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Drake Is in His Reputation Era
But his new album does more than just settle scores.
You could watch Drake tripping over words in right-wing streamer Adin Ross’s Christmas giveaway special while reading a fan letter that insulted Kendrick, or rocking a hoodie riddled with smoking bullet holes on a recent Australian mini-tour, looking more like Netflix’s Carhartt’d Luke Cage than the available real-world parallels. Swift wore a shift in public perception on her sleeve, reveling annoyingly in the camp of “Look What You Made Me Do” and “Don’t Blame Me,” but the vexed writing exercise also yielded the tired, stately “King of My Heart” and “Delicate”: “My reputation’s never been worse, so / You must like me for me.”$$$4U is often sifting through similar wreckage, laying out its frustrated stakes in detail. He should’ve also checked recent news about R&B veteran Aaron Hall — who has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting an underaged girl with Diddy — before dropping “I Miss You” in the beat change during the beef epilogue “Gimme a Hug.” A rapper who filed a pre-action discovery petition last year announcing an intent to pursue RICO charges about a diss track should tremor at dedicating a song to Brian Steel, the lawyer who defended YSL through their trial.
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