I recently acquired Drake's debut album "Thank Me Later" expecting a top heavy album with high profile features and popular singles to be stacked in the beginning of the playlist but that pre-notion was proven incorrect. The first four tracks are all Drake's attempts at a slower R&B sound. This is where I have heard the most criticism of the album.
Many were okay with the Alicia Keys assisted intro track "Fireworks" but afterward fans wanted to hear Drake shoot out of the gates with tracks like "Over" and "Miss Me". Instead he starts off slow with "Karaoke" and "Resistance". It isn't until track number four that hit single "Over" appears and awakens the energy that listeners want to hear from the 23 year old rapper/singer. Otherwise the album is designed just as I expected and the overall quality of the record is not discouraged by the track arrangement.
About half of the album is singing, one fourth is his rap outlet and the other fourth are the sounds of popular artists he enlisted to appear on his debut project. This album is something new for the commercial market. Drake comes off as neither a party animal nor a gangster; he is a young man wrestling with the emotions he encounters in everyday life.
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