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Three Drake Albums, Three Songs of the Week<\/h2>\nOn this triple-track edition of the \u201cPopcast\u201d Song of the Week, our critic Jon Caramanica unpacks the themes of Drake\u2019s latest era.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \nThree Drake albums. Three songs of the week. Let\u2019s go! \u201cMake Them Pay\u201d from \u201cIceman.\u201d Of the three new Drake albums, \u201cIceman\u201d is the one about vengeance, retributions and recriminations. \u201cMake Them Pay\u201d to me is actually kind of the most vitriolic, even if it is kind of the most sensual song on the record. Clipse are catching heat here. DJ Khaled, on the receiving end of some really savage lines. And also Rick Ross, who is the victim of a very, very charged bit of wordplay. The sample is \u201cFree\u201d by Deniece Williams. Now I\u2019m old enough to remember when \u201cFree\u201d by Deniece Williams was a real go-to sample in \u201990s rap. \u201cThe Freshest MC In the World\u201d by K-Dee. Which in my mind is a sleeper West Coast classic, which I think is meaningful here. \u201cS\u2014\u2019s Real\u201d by Mic Geronimo. This is something that real rap heads, a contingent that often derides Drake and often says, \u201cThis guy\u2019s not really \u2019bout it,\u201d this is Drake playing their game. This is what everyone was expecting from Drake after the last couple of years. \u201cIceman\u201d is the album where he gets everything off his chest. Nothing left on the table. But he actually released three albums. Next, let\u2019s talk about \u201cStuck\u201d from \u201cMaid of Honour.\u201d I\u2019m hearing a lot of Ralph Tresvant and New Edition. In this vocal, it\u2019s up-tempo, it\u2019s post \u201980s electro. It\u2019s giving Maurice Starr. And then right before the end, he sort of closes out with this bounce shot out. It\u2019s a very famous tagline from New Orleans bounce records. The thing about Drake that makes him so special is he knows how to harmonize them across disparate generations, disparate regions, and disparate points of view. \u266b \u201cTwo-income household, choosin\u2019 your bridesmaids. White dress with wine stains\u201d \u266b You listen to \u201cWhite Bone\u201d from \u201cHabibti,\u201d and immediately it calls to mind \u201cMarvin\u2019s Room.\u201d This is Drake at his most depressed. His saddest and also wistful for the style of life that\u2019s just out of reach from him, no matter how much success he has. Drake is a master yearner. Nobody yearns harder than Drake. Whatever Drake thinks about whether or not he lost the beef. He still needs something to yearn for. People are really outside. There\u2019s people outside\u2014 \u2014 That have never been outside before. \u2014 Never been outside before. \u2014 Never been outside. \u2014 They\u2019ve never been outside before.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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On this triple-track edition of the \u201cPopcast\u201d Song of the Week, our critic Jon Caramanica unpacks the themes of Drake\u2019s latest era.<\/span><\/p>\nBy Jon Caramanica, Arjun Srivatsa and Joe Coscarelli<\/p>\n
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