Toronto-emcee, Drake released a surprise album tonight (February 12) entitled If Youre Reading This Its Too Late. The album is currently available on iTunes.
Speculation that the OVO captain would release a surprise mixtape began earlier today when DJ Skee Tweeted, “BTW, Drake should be dropping his mixtape tonight.”
It’s been a busy week for Drake. In an interview with BattleRap.com, Murda Mook confirmed today that he nearly battled the Toronto-native during KOTD’s Blackout 5 last weekend. Rap-a-Lot Record’s CEO, J. Prince also threatened Puff Daddy, Suge Knight, Birdman and Slim in defense of Drake.
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(February 12)
Update: If Youre Reading This Its Too Late album stream available below:
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LMAO!
Every damn song sounds the same.
This is what you get when you go with anyone with “DJ” in their name.
Back to back wack albums.
best album out right now. haters gonna hate. #6God
It just dropped yesterday, give it time, and I’d argue that the Lupe is the best out now, atleast it has relevance.
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Who cares
And fulfills his contract for 4 albums deal with Cash Money… You can guess where this is heading… No one of them messing with Views from the 6. Good slap to the face!
Interesting point. Thank you, Glavata.
couldn’t have chose a better time to leave a sinking ship
So nobodys gonna call out Canadian Drake for using Atlanta accents like Iggy Azalea?
drake’s dad is from memphis. he spent time there as a youth. iggy’s from a whole nother continent
VT6 still dropping. Just leaving his contract w/ young money.
6 GOD U FUCKIN COCK SUCKIN BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is a mixtape chill
Not too bad so far. I still prefer his first 2 albums style. But I’m down.
king of corniness. thank me later, take care, if youre reading this its too late. yikes.
Drake is about to prove that no disloyals like wayne can keep him down.
You mean Birdman won’t hold him down.
Drake ain’t leaving cash money. He just decided to go beyonce style and drop a dope album.
No, Drake is leaving Cash Money and he dropped a trash mixtape, not a dope album.
I wonder if the album’s title meant that by the time Cash Money finds out he’s dropped an album, its too late since it fulfills the contract.
I was thinking the same thing.
My nigga Drake just laid the murder game down on Cash Money
Jungle now that’s a great song
that is a great song. Best on the album. I think DRAKE thinks the same judging by the 15 minute film he did for it.
This is the mixtape he was releasing before the album, tracks that didnt make the cut for the album.
Still theres some good tracks on this.
When the 2nd beat on No tellin comes in:gun shots
please do not speak to me like im that drake from 4 years ago im at a higher place ….thinking they lions and TYGAS and bears ill go hunting and put heads on my fireplace.
that bars dope. and the flow on that is nice.
“Im not acting tough or making up stories of were im actually from” on You and the 6 . Pretty sure thats a sly dig at Kendrick Lamar, saying hes robbed houses , etc on his good kid album.
Theres another bar on this album were im sure hes taking a dig at J cole saying how can all 3 of us have the throne.Something J cole was saying on his new album.
What I wanna know is , were are all the real rappers? U got Drake using UK / Jamaican accent slang and accent in his lyrics and video & Kendrick Lamar pretending to be drinking liquor out of a flask in his lat 2 performances on TV. fucking stupid
This is just awful. He really needs to get over himself and say something original. Stop whine rapping.
nope your stupid
He does complain too much.
Is this an Album or a Mixtape?
Album or Mixtape?
Dope as fuck to wake up to this. Solid mixtape. Drake going in on a lot of these tracks.
Eh, I just don’t like this material … I’ve been a drake fan since so far so gone .. I just don’t like his new style anymore. I have much respect for him as an artist but I’m losing interests in his material.
I said this when his last album came out, it was his best and would probably be his peak as far as his material goes. He can only rap about the same subject matter for so long and keep people interested, but a lot like Nicki Minaj, you need somebody to take his place. Kendrick Lamar’s a better lyricist, but he’s not that guy to do it. Neither is J. Cole. Neither’s personality is dynamic enough. Sadly, most rappers today don’t have enough interesting life experiences to keep people interested past a 3 or 4 year period in their careers outside of them making club and ringtone hits aka disposable music.
FIRE
Sigh… how disappointing…
that tyga diss line is jokes. something about act your age, not your girlfriends, LOL
Finally an album that shows how GARBAGE Drake is, and how Kendrick Lamar is light years ahead of this hack job.
…..so where is kendrick at though , if he so ahead I haven’t heard anything from him in ages
He released The Balcker The Berry four days ago. You’re welcome.
This ain’t an album its a mixtape of left over songs, being marketed as an album to get people to pay for it
This album is ass. He took a step back. Listen to Lupe’s new album if you wanna hear someone who raised his level.
First. I’m guessing he dropped this album to fulfill his contract with Cash Money. Losing himself and Cash Money a whole lot of money without marketing. So Cash Money is a sinking ship. I wonder where all these guys are landing. Obviously Drake and Wayne wont be able to go with Jay and ROC Nation. They burned that bridge. Its pretty clear Drake is going to sign with that crazy dude that fighting his battles recently. Poor choice. Guy doesn’t have a lot of pull.
Interesting theory…valid argument
Drake isn’t even signed to Cash Money. He’s signed to Universal through Motown, which was why he was complaining about Sylvia Rome earlier in his career.
Drake wouldn’t leave cash money. His success is there and he knows if he leaves, his success is over. Drake’s mixtape is dope.
Shots fired at Kendrick on “6pm in New York”. Nitty Scott is the girlfriend he’s referencing
Nah, he was talking about Tyga and his underage girlfriend.
@shots fired
Way to fail dude. Way to fail…LOL!
she hasn’t been with him since before section.80. read the articles homie.
Man I listened to this shit and it was TRASH. Beats way ok but content is TRASH. Nigga not rapping bout shit and he repetitive as hell smh. Cant believe I wasted my fuckin time
the 6God is eternal in his blessings for us lowly mortals
All is self, every human being is vast on a macrocosmic level.
Be wary of what you put in your portals, be it music, food or information. This man here, dray-key is nothing more than a servant of forces he likely inner stands very little about. Theres a war going on INSIDE no-one is safe from, wake up folks, the “enslavers” can only attempt to control beings as powerful as human beings, and should we continue falling in these traps, be it malivolent information/music or poisoned food, they will continue to be able to excersize control over us as sheeple, basically because be don’t have the energy to remember or gno any better.
Wholeness to all of you, i just felt compelled to encourage y’all to look deeper into what your following/sending energy forth towards and driving as a machine thats uses your energy as fuel
a little vampric/vampish isn’t it?
Dan, Drake is leaving Cash Money and he dropped a trash mixtape, not a dope album.
500,000 in three days tho. YAS!
Love or hate Drake, he makes better music than 85% of the other artists out there. Some of the shit that’s forced on us through radio and mixtapes is straight bullshit. People ain’t even trying to make good music anymore. Just hopping on a trend and waiting/hoping for people to buy in. So I can’t hate Drake. He does make some sentimental bullshit, but he also makes some nice tracks. In the end I’ll listen to him over a lot of others.
Drake is the most terrifying to me because it is blatant he is some kind of high functioning sociopath. At least the gangsta rappers and killers have emotions compared to this nigga.
What makes you think that? If anything people complain his music is too emotional. Killers are the ones who don’t have emotions
DRAKE is the most famous mainstream rapper…all he has to do is sing..and do that same “nasal” sounding flow..and his albums do huge numbers everytime…..he has a huge “homothug” fan base..#DRAKE stays winning in album sales…
I see some folks hating on this album who ‘were’ Drake fans. I understand some hiphop heads just hate Drake always and I don’t care about those guys – they were same people who dismissed Jay-Z as “corporate rap”, NWA as “gangsta rap” and Biggie/Puffy as “pop” back in the day. ….but the Drake fans? How come u don’t dig this? I don’t get it. This is one of his best albums IMO. Yeah, they’re ain’t no obvious straight bangers but Drake can do that anytime. We know this . This album he’s breaking all the rules of song arrangement, tossing out any song structure rules, blurring singing/rapping even more. The album is just innovative. “No Tellin”, “Legend”, “Madonna”, “know Yourself” – those 4 tracks alone are amazing classic Drake tracks. For Drake fans, I suggest you just keep listening. I’m always disappointed on first listen of a Drake album because there is so much anticipation but after repeated listens, they always bang and have longevity. It’s just cause making innovative boundary-breaking music sounds a lil off at first. Always does. My advice: keep listening
Your comment is Drake dickriding at the extreme. There is nothing innovative, gamechanging, or anything new about Drake’s new album or any of his shit. He’s not breaking any song arrangement/structure rules or blurring any lines between rapping/singing (which has already been done before by better artists). It’s all the same stuff we’ve heard before. Aubrey is pretty much following the rules of mainstream rap with every song: club songs, radio songs, joingpts for the women, brag rap, etc. Nothing classic here. There’s no longevity here, either, as this shit will be forgotten by the end of the year. If you want innovative boundary-breaking music, go listen to Kanye West, Outkast, Bone Thugs, or any avant-garde/experimental act because you won’t find it here with Drake. BTW, nobody dismissed Jay Z, NWA, or Biggy back in the day (no one called Biggie pop because his music sounds nothing like pop).
Dude, you’re reading WAY too much into Drake. His music is not that deep or different. It’s just another forgettable mainstream album. Just wait for Kendrick’s album or go listen to Tetsuo & Youth and B4.DA.$$, both better albums than this shit.
Note was really for Drake fans – not “real hiphop” heads with no ear for innovation but whatever..
@ OP wrong. Clearly, u know so little about hiphop history because u weren’t around for its evolution. In 93-94 era when Biggie/Puffy were rising to the top, Plenty of hiphop heads in NYC dismissed it as pop and west coast derivative claiming that “real hiphop” was grimey shit ala black moon etc. biggie was heavily criticized for the R&B fusion of his sound / champagne popping videos. The hate even spilled over into the music – see vocal criticism like De La Soul’s “Stakes is High”, The Roots ” Do What They Do”, Jeru “Wrath of The Math”. All that was a reaction to “shiny suits man” puffy and champagne waving models in biggie videos. When biggie died, everyone knew he would go down as a legend so the critics just folded / they switched over. They did the same with 2Pac. You see the west coast vs east coast rivalry actually had legs and existed for a reason – nEw York backpackers dismissed west-coast hiphop as lacking. That’s what the west coast wanted : Respect. Jay-z was widely criticized as a corporate rapper all the way through his early career hence, NaS was largely favoured to win their battle. Jay-Z was hated for his arrogance especially by “real hiphop” head backpackers. Even Questlove has an interesting recent interview disclosing how his band feared collaborating with Jay-Z as his fans considered him the “anti-Christ” at the time. That has all changed now because Jay-Z has been canonized for a myriad of reasons but plenty of folks considered his raps superficial, all about money etc. and brandished him as the anti-thesis of real hiphop. these arguements have been going on since hiphop started. the innovator tries to dare hiphop into a different direction and if they are popular, the purists go completely crazy and diss it. Nothing new here with Drake. Bone thugs , Outkast are great sure but did u buy their shit when they first dropped or later once they were already established? Because (like Drake) they were both heavily dissed initially and had lengthy paths before gaining the respect of hiphop elitists (like yourself now). At the time hiphop was very regional and clique-y. Outkast’s first album was getting zero play in NYC. Southern accents were considered bama and ass-backwards. BTW, I don’t need to be schooled re: avant-garde hiphop dude. From MF Doom, Shabazz Palaces, Run the Jewelz… I know all that shit. I didn’t buy Wu-Tang records ten years later. I bought the LPs when they dropped. You say Drake is not innovative and poppy but look at a song like “Know Yourself”. The song structure is pop really? Are u listening to this shit for real? Pop records assume a standard structure. That ain’t it man. Singing sentimental introspective love songs about strippers is not standard pop either. You mention Kanye West but he’s the guy who is responsible for Drake’s worst wackest pop songs “show me a good time” , “find your love” etc. and Kanye has whole library of pop songs to his credit, so I don’t get it. (Don’t get me wrong, I dig Kanye)
@ anonymous. badass is good but he is not breaking rules, he is derivative of an old era. Gang-Starr, Jeru, Wu-tang, tribe called quest, beatnuts are all so much better. What Badass is doing is much easier. He is good at it but he is working from an established sound ala Lenny Kravitz, Cool Kids etc. He will need to innovate or be extra-amazing in order to last in the industry. Lupe’s new album has great rhymes but I find the production pretty standard. Run the Jewelz much better for your arguement IMO. Kendrick Section.80 was great but his latest stuff sounds blah to me. anyways, didn’t Drake greatly help elevate this guy’s popularity – a concert tour , a spot on take care, two or three of his biggest singles have Drake features.
Dudettes – if Drake was a dark skin dude from the Bronx with half the record sales would we even be having this arguement? I’m just saying. Somehow I really doubt it
Nothing you wrote in your long-ass essay sounds anything close to the truth. You repeat the same lies over and over again. There is no way you know anything about hip-hop or listen to the artists you named, you’re just a 13 year old suburban white kid who hates rap music. None of those guys you mentioned (Biggie, Pac, Jay, Bone Thugs, Outkast, etc) were hated at all when they came out. They never got the same treatment as Drake, who isn’t doing anything new or innovative at all (BTW, Know Yourself IS a standard structured pop-rap song). Drake is pretty much one of the safest mainstream rapper ever who is afraid of doing anything challenging. All of his music follows the same formula. B4.DA.$$ and Tetsuo & Youth shit on everything Drake has ever done. Kendrick Lamar is a more superior artist/emcee, his music is challenging and is more relatable than Aubrey’s. Both Section 80 and GKMC are modern-day classics and both I and Blacker The Berry are dope records that challenge the listeners and make them think (BTW, Drake didn’t elevate his popularity at all, he had nothing to do with his success). Don’t waste time dickriding Drake because you’re only wasting your time.
You spend so much time looking for innovation in Drake’s music, but you’re not gonna find it because his shit is a combination of Nelly/Ja Rule/Kanye/Wayne. Besides, different doesn’t automatically mean good.
It’s like Drake was one of the guys who made this flow popular, but now he’s beating it to death with his sing-song talking and endless repetition. The dude changed it up the first couple of times he did this, but now he’s gotta change it to something else and display some versatility.
imo this album sounds nothing like his prior music except maybe 6pm in NY but I’ve given it a few listens now and its really growing on me. Its refreshing to hear an artist stretch the limits of a genre to create a certain sound or atmosphere on an album. I bet if you liked the Yeezus album by Kanye you’ll enjoy this tape, Energy and 6pm are the only tracks that are reminiscent of his older works but every other track is on a new sound. Id give this album a 4/5 because its a style of music that I’ve never heard, very original creations that I’d expect only from a mind like Kanye, impressive to see this come from a younger artist like Drake
Good jokes.
why ppl expecting from drake some super lyrical shit, no he a super lyrical genius for the club, whip and relationship records so if u wanna hear that shit u play his shit thats about it and when u wanna hear more real talk shit u play j cole, kendrick, lupe, joey badass etc so stop the complaining and moaning u fuck boys and groupie ass hoes
For real. I like all those lyrical cats you stated. Sometimes I wanna think so I play Lupe’s new record, sometime I’m ridin in the car so I play Drake. People group all rappers together. Thats like commenting on a Kendrick lyrical record and saying “you can’t even ride to this shit”
his music is riding music meant 2 b played late at night in your whip on the freeway windows down with the hooodie on the and the hood on