When other producers take over, there is a definite shift in mood. Drake’s longtime producer/partner Noah “40” Shebib did most of the production work, and he surrounds Drake’s voice with murky beats, layers of dusky synths, and moody guitars that fit Drake’s voice perfectly the two work together to create a thick mood of melancholy. For the most part, increased success hasn’t done much to improve Drake’s mood, as he details his failures at love, his worries about living a hollow life, and his general malaise. The plan fell through, but his 2011 album Take Care has the feel of a late-night R&B album, full of slow tempos, muted textures, impassioned crooning, and an introspective tone that is only rarely punctured by aggressive tracks, boasts, and/or come-ons. He later quoted one of their songs, “Get in the Car” on his track “Madonna” from his 2015 mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.After the huge commercial and artistic success of his last album, Thank Me Later, Drake threatened/promised that his next album would be a straight-up R&B record that forsook rapping for vocals. His collaborations go across the aisle as well, tapping indie pop darlings Francis and the Lights to produce “Fireworks” and taking them on tour with him. But the appreciation goes both ways, as Young Money got everyone on board for Drake’s big debut, with features from Kanye, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, Jeezy, Nicki Minaj, The-Dream, Lil Wayne, and TI. He thanks everyone from his mentor Lil Wayne to the UK indie band, the xx, to his knee surgeon. Just one look at Thank Me Later’s liner notes and you can tell Drake gave Emily Post a run for her money. Can rappers be emo? Drake certainly makes the case for it. As Issa Rae’s character in her show, Insecure, once put it, “He just gets us.” Side-stepping the usual “ladies night” tracks, Drake gives women their own anthem with “Fancy.” Even his breakup songs feel more sincere than antagonistic. Unlike most other rappers, Drake wrote specifically for a female audience too. Sure, we’ll all sing along when a Biggie song comes on, but in mid-aughts it was time for the genre to grow up a little. Hip-hop’s relationship to women can be easily summed up in one word…problematic. Click to load video He recognizes female fans
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