With long-rumored plans to release his debut LP by summer, it was announced today that Drake’s Thank Me Later will be arriving May 25, 2010. Rap-Up.com confirmed reports that the Young Money/Universal Motown release is planned for release in less than eight weeks.
The Toronto native released an EP, So Far Gone 
, late last year. Originally a free download mixtape, the body of work was made retail, and has sold over 300,000 units to date.
Thank Me Later is expected to feature Jay-Z, Kanye West and Sade.
DRAKES A FAGGOT!!!!!!
Kinda like you
Sade turned him down…
homeboy going to sell though. I just hope he keeps it hiphop
73% of 17 year old girls just shit their pants.
76% of 17 year old girls just shit their pants.
Was looking forward to this album when it was announced a while back but the first 2 singles have been pretty mediocre. All I’m really looking forward to now is the jayz song and the dre/em song.
YEEEAAA good reporting DX. sade def aint on the album.
http://www.reverbnation.com/savvysav#/artist/artist_videos/659615?sel_song_id=3407393&autoplay=1
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Sade aint even gonna be on the album , & WAYNE is, duhh how you forget that dude? .
Its about fucking time!!!!! But his buzz is kinda dead at the moment probly do 18,000 first week 12,000 next week. dead.
drake album should be good, looking foward to it
drake probably the best rapper/mc in the last 10 years. due goes hard, pause, he puts it in hardcore. Dudes swagger is of another planet, hes what this games been missing. This album gonna go down as a classic in music history.
How do you judge swagger, and why are you checking for swagger in an artist to determine how good he is?
You’re like a dictionary for bad slang terms homie…..”goes hard”, “pause”, puts it in”, “swagger”…..calling it a classic based on the artist???
SO
Drake is average at best. However, he is the best of his crew, which is not much of an accomplishment. Too much too soon, he wouldn’t survive in the industry if the industry was built on talent and not hype. He would’ve never got put on by the likes of Jay-Z if the hype machine and the necessity to be relevant to this new generation of hiphop fans who don’t know anything about the culture. He’s a pop star and I’ll give him that much. He’s a intermediate level rapper with catchy lines here and there. He can’t transition from a thought w/out the annoying “Yeah…….” being placed everywhere he can. He’s a pop artist and for that he is talented, because as we all should know, pop is short for popular. The business is to sell records so he’ll do that, but there won’t be any real substance to him. He’s not “nice”. Theres 1000’s of spitters in NY, LA, CHI, ATL, B-MORE, and other places that will destroy Drake lyrically. But the “machine” is not behind them and will not be behind them. Sad state of affairs for what is now “hip-hop” or “RAP-POP” as it should be called.
You are nothing but a Drake hater. Lyrically he is a young phenom. How dare you try and say that So Far Gone had no substance. Drake got in touch with every young fan like myself that can relate to him. So what if he made it, and they have not.
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Listen, just stop with all that nonsense, if you dont like Drake then so be it, but we all know your probably going to listen to the whole damn album anyways. yeah………., Hip-Hop artist or not people out there do enjoy his music and hey the man wants to make money then so be it let him do his “RAP-POP” beacause news flash its working.
Thank him for what? Being a Wayne/Kanye clone. I can’t really dig dude he is not hot, but I hope he is blessed with good album sales if that is what God has in place for him
Should be hot. Maybe Gold. People need to realize Drake is not all that lyrical, but he can produce a hit, and that’s all you need to get a record sale.
I agree with BXKIXKING, now it’s about how much buzz you make instead of talent ex. lil wayne, gucci mane, jay-z (now). I see a good album every week on itunes but they’ll get no recognition just because they don’t have big record companies pushing their albums. In the industry it’s all about the quick dollar and they know what sells is pop music so they sign artists who will make it, which drake does he’s very successful at doing it but in a couple years everyone will forget about him because in the pop world it’s only what’s hot at the time. Real hip hop has a fan base that is around forever as along as the artists don’t sell out. I would like to see it go back to the people with talent sold more, but I doubt it because teenage girls control radio music (I know this I’m 18 I just graduated from high school and it’s what they like is what gets played on the radio) (guys just say they like it because it’s club music and they just want to hook up with a girl). I’m just saying get your own style listen to your own music instead of just listening to what’s popular at the time.
“I’m just saying get your own style listen to your own music instead of just listening to what’s popular at the time.” -__- how are you going to make this statement when all you do is judge and criticize what people listen to and the artist that put the music out there, and people obviously dont listen to songs because they are popular?? they obviously enjoy the music that is being pushed out there. Now some people may not like that certain music but guess what, you do nothing but complain about it. If you dont like todays music then i got some options for you, A. turn the radio off and stop jamming to it!! B. get the music of the artist you do like, listen to them and keep your mouthes close!! And finally option C. Buy your ugly ass a microphone and make your own music Bitch!
LISTEN. DRAKE IS ACTUALLY A VERY LYRICAL ARTIST. FIRST OFF LEMME SAY THAT IM NOT ONE OF THESE PPL WHO JUST STARTED LISTENING TO DRAKE AS THE YOUNG MONEY DEAL HAPPENED. I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO DRAKE SINCE THE SUMMER OF 07 SO I’M A LONG TIME FAN. TRUST ME WHEN I TELL U SON GOT BARS. PEOPLE GET SO CAUGHT UP IN THE BEDROCK’S AND EVERY GIRL’S AND FORGET ABOUT HIS PRE LIL WAYNE SONGS THAT HAVE YOU MAKING THAT FACE LIKE YOU JUST SUCKED A LEMON, I KNO YALL KNOW WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT. LISTEN TO STRESS, KICK PUSH RMX, AND AM 2 PM FROM HIS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT MIXTAPE. THEN CHECK THE ENTIRE COMEBACK SEASON AND TELL ME IF HE AIN’T ILL.
Finally a release date! I’m feeling this homie and I’m lookin’ forward to the album!
yall really need to stop. people always say o this person aint lyrical or o this person would destroy this person and so on and so forth. but yall arent hiphop historians because all u doin is lending ur opinion. hiphop was based off diversity. yeah there are some mcees nicer then drake who got good music out. and thats cool if u love that kinda music. but some people dont. some people like dance music so they listen to soulja boy, and v.i.c. some people like listening to spirituality and politics in rap so they seek out kanye west or lupe fiasco or b.o.b. some people love they crazy metaphors and comparsions in music. so they listen to lil wayne or drake. the point is people listen to diffrent music for diffrent resaond and if u dont like it then u can always vibe to ur own music. but dont say hiphop aint what it used to be. because theres always something out there for somebody.
I completely agree with you, now a days there is so much diversity that its quite beautiful!! we have so many different types of music and to add to that we have these artist that are doing different types of music as well, See im a fan of Lil Wayne i love his music, i also love his rock album he put out even though most people dont like it but hey thats me.
What you say is true, but then let’s not classify V.I.C. as hip-hop. Booty music? Ok.
i can dig what your sayin. some of it. one thing tho that i cant agree with is “some peope love they crazy metaphors and comparisons in music. so they listen to lil wayne or drake.” now i love crazy metaphors and comparisons, but dude, wayne and drake? im sorry but i dont hear anything thats crazy in a good way coming out of either of their mouths. i hear crazy bullshit and elementary rhymes delivered via weak ass flow. you want crazy metaphors go cop a DOOM album. Also there is a difference between rap and hip hop. every artist you mentioned is not a hip hop artist. shit they’re barely even artists, just performers. real hip hop is not on the radio.
but your overall point is right. everyone likes different things and everyone thinks that the music that they listen to is better then what anyone else listens to (nobody listens to better music than me tho).
ok ok ok ok first of all @DA POLICE, what the fuck are you talking about? drake is the best rapper/mc in the last ten years? he sounds EXACTLY like wayne, and that is no compliment. he goes hard? what is he going hard at? he puts it in hardcore? what does that even mean? and trust me, there will be nothing classic about this album. shit drake will be lucky if anyone is talking about him in a year let alone remembering this album. Drake is a commercially manufactured performer, theres nothing hip hop about him. he certainly aint helpin the game.
overrated, his buzz is too much. I like Drake but the way yall talk, when yall kno its going to be a disapointment
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Whether or not you classify Drake as being a hip hop beast who can rip beats to shreds or just a poser who knows nothing of the game. One thing remains clear, the music he’s putting out is certainly or great quality which to most audiances cannot be denied. Furthermore, the Thank Me Later album is something that hip hop needs! General audiences of America no longer see Hip Hop as a top priority for musical choice. Drakes music at times may be watered-down and lack a certain amount of depth but he comes clear & precise. I for one will be purchasing this album and hope others will push forward for rap to have another chart-topping-million in a week selling album.
Drake can’t rip a piece of paper to shreds let alone a beat. Yes the quality is great, but thats the production. anyone can sound great with great production. Drake says nothing interesting. Hip hop definitely does not need Thank Me Later, or Drake at all for that matter. Hes a pop artist. not a hip hop artist.
No one wants to hear this LiL Wayne style bitter bullshit ass reading his written off his blueberry phone on funkmaster flex hot 97.
I’ll thank em for not putting this shit out.
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