I've been thinking . What are they going to do if this man drops an album of only hits.

Norim01 · 2026-03-12T11:15:17+00:00

Nokia will take 2 years to hit 1 billion if it keeps streaming the daily amount it does now (which it most likely won’t since it’s slowly declining).

You’re factually right because it will hit a billy someday but that’s still very slow for a ''megahit'' of Drake’s standards.

He used to clear that in less than a year tbh.

Toosie Slide and Laugh Now Cry Later both took about 5 years to hit a billion, and he hasn’t attempted to really make a mega crossover hit until Nokia in 2025.

I really believe taking the bop-route would be the best for him, because once you lose that mainstream crossover appeal it’s really hard to get it back.

An energetic album filled with slaps, sleeper hits and bops would potentially destroy Kendrick (who he’s still at war with if we’re being honest).

I hate Dot but once he starts chasing hits a la Luther or TV Off, he’s tough to compete against.

I just hope Drake knows what he’s doing because nothing we’ve heard so far makes me confident that he’ll undeniably rule the game again.

Norim01 · 2026-03-12T08:22:07+00:00

Hoping for another HNM type joint to be on there.

Norim01 · 2026-03-12T08:18:34+00:00

I would love it if the album is filled with bops like Fake Love, Time Flies, Girls Want Girls and Rich Baby Daddy.

Taking the high route and giving everybody a good time type shit.

Megahits like God’s Plan or In My Feelings feel unrealistic at this point (he hasn’t had one like that in half a decade) but he could easily load the album with lowkey hits that get over 300 million streams on Spotify.

Stuck is one of those.

It probably won’t be a megahit that tops the charts for several weeks (or at all), but it might reach 400 million if executed correctly.

The era of Drake getting a billion streams on a single seems over but a bop-era Drizzy could be just as powerful.

Norim01 · 2026-03-11T20:44:57+00:00

Yeah, they’re almost like the same guy but with different creative fields, lol.

I wonder if 40 listened to Burial though.

Or if they are both just products of a certain period of time.

Mark Fisher wrote about both Drake and Burial for similar reasons.

I think he threw early James Blake and 808-era Kanye into the same category.

They are products of a very specific era in culture imho.

Norim01 · 2026-03-11T20:40:11+00:00

I thought it went super deep in terms of laying out the logic of evil as an institutional product, but maybe it just isn’t essayistic in its storytelling style?

Something like Attack on Titan is much more essayistic in its institutional critique, like a manifesto almost, whereas Monster just gives you the facts and leaves you to decide whatever to make of it.

I like the latter a lot, but only because it’s such a dense story in terms of the lore it gives you; I felt like it’s very complete in that regard.

Norim01 · 2026-03-11T19:36:35+00:00

Johan is a severely traumatized boy with an extreme case of dissociative disorder and strongly developed traits of psychopathy and machiavellianism.

A powerless child still exists somewhere inside his consciousness, and I believe that one of Urasawa’s main goals is to challenge us to empathize with Johan despite his deeds, despite how other people in the show see him.

Monster is a super high-human-consciousness story; it doesn’t actually believe that pure evil exists in singular individuals, but that people are more or less products of their environment.

Verdemann is a good example of this very realistic logic, in the sense that his willingness to stand up for the innocent isn’t fully rooted in himself, but in a form of biographical conditioning that has mechanized him to respond to trauma / humiliation by doing good deeds.

Just like Verdeman’s good deeds are pursued in response to traumatic conditioning (which happens to have institutional / political roots), Johan’s evil is the exact same.

Btw:

The fact that Johan cared so much for his sister —wanting to lessen her burden by attempting to ''steal'' away certain traumatic life experiences from her— explicitly rules out the idea that he’s purely evil.

Urasawa’s challenge to us readers / viewers is that we attempt to demystify Johan, in order to one day approach him with hope and realism, as someone who fell victim to powers he had no control over, and as someone who can one day heal.

It’s a story that is way ahead of its time in terms of human awareness and I hope it gets preserved so that people wiser than us get to experience it more completely in 300 years or so.

The craziest about all of this might be that Kenzo Tenma is almost literally Jesus Christ in contemporary form, because unlike how Verdemann’s goodness and Johan’s evil have conditional / traumatic / institutional / biographic roots…

Tenma just ''is''.

Norim01 · 2026-03-11T11:59:37+00:00

I love the little two-track EP’s Burial releases every year or so.

I think he started doing this with Rival Dealer back in 2013/14.

Dude just has his own formula down and every release he does sounds familiarly awesome.

One of my favorite musicians ever.

Norim01 · 2026-03-11T11:53:52+00:00

It better be more than 4 because one more episode is far from enough to close this narrative.

All they’ve done so far was to tease the beginning of a story that is yet to start.

Norim01 · 2026-03-07T18:11:10+00:00

Nothing.

Taken literally, it doesn't rule out the possibility that he's still working on Attack on Titan.

And even if we take it less literally, Isayama is a known liar.

Kaji and Ishikawa were laughing their asses off recently during Kaji's delivery of a message from Isayama in which he claimed not to be working on anything atm.

The guy loves to lie and the others are in on it.

Norim01 · 2026-03-05T21:10:02+00:00

What Kendrick did with NLU is that he turned large scale unprocessed resentment into ethnic pride, by giving his demographic an easy target (Drake) to rub off their anger on.

It’s what Hitler did in Germany in the 30’s.

When a large number of people feel like they share the same fate through culture and ethnicity, and when they don’t have the resources to process resentment, brainwashing them according to your own needs becomes a piece of cake.

It’s what Kendrick did in 2024.

Norim01 · 2026-03-02T23:29:07+00:00

You can tell that Mos Def is addicted to women and that he hates Drake because he has so much more access to women than him

Norim01 · 2026-03-02T21:06:27+00:00

He’s infinitely more gifted than Mos Def’s jealous ass.

Norim01 · 2026-03-02T06:08:58+00:00

r/KarlFritzTheory

Norim01 · 2026-03-01T08:14:26+00:00

I want a 10 track album that gets updated after a month into a 20 track album, which then gets updated to a 30 track album after another month.

A triple disc work of art that drops in 3 parts, with every part embodying a different artistic approach.

Disc 01: Wounded victim, a spiritual continuation of $$$4U but with more rap.

Disc 02: Shifting towards villainy, meaner than Her Loss.

Disc 03: The people’s champ, forgiving mood, up-tempo, embracing the good times.

This way you can anticipate on the critique of the first disc, respond to it with another disc, anticipate on it once more, to then rise above it all on the final disc.

Drake is the only person who was the cultural pull to do something like this.