ditches the "superficial gold-digging bitches" he once praised on songs like "Whatever You Like", instead opting for a single lady with her own BMW and Jaguar in the garage. His relatively progressive and gentlemanly style is contagious, too on the soon-to-be smash "Fancy", T.I. "I was only trying to get ahead/ But the spotlight makes you nervous," he says, sounding more committed than a host of melisma-drunk heartthrobs. The brilliant and spare "Karaoke" finds him singing about a girl who can't deal with his newly jet-setting ways. Whereas the unofficial mainstream hip-hop LP rulebook previously demanded a couple "ladies' night" tracks that were often pandering, insulting, or both, Drake lives for such softness. But instead of lashing out against his would-be wifeys à la 808s and Heartbreak or falling into token misogyny, his relationship with women is more complicated. Simply, Drake is in love with his own lovelessness. Even though he's a rich and handsome 23 year old spreading his music around the world in a five-star fashion, Drake really wants to be in the bottom bunk, hooking up with a girl next to the laundry basket at Totally Normal University, as he raps, "I wish I wasn't famous/ I wish I was still in school/ So I could have you in my dorm room/ I would put it on you crazy." Elsewhere, the irony is not lost on him, but he's not taking anything back: "I know that niggas would kill for this lifestyle/ I'm lookin' forward to the memories of right now." Sounds like a sweet existence.īut there's a problem. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things.
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