Imma worry about me give a fuck about you/”
“Nigga, we just want the credit when it’s due/ He delivers some subtle checks at his doubters with the lines: We flip back into the boastful track about how he started from the bottom, and everyone that supported him and stuck with him at the bottom is now at the top with him. “Started From The Bottom” is the mainstream checker on this album. Once you cross that line, you can kiss her goodbye. Every time he tries to make it up, she goes back to him, but Drake needs to realize that everyone has a breaking point. Due to his young and reckless self, he feels like he’s losing the woman he loves so much, because she’s fading away out of his life. He wants to satisfy his woman, but he’s the furthest thing from being perfect. In his wordplay, he discusses about his issues with drinking, smoking, and other real world issues in his life. Drake goes into his inner demons and reveals his unfaithful self. In this second track, we see the two sides of the rapper/singer Drake. We get the point of his confidence and transition into the smooth “Furthest Thing”. Drake’s wordplay discusses that he’s aware of his greatness and he throws it at you because he spends six minutes on this track, which can be an eternity to some. His lyricism is compressed into one rhyme scheme throughout the track and he never wanders away. I compliment 40 for such a dope beat, because the flips in the beat throughout the track is excellent. A cinematic opening of a Whitney Houston sample flipped three times from his producer 40. Out of all the opening tracks Drake has on his projects, Tuscan Leather is my all-time favorite from the OVO Captain. “Tuscan Leather” is intensifying, point blank. Now, let’s progress track by track now that we have covered the abstract. The background is also not eye-popping with nothing but just a blissful blue sky. His childhood side with the baby-face and afro, while his adult self is his present-day in this year with the gold chain laid peacefully at his neck. The two sides of Drake as both covers are oil-painted profiles of his childhood and adult self. The comparisons of this project’s artwork has been compared to Nas' s Illmatic, B.I.G's Ready to Die, and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. As minimalistic as it seems, this is Drake’s best cover art in his discography, no questions asked. Which one do I personally think is his magnum opus? I prefer Nothing Was the Same, but let me explain why as we go track-track on the Album of the Year contender in 2013.īefore we get into the album, let’s discuss about the artwork. The endless debate of which album is Drake’s magnum opus continues to this very day, and the two albums that are always top two would be Take Care and Nothing Was the Same. After 2011’s critically acclaimed "Take Care” was birthed into existence, a lot of people questioned how could Drake follow up with an album that seemed early on to be his zenith? The Canadian rapper/singer then created "Nothing Was The Same" in 2013. However, when it’s OVO Season, everyone swivels their head to Drake. Cole (Born Sinner), and Tyler The Creator (Wolf) were all average projects at best. A$AP’s “Long Live A$AP”, Kanye West's “Yeezus”, J. It was average at best, and our usual big names dropped some projects. It’s strange to many fans to hear someone like the year 2013 in hip hop. It feels like just yesterday when the DAR organization did a roundtable in review of the year 2013.