“Show Me A Good Time” is a great summertime song, and “Up All Night” could have been this summer’s “On to the Next One” if it wasn’t for Nicki Minaj botching her verse at the beginning (I flinched while listening to her trying to regain her footing after a strong Drake verse). The strength of the album comes right in the middle. However, the change to a faster tempo and a stronger focus on rap verses is the song’s saving grace in the context of the album. The single “Over” also plays pretty strangely, with the first verse not starting until almost a minute into the song. The lyrical content of the two tracks is okay, but the constant shifting between breathy singing and rapping is bound to annoy some listeners, as is the awkwardly placed mechanical crashing noise in “Karaoke” that sounds like a sound bite from Street Fighter II.

The trend of softer tracks continues with “Karaoke” and “The Resistance,” two of the album’s weaker songs. The album plays pretty well from start to finish, beginning with “Fireworks,” a slower, dreamlike beat accentuated with resounding bass thumps and drums on the hook with a sultry Alicia Keys. The album isn’t perfect, but it is definitely one of the better rap albums to emerge in recent memory. Drake provides the perfect mix of hard rap hooks and head-bumping beats with soulful R&B flair that proves to be the heart of the album’s emotional theme-an ambitious theme for hip-hop that we’ve seen rappers like Kanye West swing and miss at. Breaking from the usual hip-hop trend of rapping only about money, clothes, and hoes, Thank Me Later is a refreshingly candid glimpse at the man behind the swagger and the struggles that come with becoming one of rap’s youngest and most successful artists. The mixtape star still had much to prove.Īny questions I had about Drake’s ability as a legitimate rapper were answered with Thank Me Later. Though his star has quickly risen to the top of the hip-hop world, I was never really blown away by Drake’s flow–songs like “Congratulations” made Drake sound like nothing more than a Weezy clone. I, on the other hand, have always been kind of skeptical of the former Degrassi cripple. Now YeahD has been a big fan of Drake since the unprecedented success of his mixtape, So Far Gone.

While this kind of post isn’t really my thing, I am YeahDevelop’s most ethnic contributor and I happened to get my hands on this pretty early. No Tears - (featuring Future)15.As most of you must have heard by now, Drake’s much-delayed official debut album, Thank Me Later, has leaked. Beautiful - (featuring Rick Ross/Game)13. Download here - Jeezy - Seen It All: The Autobiography Full Album leak Free direct Download link MP3 ZIP RARArtist: JeezyAlbum: Seen It All: The AutobiographyGenre: Hip-Hop Year: 2014Quality: 320Kbps Track list:1.

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