Rihanna Cruz

There was a single, Which One, featuring Central C, previously a Lucy, but now known to be on Maid of Honor.

And there was also low-key my sleeper hit record of 2025, Drake's collab album with Party Next Door, Some Sexy Songs For You, which featured the mega hit Nokia.

I feel like Nokia was him dipping his toes back into the waters of mainstream culture outside of the hip hop community.

It was a soft launch return to the spotlight to me.

It was clearly super successful.

The song went multiple times platinum, reached number two on a Hot 100.

But again, that was a collab record.

These three albums are his first solo efforts.

We have three different vibes, 43 songs.

I've done a lot of listening to these records for over a week now, and my overwhelming feeling is that we are now in an era of Drake slop.

Let me explain.

So the definition of slop I see in the modern age connotates a certain kind of low quality mass produced content.

And I think that's exactly what these Drake records are.

The quality aspect, kind of debatable.

I think for objectivity's sake, it's maybe more low effort.

But there's not much overt curation on these albums.

He's mass producing music, much like the data dump of 100 gigs.

He's just dumping whatever on the track, on these albums, in the sheer volume of the

But also internally, he wants it to seem like it's low effort and he's not trying too hard.

And in that, it's kind of just him spilling out his guts, not really going through an editor, whatever that may be.