It might be Her Loss but its our win! HA, Get it? Honestly Nevermind. What I’m trying to say is the Certified Lover Boy is dropping another album! Did you see what I did there? I’m not a rapper but honestly, I’m starting to think I should be. I’m a poet with this English shit. But enough about me, The 6 God, Drizzy Drake, The Boy, Aubrey Graham is dropping another album this Friday! And to make it even better it’s a joint album with 21 Savage! Are you kidding me?!? Some people are saying Drake quietly dropped a trilogy right under our noses and we didn’t even see it.
Firstly, let me say, I don’t think Drake and 21 Savage have ever made a bad song together. That’s right, not one bad song. They only have a few together (4) but sometimes you can bring together things that are so different like peanut buttah (lol) and jelly and it just works ladies and gentlemen. This is dropping Halloween weekend (half way through this blog I found out the release date was pushed back a week but fuck it we ball), we’re all going to be in our spooky costumes, during spooky season, listening to spooky music.
It was just recently Drake’s birthday, Drake If You’re Reading This, I just want to say More Life to you, my brother. We had to know Octobers Very Own was going to give us a gift before the end of the month, didn’t we? (Again, pushed back to November 4th now, but better late than never.) My girlfriend’s birthday is the 29th of October (this makes me OVO by association) so I like to think Drake is giving her a late gift on my behalf. He’s really my brother man shout out him. Everyone should be just as excited as me for this album. If you aren’t I know the perfect way to get you hyped for it. Let’s take a look at the CORRECT rankings of all of Drake and 21 Savage’s songs together. (This is the correct ranking because this is my ranking.)
Number Four: Mr. Right Now
Honestly it hurt me to put this song so low, it feels like a crime! But I have to remember they only have 4 songs so it’s still top 5, top 5, top 5 (I crack myself up man.) Is this a bad song? Absolutely not. It’s not as fast paced as some of their other songs but you still find your head nodding along to the beat the entire time. The chorus is biggg fire, this we can all agree on. I think 21 Savage and Drake both could’ve had more enticing verses but to me this seems like a song when you driving with your lady and you make eye contact and she’s like “Let’s get in on Mr., right now.” (Did it again, I can’t be stopped.) We learn 21 f*cks to Beyonce and Drake is the slow stroke king. Is this information I needed? Absolutely not. Do I sing a long every time. Yes, I do which is why this is number four on the list.
Number Three: Knife Talk
Say it with me! GANG SHIT THAT’S ALL I’M ON! GANG SHIT THAT’S ALL I’M ON! To be clear I am on no type of gang shit, and If You’re Reading This, I’d bet my top dollar you are on no type of gang shit either. But God, pregaming with your homies singing this together, hyping each other up for the night out, IS THERE ANYTHING BETTER?!?!? (No.) In this song we see 21 and Drake rolling off one another (pause) in their verses, not just one and then the other. This is when I feel they are at their best. Almost like we’re getting little snippets at a time, not the full thing so we stay anticipated and engaged. A little bit of hot potato action with the mic as we nod our heads and make the face where we squint our eyes like “Yooo this is fire.” Side note the way 21 Savage opens this song up is incredible. Like YES BRO, YOU ARE A SLAUGHTER GANG SOUL SNATCHER! NOW I DO INDEED WANT A FORD RAPPER! IF YOU SHOT AT ME MY BOOTY WOULD BE CLAPPING! (Pause.)
It’s a great song, but still not their best work. We have a top 2 for that.
Number Two: Jimmy Crooks
Shietttttttt! What a fucking banger. From start to finish. Some of you may think this should be number 1, you’re wrong of course. But it is still a fucking banger. Drizzy comes in hot just spittin (pause) boy was really floating on the beat. You a night owl drizzy? So am I! All these thoughts I have keeping me up at night, I’m a night owl no wonder I can’t sleep. Then you have the switch up to 21, unreal. We start off with a slow beat let Drake go crazy on it and then bam now the beat is fast and 21 is telling us “He spins the same hood where he gets his d*ck sucked!”
21, my friend, you are literally a Savage for that! This song goes hard as hell for real. If this is what the album is going to be then it’s going to be a classic! Bold statement I know, but when it drops, I’ll be throwing a party with my day ones! (I did it again ha!)
Number One: Sneakin
Their first song together and let me tell you something, they got it right the first time! This isn’t an overreaction, this song is goatttedddddd! I still remember the first time I heard it. It was spooky time 6 years ago (2016 what a year am I right) when I first listened to this. The opening beat, close your eyes and hear it now “da na na NUH da na na Nuh” IVE GOT GOOSEBUMPS TYPING THIS! The song is so good I could cry right now! Drake goes fucking stupid to start off. He cannot be stopped. He gets the hits like somebody pitching underhanded! You know who else does that?!?!
His verse is just so hard man (pause.) There’s just simply no other way to put it. Look out for my Instagram caption with my girlfriend “Got my Spanish ting convinced that I know Spanish, really when she gets to talking, I don’t understand it.” Because you guessed it, she be speaking Spanish and I do not understand it. How did Drake come up with this exquisite bar I just don’t know. This is only the first verse of the song! Then 21 comes in and goes even more stupid! So stupid it may be dumb. First of all, he got some head last night and it was outstanding. Picasso couldn’t have painted a better picture. He continues to go crazy and then we find out he’s the reaper! He’s the reaper in spooky season! That’s just genius! Nothing was The Same for anyone after he said that line! Rappers are panicking, pockets are going under like the titanic! This man really is the reaper! 21 you savage!
And then, with the chorus going after 21’s verse you think the songs is over… But you’re wrong! Drake comes back and gives us an entire verse filled with more fire! There a few songs Drake uses this technique and each time it’s better than the last. (No Tellin’ is the best song he does this in. You think it’s over but it’s not. Go give it a listen.) He’s hitting the beat, he’s floating, he doesn’t even need to call the bros for assistance!
I can go on about this song all day. It’s the clear-cut number one in a group of fire songs. The last time we got a Drake joint album we got an instant classic with Future. I mean literally, What a Time To Be Alive (Last one I promise.) I’m going to come out and just say it, I think this album will be just as good, if not better! Yes, that’s right! It can be better. It sucks that it is delayed a week, but Rome wasn’t built in a day either. If you don’t know if you should be hyped for it, do yourself a favor and listen to the correct ranking of their songs together. If you have any comments, please share your Views. Until next time, Take Care.