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Aug 12, 2019Certainly, there’s a few corny or dated moments—listening through Care Package, you’ll hear hashtag rap (“I got that Courtney Love for you/Crazy shit”), epically cloying vocal runs, and overly cutesy wordplay like, “Brunch with Qatar royals all my cups is oil.” However, the best songs here stand up with Drake’s best music.
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Aug 12, 2019The variety of styles, sounds, and beats means that this is one of the more satisfying albums Drake has issued. Despite it being made up of songs that were cast off, leaked, or used as bait, it serves as a kind of shadow career overview that gives a full picture of Drake as a talented, forward-thinking, frustrating, monomaniacal, and important artist.
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Sep 3, 2019Even his non-album singles are bangers, which is what makes it more insulting that we had to wait all these years for them to be compiled together into one “package” for our perusal. Better late than never though.
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Aug 12, 2019The songs collected here are the tracks that didn’t make the albums and never hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 (22 of his other songs have). But as missives from an artist whose genius is surfing trends, staying in the conversation and testing to find out what works at any given moment, they collectively get at the soul of his artistic project.
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Positive: 34 out of 53
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Mixed: 8 out of 53
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Negative: 11 out of 53
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Sep 28, 2020Amazing. A classsic. Remarkable. Fantastic. Never been done before. Haters can seethe. Collapse
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Jul 24, 2020This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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May 29, 2020Digging up the past has revealed a couple skeletons. If he was searching for treasure he should have picked a better crypt.