![]() No track on Drake’s new album is as good as “Best I Ever Had”, the breakout mixtape single that brought him mega fame and two 2010 Grammy nominations (he didn’t win, but at the ceremony he tore the stage apart in a passionate live performance of “Forever” with Eminem and Wayne). That remains to be seen, because all in all, the album is a mixed bag. That label was clearly wrong, but The New York Times, in a recent feature on Drake, goes too far in the other direction, calling him “the most important and innovative new figure in hip-hop”. The former Canadian TV star has been called a “C-list rapper” by The Washington Post. On Thank Me Later, easily one of the most anticipated releases of the summer, the identity crisis is in full swing. But he’s bucking what seem to be his truer colors as a slower, R&B-type singer in the style of Usher or Ne-Yo. Groomed by Lil Wayne, taken out partying with big boys like Jay-Z and Diddy, the kid seems to view himself as a member of that company - a hard rapper. It is unclear exactly what kind of artist Aubrey Drake Graham wants to be.
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