He continues to splits the difference between rapping and singing, his quite serviceable voice occasionally distorted and made to sound better due to auto tune. The record mostly finds the rapper conflicted about his growing stardom and fame. Memo to Drake the days of being Jimmy from Degrassi are over. Instead, he flows through what should have been his energetic coming-out party, he comes off as a weird kid, missing the days when he was 19 and it was just about him and his girlfriend.
However, Drake is not the hip-hop savior he was hyped to be. Thanks to the rich and nuanced production and Drake's thoughtful, playful, and intense lyrics, Thank Me Later is a friendly, chart-topping collection of singles but also a serious examination of Drake's life that holds up as an album. Therefore Thank Me Later needs to lives up to the hype and it does to a degree but not enough. It been a weird trip for Drake, as by the time of the release of Drake's first full-length album, the Canadian rapper was already a star. But if you just woke up from a coma and never heard of Drake and listened to this CD, you would notice a young artist laying the ground work of more to come. And there are things he should have added. Sure there are something's Drake could have left out. This album is not as overhyped as people think. But just like Kanye, I expect his rhyming skills to improve. Drake's lyrics has an early Kanye West feel to them. And he is not Rick Ross or Young Jeezy when it comes to rapping. Drake's singing is no better than other hot R&B artist like Trey Songz & The-Dream. T-Pain was a rapper before he found auto-tune. Kid Cudi & B.o.B have been doing it for years. But a new wave of hip hop/R&B acts are hitting the shelves. How does Plies, with two Gold selling albums and three Top 5 singles, get more credibility than Drake? That can get annoying but it worked for Lil' Wayne, Plies & DMX. But he has clever rhymes and that "I'm-going-to-ride-this-train-til-the-wheels-fall off" mentality. He's not the best singer or the strongest rapper.
And as a music fan I cant knock Drake's hustle. I'm a a music fan first, not just a hip hop fan. But how many rappers today would like to sell Hammer records? How many rappers want to have top selling albums? If these rappers truly talk about making money why wouldn't they. Its easy to dis mainstream hip hop like we did back in 1990 when MC Hammer was flying across the stage. And when he gets a chance to shine on his own, he's at his best on "The Resistance" As far as the R&B side of the album, Drake falls short in a lot of ways with the only ones any good being "Find Your Love" & "Shut It Down" ft The-Dream (Even though I had trouble figuring out who was singing which verse)Īll the hype around Drake has destroyed his credibility. "Up All Night" shows Drake's true rapping potential over the albums hardest beat. Young Jeezy shows up on the Aaliyah-sampled "Unforgetable", but Drake is singing most of that song. When Lil' Wayne shows up on "Miss Me", Drake feels like he has to compete. He seems motivated on the Jay-Z-assisted track "Light Up". His raps shine the most when he has a veteran hip hop artist on the track with him. And if you can get past all the hype, he did a pretty good job. This is Drake's official introduction to the music world. Now its time for Drake to hold his own with his major label debut, the highly anticipated "Thank Me Later". Since then he has been everywhere singing or rapping on your favorite rapper or R&B artists' song. Now in 2010 we have Drake,who has been everywhere since his mixtape "So Far Gone" dropped last year. And he brought a new energy that had everybody hyped about his debut album. Back in 1997, a young, up and coming rapper seemed like he was on everybody's remix, collabo & posse cut all before his first album dropped.
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