>I was just commenting on this:
>
>"Listen...you have already outed yourself here...You think
>Drake's latest joint is his best album...
>
>So I'm a bit leery with what you think, but at the same time I
>respect your point of view because after all it's your
>opinion..."
>
>It just feels like unnecessary shade on dude. If it's his
>opinion (or mine, or many others actually in Drake's
>demographic) is it really true that dude outed himself in any
>way other than being someone who grew up on 50 Cent, Kanye,
>Game and latter day Jay-Z? Hits his 20s and sees Drake albums
>as a filter of all the rap and other genres they've been
>listening to in their formative years, the same folks looked
>at Illmatic or Chronic?



Oh...I am throwing shade on dude...lol...i just don't think Take Care is among his best work and at times it panders...


>good kid is certainly one of this generation's great
>accomplishments, but so was Section.80, and Take Care, and
>plenty of mixtapes like K.R.I.T.'s Returnof4eva.


I think Drake's greatest work so far is his first mixtape...That album was a revelation in terms what was perceived as OK to do in hip-hop...His singing added another essence to the music...And his conversational style of rhyming and open book style was badly needed...

>And I'd still be interested to hear your take on the
>segmentation argument (I'm sure you've given it somewhere,
>either here or in an article); ie. Curren$y's Pilot Talk being
>for certain hip-hop fans what Nas' Illmatic was to most
>hip-hop fans.


I think Curren$y is on the cusp of something special...He just needs the right producer to put it all together for him (I dig dude's style...He's cool without even trying too hard...)

But he's not reaching Drake's first mixtape or good kid...

I'm also ready for Freddie Gibbs to go to the next level....


But my bottom line is this....Out of all these MC's/rappers (Drake, J. Cole, Big Sean, ASAP Rocky, Curren$y, Gibbs, Odd Future crew, Wiz K., ect...), Lamar has just made the album that reminds me of MY ERA...

And he's doing so on his own terms, which is pretty damn refreshing...