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Originally Posted by Severian
Funny you say that because I was really surprised to hear you say that you weren't expecting much from the album yourself. I forget when this was. Maybe February? But I was like, wow... cause I always thought you were pretty big on Drake, and it really shocked me to hear you say this.
But yeah, I do like If You're Reading This... not so much that I listen to it often, but enough that when I first downloaded it I played the hell out of it, and did so again when I bought the cd. I really love several of the songs, but I didn't think it was going to be a new direction because -- frankly -- I think that album WAS views, and that he scrapped it and called it a "mixtape" to lower the stakes and give himself more time to get an identity. And he did have a good year in terms of popularity in 2015, but I just think it was kind of a fluke, and that Drake himself didn't even understand why it was good or what was good about it, and expected it to be a bit of a throwaway album like WATTBA.
Shrug.
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I really started finding him annoying about the time WATTBA came out. It wasn't a great project musically or anything.. but Future at least came dressed to the occasion and spat some of his best, most introspective verses to date. Drake on the other hand, was trying to keep up with him by rapping about a bunch of nothingness. "I am successful, I am popular, girls like me..", yeah good for him, but it wasn't convincing; he didn't sound happy, he just came off as desperate, not to mention kinda bored.