#METASWAG: They Know

OVOXO

Thesis

What you doin' that's so important? For me, nothing is quite as important as listening to Take Care, which leaked earlier this evening.

Meaning, this is me right now:

And it was already a good day. I spent my afternoon as Terius (the old fool) playing Dungeons & Dragons with my crew. I then caught dinner with my fam. Shortly thereafter I watched Lost In Translation with Zech. It's the sort of movie to get you thinking about the future and the past, even if you've already seen and loved it.

But that's neither here or there. What is, is:

Take Care

A part of me was starting to hope it wouldn't leak. Luckily, the illusion of mass communal experience is maintained by the saturation of trending topics with this album's song titles. Clearly, it's an Important release. And it's Important to me: did you know that I actually built a sick day into my semester to listen to Take Care? Well, now you know!

First Impressions

Dangerous to write about this after only one listen (and an incomplete one - the last track is missing from the leak), but this one matters. It seems to have all the richness of the Drake record I wanted. Drizzy's verses tend to be stellar. The production is luscious throughout. "Lord Knows" in particular sounds monstrous. "Look What You've Done" plays out like a rap reinterpretation of the drunken flashback scene from Casablanca. The album itself is huge; it's longer than plenty of double records. At times it feels like it, replete with spoken word passages and interludes, but it never drags. The biggest relief here is that nothing sounds like filler. Just killer.

Hopefully I'll get to write a review of this for the IDS.

Memory

A quick reminder for myself: if I want to take the time to feel something old, I've got so many untapped memories stored away somewhere in my mind. I always forget that I can remember. There are so many fleeting images and moments (the animated .gifs of my past) just waiting to be parsed out and reimagined.

Conclusions

Well, I had intended to do work tonight. Let's just pretend that I saved some daylight for that tomorrow. Take care.

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