Jamieson Cox of Pitchfork described Scorpion as a "fascinating, flawed album". " NME 's Luke Morgan Britton noted a "lack of quality control", and felt the album "simply doesn't need to be" 25-track long. In a mixed review, Andy Hutchins of Time said, " ponderous choice to cleave the overstuffed Scorpion into Sides A and B results in two uneven suites of songs." while "a long-frustrating inability to self-edit mars.
On certain tracks he raps like he has something to prove, on others it's like he has nothing." The way he darts between different sounds is exhausting and, ultimately, messy. Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph deemed the album's first side as a "sharply focused hip-hop album, with Drake delivering eloquent zingers," while he thought the second half "showcases Drake's flip side, sensitive R'n'B loverman." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that the album "is frequently fantastic, making a stronger claim for Drake's greatness than any amount of swaggering braggadocio", but also noted "there isn’t quite enough strong material here to support its gargantuan running time." Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times commented, "yet for all its tiresome megalomania, is so beautifully rendered-from vocals to samples to features to beats." though he also noted Drake "tired and tiring." Nick Flanagan of Now mentioned the A side as "mostly introspective threats, neurotic boasting and paranoia about enemies", while the B side as "the same but with a focus on women and his love life", labelling the album "well within his pocket." For The Independent, Roisin O'Connor described the album as "oddly erratic. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on 26 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". A lot of annoying frat bros will use the lyrics as a template for quotes about ignoring the haters.Scorpion received lukewarm reviews from critics. Drake, of course, brushes it off, encouraging us to “talk it up” because it doesn’t phase him.
She doesn’t have a boyfriend named Blake.Ī reference to the social media circus that exploded after the Pusha-T shenanigans. In seventh grade, Drake dated a girl named Sandra, and here, he leaves Sandra a five-minute-long drunken voicemail, telling her that “she can do better” and that she should leave her boyfriend Blake. You thought this was an ode to his mother, Sandi Graham. “ Coming from 6 it feels like everybody clown me / You call Drizzy a fake but still praising Robert Downey.” He calls it, “A delightful trip to the cinema that will make you remember the magic of childhood.” He’s right.ĭrake confesses that his musical success is nothing more than a cover-up for the Canadian mob who has secretly and illegally been importing barrels of maple syrup into this great country.ĭrake angrily raps that America “can’t take a joke” following the outrage over the blackface photo Pusha-T used for "The Story of Adidon," noting that Tropic Thunder is considered a classic comedy. Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, giving it an 8 out of 10 rating.
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