Drake Hits the Nightclub

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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How did the rapper arrive on the dance floor? And what subcultures and expectations might he experiment with next? Guests: Joe Coscarelli and The Baltimore Banner's Lawrence Burney.

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0:00.0	Wasn't it the New York Times pop-ass you're got your Mercedes-Benz but that don't make
0:07.6	you driven of music news and criticism I'm your host John Caramonica.
0:25.8	You know we had to scramble the jets. There's a Drake album called Honestly Never Mind. It came
0:32.1	out on Friday after being announced a few hours earlier you were listening to flights booked
0:39.0	coming in. This is a Drake dance album which at first seems like a hard pivot and is a bit
0:44.8	of a pivot if you think about the big picture but also Drake has been telling a story about
0:51.0	the intersections certainly of R&B and dance music and also a little bit less of hip-hop and dance
0:56.4	music. Drake's been telling that story on and off throughout his entire career. First segment is
1:02.4	going to be your friend in mind, Joe Caskarelli coming to talk big picture about the album and then
1:08.0	on the back half Lawrence Bernie is going to call in and we're going to have a conversation about
1:12.5	Drake's use of Baltimore Club Jersey Club and also tell the story about how those genres have
1:18.6	intersected with the mainstream on and off for the last couple of decades. But first,
1:24.0	Joe is here. Guys, hold on a second. I don't mean to be an A-hole about this but are there
1:30.2	only 14 songs on this new Drake album? Yeah, do you feel like there should be 28 songs?
1:38.1	That's just one. It's like it's Frank Ocean, it's endless and then there's a blonde like
1:47.2	covering around the corner. You think? Yeah, I don't know. I regret having asked. It's true.
1:53.6	A Drake album under an hour. Yes, although on the dance floor, music lasts forever is I think what
2:00.7	I would say. Joe's here. Hi. I'm back. Freshly shorn, freshly vacationed. Joe, where were you if I
2:10.7	could ask such a personal question? Where were you when honestly never my job? Because I'll tell you
2:15.2	why I was but where were you when honestly never mind dropped? I was in the Medina in Tangier,
2:20.4	Morocco. When I got the news that the Drake album would be dropping, got a DM from my friend
2:27.2	Brett, big Drake fan, shout out to Brett and he was the one to break the news to me. So then,
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