This is an awesome review by Lou Reed.

It is a long but worthwhile read. It is also a wall of text if I paste it in here, so you'll just have to go to the link and read the damn thing.

The Jay-Z album was lame

You're crazy.

Yeah. I've listened to it quite a bit, now. I'm loving it, and I'm not a huge Jay-Z fan. It got horrible reviews at Pitchfork and some others... but damn... I like it.

I like it too. Obviously not his best work, but when you have a catalog like Jay Z, it's hard to keep topping yourself. He's still the best ever.

I've listened through MCHG four or five times now. It's a solid album. There are some really great tracks and a few I will skip through from here on out; but all things considered I enjoy it.

Holy Grail, Oceans, FUTW are some of my faves. I'm sure as I listen through the rest will grow on me a bit.

OK, figured I'd just recycle this thread here:

Drake's latest album Nothing Was the Same leaked about a week ago. I found a site called leakedearly (.com) that has the album available for download. I'm hesitant to download some shit from a random ass site so I was wondering if any of you have some reliable places to download leaks?

For the piracy bitches, I actually plan on buying the album when it drops on the 24th so fist yourself.

The hell if I'm going to help anyone listen to a Drake album.

That's a bummer.

The site I found allows streaming and the album is very good.

Link?

Here you go, brosephine.

For the record, I can't speak to the integrity of the site. I can tell you that I don't have any virus protection on my computer and everything seems to be running OK for me. I didn't actually download the album though, just streamed it as I plan on buying it in a couple days.

http://www.leakedearly.com/albums/dr...lbum-download/

Man, there's literally not a bad song on this album.

It still has the mellow vibe of Take Care, maybe even taking it a step further actually. The difference between the two though is that Drake isn't singing as much as he did on the last album. The beats are more chill and laid back but he tends to rap over them more than he sings. Hold On We're Going Home is definitely the most sing-songy track on the album.

There also aren't many features. He has Big Sean and 2 Chainz on All Me, Jay-Z on Pound Cake, some singer dudes on The Motion and Too Much (which is my early favorite), and some singing chick on another song- I can't remember which one.

Best part is there's no Lil Wayne or Nicki Minaj.

I heard the Wu-Tang homage song was wack.

Thank you! I'm using my phone should be good.

I've been listening to it for the past week or so. I like it except tracks 9, 10 and 11.