It’s been eight years since Nothing Was the Same. Is everything still the same?
, coming out of the lovely interlude “Yebba’s Heartbreak,” is startlingly excellent, a run of tracks that feel more ambitious and inspired than almost anything else that’s come before. “Knife Talk,” featuring Project Pat and 21 Savage and produced by Metro Boomin, is an invigorating detour into trap fundamentalism, all hypnotic and seductive menace; “7am on Bridle Path” is a diss track that’s already being close-read by fans but also features some of Drake’s strongest bars on the album.
there’s been a fundamental tension on his albums, a sort of internal war between his perpetually restless eclecticism and that aforementioned obligation to be Drake™. His most ardent fans see him as a paragon of confessional authenticity, a prophetic figure for the narcissistic religion of male feelings who needs to be constantly defended against critiques ranging from emotional fraudulence to misogyny.
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