Imagine waking up in the morning smelling the aroma of breakfast being prepared at your grandmothers and as you run downstairs a flood of joy instantly fills you. Drake and 21 Savage has created that very feeling, they have served us a breakfast for champions, and we are them.
Diving right into it, “Rich Flex” had no choice but to be the opening song on the album. Instantly your eyes widen as the tempo of the angel’s harmony rises and just when you start to feel you body lifting…the beat disrupts everything. And now your rocking back and forth viciously for the next three mins. Or “Major Distribution” that enters with a soft piano creating the feeling of love at first site, putting you in a daydream but for only 30 seconds then shakes you out our sleep with a thunderous beat that feel like a kiss from your crush. Even sampling the hit 90s song “Give Me Your Lov’n” by B.G.O.T.I. in “Spin Bout U” gave me the feeling of riding in a 1980 Monte Carlo but after mixing in the wave of their new school music changed that old engine into a V8 inside. If you like albums that provoke different feelings and emotions “Her Loss” is just for you.
Taking it back to 2018 with his “Scorpion” album. If you knew that Drake then with the diversity he had during that time, having not only his normal love flow over a sorrow beat, but his jock charisma as well. Then the Drake now is the 2.0 version of that. His last album “Honestly, Never mind” made me feel as if he held back the icing on a cupcake, his name being the cupcake and the album being the icing. But after this was released, I see why he held back and just brutally dumped the whole tub on one cupcake!
“Her Loss” could have easily been another Drake solo album but adding 21 Savages drill rap style and Atlanta demeanor, they turned a horse in a stallion. The energy they both bring to that table has turned out to be one of the best duos of our time. With 21 Savage wearing the tough lifestyle on his shoulders, Drake not just as an artist but as a producer took 21 words that could possibly seem menacing to others and twisted into something casual and loving. Like in my favorite song on the album “Hours in Silence” he says, “I got a 30 on my waist, cause a lotta broke n***** ‘round the way’ ‘round town and they lookin’ for my face.” Just by reading instant thought he saying he need to keep his gun on him cause people will kill for money but when you listen, you will hear how he effortlessly support the negative content in what he saying by calmly singing the verse over a beat with high enthusiasm.
But the album is not a “no skip,” like his album “Nothing Was The Same” released back in 2013. Each song on that album delivered the homework that was due, not one song could be skipped and not one song gave me the feeling to call my girl and let her know I was coming home. “Her Loss” has a couple hit or miss songs like “Circo Loco” or “Broke Boys.” These songs hang at the bottom of the totem pole simply cause when they first got played I did not get stuck, my head did not tell my finger to wait but 14/16 is still a A!
If you look the title of the album is called “Her Loss” but what I like so much about this album is that it contradicts with some of the songs on it. You would think it would have songs about guys don’t need women, they need us, we all superior! But “Spin Bout U” presses the idea that I’ll do anything for my girl. Same in “Treacherous Twins” the two specifically say “you my treacherous lil’ twin, and you know that we locked in, and I love you.” Interesting right? Going in the album you have that one thought, but it will continue to change, “man is it her loss or…my loss?