![]() ![]() His next album, Views, despite receiving mixed reviews, molded itself after IYRTITL: Each song spins alone in its own universe, existing separately from the tracks that surround them. Sure enough, IYRTITL marked a fundamental departure from what we were used to hearing from Drake, as the project sounded like Drake wanted each track to be its own standalone single. It was a clear indicator that drastic change was on the horizon. In hindsight, the title Nothing Was the Same was much more than the project’s name. However, something strange happened once Drake dropped If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late in 2015: He stopped making albums as we knew them. ![]() From there through 2013’s Nothing Was the Same, Drake brought fans into his theater and built larger, more cinematic albums that packed emotion, banging singles, and, most importantly, narrative arc. On 2009’s So Far Gone, Drake flipped hip-hop on its head, driving the end of the “jacking for beats” mixtape era and emphasizing the creation of complete, front-to-back projects. On the former Drizzy was a sensitive Canadian teen TV actor with a passion for sing-songy raps by the latter he became one of his generation’s global icons.īut if we expand out our view of Drake’s career to include everything up through his most recent release, More Life, then we’ll see an interesting shift as it relates to the music industry at large. With Drake, we saw his music and lyrics develop by leaps and bounds between his first big splash, So Far Gone, and third studio album, Nothing Was the Same. One of the marks of a great artist is seeing clear progression between albums. ![]()
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