It was a busy week within the worlds of hip-hop and R&B. Billboard Unfiltered returns on Thursday (Aug. 8) with an episode attacking Drake’s 100 Gigs dump, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign’s Vultures 2 and Latto’s place within the pantheon of feminine rap.
Drake’s each chess transfer has been dissected by followers for the reason that fallout from the Kendrick Lamar feud. Deputy Director, Editorial Damien Scott was complimentary of Drake’s shrewd resolution making in leaking the three songs and archival footage, which he in comparison with one thing Ye would’ve achieved within the mould of G.O.O.D. Fridays.
“We all know he’s an individual who thinks concerning the totality of not solely his profession, however the entire market and the folks he’s enjoying in opposition to,” Scott mentioned. “I believe that is extraordinarily novel. It’s actually artistic. The best praise I will pay it’s this appears like one thing Ye would’ve achieved when he was nonetheless killing it. Again when he was doing the G.O.O.D. Friday releases.”
However he nonetheless thinks the Lamar feud was weighing on his thoughts with this transfer. “I believe it’s not loopy to imagine, ‘Alright, let me reset for a second.’”
Nevertheless, Employees Author Kyle Denis thinks Drake is nervous concerning the reception of his subsequent single and located a loophole to check the waters. “I do assume it’s p—y,” he acknowledged. “As a result of I might assume these three songs are all you dropped versus three songs plus 10 hours of archival footage. When you believed on this new stuff, why are we strolling up reminiscence lane on the identical time?”
Onto Vultures 2, the panel agrees that the venture’s authentic model didn’t really feel accomplished with followers rightly wanting extra from Ye and Ty. “It appears like Ye doesn’t care. If Ye doesn’t care, why ought to we care?” Scott requested.
Senior Charts & Knowledge Analyst Trevor Anderson is shocked not one of the tracks have caught on a path to disrupt the highest of the Billboard Sizzling 100.
“Wherever you wish to begin put up 2015, Vultures 1 ‘Carnival’ are the outliers… I believe that was extra of a shock to folks,” he mentioned. “This feels somewhat under — I’m shocked there’s no music leaping…All the pieces has gone No. 1 going again to School Dropout, you don’t wish to make an excessive amount of of it, however while you look within the report books it’s, ‘Oh, that is the place the drop-off actually occurred.”
With Kanye’s adorned discography, Deputy Director of Hip-Hop/R&B Carl Lamarre is pissed off understanding what Ye’s succesful with regards to V2‘s closing product.
“That is anyone I nonetheless imagine to this present day — possibly you can put Kendrick in the identical dialog of releasing 5 consecutive basic albums. To know creatively what he’s been in a position to do and have such a drop-off and never give a f–okay? One in all my favourite songs if ‘530’ and I noticed flashes, however that final half it went downhill from there,” Lamar mentioned. “That’s why it’s robust for me to dismiss him and say, ‘It’s absolutely over.’”
After getting an early hear, Denis has excessive hopes for Latto’s Sugar Honey Iced Tea album and thinks it might vault her into the massive three dialog with Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj in feminine rap.
“A kind of [big three] spots is kinda shaky proper now, for apparent causes. This album — I believe it’s higher than each different feminine rap album we’ve obtained this yr. I’ll stand on it. I’m very pleased with this album.”
Watch the total episode under.
