buried Alive – We know Marvin’s Room by now.. so Ill move on to this Buried Alive. Buried Alive is an interlude with the West Coast upcoming rapper Kendrick Lamar. K-Dot is the top prospect for the left-side and its dope for Drake to reach out to give him this exposure. The whole rap is about him meeting Drake, not believing that he wanted to actually meet, to actually meeting and being inspired that they are the same age. I wonder if this will get any Illuminati talks going. He speaks of his old self dying, almost as to sell his old self for this rap game. “Felt like the initiation.. of reality, living in the matrix”. His flow is crazy on this joint.
7) Underground Kings – This is him giving a autobiographical point of view of this journey. He has been calling himself the greatest since Baby and Lil Wayne was rapping on “Neck Ov The Woods”. “With fame on my mind, my girl on my nerves, I was pushing myself to something I deserve” is a very accurate line. Shooting for those dreams you know you deserve will make those relationships hard and they suffer. He wants you to remember that he started as an underground kind, and that he is still doing it for the cities that made him, Toronto and Memphis.
8) We Will Be Fine – This is one of the ones that don’t really stand out to me on the first listen. The beat isn’t big and his rhyming is very monotone to start off with. He is on his player steez on this one. He just talking game to a chick, letting her know that she aint the only one, trying to be the only one. She has to know and asks her repeatedly, “Are you down?”… if so, we will be fine. I heard Baby at the end and hoped he wasn’t bout to rap. Glad he didn’t.
9) Proud of You – Current single with Nicki Minaj. Has a euro sound to it be just a little too repetitive to me on the chorus. Nicki spits good though. I love how they chop up her words when she starts. “B-B-B-Badder than.. “. I love when she sings tho..
10) Lord Knows – LORD KNOWS I needed this song. I love Just Blaze beats and I thought this was a sample but after research, I learned that Just brought in choirs and musicians to make this beat. Makes it EVEN better. The beat is powerful, so much that some times I don’t hear Drake. When I focus back in to the lyrics, Drake is dancing all over this beat. Changing tones with the tones of the beat. Jay wouldda be so thorough on this one. I say this because Drake is on his Jay type rhymes on this one. He is saying it with his chest on this one. I gotta hear this live, with the Roots playing the instruments. Ross grunts his way all over this joint. The beat changes for his verse, give you a chance to hear his words. “Only fat nigga in a sauna with Jews.” In rap jews = money.. in real life too.. ha. Big Willie talk by both rappers on this one. I had to run this back multiple times.
11) Cameras/ Good Ones Go – Drake speaks on how perception isn’t everything. He lets the listener know that she looks so great and she looks like she is mine, but that’s just for the cameras. He is tryna reassure the listener that things aint always how they seem. He spits good over this Jon B. “Calling On You” sample. On the interlude, he continues to please his case and lets us know that the good girls don’t always stick around. We out here trying live out these dreams, and they out here trying get married. “Don’t you go getting married, don’t you go get engage” he pleads. He lets her know that when this is all over, she can have all of him.
12) Doing it Wrong – This is like the conclusion to the last song. He doesn’t want to be around for the hard part of the break up. He doesn’t want to keep holding on, he wants something/someone “different”. She is trying hold on him and to them, but he doesn’t want to do that. To add to the already sad story, Stevie Wonder closes out the song serenading the listeners with his harmonica. Just makes me think that are outside in the snow at a Greyhound station and he is leaving, she is crying, and here comes a homeless man playing while the bus pulls off. Vivid imagination huh?
13) The Real Her – This slow joint has Wayne and 3 Stacks on it speaking to the ladies about wanting to get to the real core of a certain lady. Drake sings over this with an Aaliyah style cadence. You can tell Drake is a real Sucker for love by this on. Not saying it in a derogatory way, but just saying that he wants love. You can tell he falls in love quick. He just met the chick and feels like he met the real her. Wayne speaks more realistic stating that it feels nice but I still got questions. Andre Benjamin goes ill on this one, and even shows his love for Adele and states he understands her love for love. Softer side for all the rappers but a good concept. Some times we are confused.
14) HYFR – Another joint with Weezy F. F is for feature. This dude Drake came out sniping on this one. He speaks on women, again. His ex chicks, again. This time he is just seeing if she is still down through it all but gets irritated by all the questions. Weezy flips his verse to be anti-love. He is speaking more to the groupies and how he slipped her a roofie.. smh . Listen, judge for yourself but that’s what it sounds like to me. The song is cool. I expected more from a song with such an amped up title.
15) Look What You’ve Done – This is story about him relationship with his mom, from him trying to get her to stop smoking, him moving out, to have the single parent issues. He recalls how Lil Wayne and him met and how things changed for the both of them. This realness and openness reminds me of Kanye (Hey Mama and Roses). This is dope and I can relate. He is basically is tryna to prove to his mom how good his is, hold on to promises and to make his mom proud. Though it all, its been worth. He ends it with his mother speaking back to him on how she cares.
16) Practice – This one is his version of “Back Dat Thing Up”, even if you listen to the beat you can hear it. The premise of this song is he speak to a woman (of course) on how the guys that she has had before were all just practice for when he got his turn with her. She had to learn a few things before she got with him. The chorus is Juvi’s word in a more melodic way. I can definitely hear this being sing in someone ear on one of those last songs of the night at the club.
I want to grade this but its not complete. There are 3 songs still waiting to get leaked. That could give this a better rating. I like the cd though. I’ve listened about 5 times already. Its def work the money and it will be considered to be one of the best of this year and its better than the last one to me.
-Ur Gurls Favorite
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