#Elucidate 5am track list series#

Giggs sounds like he’s struggling to fill Drake’s inexplicable need for more space as well: loves breasts, “that white girl,” going platinum. Maybe he wouldn’t sound so joyless bragging about the studio on his yacht if it wasn’t track 15 on a 22-track odyssey that more than most Drake albums would be rewarded by culling. Voyce handles the hook, leaving Drake room to show off his burgeoning skills and self-awareness: “A new me, cool, see I never get around/ If I don’t change now I don’t think I’ll ever settle down.” Sounds about right. This Pharrell production interpolates Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour” in a syrupy approximation, and Drake’s call-out to any girl that’s different on the open is equally vague but sweet. “Chances are most of the days you was lying around,” he raps, “I made money, that’s why these girls eyeing me down/ By 19 I might seem destined for millions.” In only a matter of years, his prophecy would come true. A straight hustler’s anthem, the song features Drake with a pomp flare. Just like in “Give Ya”, Trey Songz offers a few verses in Room for Improvement’s “About the Game”. “About the Game” Room For Improvement (2006) This is soft Drake aspiring to be hard Drake and failing miserably.

“Bad Meaning Good” Room For Improvement (2006)ĭrake drops a Sesame Street reference in the middle of a verse in which he threatens violence in order to rob someone, and he also uses the word “coinkydink,” so we can just stop talking about this song now. While most of Comeback Season was indebted to standard hip-hop spitfire delivery, “Share” showed Drake’s playful R&B cadences that would soon characterize his rapping fare 2009 onward. “Share” Comeback Season (2007)Īssisted by French producer Häzel, “Share” undoubtedly garnered a late ‘90s vibe close to the likes of 9th Wonder - who actually produced “Think Good Thoughts” - and the posthumous J Dilla. But then it also finds Aubrey being told he should get as big as Pharrell, so you know how long ago this was released. You know a Drake verse isn’t top-tier when it relies on a reference to the antagonist of the sequel to Ocean’s Eleven. “Money (Remix)” Room For Improvement (2006) This song has a Trey Songz rap verse … and the Drake verse is still worse. It’s just nothing, like amateur-hour quality. Even when the beat flips into something a little harder, it’s still so inoffensive and not even in a positive way. The opener to Drake’s mixtape Comeback Season, “The Presentation” starts with Drake spitting elementary school-level rhymes over a beat that’s so far into easy listening it could possibly be an elevator muzak sample. “The Presentation” Comeback Season (2007) “Come Winter” comes with a soulful beat courtesy of Amir and tells a story that can be annotated in two words: cuffing season. It seems like forever ago since the release of Room for Improvement, which proved you’d be rap’s newest softie. “Come Winter” Room For Improvement (2006) But the ideas are wildly disjointed, and at one point he compares a rebound to sopping up gravy with a biscuit. You can hear the mechanics of making a good Drake song coming together on a track like “Thrill Is Gone”, which finds the rapper exploring his romantic entanglements. “Thrill Is Gone” Room For Improvement (2006)

#Elucidate 5am track list series#

Long before Drake found his stride as a purported romanticist, he penned this cringeworthy series of bad sexual metaphors over Robin Thicke’s song of the same name. “Teach U A Lesson” Comeback Season (2007) Well, we had to start somewhere, and this truly is the bottom. (Outro)” Room for Improvement (2006)Īfter the fade-out for “Kick Push”, Aubrey Drake Gra-ham steps up at the Urban Piano Association to play the “Jamie Foxx Song Theme”.