Views - Drake
Have never fully listened to any of his albums so this is a first for me (though I'm familiar with his most popular hits and few other tracks). His latest album consists of 20 songs including the one bonus track. The biggest problem I had with the album was its length. It's not the length alone but you better have some quality to warrant this marathon. So many tracks especially in the middle felt like filler and were mega repetitive. You could seriously just remove a few tracks and the album wouldn't suffer. Sonically, I enjoyed most of the production and Drake has a nice singing voice. To name a track, the song "Feel No Ways" has a sick retro vibe to it but unfortunately I felt that Drake did not quite deliver on it. Lyrically, he seemed really on and off. At some points I could tell he had great lyrical ability with smart lines like "But shit ain’t how it always seems when it’s so together" and at other points it was like he had some sort of disability.
There's no real banger on this album except for "Hotline Bling" but that's a bonus track and it's already fairly old. Overall, it's like a 5ish/10.
Fav tracks: Views (lyrically heavy), U With Me (Kanye production, how could you go wrong?), Weston Road Flows (also lyrically heavy), 9, Pop Style (though the version with Jay-Z+Kanye is a lot better) and Feel No Ways (yes, even with Drake's poor work).
