Complex posted an article about Drake's new Poetry book, subsequently titled, "Titles Ruin Everything". To me it trajects the buoyed while still blued accolades of one of the greatest alternatively acceded Rap artists ever: the OVO/Warner's Aubrey 'Drake' Graham.
Cosigns of UGK's and Trill Burgers mogul Bun B and the hood accredited while robustly respected James Prince, allow the Canadian coined 6God accreditation to street savvy the suburban undertones his Degrassi reputation awarded him. Drizzy along with Ye, Pharrell, & Cole (perhaps more) forged a freedom of righteousness into the Phariseed facade of what many now call new skool Rap culture. It’s now ok for generic Hip-Hop artists alike to mainstream-steer their careers away from street life, enough to avoid over publicized drug abuse, jail, & darkly devastating (while sullenly common lately) deaths.
Feeling compelled to publicly comment on the relevance or lack thereof of the book, I kept things trill. Deep and sensitive artists, who happen to mainstream, are still deep and sensitive. So in light of Drake's new poetic paperback, we should probably read it in a deep and sensitive way too. Because it's Drake we’re referring to, reading it in that way, should be ok.
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I don’t usually share things from my outside of fandom life, but here’s some of the Nothing But Thieves photos I took in September for Amplify Music Magazine. an absolute dream to be able to shoot them.
Sorry for NBT posting on main but we saw them for the first time last night (barricade) and it was fucking incredible. We got to meet Joe after the show, and it couldn’t have been more perfect
We·ve been…we·ve been gigging for 10 years now which is unbelievable, also quite scary, 10 years! I think when you first start in a band or probably I guess like any career you think I don·t know everything·s quite intense and harsh and you feel like you want to take over the world and you know you just get a point where you·re in your 30s now where as you can probably see it·s just about us having a laugh on stage and enjoying ourselves. And we do! and we can actually stand each other we actually love each other it·s great, I feel very fortunate. So thank you so much for being here with us and giving us this cause we get to do this every night.
(Soundcheck To Stage) NOTHING BUT THIEVES live at the O2 Forum Kentish Town for Radio X, UK (31.01.2024) // 🎥 source