I remember seeing a deluge of reaction shots and CAPS LOCK EXCLAMATIONS stream down TweetDeck (I was a serious blogger), then searching for a Zippyshare link, then skipping directly to “Know Yourself,” which seemed to be getting the most impressions (I was a very serious blogger). I was sitting alone at my Dell XPS lava brick in a half-lit office park in Los Angeles, finding newer and more inventive ways to describe the same five kinds of basketball highlights. When If You’re Reading This dropped, I was actually working the (blog) night shift. Despite If You’re Reading This not performing as well as his other albums, commercially, it has outsize cultural impact. But only artists who are mega-superstars already can stop the Earth spinning on its axis with little to no advance warning. Worse yet, Views was limp and uninspired, where If You’re Reading This still, today, is like a shot in the arm.īy the end of 2014 Drake had picked up a head of steam with several SoundCloud one-offs that energized the spacious angst of NWTS, creating songs you could actually queue up at parties, like “0 to 100 / The Catch Up.” He’d also entered a new tier of success-the popular line on If You’re Reading This was that it fulfilled Drake’s contractual obligations with Cash Money, clearing his path to mega-superstardom. Music critic Steven Hyden described the listening experience of 2013’s desolate, deliberately paced Nothing Was the Same as “a little soft rock, even by well-established softness standards.” 2016’s Views was even more maudlin, way longer, and required you to believe that Drake was a compelling protagonist of his own mafioso story, which all led to the most tepid reception of any Drake album since his 2010 debut, Thank Me Later. The rap commentariat dubbed Take Care a classic, and it is, but Drake is often a total bummer on it, equal parts romantic entitlement and trashing-my-own-house-party dejection. It’s 17 tracks long, there’s nothing on it resembling a radio single, yet it holds together-and holds up-better than most event albums. If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late was released two days later at the stroke of midnight, and I don’t think it’s especially important whether we classify it as an “album” or a “mixtape,” although it was originally supposed to be hosted by DJ Drama. Williams was a walking bucket, in other words-wet, from everywhere suddenly, but not overly fussy or in a hurry about it. Toronto reversed a 10-point deficit, and like so many other nights in his first Sixth Man of the Year season, it felt as though Williams couldn’t miss, even though he technically only shot 50 percent. (They’d sweep Toronto in the playoffs that year.) DeMar DeRozan iced the game, but down the stretch the Raptors went to Lou Williams, who led all scorers off the bench: He walked over screens he dashed into the paint he snuck down the baseline he hit spot-up jumpers. But who knew that beat drops sound even better when you've got a few dozen cellos and violins doing the heavy lifting? It's also pretty funny when you remember that the strings are playing, note-for-note, lines like "you know how that shit goes." Anyway, Drake, if you're reading this, it's not too late to bring these folks on your next tour.On February 11, 2015, the Washington Wizards went to Canada with hope and left with a two-point loss to the Toronto Raptors, whom they just couldn’t seem to close the gap on in the East at the time. But then we remembered that on the original, the first two minutes are essentially filler before the incredible beat drop that comes following the classic "running through the Six with my woes" line. To be truthful, we weren't really sold on the first half of this whole thing.
The result inspires all kinds of feelings. 2015 has given us many things-Donald Trump obsessives, Pizza Rat, deflated balls, and most importantly the term "woes." The term, which stands for "Working On Excellence," came via Drake's song "Know Yourself" off of his mixtape/album If You're Reading This It's Too Late, and instantly became a popular way to refer to one's friends before it got really annoying a week later.Įither way, the official symphony orchestra of the so-called Six has now unveiled their rendition of Drake's hit single, adding beautiful strings and live instrumentation to the originally synth-based beat.
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