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The new Drake album, “For All the Dogs,” isn’t an innovation in the Drake oeuvre. It’s not a home for stylistic experimentation, or a collection of forward-looking lyrics. Instead, it’s an extension and distillation of what he’s been doing for a decade and a half: tell personal stories cut with boasting, providing a view into the broken heart of a superstar.
And yet the album has led to some of the most divisive discourse of Drake’s career, leading to conversations about maturity and misogyny. It also sets the table for debates about what a post-Drake era in hip-hop might look and sound like.
On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about Drake’s creative boundaries, how he’s managed to ward off stylistic shifts in hip-hop, and how he might approach the middle and later years of his recording career.
Guests:
Justin Charity, senior staff writer at The Ringer
Dylan Green, contributing writer at Pitchfork
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