Get Rich and Stop Trying

Clears the low bar of being better than Maid of Honor, since this has at least one song I could relisten to without getting a strong urge to partake in bamboo torture. Even then, burning myself at a stake is not off the table.

You are Drake's mother. Not only does he release an album with your face on it and it's 99.99% horrendous dogpiss, the first song under your face is called "Hoe Phase", and the album talks about how much sex he has.

Who decided this was a good idea

Somewhere there is an alternative universe where Drake simply puts together a concise album that is good from start to finish instead of releasing 900 songs in one go where 894 of them are the middest mid to ever be mid and 6 of them are pretty good. I wish to live in that universe. Instead I am here, where Drake makes albums that have so much bloat you'd think he drank 15 gallons of soda directly before release.

Going into this after Purgatory, I did not think I would find it to be better than Purgatory. Shockingly, I was wrong.
Maybe this is just my type of album. I love the fiddle. Tyler delivers on one of the main things I praised him for on Purgatory to an even furthered extent: authenticity. Between the teenage love song in Bus Route, soul-touching personal favorite track Peace of Mind, or just a sheer country romantic track like All Your'n, they all feel plausible and real. While the songs ... read more

Starting up a new plunge into country music with one of my favorite new(er) country artists I've heard, but never sat down and really listened to. This album is fantastic. Childers sounds great, the production is clean, and the storytelling on the album is miles beyond typical modern country. Whether much of the album is autobiographical or simply tales, he makes it sound incredibly authentic. Everything from the physical love-song of Feathered Indians (or the softer, more romantic love ... read more

This album will not be liked by everyone. It is what it is. Some people will just hate Cole, some people will dislike the production (which has it's lows), and there's always going to be some (semi-valid) typical Cole criticisms. "Boring, sleepy flows, corny, co-worker music", and more. But this is almost certainly going to end up being my favorite album of the year. There's not a single song I skipped on it after any amount of play throughs. No album has had as many ... read more

singing potential mixed with bland 23 year old songwriting. it's so inoffensive and mind numbing. i can't even get mad at it. he can clearly sing it's just like, so empty.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

busta whyyyyyyyy

I feel like John in Tennessee listening to this. This shit is fucking trash man

it's very telling to the quality of the album that i have to say "it's just not my thing" while rating it an 85

i actually like the track a lot. the way he delivers the "wahh all my friends left me" kinda hits. but im still unhappy he's still going "wahh all my friends left me"

I have to give this album a lot of credit. I can't tell if I love it, and want to hear nothing else in life but it, or if I hate it and would rather listen to the high-pitched ringing of tinnitus forever. If you ask me how good this album is tomorrow, I'll laugh at my rating and call it terrible. If you ask me in a week, I'll say I should've given it a 100. Right now I'm feeling a 90, and maybe this rating will stick.

Had some potential, and then Kanye Kanye'd all over the place on half of the tracks. The other half were doomed from the start.

I thought he was forever gonna be acting in NCIS and doing nothing else, but unc still got it. Solid project.

its funny cause "the song after this one is really good" is better than the song after that

1/100 would not have nostalgia for

this album made me sad, and not for the reason it was going for

While I appreciate the incredible instrumentals of the album, as well as the intriguing concept behind it, the album fails to deliver well. The vocals on the album are decent at best, and sound like a crazy person doing karaoke (but actually just singing about random events) at worst. The storytelling is an upside to the album, but it really isn't enough to save the vocals. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea, but I can't call it anything better than mediocre.