6. Marvins Room
Drake’s producer “40” jacks the drums from Ron Browz “Pop Champagne” to create a song about drunk calling. While it may be true that Drake’s upped his alcohol consumption, I don’t find this premise believable, even if it really happened. On TML, Drake was the nice guy and now because everyone is questioning his masculinity he’s drinking dirty sprite and toasting (read: pandering) to the douche bags. Drake you’re not Kanye, stop trying to go down the “I’m every man road”. The song transitions into a Kendrick Lamar rapper-lude where he pretends he’s retarded and then gets into this off-beat rap about having sex with an alien. All I got to say is damn Drake just memphis bleek’d Kendrick. And I use I just used Memphis Bleek as an adjective.
7. Under Ground Kings
Drake’s always been good at brown nosing the South. Here he goes for the gold by making a song called “Under Ground King” which references the legendary Texas duo Bun B and Pimp C on the hook. While the song is more about Drake’s days when he drove an Acura TL, it’s still nothing to get excited about.
8. We’ll Be fine
Many people we’re scratching their head when Drake recruited A$AP Rocky for his upcoming tour, after listening to this track it’s pretty obvious he’s a fan as the production and Drake’s flow on the first verse are reminiscent of the Harlem native. Remember Drake’s not against stealing flows, just ask Big Sean.
9. Make Me Proud ft. Nicki Minaj
Depending on where you live this is probably climbing up the charts, but I just find this record annoying. Even Nicky Minaj whose usually on-point, seems awkwardly off-beat here.
10. Lord Knows ft. Rick Ross
Rapping over what sounds like a beat leftover from Jay-Z’s Blueprint era, Drake does his best Joe Budden impression sans the depressing back story and with way more wit going after the very ones that make those disparaging hashtags on twitter. Even Ross’s verse is ice cold with lines like “Only fat nigga in the sauna with Jews”.
Best line: “Know that I don’t make music for niggas that don’t get pussy, so those are the ones that I count on to diss me or overlook me”.
11. Cameras/Good Ones Go (interlude)
Another A$AP Rocky sounding record which I find problematic because it’s straying from Drake’s strength which is making easily pleasant music. What I think made So Far Gone so good was that regardless of your tastes, you would just fall into the records without having to have repeated listens. In that respect, this is probably Drake’s worst song, which is probably why the interlude “Good Ones Go” quickly reboots into Drake mode.
