Joe Budden isn’t feeling the new Drake Views album and he’s telling the world about it.
Drake is credited for running the “emo rapper” lane in rap but Joe Budden created that sub-genre years ago with his Mood Music mixtape series. Since he knows a thing or two about introspective rap, he shared his views on Views.
In a diatribe on the upcoming episode of his I’ll Name This Podcast Later show, Joe Budden went in on why he feels that Drake’s latest missed the mark.
“I miss the Drake that starts waves, not hops on other waves,” yelled Joe when speaking on what he called Drake’s “uninspired” performance on the album. He also thinks that Drake’s producer 40 is progressing, while Drake himself is not.
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Joe, who insists that he is indeed a Drake fan, went on to say that he simply could not feel what Drake was saying this time around.
“For a n*gga that is crowned king of introspection….what has he told you different from Take Care to this album? It’s the same thing told not as dope as you already f*cking told me…I could not feel what he was saying.”
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Budden also went into quasi-conspiracist mode inferring that Drake, Jay Z, Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre know what is about to happen to and in the music industry and that there is a “trickle down effect” going on. He goes on to say that Drake’s cause is bigger than what he is rapping about right now.
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He also goes on to ask his co-host Rory what he has learned about Drake through his music since Take Care. He called his opinion “f*ck sh*t.”
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What do you think about active rappers commenting on other rappers? Does Budden make a valid point here? Would it have been better if he put these thoughts in a verse?
