Where does Drake go from here? Rap is a young man’s game, but Drake isn’t close to retiring his pen at 29. Let’s assume the best-case scenario: Views is a smashing success, critics love it, it dominates radio and gets “instant classic” labels. With Views, Drake is forcing the issue, adding unnecessary emphasis on an album that he’s counting on to be his biggest and best release to date. Artists don’t get to pick when they would like their career-defining classics will come along-how albums are remembered is an organic process.

Nas peaked early with Illmatic and It Was Written, while Kanye West may have saved his best for the latter part of his career with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Perhaps Views does live up to the hype as the unquestionable classic that is missing from Drake’s catalogue - then what? If Views is far and away Drake’s best record, why not let the music speak for itself? Promotion for big release is certainly expected, but the fact that Drake has spent so much more emphasis on this one album and has actually dismissed some of his other projects as lesser work undermines his releases to this point and what he will do in the future.Īll hip-hop legends have released albums in different stages of their career. There’s no doubt that this promotion will show up on the sales charts: in the Internet age where the music megastar is succumbing to the power of endless selection within streaming services, we may never see another hip-hop release as big as Views - including another Drake release.

Yet, Views is getting considerably more publicity than any of his previous genre-transcendent records. His mixtape with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, was announced a day before it was available for download.Įach one of his projects sold well by any standard and found a way to dominate radio as Drake always does. Nothing Was the Same was announced just over three months prior to its release, while IYRTITL was released to the e-streets unannounced. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late was not “by the standard I hold myself and 40 to,” he told Fader.īy comparison, Take Care, considered by many to be Drake’s most complete work, was promoted and released within a seven-month span.

#VIEWS snaps ➡️ geniusdotcom on Snapchat ? /TCj1YlxFIrĭrizzy has released two projects since announcing Views, both of which he has said were not the project everyone has been waiting for.

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