"How To Drake It In America"

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a great album.

just not enough rap for me. great vocals, great content, great new flows, great controversial and subtle yet slick lyrics.

not quite enough emotional diversity in the production, even though the music is cutting edge 2013 major label hip hop, for sure.

Drake is a phenomenon. This music is powerful and confident and will carve out a place in the lives of millions. More will hate. Drake will grow.

I want to hear that :wutang: remix.
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The Live (Jimmy Fallon) Version of Too Much bodies everything on the album.

Kid is dope but can't make a proper LP to save his life.

I knew this going in but I'm still surprised at how weak this is.

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peanut butter wrote:I have zero interest in hearing the album, and found an active link to download it within one minute through entering the artist's name, the album title and the file type i wanted to download into a popular search engine. Probably about the same amount of time it took for some of you to come into this thread and beg for it.



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Listening to this wonderful album is like having your ears massaged by the lubed hooves of Bambi while sitting on a sybian. The best way to really experience this album is to close your eyes and imagine pink rainbows sprouting from the nostrils of unicorns, intertwining and bending, until they form a vortex of twinkling stars caressing your soul. Alternatively its a great album to listen to when you do yoga or prepare dried fruits. Or maybe just run a hot bubblebath with cherry-flavored foam and light some pink candles.
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Pound cake has a dope beat but overall too little Bo1da.

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Mindbender Futurama wrote:a great album.

just not enough rap for me. great vocals, great content, great new flows, great controversial and subtle yet slick lyrics.

not quite enough emotional diversity in the production, even though the music is cutting edge 2013 major label hip hop, for sure.

Drake is a phenomenon. This music is powerful and confident and will carve out a place in the lives of millions. More will hate. Drake will grow.

I want to hear that :wutang: remix.
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Digging the production on this album but Drake is definitely a walking cloud of koala farts and B&BW body mist.

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some filler. i like more of it than i dislike
'worst behavior' is terrible. ppl hate when drake spits those soft rhymes for the ladies but this is your other option

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i can't really remember all the songs b/c i only listened to it once. the singles / songs that leaked are some of the best on the album tho. nothing that blew my mind but drizzy did create an hour of pure moods tbh

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i really just want him to rap more.

he's a great songwriter though, and came up with a few new audio structures for his butter smooth jams.

album is a great piece of work... but doesn't fully satisfy everything i want from the homie. oh well, it's still gonna blow :copy:

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I liked it
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album's sick so far. 305 to my city :cheers:

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just gave it a front to back listen.

i liked it a lot. Drake is the most consistently dope commercial rapper out there.

plus no one mentioned he only has 1 rapping guest on the whole thing? (unless you count the bonus cut with 2chainz and big sean). that's unheard of these days, a bold move imo.

i like that "from time" track more than i think i should...must be that female singer. who is that?

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He does a good job on "From Time". And I fux with "Terrible Behavior". To quote Piff when his first major album came out: his album is still not an album you want to listen to around your homeboys.
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he had two rapping guests, jay and un-credited birdman verse on the language

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5am in Toronto is better than anything on the album.

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his worst album

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Damn you guys are fruitier than Marc Jacobs tongue kissing Mister Cee.

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Joe Pesci wrote:Image
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illuminati_guy wrote:he had two rapping guests, jay and un-credited birdman verse on the language
thats not a verse its just birdman ramblings.

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ABC News using the teardrop rating scale, "Just How Many Tissues Do You Need?" :lol:

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/dra ... d=20278719

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Re: "How To Drake It In America"

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- Hold On We're Going Home
- Furthest Thing
- Started From The Bottom
- Connect
- Too Much
- The Language
- All Me

those are my fave songs. tracks 2-4 & 8-10 are good pockets on the album

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WE WANT YOLO

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Re: "How To Drake It In America"

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jay's backhanded compliments to dame, cam & beans? smh
the only way he can shout them out as success stories is if he takes credit (and attempts to discredit beans by mentioning him being in jail at the same time)

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HomieDontPlayDat wrote:drake = GOAT
Wrote this before I'd listened. Album's alright. Not as good as his previous, upon first couple listens.
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LilLeftBrain wrote:it's not the greatest shame around to just admit that you're inept
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i thought the album was cool, i skipped the non rap joints

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good words, good emoticon, thoughtful analysis
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o snap, i got carried on the internet

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