Snap Judgment: Drake – Over

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Music, Snap Judgment

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Published on March 05, 2010 with 32 Comments">32 Comments

You hear that? That’s the sound of a million people letting out a long sigh of disappointment. Assuming you’re not tempted to dismiss Drake’s upcoming debut on the strength of one song, “Over” will do little more than raise expectations for Thank Me Later.

And that’s not because “Over” is so good that you can’t wait to savor it within the ebb and flow of a great album. No. It’s more like, “This sucks gorilla nuts and I can only assume he’s saving the best for the album.” We don’t know that. But what we know for certain is that this collaboration with Boi1nda sounds like it was tossed off in 20 minutes.

A drum-anchored jam swings Drake’s prepubescent-teen voice into all kinds of directions before bringing him back down to earth for his most atrocious chorus yet. Once you’ve had a helping of his smug self-satisfaction jeer served on a side of Lil Wayne-esque vocal nuance, you’ll sigh too.

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  • http://eighteen-one.com Matt

    Do you think he will flop as bad as asher roth. in terms of disappointment. im sure he will sell more

  • http://eighteen-one.com Matt

    Do you think he will flop as bad as asher roth. in terms of disappointment. im sure he will sell more

  • http://therapup.net Rizoh

    He’ll definitely do better than Asher Roth. Gold, minimum.

  • http://therapup.net Rizoh

    He’ll definitely do better than Asher Roth. Gold, minimum.

  • DJ Raida

    This song could have been A LOT better. I cant see how this can be the first single, how they gonna play this on the radio, it aint a street single either.

    Drake said it himself “What am I doing, What am I doing?”

  • DJ Raida

    This song could have been A LOT better. I cant see how this can be the first single, how they gonna play this on the radio, it aint a street single either.

    Drake said it himself “What am I doing, What am I doing?”

  • http://www.bgdboom.com Enigmatik

    “This sucks gorilla nuts and I can only assume he’s saving the best for the album.”

    That sums it up.

  • http://www.bgdboom.com Enigmatik

    “This sucks gorilla nuts and I can only assume he’s saving the best for the album.”

    That sums it up.

  • Walter

    I feel like some artists just try so hard on their mixtapes that they are incapable of putting together a good album…like why would you even let this crappy song appear on your album?

  • Walter

    I feel like some artists just try so hard on their mixtapes that they are incapable of putting together a good album…like why would you even let this crappy song appear on your album?

  • georgeburns

    drake is 100% hit or miss…either drops a great song that is in all my playlists or a piece of doo

  • georgeburns

    drake is 100% hit or miss…either drops a great song that is in all my playlists or a piece of doo

  • type

    in the grand scheme of the album the song will fit…the production carries this as well as the hook

  • type

    in the grand scheme of the album the song will fit…the production carries this as well as the hook

  • ATI

    ^Inclined to agree.

  • ATI

    ^Inclined to agree.

  • DJ Ill Matters

    He went from proud independent artist to sucking on Young Money. Disappointing.

    Drake could be a great if he took time to write better, and wrote about more meaningful or less mainstream “fuck bitches get money” topics.

  • DJ Ill Matters

    He went from proud independent artist to sucking on Young Money. Disappointing.

    Drake could be a great if he took time to write better, and wrote about more meaningful or less mainstream “fuck bitches get money” topics.

  • juxtapose

    I’ve heard worse from Drake, but yeah, this is far from hot. Wait, won’t that make it a good radio single? I tend to find that the worst songs on the album tend to be the radio singles.

    Why are mixtapes better than studio albums these days?

  • juxtapose

    I’ve heard worse from Drake, but yeah, this is far from hot. Wait, won’t that make it a good radio single? I tend to find that the worst songs on the album tend to be the radio singles.

    Why are mixtapes better than studio albums these days?

  • Kell-El

    This song could have been A LOT better

    ^ Word, I read somewhere that he was studying NaS and 3 stacks to preparation to his album, I guess he wasn’t studying that hard

  • Kell-El

    This song could have been A LOT better

    ^ Word, I read somewhere that he was studying NaS and 3 stacks to preparation to his album, I guess he wasn’t studying that hard

  • Pizzy

    This song is da shit

  • Pizzy

    This song is da shit

  • http://differentkitchen.blogspot.com/ ian aka @StellasKid

    I think this is supposed to be his ‘street’/teaser single. Judged from that perspective, I think its more than fine. That being said, I can’t see how you can say this sucks if you claim to be a Drake fan. The beat is FIYA and the rhymes are pretty much what you’d expect from him – he ain’t really a crazy rhymes spitta, let’s be real.

    Dude made his name from an 808 knock-off mixtape, albeit an accomplished sounding one and his sing-rapping on some super- radio friendly hit singles. The weakest part of this track is probably the worse-than-you’d-expect hook but to claim this record sucks, is straight hating in my opinion.

  • http://differentkitchen.blogspot.com/ ian aka @StellasKid

    I think this is supposed to be his ‘street’/teaser single. Judged from that perspective, I think its more than fine. That being said, I can’t see how you can say this sucks if you claim to be a Drake fan. The beat is FIYA and the rhymes are pretty much what you’d expect from him – he ain’t really a crazy rhymes spitta, let’s be real.

    Dude made his name from an 808 knock-off mixtape, albeit an accomplished sounding one and his sing-rapping on some super- radio friendly hit singles. The weakest part of this track is probably the worse-than-you’d-expect hook but to claim this record sucks, is straight hating in my opinion.

  • http://mcfaddenisdead.tumblr.com mcfaddenisdead

    the hook on this song is tight, i dont know what you guys are saying. yeah its different, but if ODB (RIP) had this as a hook you guys would be creaming jeans.

  • http://mcfaddenisdead.tumblr.com mcfaddenisdead

    the hook on this song is tight, i dont know what you guys are saying. yeah its different, but if ODB (RIP) had this as a hook you guys would be creaming jeans.

  • http://tau6.wordpress.com t ussery

    no see i thought i was alone in thinking this song was kinda off but remember the album is called thank me later… maybe it is one of them songs you got to go back and listen to

  • http://tau6.wordpress.com t ussery

    no see i thought i was alone in thinking this song was kinda off but remember the album is called thank me later… maybe it is one of them songs you got to go back and listen to

  • Shelton

    Yeah this is too wayne..Im sooo good Im soo rich. this is shit. the beat is hot his content is non existant. should have signed with rocafella or what ever they call themselves. Young moola baby is the biggest cluster fuck.

  • Shelton

    Yeah this is too wayne..Im sooo good Im soo rich. this is shit. the beat is hot his content is non existant. should have signed with rocafella or what ever they call themselves. Young moola baby is the biggest cluster fuck.