The truth is if you want that big money the ladies have to love you, and the ladies love " Find Your Love." Call "Find Your Love" an 808s copy if you want ( sshhhh…it is), but 808s laid down the modern day blueprint for rappers singing about heartbreak, and Drizzy’s only too happy to build on Kanye’s foundation. Today one of my friends complained that Thank Me Later was too targeted to teenage girls, to which I responded “of course.” Who did you think was going to buy all those albums you’re expecting him to sell? You? Please, you downloaded the leak a week ago. Rounding out the group we have the occasionally annoying "Up All Night" featuring Nicki Minaj (we’ll be deflating her over-hyped debut album in a few weeks) and the impressively introspective "The Resistance." Is Thank Me Later the second coming of Illmatic? No, but the album proves Drake deserves to be called an emcee. On "Miss Me ," Boi-1da crafts a beat capable of crack-level addiction, and the thugs can front, but when they’re alone in their rooms they’re rhyming along to every word of that first verse. Forget Lil Wayne’s verse (you probably already have it). Given the obvious import of a Jay-Z feature, you’d think I’d have "Light Up" on repeat, but truth be told, although the record is one hell of a track, it’s " Miss Me" that got me more truly excited. As a man who’s memorized all of Dead Prez’s Let’s Get Free, I was shocked by Drizzy lifting bars from "Hip-Hop," and so I rewound "Over" and listened again, and again, and again. " Over"'s far from a perfect track, but Drake’s lyrical work on the pounding lead single prompted more discussion and line-by-line breakdowns than any track in recent memory. Accordingly, Thank Me Later was supposed to satisfy both the hardcore hip-hop heads and mainstream radio junkies, and since I’m more of the former than the latter, we might as well start with the rhymes. His mixalbum So Far Gone showcased an artist who could both rip mics and makes the ladies swoon, and it was that versatility that served as the catalyst for extraordinary hype. Of course, Drake’s fame is not purely the product of hype.
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