'Keep the Family Close' really caught me off guard because on his three previous albums Drake opened with strong, yet gentle rapping. 'Views' opens with what sounds like a cold, Toronto winter with gusts and chills that enter your eardrums, and then 40 seconds in Drake is singing about not having friends. So 'Views' to me was the eternal question: is Drake a rapper, is he a pop/R&B guy, or will he continue to try and do both, without fully mastering either? I've never understood how Drake thinks he can sit atop the rap game when he sings as much as he raps. I guess that Drake just disappointed me because I saw his remarkable rapping skills spattered throughout his bodies of work with songs like 'The Ride' and 'Lord Knows,' and as a big hip-hop fan I felt he was capable of even greater things as a rapper. He lulls in the girls, he can tell relatable stories about women and people love it. And don't get me wrong, I can appreciate him. I'm talking about 'Hold On We're Going Home' and 'Find Your Love' Drake. I'm talking about the pop, 'missing my girl,' sing to you, wannabe R&B singer Drake. That's the Drake I always liked a ton and one I could hold up with his contemporaries.ДЄnd then there's the other Drake, which has crept into his music more and more. On one side we had a spitter with an uncanny flow, who could slow you down and make you feel something with songs like 'Too Much' вЂ“ my personal favorite вЂ“ and 'Fireworks,' while simultaneously hyping you up as if you were about to go to the biggest party of your life with hits like 'Trophies,' 'Energy' and 'Over.' That was one side of the coin with Drake. And by that I mean over the course of his first three albums, as well as his EP 'So Far Gone,' Drake has been two conflicting artists.

So, as I was expecting an origins album, I also eagerly waited for what Drake would come out with as his sound. I thought 'Views' would be this for Drake. Cole's musical biographies that taught us more about the artists than anything we'd previously heard. When he announced that 'Views' was going to take us back to Toronto, I immediately avoided the 'Degrassi' jokes and thought of two of my favorite projects to date: '2014 Forest Hills Drive' and 'good kid m.A.A.d. And maybe before this Drake hadn't either. The reason for my anticipation was mostly because I felt I had not understood Drake yet, what he was all about. Cole kind of guy), I have always thoroughly enjoyed a lot of his music, and despite my hip-hop preferences, I was looking forward to 'Views' more than almost any other album in the past five years. While Drake has never been my favorite rapper (I'm a Kendrick, Kanye, J.

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