u/themontagency

Ayy

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I tried and tried and tried

'Til the R switched place with the I

I'll never forget that July

The worst that I felt in a while

I'm glad that you think that I'm soft

I'm glad that you think that I'm shy

I need you to think all these things

I got bigger than what's in my mind

I'll take it, an eye for an eye

I'll send a boy up to the sky

I still haven't lost any sleep

And I definitely didn't cry

Ayo, Gucci get back in the ride

'Cause that's definitely not the guy

Mistaken identity mixed with adrenaline,

almost just kissed you goodbye

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Iceman went from admitting what NLU did to him. (Which I wouldn't wish that jacket on anyone). And I related to it more than anything else in a while.

Cause all of us know, half the planet was effectively calling D a P. It sucks at the peak of your career and you go radio silent for two years. Then drop Iceman with this deep melodious poem outro which goes from admitting hurt to the most gangster setup. (10/10 album)

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Yo, Gucci (his bodyguard) get back in the whip cause we were about to kill the wrong guy.

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That...something about that is emotional. It's a phoenix rising from the ashes.

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Also, Drake with the innocence had to go. I'm looking forward to independent shit.

4 Years ago, Drake signed Smiley to OVO. Their top single "Over the Top" came out, and Smiley got clowned so hard for moaning and being zesty, any lesser man would have quit.

But Drake stuck by him and a year ago released "Mazza". With a music video. The song is excellent. Apparently, someone had the same thought. I found a Reddit thread with this question.

Quoted Verbatim.

"Don’t get me wrong, 2 Mazza and Over The Top are pretty good songs in my opinion, but out of all the artists out there, why does Drake sign smiley?? There are so many better artists to be honest that you can find in the underground and smiley keeps flopping despite having 2 Drake features and heavy co-signs by him. I don’t know but I feel like if Drake were to sign other artists off the underground, they would make much more of what Drake is doing to smiley rn than what smiley is doing off his collabs and OVO signing. Smiley hasn’t had a single song hit past like 20 Million streams with Drake constantly helping him and to be completely honest he just isn’t that good of a rapper but lmk what you think"

Top answers from the thread.

"He likes to plant money trees from where he comes from"

"Smiley said in an interview that Drake said he loved how Toronto he was"

Whatever people say Drake represents Canada and just loves collabing with people across different hip hop genres. He experiments a LOT.

Check this out. In terms of prolific output.
{Discography: officially released songs (including features and collaborations)}

Drake: ~530 songs
Eminem: ~450 songs
K Dot: ~260 songs
J Cole ~ 270 songs

The man works his ass off, second to Eminem cause in terms of wordplay imo, no one comes close, not even KDot. But in terms of professional musical collaborations, Drake beats out all competition.

If the metric is total collaborative tracks recorded, Drake likely has more than the other three combined.

In academic terms, Drake is the Paul Erdos of Music. He was a Hungarian mathematician who published over 1,500 papers with more than 500 co-authors, making him one of the most prolific collaborators in the history of mathematics.

Anyway, I like that the dude is not afraid to experiment. My fav drake moment is when I was once high, and zoning out in a friend's place. His playlist went through a bunch of drake songs and some Spanish song comes on. I'm vibing when I hear someone singing in Spanish who sounds like Drake. I'm admiring the quality of my stuff when look up and see the music video.

Drake is flowing with Bad Bunny on Mia.

The fuck. That's unique. Man's a musical collaborator. In another language. Crazy.