This post is pretty late (especially if you live in Toronto and you hear a Drake song every 3 minutes) but we enjoy giving proper attention to acts that come out of our hometown city.
Drake’s music is definitely different from what we usually post (I don’t think we’ve posted ANY song that could be described as R&B) but it definitely warrants some recognition. One of the better songs he’s dropped is a eerie and sparsely produced (but ingeniously – a la The Neptunes produced Snoop tune “Drop It Like It’s Hot”) treatise on the basic human want/need for success. Where Drake earns originality points in the rap game is that he understands that money, cars, clothes, and ho’s have little to do with actual success.
This goes against everything that Notorious BIG started and 50 Cent seems to have ended…as he says “The game needs change and I’m the motherfucking cashier”. It’s a bought time someone realized how stale rap has become and is injecting some thought back into the scene. Check the song out below as well as his other single “Best I Ever Had” that could hold the auspicious title of being the only rap song with a better radio edit than the uncensored version.
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DOWNLOAD: Drake – Successful (feat. Trey Songz & Lil’ Wayne)
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DOWNLOAD: Drake – Best I Ever Had
BONUS: Apparently Elephant Man didn’t like how complimentary “Best I Ever Had” was towards women and decided to make a remix about those bad kills everyone had to go through to become the man they are today. Also, Mase gets live on his own little remix.
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DOWNLOAD: Drake & Elephant Man – Worst I Ever Had (Best I Ever Had Remix)
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