{"id":47613,"date":"2018-07-01T01:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/01\/love-loss-and-a-lot-less-rap-yet-drakes-sound-still-stings\/"},"modified":"2018-07-01T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:03:23","slug":"love-loss-and-a-lot-less-rap-yet-drakes-sound-still-stings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=47613","title":{"rendered":"Love, loss and a lot less rap. Yet Drake\u2019s sound still stings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rapper\u2019s new album Scorpion contains surprise guests, personal revelations and a second half that is mostly sungOn his fifth album \u2013 named after his zodiac sign \u2013 the biggest rapper in the world has confirmed that, yes, he is the daddy. Last February, Drake, already a superstar, became ubiquitous when he released God\u2019s Plan, the opening shot of this sprawling album. The audio broke Spotify and Apple Music records; its oft-played video witnessed the Torontonian giving away its $996,631.90 budget. A few songs into the first half of this double album, the emotive Sandra\u2019s Rose, sums up the entertainer\u2019s status succinctly: \u201cEvery title doing numbers like I\u2019m Miss Adele.\u201d Related: Drake: Scorpion review \u2013 a maddening monument to superstardom Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/jul\/01\/drake-rap-music-america-culture-soul-kitty-empire-scorpion\" target=\"_blank\">Love, loss and a lot less rap. Yet Drake\u2019s sound still stings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rapper\u2019s new album Scorpion contains surprise guests, personal revelations and a second half that is mostly sungOn his fifth album \u2013 named after his zodiac sign \u2013 the biggest rapper in the world has confirmed that, yes, he is the daddy. Last February, Drake, already a superstar, became ubiquitous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}