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Drizzy stans get ready: a new Drake album will be here in just hours. On Thursday, the rapper announced that he will release his forthcoming LP, Honestly, ...

Drake has been teasing the coming of a new album for some time. Throughout the last several months, the rapper has shared Instagram Stories of himself working his magic in the studio. Drizzy stans get ready: a new Drake album will be here in just hours.

It's coming less than a year after 2021's 'Certified Lover Boy.'

Stay tuned for more news around Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind. Drake has announced that the follow-up to last year’s Certified Lover Boy will be out tonight at midnight. Drake Announces New Album Honestly, Nevermind Out Tonight

'Honestly, Nevermind' -- out Friday -- will be Drake's seventh studio album and the follow-up to 'Certified Lover Boy.'

And after another series of social media clues, B finally solved it on Wednesday night after Tidal announced the news. It marks her first proper solo album since her critically acclaimed LP Lemonade, which she surprise-dropped on Tidal in 2016 after leaving a series of hints on social media. Honestly, Nevermind is the follow-up to the 6 God’s sixth LP Certified Lover Boy, which he dropped less than a year ago on Sept. 3.

The rapper shared the news via Instagram on Thursday, hours before the project's scheduled release. It marks his first album since 2021's 'Certified Lover ...

Drake sparked new album rumors earlier this year, when he and producer Carnage began sharing photos of their studio sessions. The Toronto rapper hasn’t revealed any additional information about Honestly, Nevermind, including its track titles or potential features. Honestly, Nevermind serves as the follow-up to Drake’s 2021 album, Certified Lover Boy. The chart-topping project included appearances by Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Young Thug, and more.

His latest album is set to release tonight at midnight.

Take 15% off the whole site featuring sex toys, guides, games, and more. It’s interesting that Drake considers this his seventh studio album. Drake posted on Instagram a picture of what looks like to be the cover art for his new album and wrote, “7th studio album “HONESTLY, NEVERMIND” out at midnight.”

Drake announced his seventh studio album Thursday — titled "HONESTLY, NEVERMIND" — and fans won't have to wait long to listen.

It’s the “Nice For What” rapper’s second release in less than a year. “Drake rushing to release his new album before Beyoncé releases,” one Twitter user joked with a clip of a mass of people sprinting. Drake announced his seventh studio album Thursday and fans won’t have to wait long to listen.

Drake fans, get ready to be in your feelings. The rapper announced the release of his seventh studio album hours before its release late Thursday.

If there's people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending their hard-earned money to buy tickets to come to your shows. "You've already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you're a hero in your hometown. His team later requested to remove his nominations from the Grammy's final-round ballot altogether.

It's been 9 months since Drake's last album, Certified Lover Boy, began racing up the streaming charts.

Fans hoping to get some early details on the album could probably do worse than to tune in. And while said album wasn’t quite the multi-platinum chart burner that Drake’s earlier discography achieved, it was still moderately critically well-received and commercially successful. (We’ll say this: Thank God Drake provided the actual name of the album alongside the image, or we’d still be sitting here guessing what the dang thing was called.)

Toronto's most successful hip-hop export shocked the music world on Thursday evening, with Drake posting the unexpected news that a new album will ...

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Drake's got the music world buzzing again -- this time announcing a surprise album is on the way -- and it drops in just a few hours!!!

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Drizzy dropped the bomb via Instagram, where he unveiled the project's title, Honestly, Nevermind; its official cover art; and tracklist. The 14-track effort ...

I never factored this into the equation for the beginning of my next chapter, but thank you ❤️ pic.twitter.com/PQmgUNOsG4 June 16, 2022 His involvement led many fans to believe the project would go heavy on the dance music. Shortly after Beyoncé confirmed the release of her Renaissance project, Drake came through with his own big announcement: His seventh studio album would hit streaming services in less than 24 hours.

What you need to know about Drake's new sadboi rave album, 'Honestly, Nevermind'. Drake. Just nine months after Drake released his sixth album ...

After a dozen tracks of disassociated raving, Drake finally gets his blood pressure up with “ Jimmy Cooks,” an old-school Drake rap song with a guest verse from 21 Savage — the only billed cameo on the album’s tracklist. Yes, every Drake record is about being rich and sad in the VIP at 4 a.m. But “Honestly, Nevermind” sounds like he’s wobbly on ketamine at Panorama Bar in Berlin. Black Coffee’s influence is strong, all relentless four-on-the-floors and filter-scrubbed synth chords. “If I was in your shoes I would hate myself,” he sings. The recent disco explosion in pop brought effervescence and bounce to the top 40. Drake is pop music’s most famous genre burglar — from U.K. grime to drill to Afrobeats and Jamaican dub patois. It’s almost entirely a front-to-back club record of deep house music, shot through with his typical malaise.

On Thursday, Drake released his seventh studio album entitled "Honestly, Nevermind." Typically, the Toronto-based rapper's album releases are cause for ...

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There are only two rap songs, “Sticky” and the 21 Savage collaboration “Jimmy Cook's.” The rest finds Drake singing in an earnest, winsome voice reminiscent of ...

If Honestly, Nevermind’s deployment of Afrobeats flows is too jarring, try “Sticky” as a taster first. It finds Drake spitting over a deep and thumping beat produced by Gordo and Ry X, going hard in the club while offering the usual personal asides: “My momma wish I woulda went corporate, she wish I woulda went exec/I still turned into a CEO, so the lifestyle she respect.” He riffs “Free Big Slime out the cage” in homage to Young Thug’s incarceration, shouts out the late Virgil Abloh (whose voice is sampled at the end of the track), and admits that after all the world-conquering antics, it’s still “you alone with your regrets.” It’s familiar and comforting territory for an audience still processing Drake’s sudden, unusual evolution. Even more shocking was the album itself.

Drake took a moment on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind' to seemingly reference a serious and pressing matter: the ongoing incarceration of Young ...

While it seems like a safe bet this is a straightforward Thugger nod—ditto “dedicated to our brother V” in Drizzy’s poetic statement accompanying Honestly, Nevermind all but certainly meaning Virgil Abloh—it’s worth pointing out the Atlanta MC has been affectionately using the term slime in his work since time immemorial. Everybody please sign the ‘Protect Black Art’ petition and keep praying for us. I love you all.”

When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. Two Drake albums in one year? Almost unheard of.

Two Drake albums in one year? When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited. When Drake announced that he would drop a surprise album, fans were more than excited.

Along with Drake's brand new surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind' came a poetic statement from its creator, concluding with a dedication “to our brother V.”

“I work with every breath in my body cause it’s the work not air that makes me feel alive.” The Boy’s seventh studio album runs 14 songs spanning 52 and a half minutes. As Drake prepares to sign off, the message’s resemblance to lyrics becomes clearest, concluding with the album title.

The 6 God returned to surprise fans with the release of his 'Honestly, Nevermind' album. Billboard ranks every track from the project.

Paying homage to the late Lil Keed and “Drama King” DJ Kay Slay is a fitting salute as well. “A Keeper” will serve as a hidden gem on the album — book it. “Down Hill” is undoubtedly a sad-boy anthem where Drake’s vocals shine through. The bounce in the early portion of the song is reminiscent of Kanye West‘s “Paranoid.” “Overdrive” boasts some pop appeal, whether that’s the hip-hop stations or SiriusXM’s BPM Radio channel. Smooth synths after an instrumental “Intro,” which Drake’s made a habit of executing at a high level to introduce listeners to his body of work. “Calling My Name” will be another forgotten track gracing the album. He’s clearly going at an unidentified enemy here and in Drake fashion, he subliminally gets his point across on the LP’s first standout. The OVO honcho isn’t afraid to experiment in different genres and when doing that, he shines a light on areas of music that might get overlooked and now have millions of new listeners indulging in the genre. An expert collaborator, Drake enlists only one credited guest with 21 Savag e joining the party for album closer “Jimmy Cooks.” Streaming services are classifying HONESTLY, NEVERMIND as a dance album and that’s very telling through the first two tracks. Drizzy takes a backseat and lets the beat do the talking, which feels more like one long house DJ set. 30 seconds in, it’s tough to believe this is a Drake record in 2022, but we are here.

From heartbroken club tracks to a sample from the late Virgil Abloh, Honestly, Nevermind is honestly, not what you might expect from Drake's new album.

Death, taxes and a new Drake album to get the internet fighting are the only things we can be certain of in this life. In terms of how it's sounding, Honestly, Nevermind, is honestly, not what you might expect after the fairly underwhelming 2021 album Certified Lover Boy, a record which felt like the Canadian rapper rehashing the same riffs and playing it a little too safe. Yesterday saw the release of Honestly, Nevermind, the latest album from Drizzy and a drop which landed midnight on Friday 17 June.

Drake has dropped off the music video for “Falling Back,” which is featured on his surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind.' Director X handled the visuals.

“Free YSL” is of course in reference to Young Thug, Gunna, and several others recently being arrested on RICO charges in Georgia. The Canadian artist also seemingly brought up the high-profile RICO case on his new album. The project is 14-tracks long and features just 21 Savage. Drake’s last album, 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, contained several more features than Honestly as it boasted appearances from Young Thug, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Jay-Z, Travis Scott, Future, Giveon, Yebba, Tems, Ty Dolla Sign, Lil Wayne, and more.

The visual for the lead single from “Honestly, Nevermind” includes cameos from Tristan Thompson and Drake's mother, plus a shout out to Toronto.

In the video’s final sequence, he and his many wives are seen driving away from the wedding ceremony outside of Union Hall, with the CN Tower in background. Drake, like André 3000, plays the slightly nervous groom as his friends help prepare him for the ceremony. Thompson plays Drake’s best man, offering up some words of wisdom before Aubrey says yes 23 times. The music video also contains a brief interlude featuring the potty-mouthed wedding singer from “The Hangover” (played by Dan Finnerty). Drake also refers to the ongoing case on the track “Sticky,” rapping: Drake forgoes any rapping on the lead single, which harkens back to the smooth tropical-house sound of the beloved 2017 track “ Passionfruit.”

Drake deigned to try and one-up Queen Bey by announcing that his own seventh studio LP would be dropping at midnight. On his surprise seventh studio album, ...

“Your p—y is calling my name,” he sings on the latter. And this 14-track LP is a radical reset for the 35-year-old artist born Aubrey Drake Graham. Drake has two-stepped into house territory before on hits such as “Passionfruit” and the Rihanna collaborations “Too Good” and, most memorably, “Take Care.” But “Honestly, Nevermind” — whose gothic album cover makes it look like it might be more heavy metal than house — is a trancey, trippy twirl into the club underground that is more “After Hours” than The Weeknd’s 2020 blockbuster.

The post simply included an image of the album art with the caption: “7th studio album 'Honestly, Nevermind' out at midnight.” He followed up that post with ...

That’s some real detrimental shit but that’s that shit my perfectionist mind doesn’t really mind because no one knows whats on my mind when I go to sleep at 9 & wake up at 5—unless I say it in rhyme.” “I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time,” Drake wrote on his Apple Music page for the new album. Drake played the new album early Friday morning on his brand new SiriusXM Sound 42 show Table for One.

"Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts. The album features Drake mostly singing instead of rapping. " ...

"I let my humbleness turn to numbness at times letting time go by knowing I got the endurance to catch it another time," he wrote in an editor's note on his Apple Music artist page. Initial reaction on the internet was divided, with some praising Drake for mixing it up on "Honestly, Nevermind" and others not really feeling it. "Honestly, Nevermind" dropped at midnight and has begun its race up the charts.

Drake channels UGK and Outkast's 'Int'l Players Anthem' in his wedding-themed 'Falling Back' video, which sees him marry 23 women at the same time.

The Toronto native previously paid tribute to Abloh with a heartfelt Instagram post that read, “My plan is to touch the sky 1000 more times for you… “DEDICATED TO OUR BROTHER V,” Drake wrote on the album’s Apple Music page. With his “Hotline Bling” and “Started From the Bottom” collaborator Director X behind the camera, Drake pays homage to UGK and Outkast’s classic “Int’l Players Anthem (I Choose You)” video by walking down the aisle and getting married — with a twist.

Drake married 23 women in his polygamy-themed "Falling Back" music video, standing at the altar with best man Tristan Thompson at his side.

“You don’t deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you,” he told his ex at the time. “Absolutely not, and that shows a lot about his character.” But the “Degrassi” alum replies, “Nah, I’m good, bro.

The Canadian superstar's new album is surprisingly full of house music, but his passive-aggressive complaints get dull.

You listen to him burbling away, as per usual, his self-aggrandisement jockeying for space with his constantly wounded ego – “what would you do without me?”, “you lie and a piece of me dies”, “if I was in your shoes I would hate myself” – and think: I know your audience lap it up, but aren’t you getting a bit bored with carrying on like this by now? The lyrics offer a constant drizzle of peevish discontent and how-very-dare-you accusation; conjuring up, for the umpteenth time, a stunted adolescent world in which – if he’s not telling you how wonderful he is, or having it off, or about to have it off – his feelings are perpetually injured, everything is always everyone else’s fault and it’s all so unfair. And yet, here’s Drake, with an album almost entirely predicated around four-to-the-floor rhythms – even the beatless, kalimba-driven Down Hill is only a kick drum away from house – and songs segue into each other as if part of a DJ mix.

The rapper's 14-track seventh studio album came out at midnight, about six hours after it was announced on social media.

That arrangement typically gives far greater control — and a much larger share of income — to the artist, and is also used by major acts like Adele, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. “Honestly, Nevermind,” Drake’s seventh proper studio LP, was released to streaming services at midnight on Friday, having been officially announced only hours earlier on Drake’s social media accounts. For his newest one, the wait was about six hours.

The “Falling Back” video comes from Director X, the veteran rap-video auteur who's worked with Drake a bunch of times. The clip features Drake getting married, ...

The clip features Drake getting married, but he’s marrying 23 different women, all of whom appear to be Instagram-model types, at once. I’m sure we’ll all have more to say about the album itself, but now we also get the video for album opener “Falling Back.” It’s a sweeping display of Drake’s ridiculousness in all its glory. Last night, a few hours after announcing its existence, Drake released his new album Honestly, Nevermind. The whole record turns out to be Drake softly mewling over state-of-the-art house beats for 45 minutes, with virtually no rapping, and then with 21 Savage waltzing in at the last second and stealing the entire thing.

Drake released the music video for the song 'Falling Back' off his new album 'Honestly, Nevermind' on June 17. In the music video, Drake marries 23 women at ...

A DM from my 16-year-old brother read: “nah bruh Drake made an Abercrombie and Fitch playlist 😭.” Don’t know about all that, but what I do know is Drake, at his big age, still fantasizes about women lining up to be with him. After the ceremony is the reception, with tableaus of the wedding party seated like the Last Supper. Guests dance to the only hit in the whole thing — “Best I Ever Had (Wedding ver.).” Then, the whole party transforms into a dark, smokey oontz-oontz club, complete with lasers and blue lights. (It’s almost like he’s being annoying on purpose.) “It’s a good time for me,” Drake tells Thompson. “I’m ready to settle down, I’m in love.” To which the athlete replies, “You only get married once.” YOMO, everybody.

Drake's new music video for 'Falling Back' features a wedding with 23 brides, with Tristan Thompson by his side as best man.

I’m in love.” “It doesn’t feel right, we scrap it, we go home,” Thompson says, to which Drake insists: “No, I’m good, bro. I’m ready to settle down.

While dropping a surprise full-length album with all of six hours of warning last night, Drake also treated fans to a music video for one of the si...

Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change Drake just dropped a new music video and people aren't loving this one for change And the beat is such a great beat too man waisted the beat— jessy (@mk_jsav) June 17, 2022

The superstar's surprise release combines his signature lovelorn bravado with beats built for the dancefloor.

In this scenario, he never releases another note of original music, leaving the work of churning out “Drake” music to a deepfake AI. My question here is: Based on Honestly, Nevermind, would anyone even notice? Has any major pop figure of the last 10 years been as resistant to change as Drake? Perhaps the most interesting thing to happen to him all decade was when Pusha T nearly murdered him with one line (“You are hiding a child”), but apart from seeming knocked on his back foot for a few hours, he regrouped, told the world he had concealed his child because of Instagram, and kept on making Drake music. The Congolese-born Afropop musician Tresor worked on six of the album’s 14 songs and contributed vocals to three; Black Coffee, a longtime Drake collaborator, is listed as one of the album’s executive producers, and his son, Esona Tyolo, has writing and production credits on “Texts Go Green.” Honestly, Nevermind sets the BPM at “One Dance” and doesn’t let up. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see that Honestly, Nevermind is one of his shortest albums ever—14 tracks, over in less than an hour—and that it contains only a few transcendently stupid Drake Thoughts. The album is filed under “dance” on Apple Music, and throughout Drake downplays his rapper persona in favor of crooning behind lush, air-conditioned beats. It feels like one smooth-brain dance playlist, like if you put on his hit “Passionfruit” and let the algorithm do the work for the next 52 minutes. As he did with 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, he presaged its release by sharing a majestically incoherent note on Apple Music, spilling over with guffaw-worthy Drake-isms. “I can’t remember the last time someone put they phone down, looked me in the eyes, and asked my current insight into the times,” went one line, which made me wonder if Drake was waiting patiently for someone to quiz him on runaway inflation or how Democrats can avoid a rout in the midterms.

Drake's new music video for his song "Falling Back" shows him marrying 23 women and partying the night away with them and his best man Tristan Thompson.

"Secondly, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VIDEO! This is the type of music video I miss! The Wedding Singer…OMG!!!" Another person tweeted, "I love this double standard for men!!

From a Virgil Abloh dedication to a music video referencing 'Old School,' here are the first impression highlights.

Fans online have already likened Honestly, Nevermind to 2017’s More Life, Drake’s last record that drew heavily on dancehall, house, and Afrobeat music. It’s mid-June, temperatures are high, and Drake clearly wants to shake something. Dedicated to “our brother V” (the late Virgil Abloh), Drake’s latest focuses not as much on empty escapism, but on recognizing the adversity and setbacks that make it necessary.

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The record is a tribute to the Ukrainian seaport where he was raised, and although he composed the suite in 2020 based on personal inspirations — remembering his childhood there, as his father, a Ukrainian Jew, fought cancer — the album inevitably takes on a different cast now that this Russian-speaking, cosmopolitan city is in the throes of war. Before he joined the New York jazz world, Neselovskyi was a classical prodigy; “Waltz of Odesa Conservatory” calls back to the 1990s, by way of some Baroque piano turns, when he was the youngest student ever admitted to the school. It’s a collaboration with Dave Harrington, who has worked with Nicolas Jaar in the psychedelic rock project Darkside. “Heart — Power of a Soft Heart” has uplift built into its foundation — three slow, ascending piano notes that are repeated throughout the track and enfolded in other tones: chimes, cymbals, hovering guitar notes and Morissette singing “ah,” sustaining a magnificent hush. Since moving to the United States two decades ago, Neselovskyi has collaborated with leading elders in jazz, like Gary Burton and John Zorn, but on his new album, “Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City,” he sits alone at the piano. That’s what it does on “Sorry,” an abject apology that arrives as a preview of its next album, “Profound Mysteries II.” It begins with melancholy piano chords reminiscent of Erik Satie, then opens up a bassy abyss as Jamie Irrepressible — the British singer Jamie McDermott — thoroughly indicts himself for abandoning a lover: “I hate myself for running scared,” he croons. “I don’t want to die for love,” she sings in her highest, most fragile register. Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.” It’s both virtuosic and defiantly nonchalant. “How do you say to my face, ‘Time heals?’” he sings in a reedy, vulnerable falsetto, “Then go and leave me again, unreal.” The track’s video, though, is more of a lark, playfully sending up Drake’s heartbreaker reputation and imagining a time when he finally settles down and gets married — to 23 different women. The polysyllables fly fast, then go on to accelerate wildly in “Progressive House, Conservative Ligature” by the Los Angeles rapper Rhys Langston, from a coming album called “Grapefruit Radio.” The producer Opal-Kenobi supplies loops of blurry, undulating piano chords and synthesizer swoops, shifting pitch every so often. But it’s the kinetic “Falling Back,” the album’s first proper track and single, that best sets the scene: A throbbing electronic beat (produced by the D.J.s Rampa, &Me, Alex Lustig and Beau Nox) allows Drake the space for some Auto-Tuned crooning about — what else — a once-promising relationship turned sour. Less than 10 months after “Certified Lover Boy,” Drake has returned to monopolize summer. Let us know at [email protected] and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.

Drake dropped a surprise album 'Honestly, Nevermind.' Here are our first impressions, including thoughts on the best and worst songs on the album.

Here are our first impressions of Drake’s new album Honestly, Nevermind. At the end of his radio show on Sirius XM right before midnight, Drake hinted that this isn’t all we’ll hear from him this summer. He’s also preparing to drop another Scary Hours EP and a poetry book.

Drake's new album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' is largely based around house beats, but Azealia Banks has been rapping over house beats for her entire career and ...

Since then, she’s released house-inspired songs such as “ 1991,” “ The Big Big Beat,” and “ Anna Wintour,” all of which, it must be said, eat Drake’s food up, boo. Banks released her first house-rap single “212” back in 2011 and it ended up being one of the best and most defining songs of the decade, (don’t just trust us), a hip-hop and house blend that was funny, thorny, and a kaleidoscope of different genres and personalities. Drake has made himself comfortable in Azealia Banks’s house . Drake’s new album, Honestly, Nevermind, was released at midnight Friday with a strong house-music influence, a genre just like she did at Elon Musk’soriginally developed by gay Black DJsin Chicago and New York in the post-disco era.

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In the wee hours leading up to the album’s surprise release, Gordo confidently declared the Certified Lover Boy follow-up a “dance album.” Indeed, it largely is—and it’s far from the first time that Drake has courted the house genre. Black Coffee, who recently made history as the first African artist to win the Grammy Award for “Best Dance/Electronic Album” ( Subconciously), is credited as one of the LP’s executive producers. Though the sonic strategy has proven to be divisive in the handful of hours that Honestly, Nevermind has been available to the masses, the expertise of the project’s executive producers can’t be disavowed.