It's been a busy week in the worlds of hip-hop and R&B. Billboard No filtering returns Thursday (August 8) with an episode attacking Drake's 100 Gigs dump, Ye and Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures 2 and Latto's place in the female rap pantheon.
Drake's every chess move has been analyzed by fans since the Kendrick Lamar feud broke out. Associate Director, Editorial Damien Scott complimented Drake's astute decision to leak the three songs and archival footage, which he compared to something Ye would do in the mold of GOOD Fridays.
“We know he's a person who thinks about the whole of not just his career, but the whole market and the people he plays with,” Scott said. “I think this is an excellent novel. It's really creative. The biggest compliment I can give it is that it looks like something Ye would do when he was still killing it. When he did the GOOD Friday editions.”
But he still believes the Lamar feud weighed on his mind with the move. “I think it's not crazy to think, 'Okay, let me rewind for a second.'
However, Staff Writer Kyle Denis believes Drake is nervous about the reception of his next single and found a loophole to test the waters. “I think it's p—y,” he declared. “Because I would think those three songs are all you dropped versus three songs plus 10 hours of archival material. If you believed in this new material, why are we going up memory lane at the same time?”
Onto Vultures 2the panel agrees that the original version of the project didn't seem complete with fans rightfully wanting more from Ye and Ty. “I feel that Ye is not interested. If you don't care, why should we?' Scott asked.
Senior Charts & Data Analyst Trevor Anderson is surprised that none of the tracks went on a path to disrupt the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
“Wherever you want to start after 2015, Vultures 1 'Carnival' is the extreme… I think it was more of a surprise to people,” he said. “That seems a little bit down — I'm surprised there's not a song that jumps out … Everything's been No. 1 going back to College Dropout, you don't want to do it too much, but when you look in the record books it's, 'Oh, this is where the dropout really happened.' .
With Kanye's decorated discography, Hip-Hop/R&B Associate Director Carl Lamarre is stoked to know what Ye is capable of when it comes to V2its final product.
“That's someone I still believe to this day — maybe you could put Kendrick in the same conversation as releasing five consecutive classic albums. To creatively know what he was able to do and have such a fall and not give af–k? One of my favorite songs if '530' and I saw flashes, but that last part went down from there,” Lamar said. “That's why it's hard for me to dismiss him and say, 'It's all over.'”
After hearing early, Dennis has high hopes for Latto's Iced tea with honey and sugar album and believes it could vault her into the big three conversations with Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj in female rap.
“One of them [big three] The points are a bit shaky right now, for obvious reasons. This album — I think it's better than any other female rap album we've had this year. I'll stick to that. I'm very happy with this album.”
Watch the full episode below.
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