By Odeisel
Drake, the former boy wonder, is fast becoming a lightning rod for hate. He may be getting Das Efxed, where you come out with a style that takes the world by storm and gets bitten by so many people, you get turned on for the same shit that made you hot. His latest track, “Trust Issues,” is produced by long-time collaborator Noah “40” Shebib alongside Adrian X and awash in tumult and emotion.
The intro section is a slow, plodding interpolation of Drizzy’s hook from “I’m On One,” with 40’s trademarked keyboard and ambient atmospheric touch. Drake sings the hook, spreading it out three times as long as he originally rapped, and the Casio keyboard-style elements give it an amateurish feel. This part of the song is softer than baby shit and full of paranoia, syrup (the pancake kind, not the lean) and melancholic, dead-puppy sentiment. I defend the Drake hate because I think it’s overblown but this is weepy man crap and I never condone that.
It does improve once he actually gets to rapping. Fame has trapped him in a box where he is constantly on the lookout for women who are trying to game him, haters trying to down him and people who are angry with his success. This has become a recurring
theme in his recent releases and possibly the fame is getting to Mr. Graham. In any event, his rapping saves `this song from becoming track 5 on the Woe Is Me Suicide Soundtrack.
There are people who feel this kind of despair and perhaps this emotion emission is for them. For others, this display is like Eor on steroids. It’s a downer to the Nth degree and just depressing. Hopefully Drake will see the backlash from this particular song and see where the line is between healthy emotion and twat tears. Thanks to the rap and digital editing tools, you can scrap the first half of the song and it’s not half bad. If he doesn’t learn from it, we may begin to have “Trust Issues” with the integrity of his impending album.
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so you criticize him for making something for you that you had no right to in the first place?
we could be in a world without drakes music.. but he decides to keep putting out music for us. If you dont like him, just don’t listen.
You should read some of my other Drake pieces. I don’t hate Drake. I’m a big fan. But estrogen is estrogen. Thanks for reading