It’s Drake singing who opens the ball with a beat from his old friend 40 and a more recent one, Harley Arsenault. The Wiseman sample, by Frank Ocean, is quite glorious. Drake starts rapping halfway through, but he can do better than internet references. “He gon’ find out that it’s on sight like w-w-w/On site like dot-com. »
Teezo Touchdown, a young sensation who has just released the eclectic How Do You Sleep At Night?, begins Amen with a prayer. We would of course have heard this song on Kanye West’s albums with religious connotations. It is calming, but should have been placed much further away.
Okay, our speakers are finally sounding! Lil Yachty and 40 are behind the excellent soundscape and Drake rises to the occasion. We like it when he raps with his higher pitched voice. The interlude of the young woman complaining about her vacation is absolutely unpleasant, but the rhythmic transition and the arrival of 21 Savage make us quickly forget it.
Another quiet piece…then bang! The lively tempo of OZ and company allows Aubrey Graham to go all out. His words are very simplistic, but he delivers them with conviction.
An extract from Scarface, original… We immediately forgive when hearing the percussions of Southside. Drake is wild here too. Nothing transcendent in his words, but his flow is burning. Change of beat for his almost 6-year-old son, Adonis, who also designed the cover.
J. Cole, whom Drake invited on stage during his Montreal shows in July, takes the mic first on First Person Shooter. The soundtrack of Vinylz, Boi-1da, Tay Ketih, FnZ and Oz is too redundant for our taste, but does not prevent the two rappers from providing good lyrics. “Love when they argue the hardest MC/Is it K-Dot? Is it Aubrey? Or me?/We the big three like we started the league. »
After a soft and jazzy first minute, it’s time for the chaos of Bnyx and Yeat. Drake participates, but doesn’t seem as invested in the work.
Drake’s sad songs are generally good. 7969 is no exception with its soaring beat, its catchy chorus which covers I Don’t Like, by Chief Keef, and a mixture of rap and singing. A lament from Teezo and wise words from Snoop Dogg wrap things up.
First extract which did not impress many people, Slime You Out seems formatted by a single machine: a rap-R alliance
The soulful atmosphere of Jahaan Sweet and Quasi is very good. Drake is still moody, but he sings his melancholy beautifully.
We told ourselves that we were ripe for a change of register, but the few brilliant lines from the Torontonian managed to captivate us. “I swear to God, you think I’m Shakespeare/That’s why you always wanna play, right? »
Drake pays tribute to the late DJ Screw by giving a place on For All The Dogs to one of his chopped and screwed remixes, that of If I Ruled the World, by Nas.
Despite the break in tone caused by the interlude, we return to a rap-R atmosphere
OK, we’d like another vibe, please. PartyNextDoor – still one of the best artist names today – at least offers a little variety on the mic.
Ah, more BPM. The lyrics seem mostly improvised, but since Drake raps-sings them over autotune with purpose, they come across well.
The drums of the opening beat were not our favorites, so we warmly welcome the long keyboard notes that follow. Obviously, they pleased Drake as well and inspired him for one of his strongest verses.
Conductor Williams is one of our favorite producers. The Canadian MC honors it by adding his most impressive rhymes to date. “Where I go, you go, brother, we Yugoslavian/Formal is the dress code, dawg, so many checks owed/I feel Czechoslovakian. »
We don’t see why this title is considered an interlude, but it’s pretty good. Kid Masterpiece’s guitar and the “wouuuuuhouuuuu” form a beautiful canvas for all of Drake’s romantic questions.
This one will play in all the nightclubs. What surprises us is that the hit by Latino Drake, Bad Bunny, Gordo, Oz and Nik D is only two minutes long.
Too bad Sexyy Red’s horrible chorus ruins the invigorating house tempo and performances inspired by Drake and SZA.
Lil Yachty helped produce this song – and the next two – and contributed a fun verse. Nothing to add.
Why is this song coming so late? Although the beat is unremarkable, Drake eats it up. He looks back on his long journey to success. “I was on a Greyhound way before the jet/Buffalo, New York was like the furthest I could get. »
This last title resembles a dozen heard previously. It’s not bad, but it makes us realize that we were wrong. For All The Dogs is not the varied “heavy rap” album advertised, but an amalgamation of mainly R-flavored tracks
