For my 984th review, Drake delivers an overlong, often boring, frequently infuriating double album.
Best Songs: ‘Nice For What’, ‘Mob Ties’, ‘Sandra’s Rose’, ‘March 14’
Worst Song: ‘I’m Upset’, ‘Jaded’
watchandsee/10
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Drake – Scorpion – Hip-hop / R&B – Album Review
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Hey Mark, are you ever going to review Joytime 2 by Marshmello?
I agreed and you were being generous by giving this 4. I gave it 0/10 but I only liked 1 track,God’s Plan. Other than that,I passed out 2x listening to this. And i then tried to listen to this and I got so frustrated. Its a diet RC cola version of Views.
From that thumbnail I can already tell he likes this album
5/10
Best Tracks: “Nice For What”, “Nonstop”, “Elevated”, “Mob Ties”, “March 14”, “God’s Plan”, “8 Out Of 10”
Worst Tracks: “Jaded”, “Ratchet Happy Birthday”, “Talk Up” ft. Jay-Z
Do you think you can review angéles album. it’s coming out on October 3
Yeesh. Pusha T deserves some kind of title belt for how badly he’s knocked out Drake.
Round 5 of Billboard Drakedown…
Man, this upcoming week is gonna be HELL!!!
The MICHAEL JACKSON song is an offensive grave-robbery. Blasphemously altering the King of Pop’s 1983 throw-away vocal demo to fit onto an undeserving beat that sounds more lifeless then Michael Jackson’s decade old corpse, seemingly just for the sake of covering for Drake’s lazy, mono-tone rapping ass? In life, the Smooth Criminal never would have lent his effort or talent to a song made with neither effort nor talent going into it.
Sandra’s rose is produced by DJ Premier so i’ll give credit to him for allowing him to produce the track
Binge-watch all of Mark’s reviews and take a shot every time he says “oily synth(s)”. You’ll need a ride to the hospital before you get to his worst end-of-the-year list, I bet…
The only (new) songs I liked from the album were Mob Ties, Summer Games and In My Feelings
You might as well start pre-recording every track for Billboard Breakdown and save yourself some time lol
The first disc is just a complete snoozefest. It’s too utterly boring in every way to elicit real annoyance from me. But the second disc is arguably the worst album of the year and easily the worst thing Drake has ever put out.
2/10
Wow, a 10/10!? Wasn’t expecting that, Drake.
So does this mean that he will go back to being number 1
Please please please review Blockhead funeral Balloons. I know he’s an instrumental producer but one of the best!!!!
Looks like your reading queue cards
SUCC
It really makes me sad that this gets 1 billion streams. A deadbeat dad making mediocre/bad music
Light 4
This album would’ve been way better if it was shorter
I expected more from the album but i still enjoy some cuts. He dumped so much content out it’s hard to criticize it as a whole but you did a good job.
Im feeling a strong whitegulrturnupmusic/10 to a light Atleastitsnotchrisbrown/10
All Drake addressed was his kid which we already knew and took subliminal shots at Pusha T and Kanye after ending the beef( it’s kind petty and weak) but that’s not stopping his first week sales at all.
Yooooooooooooooo
this album gets a who cares/10
SUCC
I was already sick of Drake like three years ago.
OK now that I’ve actually had the time to watch the review, I have to say I’d probably fit in with that third camp you mentioned at the beginning of the video, but I live with a Drake stan so I think about how annoying Drake is a lot more than I want
ALL FILLER NO KILLER
I don’t think Scorpion’s that bad but it’s nowhere near his best album it’s near the bottom right above Views and More Life and that’s not saying much. Drake could breathe on the mic for an hour and it will sale Drizzy could do anything at this point you can’t stop the man.
Bloated album. Some decent songs. Overall left me underwhelmed. 5/10
Urgh….. Billboard Drakedown next week. May god have mercy on us all.
ANOTHER BIASED GO ALONG WITH TALKING BAD ABOUT DRAKE BECAUSE ITS THE POPULAR THING TO DO NOW DAYS LATELY REVIEW….YAWNN.
That laugh at 1:20 is very wholesome
Drake’s discography ranked imo
1. Iyrtitl: 7.5/10
2. Room for Improvement: 7.5/10
3. Comeback Season: 7/10
4. Take Care: 6/10
5. So Far Gone: 6/10
6. More Life: 5.5/10
7. Nwts: 5/10
8. Views: 4/10
9. Thank Me Later: 3.5/10
10. Scorpion: 3/10
I’d run from Billboard Breakdown if I were you
This or the next album are the end for drake… sorry.
The downfall of drake
Folks, let’s remember, Drake USED to be AMAZING.
Watchandsee/10
He knew people would go straight to description box and not stay for the full review. Good job mark
Enzo Amore raps better than Drake
Best Song: Nice For What
Worst Songs: I’m Upset, Mob Ties, Is There More, Peak, Summer Games, Jaded, Final Fantasy
2/10. Worst album I’ve listened to that came out this year.