Appreciate the past. People’s lifestyles and goals change with time. We all grow and adapt with the times. I’m grateful we had what we had. I’m Just happy hes still making music. Even if it’s different. Forever a fan.
Well he’s bound to change brother, I mean who wouldn’t? He’s accomplished so much in So little time! He may not be loved as much now but he will be loved even more when he’s gone!
I found this mixtape in 08 during college, I couldn't wait for the drake mixtapes.😊 Now I can barely listen to him, I don't know who that guy is claiming his identity but it's not Drake!!!😤
I jus read thru the comments and I have to say I’m disappointed in a lot of them. Saying drake changed. Of course he has its 10 years later , even longer if your coming from this mixtape. He is a legend. The music hasn’t changed him as a person I truly believe it. People are quick to jump on the bandwagon and criticise drake for every move he makes. Just appreciate him whilst he is here , on this earth, making new music now. When the man isn’t here anymore yall will be upset. As we all will, but just learn to live in the moment and appreciate him whilst he is here as we are all blessed to have him here. No hate intended but please take in what I said.
Agreed, comparing his old shit to his new shit genuinely makes me sad. Smh. The old Drake was completely golden, but so was the music of that time. It's like as time passes people change, things just change. Only can find gems through heavy research. Hidden in soundcloud, datpiff, even youtube.
rub funk you can't last in the music industry if you stick to one flow. Hence why no one raps like Pac, biggie, bone thugs anymore. Rap, hip hop, pop it evolves and if you can't change then you're stuck in the past.
Espero no ser el unico que habla español aqui pero bueno sin lugar a duda este album es una vuelta a la vida para mi me ayuda a seguir a adelante y continuar con la nueva temporada con todo drake te agradezco por sacar lo mejor de mi :7
People are fucking ignorant this man grew and branched out he still drops lyrical meaningful content he always does songs like Do Not Disturb Weston Road Flows Views 30 for 30 freestyle NWTS had an amazing amount of meaningful lyrical shit man Take Care was not his peak
Y do people hate to see people grew and change, I love this shit too, but he got waaay betta, I will admit that n tha past couple years I've heard'em put shit out that sounded like he wasn't tryin', but every album from "Thank Me Later" to "Views" is perfection, "Take Care" was my favorite, but "Views" give it a run fo its money
SOULJAblast01 views was overhyped and not drakes best I'm sorry it's just facts when he talks about cheesecake you know he isn't what he use to be, more life has no bangers or hits so he's falling
SOULJAblast01 Views is trash man, Take Care, IYRTITL are his best works from his new shit. His older mixtapes were something else. This and So Far Gone, maaan.
I'm 3 years too late but there's a travel book called, "Worst case travel guide for the Philippines". Obscure ass reference but makes sense when you know that ovo Niko and a lot of his boys from around this time in Toronto were Filipino.
+on this type of subject matter. Relationships rap subject has always been largely absent. Killing Me Softly and 21 Questions are some GOAT level songs and they are relationship rap subject and their lyrics have a unique lyricism to them
Yeah I remember me and, me and D used to talk about this kind of stuff all the time Like what it's gonna be like when you get closer to your dreams I didn't know much then but, probably tell you a lil' somethin' now Mr. Big Dreams no tolerance Cut you at the house and haven't hollered since Get bored quickly He stay grown So the p-a-trãn had to get poured quickly Ex girl strippin' I can't stop her New girl trippin' but I can't drop her 'Cause I need somethin' to balance out the fact That it's hard to find a woman when you' talented and black When you hollerin' at labels And they silencing you back 'Cause you fail to thoroughly discuss some violence in ya track Well Gunshot for the young yacht owner See there's everybody else then there's one top loner First place is often the worst place But fuck it I love it here I call it my birthplace Whenever I walk in they makin' the worst face Surrounded by Fillipinos I think of the worst case Watch blue and green diamonds I call it the earth face I'm gettin' ya cake I tell you how ya dessert taste I get a dessert plate Y'all eat pedigree as ya meal I've been Urkel for some years it's better bein' Jaleel Though I rock lean snap it's better bein' this real It's better drivin' a car with the letter B in the wheel Seat back Light sayin' tank on E I got the drank on me You better bank on me To be the one and only nigga that you ain't gon' see In the club with a model spillin' drinks on me Nah Gimme 20 in the tank on 3 I'm in the Range bumpin' Keyshia Cole Singin' off-key like I'mma spare y'all Why you wanna judge me I don't ever compare y'all The city is mine I know it because I'm there y'all It ain't even started I'm really tryna prepare y'all Spring '07 second quarter I'm droppin' With or without a label man I'm committed to poppin' And take over the summer Tour to tour hoppin' I'mma meet a lot of women I'mma do a lot of shoppin' Really no other option Spend a lot of money just to make it back Anybody I dissed in a song I don't take it back Same rappers that's all in ya face sayin' Drake is wack Are checkin' my availability just to make a track I promise mama I'mma do it 'cause I know I put you through it (I know I put you through it baby) And I just want you to sit around with ya friends at a dinner table And say "my baby's famous and I knooow it" (yeah) And it wasn't nothin' tooo it I've drawn it and drew it 'til the pen was out of fluid The ballpoint run out Then all joints come out classic Rappers are fake we can all point one out Yeah I'd like to introduce you to the first lady of the ATF (uhh) Miss Andreena Mill Closer to my dreams I'm gettin' higher Yeah I feel it in my sleep I said I'm gettin' higher Yeah And closer to my dreams Whoa Sometimes it feels like I'll never move on Closer to my dreams Look I took a plane to Hawaii with D And we was trippin' off of the speed at which life progressed From meetin' Trey in Atlanta to doin' a cameo in his video Which made everything right with X (Songz) I got too many records and not enough shows For too many rappers and not enough __ Well You can fill the blank in They tryna be the best Just tryna place in the rankin' Day care play pen drop out To grade ten drop out To summer '05 with the grey Benz drop out Charcoal Charger Racin' through back streets On my (Craig David) shit the (Artful Dodger) Shola Ama I told her I'mma 'Bout to get my run on so hold the commas Times've changed now I'm older mama And these niggas ain't solid they fold in drama And that's the realest shit I ever wrote A compilation of mental thoughts that I never note And hi, haters I'm back off of hiatus How ya album doin'? I'm gettin' cake off of my latest Anticipated like the iPhone Respected in any city that I roam Summertime Wintertime Dinnertime Anytime Bet I am the nigga in my town when I arrive Home Yeah one more time 'fore we turn the lights out ladies and gentleman (Sing it to' em 'Dreena) lights 'bout to go down, curtains 'bout to close but I want y'all to enjoy yourself on the way out, yeah man (Yeah man)
Specifically, Drake was rapping with Jas Prince over the “A Milli” beat before Wayne because Jas was sending records to Drake. Records that Drake was not supposed to have. And later Jas played Drake’s freestyle for Lil Wayne. That's what got Lil Wayne to call Drake. Check out Drake - A Milli
This the Drake I grew up on ngl. Still hits till this day😭
No words needed to describe this
"Better late than never, but never late is better, they tell me time is money well we'll spend it together"
Seeing the growth just makes me so proud to be a Day 1 Drake fan.
Wish this album was on streaming services
Wonder if Drake reminisces on tracks like this , bumping to this 15 years later and it’s still smacks ✊🏽
I just listened to closer to my dreams, wide-eyed and uneducated at 19
Norely Santos damn you fine 🙏🏽 🔥 lol hope you reach those dreams girl !
Lol wtf
jhtx Faz lmaoooooooooo you know she fine bruh😂😭💯
30 for 30
What you think he thinking now??
He did everything he said he would and then some in this track 🙌👏👀
Damn miss these days 😢Classic Drake here. Shout out to Andreena Mills on the vocals! I see you baby girl.
This man has come such a long way. Much respect 💯👌🏾🙏🏾
Mj DeGawd bad news is, he went the wrong way
yea im sure he went the right way, unless being broke and irrelevant is whats most important
Mj DeGawd "I cant rap like that anymore, all young naive" -drake
Mj DeGawd finally a positive comment
Drake is just as good now. Y’all busy listening to haters instead of actually listening to the music.
Jason Hines he still don’t spit like this no more
Exactly! It's like they're not listening to the music at all.
Nope he’s pop and trash 🗑
You know damn well he don't rap like this anymore quite whining
Thank you bro! I feel like he drops 1-3 real songs in every album and it’s on us to find it. Ive found some of his best songs in these last few albums
This the reason Drake will be forever Goated
This album is one of his best. Great memories.
Appreciate the past. People’s lifestyles and goals change with time. We all grow and adapt with the times. I’m grateful we had what we had. I’m Just happy hes still making music. Even if it’s different. Forever a fan.
Well said
Bars
2020 wya? I was in first year uni when this came out. What a time!
This came out long before 2020..
@@theamtagonist1745thats not what she meant 😂 she meant whos listening to this in 2020 btw 2024 wyaa???
loooooooooooooooooooooooooong ago
@@theamtagonist1745
To everyone sayin drake changed nah YALL CHANGED. Hes grown an his style got better. still can rap still does rnb. People need to appreciate now
This album is the best of the best!
Daniel alvarado im pretty sure it's not an album
Drake keep. Doing what you do
this is the drake i grew to know....i cant recognize who he is now
breezy3127 It's crazy what fame and money can do to someone's lifestyle
Well he’s bound to change brother, I mean who wouldn’t? He’s accomplished so much in So little time! He may not be loved as much now but he will be loved even more when he’s gone!
Facts
breezy3127 in a good way?
So real . I miss this drake . This drizzy gets bizzy wit the bars man.
"Rappers are fake
We can all point one OUT" 🔥🔥🔥
Like damn, he was dope from the beginning. Like the flow is life.
2018 wit it, still fw this song
forever a classic
Still listening in Feb 2019 🙋🏾♂️
This is what made DRAKE, the brand
I told her Imma, bout to get my run on
hold the commas!!!!!!!
Wtf yooooo this man was spitting
Listen to 30 for 30 freestyle to truly understand his evolution...he created a wave while everyone else was just surfing.
This is drizzy drake. The one we have now is just Drake
still one of his best tracks ever.
10 years ago today❤️😭
Liliana Ortiz from IG huh? Lol I am here because of that, too...
OvO
This song is timeless
Damn , 2022 and We’re still here in the Drake Archives , to all the OCTOBERS VERY OWN FANS Love & Respect 🦉
Always be 1 of my favorites!! Goat!!!
Miss this Drake
Can We Get This Drake Back 💯💯💯
Easily the best track off this mixtape fr
I found this mixtape in 08 during college, I couldn't wait for the drake mixtapes.😊 Now I can barely listen to him, I don't know who that guy is claiming his identity but it's not Drake!!!😤
Foreal
Lol
one of the best mixtapes of ALL TIME. That's right, I said it!
Facts
Been awhile since I heard this brings back so many memories 💞
Big boy track! Forever a hit
Miss this Drake🦂🖤
Bro drake was at his finest right here
Still bumpin!!!!!!! Love your music Drake 💯
Come back Drake!!!! 😍😍😭😭
I jus read thru the comments and I have to say I’m disappointed in a lot of them. Saying drake changed. Of course he has its 10 years later , even longer if your coming from this mixtape. He is a legend. The music hasn’t changed him as a person I truly believe it. People are quick to jump on the bandwagon and criticise drake for every move he makes. Just appreciate him whilst he is here , on this earth, making new music now. When the man isn’t here anymore yall will be upset. As we all will, but just learn to live in the moment and appreciate him whilst he is here as we are all blessed to have him here. No hate intended but please take in what I said.
Thank you
2021 "I'm in the range bumpin jimmy Brooks singing off key like" 🤙🏾
Legend man
This one was dope... so was his song Fear!!!
We need this tape on Apple Music
"anticipated like the iphone" just shows you how old this song is, iykyk
Drake knew it... look at him now 21🔥
People say Drake's changed, but I think he has that same haircut😊
never gets old..
Favorite drake song
Drake hasn’t missed since
I'm Closer To My Dreams
why couldn't drake stuck to this style?
he thinks every girl likes him lol
Agreed, comparing his old shit to his new shit genuinely makes me sad.
Smh. The old Drake was completely golden, but so was the music of that time.
It's like as time passes people change, things just change.
Only can find gems through heavy research. Hidden in soundcloud, datpiff, even youtube.
IMVU/IFregrz true that's the exact same with the weeknd
rub funk he wouldn't have lasted this long in the game if he stuck with one flow
rub funk you can't last in the music industry if you stick to one flow. Hence why no one raps like Pac, biggie, bone thugs anymore. Rap, hip hop, pop it evolves and if you can't change then you're stuck in the past.
Listining 2018....best 🔥❤
2019 who’s still here
Shailana Williams 2020 👏🏽✊🏽
Best Drake album FACTS! Still listening in 2017
i agree my favorite drake album
Lol mixtape not album
Drake is the goat 🐐
Wish this was on apple music
2020 they ain’t real enough to be here
Keep chasing your dreams
Love this song
Greatest song i heard by drake.
Don't post that you listen 👂 be present enjoy the time, It goes fast.
No kap 🧢
Remember sittin in my room rackin writin pourin sippin goin thru some things and this song was there in some real ish!
Whos listening in quarantine? 👀
Everything he said he hated on his mixtape and his old music is exactly what he became 😭
Darien Millsaps True but Drake was like 20-21 during this time money and fame on top of having life experiences can change a person even Drake🤷🏾♀️
You know how rich and successful he is? Appreciate the come up and everything he's done. Drizzy made it huge
@@InSaN3ViSioN He damn sure did. Doesn't change the truth. Dude made a 180 of everything he used to diss or callout about the stereotypical.
That fade is so damn clean
Now this is Drake...
Espero no ser el unico que habla español aqui pero bueno sin lugar a duda este album es una vuelta a la vida para mi me ayuda a seguir a adelante y continuar con la nueva temporada con todo drake te agradezco por sacar lo mejor de mi :7
You are a Legend for saying that for me this song and album is therapy for my soul so I hope you doing good 🔥
Si
Who remembers downloading this off the OVO blogspot page!?
I remember listening to this in Vancouver and everyone going crazy..
People are fucking ignorant this man grew and branched out he still drops lyrical meaningful content he always does songs like Do Not Disturb Weston Road Flows Views 30 for 30 freestyle NWTS had an amazing amount of meaningful lyrical shit man Take Care was not his peak
2022 and this is still my shit!
THROWBACK!!!!
Oh how I miss this
May 2020 this song still hit
This one hits home 🏡
Y do people hate to see people grew and change, I love this shit too, but he got waaay betta, I will admit that n tha past couple years I've heard'em put shit out that sounded like he wasn't tryin', but every album from "Thank Me Later" to "Views" is perfection, "Take Care" was my favorite, but "Views" give it a run fo its money
SOULJAblast01 views was overhyped and not drakes best I'm sorry it's just facts when he talks about cheesecake you know he isn't what he use to be, more life has no bangers or hits so he's falling
I liked the songz on views too
SOULJAblast01 Views is trash man, Take Care, IYRTITL are his best works from his new shit. His older mixtapes were something else. This and So Far Gone, maaan.
what about more life, or the single gods plan
major L giver #freepabloescobar #triggerfingers are you forgetting fake love
“Surrounded by Filipinos, I think of the worst case” I’ve always wondered what that line meant
I'm 3 years too late but there's a travel book called, "Worst case travel guide for the Philippines". Obscure ass reference but makes sense when you know that ovo Niko and a lot of his boys from around this time in Toronto were Filipino.
Goat
2020 still bumpin
2022 still right here.
The real fire
Really wish this sound came back
The crazy thing is this song is more than8 years old only real ones know
Thank's Benji B where radio program I find this Canada rap artist
closer to my dreamssss
"Drake can't rap" lol you get me one MC anywhere close to Drake's level that can top this lyricism.
Adam Cox shut up
Damian Tomlinson obviously u didn't read this comment the right way smh..... he wasn't attacking drake jackass
+on this type of subject matter. Relationships rap subject has always been largely absent. Killing Me Softly and 21 Questions are some GOAT level songs and they are relationship rap subject and their lyrics have a unique lyricism to them
Lol Drake would never be remembered for his lyricism
2018 favorite Drake tape ☕
My goat.
Here in 2020
2021
Yes
still here
I'm with ya
Always bumping the REAL DRAKE!
I love this cuz I know he wrote it since he probably couldn’t afford a writer back then
Top 5 Mixtapes
Angell Mayfield factual
Yeah I remember me and, me and D used to talk about this kind of stuff all the time
Like what it's gonna be like when you get closer to your dreams
I didn't know much then but, probably tell you a lil' somethin' now
Mr. Big Dreams no tolerance
Cut you at the house and haven't hollered since
Get bored quickly
He stay grown
So the p-a-trãn had to get poured quickly
Ex girl strippin'
I can't stop her
New girl trippin' but I can't drop her
'Cause I need somethin' to balance out the fact
That it's hard to find a woman when you' talented and black
When you hollerin' at labels
And they silencing you back
'Cause you fail to thoroughly discuss some violence in ya track
Well
Gunshot for the young yacht owner
See there's everybody else then there's one top loner
First place is often the worst place
But fuck it I love it here I call it my birthplace
Whenever I walk in they makin' the worst face
Surrounded by Fillipinos I think of the worst case
Watch blue and green diamonds I call it the earth face
I'm gettin' ya cake I tell you how ya dessert taste
I get a dessert plate
Y'all eat pedigree as ya meal
I've been Urkel for some years it's better bein' Jaleel
Though I rock lean snap it's better bein' this real
It's better drivin' a car with the letter B in the wheel
Seat back
Light sayin' tank on E
I got the drank on me
You better bank on me
To be the one and only nigga that you ain't gon' see
In the club with a model spillin' drinks on me
Nah
Gimme 20 in the tank on 3
I'm in the Range bumpin' Keyshia Cole
Singin' off-key like I'mma spare y'all
Why you wanna judge me
I don't ever compare y'all
The city is mine
I know it because I'm there y'all
It ain't even started I'm really tryna prepare y'all
Spring '07 second quarter I'm droppin'
With or without a label man I'm committed to poppin'
And take over the summer
Tour to tour hoppin'
I'mma meet a lot of women I'mma do a lot of shoppin'
Really no other option
Spend a lot of money just to make it back
Anybody I dissed in a song I don't take it back
Same rappers that's all in ya face sayin' Drake is wack
Are checkin' my availability just to make a track
I promise mama
I'mma do it 'cause I know I put you through it (I know I put you through it baby)
And I just want you to sit around with ya friends at a dinner table
And say "my baby's famous and I knooow it" (yeah)
And it wasn't nothin' tooo it
I've drawn it and drew it 'til the pen was out of fluid
The ballpoint run out
Then all joints come out classic
Rappers are fake we can all point one out
Yeah
I'd like to introduce you to the first lady of the ATF (uhh)
Miss Andreena Mill
Closer to my dreams I'm gettin' higher
Yeah I feel it in my sleep
I said I'm gettin' higher
Yeah
And closer to my dreams
Whoa
Sometimes it feels like I'll never move on
Closer to my dreams
Look
I took a plane to Hawaii with D
And we was trippin' off of the speed at which life progressed
From meetin' Trey in Atlanta to doin' a cameo in his video
Which made everything right with X (Songz)
I got too many records and not enough shows
For too many rappers and not enough __
Well
You can fill the blank in
They tryna be the best
Just tryna place in the rankin'
Day care play pen drop out
To grade ten drop out
To summer '05 with the grey Benz drop out
Charcoal Charger
Racin' through back streets
On my (Craig David) shit the (Artful Dodger)
Shola Ama
I told her I'mma
'Bout to get my run on so hold the commas
Times've changed now I'm older mama
And these niggas ain't solid they fold in drama
And that's the realest shit I ever wrote
A compilation of mental thoughts that I never note
And hi, haters
I'm back off of hiatus
How ya album doin'?
I'm gettin' cake off of my latest
Anticipated like the iPhone
Respected in any city that I roam
Summertime
Wintertime
Dinnertime
Anytime
Bet I am the nigga in my town when I arrive
Home
Yeah one more time 'fore we turn the lights out ladies and gentleman
(Sing it to' em 'Dreena) lights 'bout to go down, curtains 'bout to close but
I want y'all to enjoy yourself on the way out, yeah man
(Yeah man)
How many ppl know drake but have no clue about this tape this and Barry bonds put him on Wayne radar
Specifically, Drake was rapping with Jas Prince over the “A Milli” beat before Wayne because Jas was sending records to Drake. Records that Drake was not supposed to have. And later Jas played Drake’s freestyle for Lil Wayne. That's what got Lil Wayne to call Drake. Check out Drake - A Milli