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Drake has revealed his new seventh album Honestly, Nevermind hours before he released the music with 14 new songs.

This album comes just nine months after the release of his previous one, Certified Lover Boy, which was delayed after the rapper had to recover from surgery on his leg. The grunge graffiti lettering of the title is set on a black background, while Drake is pictured on the back of the album in an oversized army print jacket with his head down. Talk about not giving anyone a warning!

Just nine months after he released his sixth album, the chart-topper is back with his seventh, a 14-track record that dropped on streaming platforms at midnight ...

I never factored this into the equation for the beginning of my next chapter, but thank you.” “But I remember every single time someone shined a light in my eyes. He added: “I work with every breath in my body cause it’s the work not air that makes me feel alive.

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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.

Drake's new album is almost here! The rapper surprised all his millions of fans with an announcement of his seventh studio album, titled 'Honestly, ...

Apart from Drake, the new project is executive produced by Noah “40” Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre and Black Coffee. Sharing the black poster, they wrote, “7th studio album ‘HONESTLY, NEVERMIND’ out at midnight.” Apart from Drake, the new project is executive produced by Noah “40” Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre and Black Coffee.

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“But I remember every single time someone shined a light in my eyes. “I was tryna get thru that statement to get to saying I’m not at a time in my life where pats on the shoulder help get me by. Drake continued: “I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes and asked my current insight on the times

Drake also shared a “free YSL” message in the visuals for “Falling Back,” taken from his surprise album, “Honestly, Nevermind.”

Drake also delivers a message to Young Thug, Gunna, and the rest of the YSL collective currently fighting RICO charges from behind bars. However, Chicago Bulls center-forward and reality TV star Tristan Thompson makes an appearance in the visuals for one of the new album cuts. As if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, Drizzy only gave his fans a few hours’ warning before releasing the project.

In the video, directed by Director X and featuring a Tristan Thompson cameo, Drake marries 23 women. The video includes a “Free YSL” message, supporting the YSL ...

21 Savage is the album’s sole featured artist, appearing on the last track titled “Jimmy Cooks.” Check out the video below. Drake has shared the first video from Honestly, Nevermind, the surprise follow-up to Certified Lover Boy that arrived last night.

The 6 God returned to surprise fans with the release of his 'Honestly, Nevermind' album. Billboard ranks every track from the project.

Paying homage to the late Lil Keed and “Drama King” DJ Kay Slay is a fitting salute as well. “A Keeper” will serve as a hidden gem on the album — book it. “Down Hill” is undoubtedly a sad-boy anthem where Drake’s vocals shine through. The bounce in the early portion of the song is reminiscent of Kanye West‘s “Paranoid.” “Overdrive” boasts some pop appeal, whether that’s the hip-hop stations or SiriusXM’s BPM Radio channel. Smooth synths after an instrumental “Intro,” which Drake’s made a habit of executing at a high level to introduce listeners to his body of work. “Calling My Name” will be another forgotten track gracing the album. He’s clearly going at an unidentified enemy here and in Drake fashion, he subliminally gets his point across on the LP’s first standout. The OVO honcho isn’t afraid to experiment in different genres and when doing that, he shines a light on areas of music that might get overlooked and now have millions of new listeners indulging in the genre. An expert collaborator, Drake enlists only one credited guest with 21 Savag e joining the party for album closer “Jimmy Cooks.” Streaming services are classifying HONESTLY, NEVERMIND as a dance album and that’s very telling through the first two tracks. Drizzy takes a backseat and lets the beat do the talking, which feels more like one long house DJ set. 30 seconds in, it’s tough to believe this is a Drake record in 2022, but we are here.

As a follow-up to last year's 'Certified Lover Boy', Drake has released his seventh studio album titled 'Honestly, Nevermind'. Earlier, the rapper made the ...

Earlier, Drake had released the album's track list, revealing it was executive produced by Noah '40' Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre and Black Coffee. Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy', released in September of 2021, featured some heavy-hitting collaborations from Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Future, Young Thug, Rick Ross and 21 Savage, amongst others. The Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation case and its verdict have been publicly presented as a resounding victory for Depp and confirmation of his 'objective' truth. #MeToo is a movement that dared to collectivize suffering, empathy, and perhaps hope.

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.

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For those who dare to read beyond the headline, Drake has offered us glimmers of the truth, and the whole truth. The production – though outwardly daring – doesn’t add much to its influences, emphasising instead Drake’s curatorial nous, and his ability to frame a narrative within just a few notes. In an era of algorithmic saturation, this new project feels almost like a test for his vast fanbase, exploring the different between passive and active listening. The music, too, is startling different – house-leaning electronics, infused with R&B’s soulful exhortation, it sits in a completely distinct world to his entire discography. Even by his own standards, however, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’ comes as a surprise – a mere 90 minute warning was given before the record hit Spotify and Apple Music, accompanied by a scattered note that hinted at paranoia, dissatisfaction, and personal disquiet. Drake has long mastered the art of the surprise album.

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 finally said 'I do' as he married a hoard of Instagram models in his latest music video for new single Falling Back.

Respect the artist and the boundaries he pushed on this one'; 'Is Drake new album good or did it just catch me in a great mood this morning.' He did please some fans with the new music, however, who tweeted: 'Drake did a ting though. 'Pretending to agree with people that Drake’s “surprise” album is actually good is exhausting. It's a good time for me, you know, I'm ready to settle down. 'I do,' Drake replied. the album still trash tho'; It's a good time for me, you know, I'm ready to settle down. 'I do,' Drake replied. You ready? Ready to commit: 'No, I'm good bro. Ready to settle down: In the video for Falling Back Drake is seen gearing up to marry 27 brides and receives a pep talk from his best man Tristan prior to making his way to the alter In the video for Falling Back Drake is seen gearing up to marry 27 brides and receives a pep talk from his best man Tristan prior to making his way to the alter.

Drake certainly ramped up the Friday feels after dropping a brand new surprise album, Honestly, Nevermind. But, some people are less than impressed.

Made for a different audience." Alongside his new album, Drake also dropped a wedding-themed music video for one of the tracks, Falling Back. Drake announced the album, consisting of 14 songs, on Instagram hours ahead of the midnight launch.

Drake the rapper who is dishing out hits as if out of habit announced his new album “Honestly Nevermind” on social media, a few hours before its official ...

In his song “God’s Plan” for which he received the award, and Drake was asked to say a few words, he remarked that these awards didn’t mean a thing as people already come to his concerts buying tickets after a hard day's work, justifying his work and awarding him in that manner. “Honestly Nevermind” comes back to back after “Certified Loverboy”, which broke all records on Spotify. Drake won 10 awards for his album then, becoming the 8th artist to win 10 awards in Billboard history. To this Drake had decided to recall all his nominations altogether from the Grammy Awards. It might be recalled when in 2019 he went on stage during the awards for “Best Rap Song” Drake made it a point to lash out against the methodology of the awards. The Canadian singer and master of ceremonies have come up with his 7th album in “Honestly Nevermind”. Drake showed off the cover of his album, a shining silver artistically written against a black background, and hoped fans would appreciate the work done by him for the album. This comes as a big treat for his fans who really love Drake for his persona and style.

The visual for the lead single from “Honestly, Nevermind” includes cameos from Tristan Thompson and Drake's mother, plus a shout out to Toronto.

In the video’s final sequence, he and his many wives are seen driving away from the wedding ceremony outside of Union Hall, with the CN Tower in background. Drake, like André 3000, plays the slightly nervous groom as his friends help prepare him for the ceremony. Thompson plays Drake’s best man, offering up some words of wisdom before Aubrey says yes 23 times. The music video also contains a brief interlude featuring the potty-mouthed wedding singer from “The Hangover” (played by Dan Finnerty). Drake also refers to the ongoing case on the track “Sticky,” rapping: Drake forgoes any rapping on the lead single, which harkens back to the smooth tropical-house sound of the beloved 2017 track “ Passionfruit.”

Too often, it sounds as if Drake simply isn't trying that hard on his unannounced seventh album.

Otherwise, Drake is planted firmly on the dancefloor and seems to be having a good time musically even if the lyrics aren’t so chipper. Black Coffee, real name Nkosinathi Maphumulo, worked on multiple songs on Honestly, Nevermind, which takes the Passionfruit/Get It Together feel and extends it to almost an hour. One such surprise was his song Passionfruit, a relaxed, romantic dance number that appeared on his mixtape More Life in 2017.

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.

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.

Drake deigned to try and one-up Queen Bey by announcing that his own seventh studio LP would be dropping at midnight. On his surprise seventh studio album, ...

“Your p—y is calling my name,” he sings on the latter. And this 14-track LP is a radical reset for the 35-year-old artist born Aubrey Drake Graham. Drake has two-stepped into house territory before on hits such as “Passionfruit” and the Rihanna collaborations “Too Good” and, most memorably, “Take Care.” But “Honestly, Nevermind” — whose gothic album cover makes it look like it might be more heavy metal than house — is a trancey, trippy twirl into the club underground that is more “After Hours” than The Weeknd’s 2020 blockbuster.

"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.

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.

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 used to be our Prince Hamlet – but on his underpowered new album he is a journeyman extra offering little more than background music.

Throughout his career he has shown a proclivity towards genuinely outstanding songs that get hips moving and legs shaking (“Take Care”, “One Dance”, “Passionfruit”). But back then he felt like our main character, a Prince Hamlet giving us summery grooves or else crying-in-the-club catharsis. Instead, much of his delivery falls flat and is uninspired, while his lyrics feel slightly embarrassing for a man in his mid-thirties (a personal favourite: “Calling me daddy/I taught you things that a father can’t teach”). Sure, there is much more exciting work happening in the dance world right now, but the swaying humidity of songs such as “Texts Go Green” and the gentle, choppy heat of “Sticky” ensures this album will be on plenty of summer playlists, and there is ample possibility for fun remixes.

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's new music video for 'Falling Back' features a wedding with 23 brides, with Tristan Thompson by his side as best man.

I’m in love.” “It doesn’t feel right, we scrap it, we go home,” Thompson says, to which Drake insists: “No, I’m good, bro. I’m ready to settle down.

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.

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Fans online have already likened Honestly, Nevermind to 2017’s More Life, Drake’s last record that drew heavily on dancehall, house, and Afrobeat music. It’s mid-June, temperatures are high, and Drake clearly wants to shake something. Dedicated to “our brother V” (the late Virgil Abloh), Drake’s latest focuses not as much on empty escapism, but on recognizing the adversity and setbacks that make it necessary.

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!!

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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.

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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.

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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.)