Hearing him say the word “motherfucker” is like a teenager trying on mild sins as a way of transgression like the Rosedale kid who keeps pretending he came from the streets. Such puerility is both within and without.Īnthony Easton: I still cannot believe Drake as a badass. Then his conscience strikes: “I just asked for some blessings at my grandmother’s grave”, “enough to make you throw up, it’s gross”, “my mom’ll probably hear that and be mortified.” He continues to stomp away, but worries continue to nag even as he grows older. That beat, though, is a great skittery thing, and helps sell Drake’s puffed-out chest.ĭaniel Montesinos-Donaghy: If you’re going to be an asshole, be the biggest and grandest one you can: put on Ma$e’s shiny suit and fill it out! Demand capital like a deranged Osirus! Summon lackeys and have them handle your telecommunications! Have your beat rupture and glitch wildly under you, your sonic cup spilleth over! He tramples and hollers and cackles, Minilla gloriously becoming Godzilla. Michel: I don’t think I’m ever going to be on-board with Drake when he acts tough, like on this song (though saying he feels like he could beat Serena in a tennis match if she only used her left hand is a good line). I’ve written about 1,000 words too many and gotten more grief than I ever wanted about not liking Drake, and four minutes of Drake also haranguing everyone who doesn’t like Drake has not changed my mind.
Katherine St Asaph: Christ, when he boasts he sounds like Ax from the Animorphs. Either way, admissions of worst behavior aren’t exonerating evidence. A figure with a more varied voice might have made these confessions fascinating, although I’ll give him credit for the excellent bad taste of the bar mitzvah verse. Makes sense – a dude with this lame a voice needs options.
#Drake mo money mo problems plus#
Plus “Bar mitzvah money like my last name Mordecai/Fuck you bitch I’m more than high” is probably the best Jewish rapper boast in the history of hip-hop.Īlfred Soto: “Mo’ fucker never lahv us,” he yells, experimenting with stresses and elisions over a cacophony of distorted vocal samples. A resentful Drake with a hate-hardened heart is far more interesting than one begging to be loved. Jonathan Bradley: Yep, this is four-and-a-half minutes of Drake shouting “muh'fuckers never loved us” and “worst behavior.” (Except for the part where he raps Ma$e’s lines from “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems.”) And it’s great! (Except for the Ma$e part Drake should never remind people that ‘90s rap had its own, better version of Aubrey Graham.) Aside from the cyborg stutter of DJ Dahi’s whirring, glitchy beat, the key is Drake’s mindset: no longer passive-aggressive or self-pitying, he’s etiolated himself into an irredeemable asshole.