Come on man is it horrible?! I thought it was solid, although admittedly 'Master P' sticks out a country mile.
What's everyone saying on this Drake tape? I have real problems with him cos of his blatant tough-guy posturing but somebody on another forum pointed out that Lil Wayne is always rapping about beating people up and shooting them and he's a midget. I think what I don't like about Drake's posturing is how humourless it is.
He's a fascinating rapper cos he trades on this image of being the only rapper who's willing to bare his soul emotionally but actually he's so manufactured and his music so precision-engineered. I sort of respect it as a pop product, and I don't deny that he can rap (and even sing, given his limited capabilities), but I feel like there's this lifelessness to his music, this airbrushed airlessness, that makes it hard for me to really warm to him. Say what you like about Kanye but at least I feel like his music really comes from his heart, and there's an animated spirit behind it, not just this mopy, self-aggrandising fluff that Drake comes out with.
I wonder how much of his lyrics he writes. I can imagine a rapper of his commercial magnitude is liable to be as stage managed as yer Katy Perrys and Taylor Swifts.