Drake feat./ Kanye West, Lil Wayne & Eminem- Forever
“Payback motherfucker for the way you got at me, how’s it taste/When I slap the taste out of your mouth with a ring so loud it shakes the place/I’m hannibal lecter so just in case you thinking of saving face/You aint gonna have no face save/By the time I’m done with this place, so Drake…”-Eminem on “Forever”
“Everyone who’s doubted me is asking for forgiveness/If you aint been apart of it, at least you got to witness…bitches.”-Drake on “Forever”
Lets get the formalities out of the way before I gush about this record. This is record, produced by Boi-1Da(who also cooked up “Best I Ever Had”) will be featured on the soundtrack of the Lebron James documentary, More Than A Game. Now that THAT’S out of the way, let me say…
HOLY FUCK!! The beat and chorus is rehashed from the original (and FARRRR inferior) version with just Mr. Graham and Weezy. It’s been a general consensus on the Twitterland, blogs and forums since last night when it debuted that Drake, Wayne, and ‘Ye were all battling for 2nd place with the heralded verse of the year by Eminem destroying everything. While I dont think it’s verse of the year(check his first verse from “Underground” for a possible contender), Em did do 2 things that show he is the ultimate chess master of this rap shit:
1. PURPOSELY get on the track with the 3 rappers people were saying were running rap during his drug-induced 5 Year sabatical and reclaim his title as the king.
2. FORCE the MTV “braintrust” to have NO choice but to put the rapper with the highest selling album of the year and most critically acclaimed album of the year as the “Hottest” rapper Alive since he murdered the 2 previous recepient of that title (Wayne and Kanye) and the one who they were hyping to become the next (Drake).
“…rap’ll never be the same as before“-Eminem on “Forever”