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The rapper shared the news via Instagram on Thursday, hours before the project's scheduled release. It marks his first album since 2021's 'Certified Lover ...

Drake sparked new album rumors earlier this year, when he and producer Carnage began sharing photos of their studio sessions. The Toronto rapper hasn’t revealed any additional information about Honestly, Nevermind, including its track titles or potential features. Honestly, Nevermind serves as the follow-up to Drake’s 2021 album, Certified Lover Boy. The chart-topping project included appearances by Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Young Thug, and more.

Drake announced his seventh studio album Thursday — titled "HONESTLY, NEVERMIND" — and fans won't have to wait long to listen.

It’s the “Nice For What” rapper’s second release in less than a year. “Drake rushing to release his new album before Beyoncé releases,” one Twitter user joked with a clip of a mass of people sprinting. Drake announced his seventh studio album Thursday and fans won’t have to wait long to listen.

Drake fans, get ready to be in your feelings. The rapper announced the release of his seventh studio album hours before its release late Thursday.

If there's people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows. "You've already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you're a hero in your hometown. His team later requested to remove his nominations from the Grammy's final-round ballot altogether.

It's been 9 months since Drake's last album, Certified Lover Boy, began racing up the streaming charts.

Fans hoping to get some early details on the album could probably do worse than to tune in. And while said album wasn’t quite the multi-platinum chart burner that Drake’s earlier discography achieved, it was still moderately critically well-received and commercially successful. (We’ll say this: Thank God Drake provided the actual name of the album alongside the image, or we’d still be sitting here guessing what the dang thing was called.)

Drake Announces New Album 'HONESTLY, NEVERMIND': The OVO rapper's seventh studio album.

After tapping Damien Hirst for his pregnant lady emoji artwork to use as his album cover for CLB, Drake has approached this newest body of work with a more simplistic design. However, it’s no secret that he’s been in the studio lately as 2022 has seen a handful of Drake features. The new project serves as a follow-up to Certified Lover Boy which released back in September 2021.

The post simply included an image of the album art with the caption: “7th studio album 'Honestly, Nevermind' out at midnight.” He followed up that post with ...

That’s some real detrimental shit but that’s that shit my perfectionist mind doesn’t really mind because no one knows whats on my mind when I go to sleep at 9 & wake up at 5—unless I say it in rhyme.” “I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time,” Drake wrote on his Apple Music page for the new album. Drake played the new album early Friday morning on his brand new SiriusXM Sound 42 show Table for One.

Drizzy dropped the bomb via Instagram, where he unveiled the project's title, Honestly, Nevermind; its official cover art; and tracklist. The 14-track effort ...

I never factored this into the equation for the beginning of my next chapter, but thank you ❤️ pic.twitter.com/PQmgUNOsG4 June 16, 2022 His involvement led many fans to believe the project would go heavy on the dance music. Shortly after Beyoncé confirmed the release of her Renaissance project, Drake came through with his own big announcement: His seventh studio album would hit streaming services in less than 24 hours.

Along with Drake's brand new surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind' came a poetic statement from its creator, concluding with a dedication “to our brother V.”

“I work with every breath in my body cause it’s the work not air that makes me feel alive.” The Boy’s seventh studio album runs 14 songs spanning 52 and a half minutes. As Drake prepares to sign off, the message’s resemblance to lyrics becomes clearest, concluding with the album title.

On Thursday, Drake released his seventh studio album entitled "Honestly, Nevermind." Typically, the Toronto-based rapper's album releases are cause for ...

It feels wrong to slander the man who gave us the lyric "I been Steph Curry with the shot. But on this occasion, the reception vibes were much more "Boston fans after the Celtics lost in Game 6" than " Stephen Curry celebrating in the Warriors' locker-room." NBA Twitter moves fast.

There are only two rap songs, “Sticky” and the 21 Savage collaboration “Jimmy Cook's.” The rest finds Drake singing in an earnest, winsome voice reminiscent of ...

If Honestly, Nevermind’s deployment of Afrobeats flows is too jarring, try “Sticky” as a taster first. It finds Drake spitting over a deep and thumping beat produced by Gordo and Ry X, going hard in the club while offering the usual personal asides: “My momma wish I woulda went corporate, she wish I woulda went exec/I still turned into a CEO, so the lifestyle she respect.” He riffs “Free Big Slime out the cage” in homage to Young Thug’s incarceration, shouts out the late Virgil Abloh (whose voice is sampled at the end of the track), and admits that after all the world-conquering antics, it’s still “you alone with your regrets.” It’s familiar and comforting territory for an audience still processing Drake’s sudden, unusual evolution. Even more shocking was the album itself.

Drake took a moment on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind' to seemingly reference a serious and pressing matter: the ongoing incarceration of Young ...

While it seems like a safe bet this is a straightforward Thugger nod—ditto “dedicated to our brother V” in Drizzy’s poetic statement accompanying Honestly, Nevermind all but certainly meaning Virgil Abloh—it’s worth pointing out the Atlanta MC has been affectionately using the term slime in his work since time immemorial. Everybody please sign the ‘Protect Black Art’ petition and keep praying for us. I love you all.”

When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. Two Drake albums in one year? Almost unheard of.

Two Drake albums in one year? When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited.

Drake has dropped off the music video for “Falling Back,” which is featured on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind.' Director X handled the visuals.

“Free YSL” is of course in reference to Young Thug, Gunna, and several others recently being arrested on RICO charges in Georgia. The Canadian artist also seemingly brought up the high-profile RICO case on his new album. The project is 14-tracks long and features just 21 Savage. Drake’s last album, 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, contained several more features than Honestly as it boasted appearances from Young Thug, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Giveon, Yebba, Tems, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Wayne, and more.

South Africans are proud of DJ Black Coffee, won a Best Dance/Electronic Album Grammy for his album 'Subconsciously' earlier this year. Image: REUTERS/Steve ...

- Overdrive — Black Coffee has been credited as a co-writer and co-producer. - Currents —The DJ has been credited as a co-writer and co-producer. Black Coffee produced FOUR songs on the new album by Drake... Today as South Africans let's all be happy for Black Coffee 🇿🇦— Cellular® (@Cellular_Jnr) pic.twitter.com/5ebHOh3x6G June 17, 2022 Black Coffee has been credited as producer and co-writer on a few songs on the album, which include: - Texts Go Green — Black Coffee listed his son Esona Tyolo (who has been touring with him) as co-producer. If “let your work do the talking” was a person, it would certainly be Black Coffee as the DJ and producer didn't bother blowing his own horn about being part of Drake's production team.

What you need to know about Drake's new sadboi rave album, 'Honestly, Nevermind'. Drake. Just nine months after Drake released his sixth album ...

After a dozen tracks of disassociated raving, Drake finally gets his blood pressure up with “ Jimmy Cooks,” an old-school Drake rap song with a guest verse from 21 Savage — the only billed cameo on the album’s tracklist. Yes, every Drake record is about being rich and sad in the VIP at 4 a.m. But “Honestly, Nevermind” sounds like he’s wobbly on ketamine at Panorama Bar in Berlin. Black Coffee’s influence is strong, all relentless four-on-the-floors and filter-scrubbed synth chords. “If I was in your shoes I would hate myself,” he sings. The recent disco explosion in pop brought effervescence and bounce to the top 40. Drake is pop music’s most famous genre burglar — from U.K. grime to drill to Afrobeats and Jamaican dub patois. It’s almost entirely a front-to-back club record of deep house music, shot through with his typical malaise.

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It’s whack.” - Intro His funeral was held in December and, in attendance alongside his family and other close friends were Drake, Rihanna, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Kid Cudi, ASAP Rocky and many others.

From heartbroken club tracks to a sample from the late Virgil Abloh, Honestly, Nevermind is honestly, not what you might expect from Drake's new album.

Death, taxes and a new Drake album to get the internet fighting are the only things we can be certain of in this life. In terms of how it's sounding, Honestly, Nevermind, is honestly, not what you might expect after the fairly underwhelming 2021 album Certified Lover Boy, a record which felt like the Canadian rapper rehashing the same riffs and playing it a little too safe. Yesterday saw the release of Honestly, Nevermind, the latest album from Drizzy and a drop which landed midnight on Friday 17 June.

Drake is back! The OVO hitmaker dropped his seventh studio album titled Honestly, Nevermind as a surprise release at midnight last night.

Falling back on me, falling back on me Falling back on me, falling back on me He's hoping the pair will reconcile after his former partner sees how much he's trying to make the relationship work.

"Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts. The album features Drake mostly singing instead of rapping. " ...

"I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time," he wrote in an editor's note on his Apple Music artist page. Initial reaction on the internet was divided, with some praising Drake for mixing it up on "Honestly, Nevermind" and others not really feeling it. "Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts.

Drake channels UGK and Outkast's 'Int'l Players Anthem' in his wedding-themed 'Falling Back' video, which sees him marry 23 women at the same time.

The Toronto native previously paid tribute to Abloh with a heartfelt Instagram post that read, “My plan is to touch the sky 1000 more times for you… “DEDICATED TO OUR BROTHER V,” Drake wrote on the album’s Apple Music page. With his “Hotline Bling” and “Started From the Bottom” collaborator Director X behind the camera, Drake pays homage to UGK and Outkast’s classic “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” video by walking down the aisle and getting married — with a twist.

The Canadian superstar's new album is surprisingly full of house music, but his passive-aggressive complaints get dull.

You listen to him burbling away, as per usual, his self-aggrandisement jockeying for space with his constantly wounded ego – “what would you do without me?”, “you lie and a piece of me dies”, “if I was in your shoes I would hate myself” – and think: I know your audience lap it up, but aren’t you getting a bit bored with carrying on like this by now? The lyrics offer a constant drizzle of peevish discontent and how-very-dare-you accusation; conjuring up, for the umpteenth time, a stunted adolescent world in which – if he’s not telling you how wonderful he is, or having it off, or about to have it off – his feelings are perpetually injured, everything is always everyone else’s fault and it’s all so unfair. And yet, here’s Drake, with an album almost entirely predicated around four-to-the-floor rhythms – even the beatless, kalimba-driven Down Hill is only a kick drum away from house – and songs segue into each other as if part of a DJ mix.

Drake shares Honestly, Nevermind video Falling Back. The video features a message of support for YSL plus a cameo from Tristan Thompson.

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The rapper's 14-track seventh studio album came out at midnight, about six hours after it was announced on social media.

That arrangement typically gives far greater control — and a much larger share of income — to the artist, and is also used by major acts like Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. “Honestly, Nevermind,” Drake’s seventh proper studio LP, was released to streaming services at midnight on Friday, having been officially announced only hours earlier on Drake’s social media accounts. For his newest one, the wait was about six hours.

Drake released the music video for the song 'Falling Back' off his new album 'Honestly, Nevermind' on June 17. In the music video, Drake marries 23 women at ...

A DM from my 16-year-old brother read: “nah bruh Drake made an Abercrombie and Fitch playlist 😭.” Don’t know about all that, but what I do know is Drake, at his big age, still fantasizes about women lining up to be with him. After the ceremony is the reception, with tableaus of the wedding party seated like the Last Supper. Guests dance to the only hit in the whole thing — “Best I Ever Had (Wedding ver.).” Then, the whole party transforms into a dark, smokey oontz-oontz club, complete with lasers and blue lights. (It’s almost like he’s being annoying on purpose.) “It’s a good time for me,” Drake tells Thompson. “I’m ready to settle down, I’m in love.” To which the athlete replies, “You only get married once.” YOMO, everybody.

Drake has responded to the early — and somewhat divisive — reactions to his latest album 'Honestly, Nevermind,' which is heavily influenced by house and ...

I’m never going to revisit the album again, but if it comes on when I’m in the lobby of a luxury hotel, I’m not mad at it.” The album is dedicated to the late fashion icon Virgil Abloh, who passed away at age 41 last November following a private battle with cancer. “I’m about to play you an album that means the world to me,” he told listeners while introducing Honestly, Nevermind. “It took us about six, seven months to make maybe, and [it’s] something that I always wanted to do. “I thought Drake was finna rap his ass off. We wait for you to catch up. He added, “I got another Scary Hours pack coming too in a little bit.

While dropping a surprise full-length album with all of six hours of warning last night, Drake also treated fans to a music video for one of the si...

Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change And the beat is such a great beat too man waisted the beat— jessy (@mk_jsav) June 17, 2022

The superstar's surprise release combines his signature lovelorn bravado with beats built for the dancefloor.

In this scenario, he never releases another note of original music, leaving the work of churning out “Drake” music to a deepfake AI. My question here is: Based on Honestly, Nevermind, would anyone even notice? Has any major pop figure of the last 10 years been as resistant to change as Drake? Perhaps the most interesting thing to happen to him all decade was when Pusha T nearly murdered him with one line (“You are hiding a child”), but apart from seeming knocked on his back foot for a few hours, he regrouped, told the world he had concealed his child because of Instagram, and kept on making Drake music. The Congolese-born Afropop musician Tresor worked on six of the album’s 14 songs and contributed vocals to three; Black Coffee, a longtime Drake collaborator, is listed as one of the album’s executive producers, and his son, Esona Tyolo, has writing and production credits on “Texts Go Green.” Honestly, Nevermind sets the BPM at “One Dance” and doesn’t let up. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see that Honestly, Nevermind is one of his shortest albums ever—14 tracks, over in less than an hour—and that it contains only a few transcendently stupid Drake Thoughts. The album is filed under “dance” on Apple Music, and throughout Drake downplays his rapper persona in favor of crooning behind lush, air-conditioned beats. It feels like one smooth-brain dance playlist, like if you put on his hit “Passionfruit” and let the algorithm do the work for the next 52 minutes. As he did with 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, he presaged its release by sharing a majestically incoherent note on Apple Music, spilling over with guffaw-worthy Drake-isms. “I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes, and asked my current insight into the times,” went one line, which made me wonder if Drake was waiting patiently for someone to quiz him on runaway inflation or how Democrats can avoid a rout in the midterms.

Drake's new music video for his song "Falling Back" shows him marrying 23 women and partying the night away with them and his best man Tristan Thompson.

"Secondly, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VIDEO! This is the type of music video I miss! The Wedding Singer…OMG!!!" Another person tweeted, "I love this double standard for men!!

Drake dropped a surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind.' Here are our first impressions, including thoughts on the best and worst songs on the album.

Here are our first impressions of Drake’s new album Honestly, Nevermind. At the end of his radio show on Sirius XM right before midnight, Drake hinted that this isn’t all we’ll hear from him this summer. He’s also preparing to drop another Scary Hours EP and a poetry book.

From the moment 'Falling Back', the first full song on Drake's new album 'Honestly, Nevermind', starts playing, Black Coffee's influence is clear.

Then the lyrics can follow." Drake just dropped a full Dance album and Black Coffee production very heavy on that. "Drake just dropped a full Dance album and Black Coffee production very heavy on that.

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The record is a tribute to the Ukrainian seaport where he was raised, and although he composed the suite in 2020 based on personal inspirations — remembering his childhood there, as his father, a Ukrainian Jew, fought cancer — the album inevitably takes on a different cast now that this Russian-speaking, cosmopolitan city is in the throes of war. Before he joined the New York jazz world, Neselovskyi was a classical prodigy; “Waltz of Odesa Conservatory” calls back to the 1990s, by way of some Baroque piano turns, when he was the youngest student ever admitted to the school. It’s a collaboration with Dave Harrington, who has worked with Nicolas Jaar in the psychedelic rock project Darkside. “Heart — Power of a Soft Heart” has uplift built into its foundation — three slow, ascending piano notes that are repeated throughout the track and enfolded in other tones: chimes, cymbals, hovering guitar notes and Morissette singing “ah,” sustaining a magnificent hush. Since moving to the United States two decades ago, Neselovskyi has collaborated with leading elders in jazz, like Gary Burton and John Zorn, but on his new album, “Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City,” he sits alone at the piano. That’s what it does on “Sorry,” an abject apology that arrives as a preview of its next album, “Profound Mysteries II.” It begins with melancholy piano chords reminiscent of Erik Satie, then opens up a bassy abyss as Jamie Irrepressible — the British singer Jamie McDermott — thoroughly indicts himself for abandoning a lover: “I hate myself for running scared,” he croons. “I don’t want to die for love,” she sings in her highest, most fragile register. Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.” It’s both virtuosic and defiantly nonchalant. “How do you say to my face, ‘Time heals?’” he sings in a reedy, vulnerable falsetto, “Then go and leave me again, unreal.” The track’s video, though, is more of a lark, playfully sending up Drake’s heartbreaker reputation and imagining a time when he finally settles down and gets married — to 23 different women. The polysyllables fly fast, then go on to accelerate wildly in “Progressive House, Conservative Ligature” by the Los Angeles rapper Rhys Langston, from a coming album called “Grapefruit Radio.” The producer Opal-Kenobi supplies loops of blurry, undulating piano chords and synthesizer swoops, shifting pitch every so often. But it’s the kinetic “Falling Back,” the album’s first proper track and single, that best sets the scene: A throbbing electronic beat (produced by the D.J.s Rampa, &Me, Alex Lustig and Beau Nox) allows Drake the space for some Auto-Tuned crooning about — what else — a once-promising relationship turned sour. Less than 10 months after “Certified Lover Boy,” Drake has returned to monopolize summer. Let us know at [email protected] and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.

Drake's new album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' is largely based around house beats, but Azealia Banks has been rapping over house beats for her entire career and ...

Since then, she’s released house-inspired songs such as “ 1991,” “ The Big Big Beat,” and “ Anna Wintour,” all of which, it must be said, eat Drake’s food up, boo. Banks released her first house-rap single “212” back in 2011 and it ended up being one of the best and most defining songs of the decade, (don’t just trust us), a hip-hop and house blend that was funny, thorny, and a kaleidoscope of different genres and personalities. Drake has made himself comfortable in Azealia Banks’s house . Drake’s new album, Honestly, Nevermind, was released at midnight Friday with a strong house-music influence, a genre just like she did at Elon Musk’soriginally developed by gay Black DJsin Chicago and New York in the post-disco era.

Across his past six studio albums, Drake's rap-focused, R&B-flirting formula was tried-and-true. But on his seventh, he flipped the script, stepping into ...

In the wee hours leading up to the album’s surprise release, Gordo confidently declared the Certified Lover Boy follow-up a “dance album.” Indeed, it largely is—and it’s far from the first time that Drake has courted the house genre. Black Coffee, who recently made history as the first African artist to win the Grammy Award for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” ( Subconciously), is credited as one of the LP’s executive producers. Though the sonic strategy has proven to be divisive in the handful of hours that Honestly, Nevermind has been available to the masses, the expertise of the project’s executive producers can’t be disavowed.

With any Drizzy project, especially one finding the 6 God experimenting in the house world, there was major pushback from Hip Hop fans on social media ...

Btw i like the vibey Drake joints. I don’t wanna hear nobody talking about club music not shaking up the game after this . Now all imma say is Support the ones that been publicly doing this for years!#HonestyNVM Drake returned on Friday (June 17) with his surprise Honestly, Nevermind album. That said this@Drakejawn is a gift. “My relationship to new hip hop is mostly on a ‘how can this serve me & my dj gigs?’ & less about me listening as a fan,” he stated. One staunch supporter was J. Cole, who had rave reviews of the effort after his first listen on Friday. The OVO king even shouted Cole out on the 21 Savage-assisted “Jimmy Cooks.”

21 Savage upstages Drake with his verse on “Jimmy Cooks,” the closing rap song off Drake's new club album “Honestly, Nevermind.” As the sole feature on the ...

Especially not in the shadow of 21 Savage, who has nothing to prove and all the tricks to impress. What really keeps the attention on 21, though, are his subtle twists of flow throughout the verse, using his melodic gymnastics to drag out syllables (see: “It’s a stick-uhhhuuup”). He raps like a decorated Rollerblader, light on his feet while making the slightest pivots. 21’s “Jimmy Cooks” spot keeps the exciting momentum of “Cash In” going, only upping the bravado. Well, up until that last song: “Jimmy Cooks” is textbook rap, a seeming loosie tacked onto the end of the album intended to jolt you back to reality. Just last week, he challenged Tyler, the Creator on Pharrell’s lively “Cash In Cash Out,” joyriding through expensive verses about expensive cars and somehow making the line “Kim Jong-un in my pants, it’s a missile” work. Drake treats “Jimmy Cooks” — a nod to his own Degrassi character, Jimmy Brooks — like heavy-handed fan service, a small comfort that he’s already back to doing what confused fans were missing (the rapping) after his night off at the club.

Drake released a music video on Friday for his new song "Falling Back." · The Director X clip centers upon Drake's wedding as he marries 23 different women.

"Doesn't feel right? The cinematic clip, helmed by Director X, opens with Drake preparing for his wedding. I'm ready to settle down.

It's been less than 24 hours since Drake surprise-released his new album Honestly, Nevermind. After a few spins, we shared our first impressions of the ...

There are a few songs on the album that sound influenced by More Life songs like “Passionfruit” and “Blem.” Many Drake fans also look at More Life as a very summertime album (even though it dropped right as spring was beginning to blossom in 2017), and Drake released Honestly, Nevermind just days before the official beginning of summer. Drake says he considers More Life a “playlist” instead of an album and that’s likely because it has so many different sounds, inspired by various genres like dancehall, Soca, and beats from other regions like the Caribbean and UK. Honestly, Nevermind, meanwhile, sounds more anchored to specific house and club scenes than utilizing different global sounds, making it more concise and focused than More Life, while also revisiting some of its core themes. Switching things up, he worked with dance music producers that pushed him out of his comfort zone, and he doesn’t sound like he’s going through the motions anymore (which he did on the lowest points of CLB). On songs like “Tie That Binds” and “Flight’s Booked,” he’s more loose and experimental than he’s been since the beginning of his career, and he’s clearly rejuvenated. We expected him to rap with a chip on his shoulder and come through with a bunch of hungry rap verses like he gave us on Jack Harlow’s “Churchill Downs.” Honestly, Nevermind is far from the rap album that many suspected it would be, though. Certified Lover Boy wasn’t the album that many people hoped for, and it didn’t receive great reviews, so many people assumed that Drake would return on his next project with a mission to prove himself. It sounds like Drake might have taken a trip across the Hudson to Newark and Jersey City because he’s incorporated some of the scene’s most recognizable sounds on this album.

Drake is setting the trends. On Friday, the Toronto rapper released his surprise seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind featuring dance and house music.

Drake worked with producers like Black Coffee, Gordo, Rampa, and Alex Lustig to craft his new album, which was a labor of love. Drake apparently heard the feedback and has a message for all those who aren’t fans of his new direction. — Drippykhaby (@Dat_boydrippy)June 17, 2022 — B (@BurnerP28817150)June 17, 2022 “I thought Drake was finna rap his ass off. On Friday, the Toronto rapper released his surprise seventh studio album Honestly, Nevermind featuring dance and house music.

Black Coffee's son Esona has also added his touch to Drake's new album, having produced a track called 'Texts Go Green'.

He opens doors for others, and quietly does the most 🔥 https://t.co/751Xc4xNvT June 17, 2022 You are the man that you think you are.— Theresa Vivian Moila (@MoilaTheresaV) Instead of telling the world, his work speaks for itself. It is safe to say that he was not just at the shows for “na enjoyment” but actually learning from his producer father. 😂👌🏾— Thando (@uShozi) https://t.co/iIpFj63rv0 June 17, 2022 Well done to you for being part of producing Drake's latest album.

Hours after the final episode of The Kardashians, in which Khloé Kardashian addresses Tristan's latest cheating scandal, the pro basketballer made a cameo ...

Another added, "Funny how they put Tristan Thompson in a video where Drake says he wanna settle down." And though the Toronto-born rapper says he is, Tristan still reassures him that it's not too late to run. It's done."

Before he could land a speaking part in Drake's latest viral music video, Ari Sitnik had to star in a promotion for the local Jewish food bank.

It was completely out of the blue.” “They found it funny. Sitnik, 52, said he doesn’t like Drake’s music or hip-hop in general. The gig, Sitnik said, “was a little bit for the fun and a little bit for the paycheck.” He was glad to represent the Jewish community in pop culture, and he trusted Drake to cast Jewish tradition in a positive light. His part in the nearly 10-minute video for “Falling Back,” lasts just a few seconds: He asks Drake, “Do you commit yourself to being a good husband according to our values and traditions?” After Drake says “I do,” Sitnik asks the same question to the bride.

Drake has teased that he's set to release another 'Scary Hours' EP while talking about his forthcoming projects.

“I hope to be there with you for some of it. “I hope you have a great summer,” he told fans. As for his next musical project, Drake revealed: “I got another ‘Scary Hours’ pack coming too, in a little bit.

This is an experimental album which sounds like it uses the African instrumental prowess of Black Coffee to give Drake a reason to tour Ibiza.

Naturally the album is doing well but the truth needs to be told, this isn’t good. This is the final straw now, the era in which he sings reached it’s end this week…please stop. Classic Coffee with those earthy drums accompanying the guitar and chants as backing vocals which seem to ache for a needed love as the lyrics suggest. Don’t get this twisted, Black Coffee did all he could and gave Drizzy some butter production, but you can lead a man to hot instrumentals, but you can’t teach him to sing. He talks gangster themes like how he wants some of his people freed from the Feds but the beat sounds too cute and cuddly for that to be taken seriously. This will probably do well in Europe as Coffee has managed to juggle the requirements of the international EDM market with Afro expectancies. This was a surprise album by Drake as he tends to do that. A squeaky sound governs the beat for this song that does next to nothing from a pop or even House aspect. His voice sounds strained like the key this song is in is too high for him to cope with. There is a reason the tracks are so short on this album – Drake’s engineers realised they should end the suffering at around two minutes a pop. Instead, we now have to deal with things like Currents. The fourth song on this flop of an album blends Drake’s long-time producer Noah 40 Shebib’s underwater plug-in nuances with some kind of House beat which sounds like what Coffee would have left on the cutting room floor for one of his own projects. Unfortunately, this seventh studio album by Drake might be the worst in his repertoire.

Along with the release of new album Honestly, Nevermind, Drake has dropped the video for “Falling Back” with a guest appearance from Tristan Thompson.

The album is also dedicated to Virgil Abloh, who died last November from a battle with cardiac angiosarcoma. Directed by Director X, the video also features Drake’s mother, Sandi Graham, and NBA star Tristan Thompson, who plays the rapper’s best man. Drake is in his polygamist bag.

JTA — As part of the surprise drop for his new album “Honestly, Nevermind,” Canadian Jewish musician Drake released a music video for his new song, ...

This isn’t the first time the multi-platinum-selling artist has invoked his Jewish background in his musical career. (Traditionally, as the bride and groom are hoisted on chairs during the hora, they hold onto a napkin to symbolize their unity.) (Drake has never been married, but does have a son, Adonis, whose existence was brought to the public eye during a feud between him and rival rapper Pusha T.)

Izzy Drake, aka 'Fake Drake' has gotten so much love impersonating the 6 God he managed to call him up the day after Drake released his seventh album, ...

They pay my Airbnb, they pay the flight, they hook it all up.” Izzy’s career as “Fake Drake” began after the Toronto native was spotted at Club LIV in Miami, appearing to be an exact doppelganger of Drizzy during his Certified Lover Boy era, complete with a heart outline edged into his hair. “I’m touring, I’ve got some music events I gotta show up to,” he told No Jumper last November. “People DM me like, ‘Hey, you wanna come to my event because I can’t pay Drake – he’s too expensive.

J. Cole took to his Instagram Stories following the release of Drake's new record 'Honestly, Nevermind' to sing the Toronto rapper's praises.

The Off-Season rapper played his first game with the Shooting Stars in May. On to the next. And Drizzy seemingly responded to the negative reactions.