I am not a hip hop scholar. I am a person who listens to the genre on occasion when feeling ‘hood. Of course that’s after I put in a full days white collar work in and drive to my suburban 3 bedroom home. When I feel like bustin’ rhymes and making odd gestures with my fingers that either mean “I love you” in sign language or that I’m a Crip, “dunna muthafucka” I listen to rap. Let’s just say Im about as hood as a 47 year old white suburban college educated woman can be.
So I have to say I don’t appreciate Drake. Yeah his voice is just a little too high pitched girlie man with a touch of helium. Nearly drag queen in its overtone he does nothing at all for the bad boy genre, other than lyrically throw down some of the filthiest rhymes around. Lil Wayne on the other hand I do appreciate. He is able to keep nearly the same tone, but have a more masculine back to it all.
This collaboration is off putting in that its a Weezy cheer anthem and although he deserves it the similarity in Drakes and Waynes voice is off putting and since I am not a scholar- they at times sound exactly the same. The plus is the backing track is distracting. I say this is a plus since it is the only diversion in a tune of monotone. I am not sure when rap became a poetry reading but it really has. It is far too easy to distinguish the story line and to me.. they are beat poets. Nothing wrong with that but surely not what they were going for.
“Believe Me”, is a mediocre tune. The pairing just doesn’t work for me, sorry. It does though have a nice fade out. Please don’t shoot me I have a mortgage to pay. K thanks.
