You’ve got to give it up to Bun B, that dude was laying down tracks with Drake well before any major emcees (outside of Cash Money) were giving Drizzy the time of day. And now Aubrey’s returned the favor by jumping on Bun’s new cut “Put It Down”, which the UGK-for-lifer decided to let go of himself (*self-leak*) on his BandCamp page. Listen and download…
If you’re a rapper who said some shit because it sounded cool but didn’t really think through the meaning, you’re getting called out. For no reason in particular other than Drake’s a big target I decided to go with an all-Drizzy edition this time around. All in all the young man’s a quality rapper, but you can’t release as much material as Aubrey has in the past year and not slip up a few times. See more…
Today a new Drake track called “Do It All’ surfaced, and, thanks I guess to nothing more than some corresponding art work, it’s being said it will be off a new Drizzy mixtape called “No More Thank Yous”. Confusingly a lot of places reported that the mixtape had already dropped…um, then why aren’t you posting it instead of just one track? Listen and download…
When it rains it pours. Just an hour after the internets was abuzz about a new “Teflon Don” leak, the lush “Aston Martin Music”, another cut off Ricky Ross’ upcoming life of luxury album, “Maybach Music III” quickly followed. Since Ross is a man of large appetites, it only makes sense to have way more Bawse than you can digest in one meal. Let’s explore. Listen and download…
The execs over at Playboy obviously read my column about the financial power of publishing rights and have been busying buying up the rights to obscure songs - or more accurately, songs that were obscure until Boi-1da samples them for Drake’s breakthrough hit “Best I Ever Hard”. Playboy is claiming that Drizzy used “Fallin’ In Love,” for the intro to “Best I Ever Had” without clearing the sample. See more…
When he’s not busy taking shots at Rick Ross, Young Jeezy is at the BET Awards onstage with Drake premiering his new track “Lose My Mind (Remix)”. As you knew it would, the album-quality version o f the booming remix has found it’s way onto the interwebs, so if you’re looking for a “turn up the volume and turn off your brain” track to make your work day go a little faster, look no further. Listen and download…
God I love when I’m right. Four months ago I wrote an in-depth investigation of Drake’s “elongated pause” punchline flow. Well guess who just backed up every word in that article? Yep, that’s right, Drake himself. In an interview with AHH, Drake revealed that it was indeed Big Sean who deserves credit for starting the craze, and insisted that folks need to get off his nutsack. See more…
As if secretly watching World Cup matches on ESPN3 wasn’t a good enough way to waste time at work (seriously, check it out), last night MTV dropped a pretty good documentary on Drake as he prepared for the release of “Thank Me Later”. And for all you haters out there, I’m not even going to apologize for watching this. Watch…
First week sales of “Thank Me Later’ have become transcendent. People who normally don’t give a crap about album sales are suddenly discussing it like expert music industry insiders, so I thought we’d do a special edition devoted entirely to Drizzy. After all, nothing less than the fate of the entire music industry depends on Drake’s numbers. See more…
It’s been a week since Drake finally (thank god) released his insanely anticipated debut album “Thank Me Later”, and if you don’t already have it, honestly, you’re probably not going to get it. So as a final parting gift I thought I’d serve up some “Thank Me Later” leftovers, tracks that were rumored to appear on the album but ultimately got left off. Listen and download…
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