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Drizzy stans get ready: a new Drake album will be here in just hours. On Thursday, the rapper announced that he will release his forthcoming LP, Honestly, ...

Drake has been teasing the coming of a new album for some time. Throughout the last several months, the rapper has shared Instagram Stories of himself working his magic in the studio. Drizzy stans get ready: a new Drake album will be here in just hours.

Drake fans, get ready to be in your feelings. The rapper announced the release of his seventh studio album hours before its release late Thursday.

If there's people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows. "You've already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you're a hero in your hometown. His team later requested to remove his nominations from the Grammy's final-round ballot altogether.

It's been 9 months since Drake's last album, Certified Lover Boy, began racing up the streaming charts.

Fans hoping to get some early details on the album could probably do worse than to tune in. And while said album wasn’t quite the multi-platinum chart burner that Drake’s earlier discography achieved, it was still moderately critically well-received and commercially successful. (We’ll say this: Thank God Drake provided the actual name of the album alongside the image, or we’d still be sitting here guessing what the dang thing was called.)

Drake has revealed he's set to drop a new album at midnight EST tonight (June 17), titled 'Honestly, Nevermind'.

“It offers nothing new to the rapper’s canon, merely going through the motions on his old formulas instead.” This sparked rumours that he was working on new music, though nothing was confirmed at the time. Right now, though, his spark is rapidly burning out.”

The seventh album from Drake, 'Honestly, Nevermind' comes just nine months after 'Certified Lover Boy', and will officially arrive in a matter of hours.

In case you forgot that the biggest names in music are now obsessed with surprise album drops, Drake has reminded us all of the trend by revealing his ...

Most notably, it seems Kanye West was quick to like Drake’s Instagram post (don’t worry, we’re not turning into Daily Mail) which has a few media outlets speculating that Yeezy could be somehow involved in the project. Details for Drake Honestly, Nevermind are scarce beyond that, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from buzzing with speculation about what the man has in store. If the prospect of new Drake music isn’t that exciting to you anymore, speculating about the Honestly, Nevermind features will.

“7th studio album HONESTLY, NEVERMIND out at midnight,” Drake captioned on Instagram. Drake, Noah “40” Shebib, Oliver El-Khatib, Noel Cadastre, and Black Coffee ...

As XXL noted, rumors had been swirling among fans last week that Drake was planning to release a mixtape called Summer 22. Stream Drake’s Surprise New Album Honestly, Nevermind Stream Drake’s Surprise New Album Honestly, Nevermind

What you need to know about Drake's new sadboi rave album, 'Honestly, Nevermind'. Drake. Just nine months after Drake released his sixth album ...

After a dozen tracks of disassociated raving, Drake finally gets his blood pressure up with “ Jimmy Cooks,” an old-school Drake rap song with a guest verse from 21 Savage — the only billed cameo on the album’s tracklist. Yes, every Drake record is about being rich and sad in the VIP at 4 a.m. But “Honestly, Nevermind” sounds like he’s wobbly on ketamine at Panorama Bar in Berlin. Black Coffee’s influence is strong, all relentless four-on-the-floors and filter-scrubbed synth chords. “If I was in your shoes I would hate myself,” he sings. The recent disco explosion in pop brought effervescence and bounce to the top 40. Drake is pop music’s most famous genre burglar — from U.K. grime to drill to Afrobeats and Jamaican dub patois. It’s almost entirely a front-to-back club record of deep house music, shot through with his typical malaise.

On Thursday, Drake released his seventh studio album entitled "Honestly, Nevermind." Typically, the Toronto-based rapper's album releases are cause for ...

It feels wrong to slander the man who gave us the lyric "I been Steph Curry with the shot. But on this occasion, the reception vibes were much more "Boston fans after the Celtics lost in Game 6" than " Stephen Curry celebrating in the Warriors' locker-room." NBA Twitter moves fast.

There are only two rap songs, “Sticky” and the 21 Savage collaboration “Jimmy Cook's.” The rest finds Drake singing in an earnest, winsome voice reminiscent of ...

If Honestly, Nevermind’s deployment of Afrobeats flows is too jarring, try “Sticky” as a taster first. It finds Drake spitting over a deep and thumping beat produced by Gordo and Ry X, going hard in the club while offering the usual personal asides: “My momma wish I woulda went corporate, she wish I woulda went exec/I still turned into a CEO, so the lifestyle she respect.” He riffs “Free Big Slime out the cage” in homage to Young Thug’s incarceration, shouts out the late Virgil Abloh (whose voice is sampled at the end of the track), and admits that after all the world-conquering antics, it’s still “you alone with your regrets.” It’s familiar and comforting territory for an audience still processing Drake’s sudden, unusual evolution. Even more shocking was the album itself.

Drake took a moment on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind' to seemingly reference a serious and pressing matter: the ongoing incarceration of Young ...

While it seems like a safe bet this is a straightforward Thugger nod—ditto “dedicated to our brother V” in Drizzy’s poetic statement accompanying Honestly, Nevermind all but certainly meaning Virgil Abloh—it’s worth pointing out the Atlanta MC has been affectionately using the term slime in his work since time immemorial. Everybody please sign the ‘Protect Black Art’ petition and keep praying for us. I love you all.”

When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. Two Drake albums in one year? Almost unheard of.

Two Drake albums in one year? When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited.

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It’s whack.” - Intro His funeral was held in December and, in attendance alongside his family and other close friends were Drake, Rihanna, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Kid Cudi, ASAP Rocky and many others.

Drake dropped a new album, and NBA stars are ... not feeling it.

It feels wrong to slander the man who gave us the lyric "I been Steph Curry with the shot. But on this occasion, the reception vibes were much more "Boston fans after the Celtics lost Game 6" than " Stephen Curry celebrating in the Warriors' locker room." NBA Twitter moves fast.

From heartbroken club tracks to a sample from the late Virgil Abloh, Honestly, Nevermind is honestly, not what you might expect from Drake's new album.

Death, taxes and a new Drake album to get the internet fighting are the only things we can be certain of in this life. In terms of how it's sounding, Honestly, Nevermind, is honestly, not what you might expect after the fairly underwhelming 2021 album Certified Lover Boy, a record which felt like the Canadian rapper rehashing the same riffs and playing it a little too safe. Yesterday saw the release of Honestly, Nevermind, the latest album from Drizzy and a drop which landed midnight on Friday 17 June.

In the video, directed by Director X and featuring a Tristan Thompson cameo, Drake marries 23 women. The video includes a “Free YSL” message, supporting the YSL ...

21 Savage is the album’s sole featured artist, appearing on the last track titled “Jimmy Cooks.” Check out the video below. Drake has shared the first video from Honestly, Nevermind, the surprise follow-up to Certified Lover Boy that arrived last night.

Drake finally said 'I do' as he married a hoard of Instagram models in his latest music video for new single Falling Back.

Respect the artist and the boundaries he pushed on this one'; 'Is Drake new album good or did it just catch me in a great mood this morning.' He did please some fans with the new music, however, who tweeted: 'Drake did a ting though. 'Pretending to agree with people that Drake’s “surprise” album is actually good is exhausting. It's a good time for me, you know, I'm ready to settle down. 'I do,' Drake replied. the album still trash tho'; It's a good time for me, you know, I'm ready to settle down. 'I do,' Drake replied. You ready? Ready to commit: 'No, I'm good bro. Ready to settle down: In the video for Falling Back Drake is seen gearing up to marry 27 brides and receives a pep talk from his best man Tristan prior to making his way to the alter In the video for Falling Back Drake is seen gearing up to marry 27 brides and receives a pep talk from his best man Tristan prior to making his way to the alter.

Drake has dropped off the music video for “Falling Back,” which is featured on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind.' Director X handled the visuals.

“Free YSL” is of course in reference to Young Thug, Gunna, and several others recently being arrested on RICO charges in Georgia. The Canadian artist also seemingly brought up the high-profile RICO case on his new album. The project is 14-tracks long and features just 21 Savage. Drake’s last album, 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, contained several more features than Honestly as it boasted appearances from Young Thug, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Giveon, Yebba, Tems, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Wayne, and more.

The visual for the lead single from “Honestly, Nevermind” includes cameos from Tristan Thompson and Drake's mother, plus a shout out to Toronto.

In the video’s final sequence, he and his many wives are seen driving away from the wedding ceremony outside of Union Hall, with the CN Tower in background. Drake, like André 3000, plays the slightly nervous groom as his friends help prepare him for the ceremony. Thompson plays Drake’s best man, offering up some words of wisdom before Aubrey says yes 23 times. The music video also contains a brief interlude featuring the potty-mouthed wedding singer from “The Hangover” (played by Dan Finnerty). Drake also refers to the ongoing case on the track “Sticky,” rapping: Drake forgoes any rapping on the lead single, which harkens back to the smooth tropical-house sound of the beloved 2017 track “ Passionfruit.”

"Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts. The album features Drake mostly singing instead of rapping. " ...

"I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time," he wrote in an editor's note on his Apple Music artist page. Initial reaction on the internet was divided, with some praising Drake for mixing it up on "Honestly, Nevermind" and others not really feeling it. "Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts.

Drake is back! The OVO hitmaker dropped his seventh studio album titled Honestly, Nevermind as a surprise release at midnight last night.

Falling back on me, falling back on me Falling back on me, falling back on me He's hoping the pair will reconcile after his former partner sees how much he's trying to make the relationship work.

The Canadian superstar's new album is surprisingly full of house music, but his passive-aggressive complaints get dull.

You listen to him burbling away, as per usual, his self-aggrandisement jockeying for space with his constantly wounded ego – “what would you do without me?”, “you lie and a piece of me dies”, “if I was in your shoes I would hate myself” – and think: I know your audience lap it up, but aren’t you getting a bit bored with carrying on like this by now? The lyrics offer a constant drizzle of peevish discontent and how-very-dare-you accusation; conjuring up, for the umpteenth time, a stunted adolescent world in which – if he’s not telling you how wonderful he is, or having it off, or about to have it off – his feelings are perpetually injured, everything is always everyone else’s fault and it’s all so unfair. And yet, here’s Drake, with an album almost entirely predicated around four-to-the-floor rhythms – even the beatless, kalimba-driven Down Hill is only a kick drum away from house – and songs segue into each other as if part of a DJ mix.

The clip for 'Falling Back', which you can view below, sees the rapper marrying 23 women and at one point sees a “Free YSL” message appearing on screen, ...

I never factored this into the equation for the beginning of my next chapter, but thank you.” This sparked rumours that he was working on new music, though nothing was confirmed at the time. This was followed by a second post, outlining the tracklist.

The “Falling Back” video comes from Director X, the veteran rap-video auteur who's worked with Drake a bunch of times. The clip features Drake getting married, ...

The clip features Drake getting married, but he’s marrying 23 different women, all of whom appear to be Instagram-model types, at once. I’m sure we’ll all have more to say about the album itself, but now we also get the video for album opener “Falling Back.” It’s a sweeping display of Drake’s ridiculousness in all its glory. Last night, a few hours after announcing its existence, Drake released his new album Honestly, Nevermind. The whole record turns out to be Drake softly mewling over state-of-the-art house beats for 45 minutes, with virtually no rapping, and then with 21 Savage waltzing in at the last second and stealing the entire thing.

The rapper's 14-track seventh studio album came out at midnight, about six hours after it was announced on social media.

That arrangement typically gives far greater control — and a much larger share of income — to the artist, and is also used by major acts like Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. “Honestly, Nevermind,” Drake’s seventh proper studio LP, was released to streaming services at midnight on Friday, having been officially announced only hours earlier on Drake’s social media accounts. For his newest one, the wait was about six hours.

Drake released the music video for the song 'Falling Back' off his new album 'Honestly, Nevermind' on June 17. In the music video, Drake marries 23 women at ...

A DM from my 16-year-old brother read: “nah bruh Drake made an Abercrombie and Fitch playlist 😭.” Don’t know about all that, but what I do know is Drake, at his big age, still fantasizes about women lining up to be with him. After the ceremony is the reception, with tableaus of the wedding party seated like the Last Supper. Guests dance to the only hit in the whole thing — “Best I Ever Had (Wedding ver.).” Then, the whole party transforms into a dark, smokey oontz-oontz club, complete with lasers and blue lights. (It’s almost like he’s being annoying on purpose.) “It’s a good time for me,” Drake tells Thompson. “I’m ready to settle down, I’m in love.” To which the athlete replies, “You only get married once.” YOMO, everybody.

While dropping a surprise full-length album with all of six hours of warning last night, Drake also treated fans to a music video for one of the si...

Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change And the beat is such a great beat too man waisted the beat— jessy (@mk_jsav) June 17, 2022

The superstar's surprise release combines his signature lovelorn bravado with beats built for the dancefloor.

In this scenario, he never releases another note of original music, leaving the work of churning out “Drake” music to a deepfake AI. My question here is: Based on Honestly, Nevermind, would anyone even notice? Has any major pop figure of the last 10 years been as resistant to change as Drake? Perhaps the most interesting thing to happen to him all decade was when Pusha T nearly murdered him with one line (“You are hiding a child”), but apart from seeming knocked on his back foot for a few hours, he regrouped, told the world he had concealed his child because of Instagram, and kept on making Drake music. The Congolese-born Afropop musician Tresor worked on six of the album’s 14 songs and contributed vocals to three; Black Coffee, a longtime Drake collaborator, is listed as one of the album’s executive producers, and his son, Esona Tyolo, has writing and production credits on “Texts Go Green.” Honestly, Nevermind sets the BPM at “One Dance” and doesn’t let up. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see that Honestly, Nevermind is one of his shortest albums ever—14 tracks, over in less than an hour—and that it contains only a few transcendently stupid Drake Thoughts. The album is filed under “dance” on Apple Music, and throughout Drake downplays his rapper persona in favor of crooning behind lush, air-conditioned beats. It feels like one smooth-brain dance playlist, like if you put on his hit “Passionfruit” and let the algorithm do the work for the next 52 minutes. As he did with 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, he presaged its release by sharing a majestically incoherent note on Apple Music, spilling over with guffaw-worthy Drake-isms. “I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes, and asked my current insight into the times,” went one line, which made me wonder if Drake was waiting patiently for someone to quiz him on runaway inflation or how Democrats can avoid a rout in the midterms.

From a Virgil Abloh dedication to a music video referencing 'Old School,' here are the first impression highlights.

Fans online have already likened Honestly, Nevermind to 2017’s More Life, Drake’s last record that drew heavily on dancehall, house, and Afrobeat music. It’s mid-June, temperatures are high, and Drake clearly wants to shake something. Dedicated to “our brother V” (the late Virgil Abloh), Drake’s latest focuses not as much on empty escapism, but on recognizing the adversity and setbacks that make it necessary.

Drake's new music video for his song "Falling Back" shows him marrying 23 women and partying the night away with them and his best man Tristan Thompson.

"Secondly, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VIDEO! This is the type of music video I miss! The Wedding Singer…OMG!!!" Another person tweeted, "I love this double standard for men!!

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The record is a tribute to the Ukrainian seaport where he was raised, and although he composed the suite in 2020 based on personal inspirations — remembering his childhood there, as his father, a Ukrainian Jew, fought cancer — the album inevitably takes on a different cast now that this Russian-speaking, cosmopolitan city is in the throes of war. Before he joined the New York jazz world, Neselovskyi was a classical prodigy; “Waltz of Odesa Conservatory” calls back to the 1990s, by way of some Baroque piano turns, when he was the youngest student ever admitted to the school. It’s a collaboration with Dave Harrington, who has worked with Nicolas Jaar in the psychedelic rock project Darkside. “Heart — Power of a Soft Heart” has uplift built into its foundation — three slow, ascending piano notes that are repeated throughout the track and enfolded in other tones: chimes, cymbals, hovering guitar notes and Morissette singing “ah,” sustaining a magnificent hush. Since moving to the United States two decades ago, Neselovskyi has collaborated with leading elders in jazz, like Gary Burton and John Zorn, but on his new album, “Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City,” he sits alone at the piano. That’s what it does on “Sorry,” an abject apology that arrives as a preview of its next album, “Profound Mysteries II.” It begins with melancholy piano chords reminiscent of Erik Satie, then opens up a bassy abyss as Jamie Irrepressible — the British singer Jamie McDermott — thoroughly indicts himself for abandoning a lover: “I hate myself for running scared,” he croons. “I don’t want to die for love,” she sings in her highest, most fragile register. Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.” It’s both virtuosic and defiantly nonchalant. “How do you say to my face, ‘Time heals?’” he sings in a reedy, vulnerable falsetto, “Then go and leave me again, unreal.” The track’s video, though, is more of a lark, playfully sending up Drake’s heartbreaker reputation and imagining a time when he finally settles down and gets married — to 23 different women. The polysyllables fly fast, then go on to accelerate wildly in “Progressive House, Conservative Ligature” by the Los Angeles rapper Rhys Langston, from a coming album called “Grapefruit Radio.” The producer Opal-Kenobi supplies loops of blurry, undulating piano chords and synthesizer swoops, shifting pitch every so often. But it’s the kinetic “Falling Back,” the album’s first proper track and single, that best sets the scene: A throbbing electronic beat (produced by the D.J.s Rampa, &Me, Alex Lustig and Beau Nox) allows Drake the space for some Auto-Tuned crooning about — what else — a once-promising relationship turned sour. Less than 10 months after “Certified Lover Boy,” Drake has returned to monopolize summer. Let us know at [email protected] and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.

Drake's new album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' is largely based around house beats, but Azealia Banks has been rapping over house beats for her entire career and ...

Since then, she’s released house-inspired songs such as “ 1991,” “ The Big Big Beat,” and “ Anna Wintour,” all of which, it must be said, eat Drake’s food up, boo. Banks released her first house-rap single “212” back in 2011 and it ended up being one of the best and most defining songs of the decade, (don’t just trust us), a hip-hop and house blend that was funny, thorny, and a kaleidoscope of different genres and personalities. Drake has made himself comfortable in Azealia Banks’s house . Drake’s new album, Honestly, Nevermind, was released at midnight Friday with a strong house-music influence, a genre just like she did at Elon Musk’soriginally developed by gay Black DJsin Chicago and New York in the post-disco era.

Drake released a surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind,' and a music video for "Falling Back."

I get trying to be innovative, and I appreciate when artists switch up their sound and try something new, but that is precisely the problem. Considering the resurgence of Dance and Disco-Pop music over the last few years, it feels like Drake is once again trying to tap into an emerging trend, but this time, it didn't land. Honestly, Nevermind is dedicated to the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh, a close friend of Drake's and an avid lover of house music. Beyond that, lyrics such as "All I needed from you was to hold me down when things aren't working/ For some reason, I believed in you" in "Texts Go Green" and "I found a new muse/That's bad news for you/Why would I keep you around?" The album, Honestly Nevermind, comes just nine months after his Grammy-nominated effort, Certified Lover Boy. This project is new and unexpected – not because it is a recently revealed surprise, but because Drake went full on "oontz oontz" with it. The album caps at 14 tracks and one feature, 21 Savage on the album's closer “Jimmy Cooks.” Grammy-award winning, South African DJ, Black Coffee is a major collaborator on this album.

Across his past six studio albums, Drake's rap-focused, R&B-flirting formula was tried-and-true. But on his seventh, he flipped the script, stepping into ...

In the wee hours leading up to the album’s surprise release, Gordo confidently declared the Certified Lover Boy follow-up a “dance album.” Indeed, it largely is—and it’s far from the first time that Drake has courted the house genre. Black Coffee, who recently made history as the first African artist to win the Grammy Award for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” ( Subconciously), is credited as one of the LP’s executive producers. Though the sonic strategy has proven to be divisive in the handful of hours that Honestly, Nevermind has been available to the masses, the expertise of the project’s executive producers can’t be disavowed.

Tristan Thompson makes a quick appearance in Drake's "Falling Back" music video, where the rapper is getting hitched to over 20 brides.

TBH, it's brilliant marketing -- unless you're Khloe -- and Tristan's clearly in on the joke. It's not rocket science". BTW, Drake's vid -- directed by Director X -- has a quick "Free YSL" moment ... making him the latest in a string of rappers to publicly support Young Thug and Gunna after their indictments in Georgia on RICO charges. So, the release of "Falling Back" -- the first single from his "Honestly, Nevermind" album -- kinda plays like a Kardashian's sequel or spinoff. Drizzy dropped the vid for "Falling Back" Thursday night, and it's a full-on wedding party, complete with him saying "I Do" to his beautiful brides. Drake's first music video from his new album is a giant not-so-inside-joke -- and while he and Tristan Thompson are laughing ... Khloe Kardashian is definitely not.