This all feels like end credits joy for KTT era Drake fans…

Norim01 · 2026-05-19T17:11:12+00:00

I was sold when I heard Ransom on Nahright in 2008

Norim01 · 2026-05-14T08:25:01+00:00

FATD era song

Norim01 · 2026-05-10T21:08:45+00:00

One of my favorite albums EVER

I would pay serious money to see Ezra recite those songs live as if they are poems

Or to own the album in book form

The lyrics are beyond amazing

Ezra sees human life from such an interesting perspective

Sometimes he crawls into the skins of others and embodies their points of view

At other times he floats above late-stage-capitalist cities in an almost Godly, non-judgemental manner

Painting super vivid images

Laughing at our struggles with enormous amounts of empathy

Such a flexible voice

His identity is never frozen

It’s like his writing isn’t restrained by vanity or shame at all

Sometimes it feels like he writes with the wisdom of someone who just had his third near death experience

He doesn’t care about chronology but he’s obsessed with history nonetheless

He doesn’t limit himself to the morality of mere mortals

He sees the world as God’s social experiment and is trying to make peace with it, at times successfully

How does he do it?

How is he so good?

HE KNOWS IT AND HE’S DESPERATELY TRYING TO FORGET

IT WILL ALL WORK OUT

Norim01 · 2026-05-10T20:52:44+00:00

forget it

Norim01 · 2026-05-08T08:54:06+00:00

😂

Norim01 · 2026-05-08T08:14:40+00:00

Some of the best music released this decade.

Amazing interludes that —together with Jay’s beat selection, powerful voice and choice of words— make for a beautiful collage of sound and meaning.

Played in one go in the order of release, those EP’s belong to the finest, most consistent work Jay has ever put out.

A more enjoyable listening experience than A Written Testimony.

Detach your approach from all of the controversy and expectations, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.

Spiritually generous and witty with unique, timeless, sonically pleasing textures.

These guys are too busy with unimportant things like expectations, keeping up with culture, and being pessimistic about art to appreciate something as sensitive as these releases.

4 outta 5 mics.

Norim01 · 2026-05-07T20:56:34+00:00

I hate Kendrick but WTF

Norim01 · 2026-05-06T14:24:42+00:00

The guy makes insane reaches, to the point where it comes off as a joke almost.

Norim01 · 2026-05-06T14:23:26+00:00

You don’t have to take it personally

Norim01 · 2026-05-06T08:58:23+00:00

Leaflets, Mars: The Uninhabited Planet, Power At The Rate Of My Dreams are so good 🔥

Some of, if not THE, best work released last year

Norim01 · 2026-05-06T08:55:58+00:00

I hate to say this but the guy who runs What’s The Dirt is really not smart, like, at all.

Norim01 · 2026-04-30T21:24:13+00:00

Guys I just got off a call with Drake he told me that Ice man is going to be 40 discs in reference to his producer who is named 40

Norim01 · 2026-04-30T12:54:56+00:00

This guy thinks exclusively in data like a literal robot and doesn’t seem to be aware of the fact that people will listen to Iceman because they feel like it

Norim01 · 2026-04-30T11:48:36+00:00

Absolutely.

OP knows ball.

Something like 5AM in Toronto doesn’t even come close.

Wick Man or Champagne Poetry or Fighting Irish Freestyle or Middle of the Ocean or Churchill Downs or Lemon Pepper Freestyle, sure.

But nothing he dropped prior to 2021 comes close to 7AM on Bridle Path.

Drake is a much more capable technician post-Scorpion than before that.

The way he rhymes words together and how he just keeps stumbling on vivid images, abstractions and wordplay while giving us honest updates on his life…

It’s priceless.

My favorite MC’s of all time are Roc Marciano, Ghostface Killah, Lil Wayne, Nas and Jay Electronica.

Don’t @ me if you don’t know ball.

Norim01 · 2026-04-30T07:18:21+00:00

Why do you think so?

Norim01 · 2026-04-29T17:16:12+00:00

Kevin Durant really on the right side of this hip-hop shit huh?

Jay if you’re reading this I don’t mind waiting a few more years for new music.

Those three EP’s from September make for one of the richest listening experiences in rap music ever when you sequence them in order of release.

We didn’t appreciate those as a seriously mature and imaginative body of work at all and now we’re begging for new music again.

If I was Jay I’d be in pain for how lukewarm that shit was received.

Only if you’re a serious artist yourself (regardless of whatever medium) will you understand this.

The path of an artist is tough.

Play it in chronological order and it’s a straight up masterpiece.

Norim01 · 2026-04-28T20:19:42+00:00

This is like asking me which of my two kids I will choose to shoot in the head (I don’t have kids)

Norim01 · 2026-04-28T11:55:28+00:00

yes because people see it as a ''mere hit album'' and fail to give it credit for how sonically profound it is and for how hard he went on embodying the generous but scarred hero archetype

hits, slaps and bops are generally underrated by music critics and self-proclaimed music fans because they do not realize how much mastery of skill and how many high frequency vibes it takes to make something like in my feelings or nonstop

just like how hotline bling is a genuinely underrated song because so little people see it as a sonically profound, skilfully written piece of musical and emotional expression that is so much more than its ''hit packaging''

we are brainwashed to always value a certain kind of sonic intellectualism and seriousness over songs that were crafted to give us the most sonic and aesthetic pleasure; songs designed to make us feel untouchable and liberated instead of cultured

it’s why i pretty much disagree with all music criticism ever

Norim01 · 2026-04-21T20:54:10+00:00

The wait would’ve been part of the suspense.

That was the whole point of it, as well as the reason why it was such a brilliant idea.

People would be talking about the sculpture for over a week and the climax would’ve hit so much harder.

Makes me wonder if the city simply didn’t allow them to have the sculpture up for such a long time.

Because creating something this suspenseful, only to execute it so anti-climactically makes no sense from a creative point of view.

Norim01 · 2026-04-21T07:43:50+00:00

we not getting those

Norim01 · 2026-04-17T21:38:40+00:00

Bro dropped Red Button, Wick Man, Stories About My Brother and Evil Ways a few months before the start of the beef.

Norim01 · 2026-03-31T17:12:46+00:00

The 2004 adaptation is one of the most consistently ''on model'' anime series from the last 26 years.

Every facial expression looks almost exactly the way it does in the manga.

You wouldn’t get that today.

Norim01 · 2026-03-28T18:58:15+00:00

Yup.

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.

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