DRAKE: Thank Me Later

   / Hip-Hop, RnB, Canada          (Posted in Danish, 2011 December 10th)

Here is Drake. A Canadian Hip-Hop / RnB artist (and actor) who has no self-esteem problems. Understood in the positive way - he usually does not need to be the toughest, most dangerous, smartest, strongest, smartest, best, ugliest or biggest man in town. It's super-cool to hear a stack of texts showing a cool dude, who have not mastered everything and can not kill us or shag anything with breasts :)

Below: the video Over - with aphorisms about life and sudden fame (unfortunately in the nice, censored version) ...

The lyrics on this album concerns troublesome relationships, Drakes parents' divorce, if he'll change negatively due to his speedy career and if "real" hip hop fans think he is a product. As he raps about his life:

While all my closest friends 'out partyin'

I'm just here makin 'the music that they party to.

Thank Me Later is Drake's debut album. It was released in June 2010 and was a much awaited album after he in 2009 released his third mixtape So Far Gone. And released the debut EP of the same name and became a "hot name". He received two Grammy nominations, 1 hit single Best I Ever Had (found on the album on streaming), and the major record companies in competition outdid each other to sign a contract. Universal Motown won - the company that has, among other things Jay-Z and Kayne West! The album reached first place on five of the world's major music charts.

Above: the video Best I Ever Had, that despite the funny story of a women's basketball is about something completely different, a special love affair with a woman. The text is very interesting and full of ambiguities ... see the "translation" of the text on Rap Genious, linked in MUSICClick.

In 2011, Drake released the album Take Care , a good and a little different album. Below: the video Take Care, featuring Rihanna. Again, his lyrics is worth noting, as he raps:

It's my birthday, I get high if I want to

Can't deny that I want you, but I lie if have too

The song is about a relationship, while having rhyme / references to the old hit (first published by Helen Shapiro, but later re-recorded by many other artists) where they sing:

It's My Party and I'll cry if I want to,

cry if I want to, cry if I want to

Drake is just more interesting than the average rapper's lyrics :-)

EDIT: Drake has released three studio albums, the fourth album was scheduled for release in 2015 and named Views From The 6 but instead he released a mixtape called If You're Reading This It's To Late, to be found on iTunes and Spotify. Still it is seen as his fourth album, there are several of the 17 tracks that says something with 6 and on the front of the "cover" the figure 6 is seen below the text.

M U S I C Click:

Rap Genious, Best I Ever Had:

http://genius.com/Drake-best-i-ever-had-lyrics

Drake on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_%28rapper%29

Drakes website:

http://www.drake-online.com/

COLLETTE - new R&B star

   / RnB, USA (posted in Danish 2011 Nov. 14th)



Here is a fairly new R&B / soul artist + singer / songwriter / producer from Columbia (South Carolina). Her name is Collette Blakeney. And she sings fabulous.

Collette played the saxophone and the piano as a child. As a teenager she began to sing, probably inspired by her mother, who sang gospel. She sang in a choir for several years until she finally was ready to sing on her own.

Above: Material Star (ft. Akil Dasan).

Collette has many talents, both music wise and others. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in media production in 2004 with a minor in Japanese language and culture and she owns / runs a PR- and communications-company in New York.

She gets good reviews ... both live and on the debut CD (Experience Collette - 2008). This year she released Coco By Request - her next album, which was well received.

Above: Good Morning Heartache (Live In Chicago).

Collette was nominated for the title "Female Vocalist of the Year" by "The Soul Tracks Readers' Choice Award". In 2010 she won The John Lennon Songwriting Contest.



M U S I C Click:

Collette's website: http://www.collettemusic.com/

The John Lennon Songwriting Contest: http://jlsc.com/

Collette’s impressive resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collettesings