As Drake personifies CHANGE on the recently released album titled, Nothing Was The Same, we are lyrically reminded of their interval relationship. He is epiphanous when it comes to realizing her perfections and flaws. How you ask? Grab your music player, headphones, a pen, your thoughts, and read closely!
1. “Tuscan Leather” is a very expensive reflection of change. Producer, Noah “40” Shebib, somehow found a way to not only sample Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” in a helium-pitched tempo but also squeeze in 1987 thoughts from Curtis Mayfield. He also incorporates three intro bass lines, which is three times the Canadian rapper punch bars us in on his career currents, fall-out relationships, and stable yet rocky emotions. Mind you, we ALL have career currents, fall out relationships and stable yet rocky emotions. We are in no way left out of this!
2. “Furthest Thing“ is both the truth and denial of Drake’s change. Lines like, “Nothing really changed but still they look at me away now/What more can I say now?/You might feel like nothing was the same,” push and pull his self-reflection as if he can’t come to believe that he has changed in any way. The reality is that he has; his career has advanced and his lyrical topics are slightly more aggressive and still connectional. 40’s ending organ loop introduces exactly that for him; “Play this sh– at my funeral if they catch me slippin’ “
3. When it comes to Drake being proud of change, his single, “Started From The Bottom,” scored in the top 20 Billboard charts as the spring-summer 2013 anthem! Going from struggle to stability is emphasized in rhymes like, “I was trying to get it on my own/Working all night/traffic on the way home.”
4. In “Wu-Tang Forever,” Drake stabilizes the rightfulness of change. “It ain’t about who did it first, it’s about who did it right.” The concept of the song creates clarity of true success and mental stamina that can only evolve over time.
5. Verbal melody by Drake is used for motifs like, guess whose it is? on “Own It“. We are reminded that this is a reiteration of the it’s yours phrase in “Wu-Tang Forever.” Drake does a great job with the reassurance of love and self esteem that he gives to the unknown woman that the track is centered around for the sake of change’s sake;”Next time I stand tall, I wanna be standing for you.”
6. We feel a dramatic mood shift in “Worst Behavior“ as Drake mentions the recent shift in occasional heartlessness actions. As the rapper samples Mase’s 1997, “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems” flow in verse two, he taps back into the contradiction of accepting his own change: “Same old pimp/Drake/You know an’t nothing changed but these funny styled n—- we done put on in the game.”
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7. But as “Worst Behavior” emphasizes fearlessness of Change, No ID artist and Cocaine 80s affiliate, Jhene Aiko, brings Aubrey back to his fearful senses on “From Time“ by using melodic inquisition. “What are you so afraid of…Yea, I needed to hear that s–t” is his follow up and interestingly enough, Drake tells us exactly how he wants to change things in verse one. “I’m tryna take it deeper than money, p—y vacation/And influence a generation lacking in patience.”
8. Let the 80’s retrospective fill your changing and challenging desire for that special someone as newly Canadian artist, Majid, contributes background and bridge vocals to “Hold On, We’re Going Home.” Drake hooks his love for seeing a change: “You act so different around me.”
9. “Connect“ is a instant reflection of what happens when intimate relationships change. Nostalgia keeps up with Drake as he speeds up in his story: “She’d call and tell me, ’Be here before the sun up’/I’d be dressed before we hung up.” As connections shift, we shift, nostalgic moments kick in. It’s the affect and effect of change. Who do you miss?
10. “The Language“ is a follow up of the trap-rhyming in “Worst Behavior“ how he’s “the kid with the motor mouth/I am the one you should worry about.” This sometimes reckless rhyme coordination by Drake exemplifies how we all occasionally have changes like that in our emotion due to flawed experiences.
11. “12 months on a lease, that’s a come up/Baby, don’t you ever forget it” is a Houston trill-dubbed line Drake says to emphasize the financial change we all crave in “305 To My City.”
12. Despite all the financial come up, “Too Much“ is a reminder of how Money – Family Stability = No Bueno! “Money got my whole family going backwards/no dinner, no holidays, no nothing.”
13. However, can we admit this: money does include financial stability that both Drake and Jay-Z emphasize on the title eating track, “Pound Cake.” The DJ duo, Christian Rich & Utters’ sample, introduces us to the ending by speech. We are schooled on classic A&R concepts and music release tactics through dialogue while the 1993 Wu-Tang “C.R.E.A.M“ sample follows up as the hook. On the second part of this bass-knocking song, “Paris Mortin Music 2”, Drake mentions more change, and even change of one of an ex-girlfriend. Drake informs us how he’s “not doing it the same, (he’s) doing it better,” while also including the ex-check-text-up,”I text her (Paris) from time to time/ She a mom now.”
The moral to the vocal melody and rhyme schemes that Drake faces change on is this; admit change, embrace change, and follow up on change because most things in life will never be the same.
Source:
http://www.rap-up.com/2013/08/21/album-cover-drake-nothing-was-the-same/