Drake/PartyNextDoor
$ome $exy $ongs 4 U
(OVO Sound/Santa Anna/Republic Records)
1/5
$$$4U arrived on Valentine’s Day and marks the long-awaited first full-length R&B collaboration between Canadian artists Drake and PartyNextDoor. The album contains 21 songs and lasts a total of 73 minutes.
Let’s get this straight out of the way: the album is boring, is not well written, is underproduced, is unpolished, and is trash.
The first half of the album is awful, with songs like “SPIDER-MAN SUPERMAN,” where Drake sings about a girl needing him to save her like he is Spider-Man or Superman (no, I am not kidding—this happens). Then he mentions the Kendrick Lamar beef in “GIMME A HUG,” by saying “Fuck a rap beef/I’m trying to get the party lit,” which, unless the party is a sleepover and you’re trying to go to bed, I don’t see this album achieving that.
This album is an early candidate for worst of the year and I do not plan on revisiting any song on it ever again.