Behind Bars - Drake, Draft Day

Daaayyyyummmmmmmm! As I sit here and bask in Drake career, listening to Draft Day, I realise something. Drake is one dope ass rapper. Stop fucking hating on Drake. Just because he makes millions off melodic songs don't get upset when he drops a freestyle hotter than anything your favourite rapper has released in the past year. This song is mean.

There ain’t one line in 2 minutes 53 seconds that wasn’t entertaining. This guy pops off on everyone here. Now we all know that Drake ain’t calling out any names or being totally direct with these little shots, but that’s what makes Drake’s music so good to listen to. 10 years from now we’ll still be listening to this on the low because it will always be relevant. It won’t be some song that everyone gets rid of from their libraries because it was a onetime thing that no one cares about. Drake is a very current rapper and he uses that to his advantage but he still keeps it real to his art. But anyway let’s get into it

“If I left this shit to chance, I would have picked a name like Chance the Rapper”
Oh Drake, you really gonna call out Chance? For what? He loves you! Just kidding, don’t go tweeting about this calling me a fucking idiot because I said that. Everyone knows its all love. It was just a clever line that kept your motherfucking attention to the lyrics. As soon as there’s some name dropping on a song, you instantly pay more attention.

“Just hits, no misses, that’s for them married folks”
When you heard this line you were like “Shit! Did he just call out Jay Z?” As you guys probably know Drake called out Jay on his art lyrics and Jay shot back saying “Sorry Mrs. Drizzy for so much art talk, silly me rapping ‘bout shit I really bought” and then Draft Day released. So obviously this is a little jab at Hov. But you listened to the track a second or third time and when that line hit again, this time you were like “OHHHHHHHHHHH SHITTTTTTTTTTTT!” Yeah, don’t lie. That wordplay was clever as fuck from Mr. Graham. If you still ain’t got the line, you should just go ahead and stop reading this blog.

“Too worried about bitches and fashion, they go missing in action”

Woah Woah Woah Drake. Woah. Who are you calling out now? Because you obviously are. Please tell me it’s not Kanye. Okay It might have been A$AP Rocky, but let’s just say it’s Kanye for now. I swear you two are like best friends or brothers or lovers or something? I’m just so confused, why would you call out Kanye, that man has nothing but love for you. Now that I think about it, it was probably just some generic diss that he knew will have everyone talking. And calling out arguably the two biggest rappers of the decade in the same song! And Chance the Rapper! Someone’s confident.

The track is way deeper than those three lines. But I know they are what gets all the hype. I know this song is old now, but I thought it would be a good way to restart this blog. I’m really looking forward to the next leg of this bitch.

You know I had to do it for you.

It's been a while

I know no one reads thing anymore so I thought it might be time to make a new entry. So anyone who did used to read this, sorry for just leaving you about 9 months ago, I got really busy. Fuck it, I am just lazy as fuck. With that being said I thought I'd restart this blog because to be honest I really enjoyed running it for the couple of months I did it for. The thing is, I think I was posting 5 posts a week every week for the 2 months and it was really hard to keep that up. I'm only one guy and I would love to be so current but I do still have school and shit so this blog will be current, but not like it was. I won't be having that schedule I used to, but I will be keeping the segments, so Behind Bars will still be around, Are we on track? will still be around and I'll try and make ThrowbackThursdays a weekly thing. So without further adieu....

What the fuck happened last week?

Beyoncé
Yeah. Beyoncé happened. So on the night of the 12^th of December, Beyoncé thought that it’d

be a good idea to drop an album out of the sky. The self titled album “Beyoncé” contains 14 tracks including features from Jay Z, Drake and Frank Ocean. Yeah, pretty impressive. But oh wait! She throws in 18 fucking videos in with that. You read that right. I think she put it out at midnight so technically; it was released on Friday the 13^th. The 18 videos that accompanied the album contained studio sessions from “Grown Woman”, a track that surprisingly is not on the actual album. Beyoncé likes to call it a Visual Album as the videos are supposed to enhance your experience. But to be honest with you, I don’t really like music videos, it gives restricts my imagination and sometimes ruins the songs for me.

There was absolutely no marketing for this. Everyone was waiting for a Beyoncé album, but there wasn’t a single peep of when it was coming out. Looking at it now, there were always hints that she would drop an album out the sky like this. So she put it out, exclusively on iTunes. She ended up selling 450,000 records on the first day alone. Two days later and she’s racked up a staggering 830,000 sales. Think about if she had a full week to count all her sales. She would have soared passed the platinum mark. Bravo, Mrs Carter. Bravo.

Kanye West
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about Mr. West. There’s been a certain void in this blog that only this great man can fill. So here’s some more news about him. On Saturday we wrote anarticle on how the Grammy’s really fucked up the hip hop category this year. Kanye evidently thought so too. He takes a little time out of his TWENTY FUCKING MINUTE RANT to talk a little about his history with the Grammy’s. He says his usual about he’s never beaten a white man and talk about Michael Jackson. And then he finishes saying that Yeezus has been on top of everyone’s list and he was still only nominated for 2 Grammy’s. Fair play by Kanye but we made our own nominations list ourselves and he didn’t favour to well on ours either. Kanye isn’t hip hop. Kanye West is Kanye West.  Skip to 9:50 to check it out...

The Bound 2 video still hasn’t finished circulating. After James Franco and Seth Rogan gave the world their parody, South Park also took a shot at it. Now I’m not a fan of South Park. I really fail to see the humour. But you guys can still make your own judgement...

Kendrick Lamar
Kendrick Lamar is carrying on his impressive season. So what’s that now? About 2 years? Cool. Rikki Martinez from Power 106 caught up with Kendrick at the Cali Christmas concert. Kendrick is up for 7 Grammy’s I believe, just trailing behind the Jigga man with 9. He faired really well and even got nominated for AOTY in all categories. It’s hard enough for a hip hop album to get nominated for that, but Kendrick is a new Kid that has a fairly raw rap album. There is not much pop appeal and the fact that it got nominated for Album of the year is sick. See what Kendrick had to say about it...

Talking about Cali Christmas, Kendrick was headlining along with the rest of his TDE family. I have been told that the whole crew brought loads of energy to the stage and they made it a night to remember. Kendrick even brought out Diddy to perform Benjamins and Same Damn Tune.

You can check out the entire TDE set here!

T.I
The King of the South has postponed his album Trouble Man II. It was a long time coming, and everyone pretty much knew that something was up. Instead T.I says he is working on a new album called Paperwork which sound interesting. He has reassured us that this album is bound to be a classic. If it is anything like his previous work: Paper Trail, we know that’s true.

He had this to say "All I'ma say is, it's gonna be a motion picture, it's gonna be a theatrical-worthy title. Something that will definitely seem instant classic. I'm thinking something like Trap Champion, Paperwork,but whatever it is the subtitle will be 'The Motion Picture'."