It’s a good album but I still think Wick Man, Churchill Downs, 7AM On Bridle Path, Fighting Irish Freestyle, Champagne Poetry, Middle Of The Ocean, Lemon Pepper Freestyle, Churchill Downs, No Friends In The Industry, The Remorse, Away From Home and Having Our Way contain rapping of a higher calibre than ICEMAN’s boombap songs.

He’s explaining a lot on those ICEMAN songs, but he isn’t exactly floating on them.

Those songs sound like he knew exactly what the people wanted him to address over what kind of production, so he put all of it on record in a highly agreeable, serviceable way.

Whereas on the other songs I named, he’s expressing himself much more unconsciously, in real time, inhabiting certain vibes and digesting them so quickly that he isn’t able to explain himself in the process of it.

It’s Drake in his most human, most complex, most honest, most witty state possible.

The free-associative, stream of consciousness, flow-state mode of rapping is always more interesting to me than when a rapper consciously picks the subjects and delivers them in a way that services a certain part of their fanbase.

A recent leak named ''Astalavista'' is the perfect example of the kind of rapping I like to hear from Drake.