Top 5 Songs of the Year
#3 Drake “Best I Ever Had”
People like Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne and Outkast make a pretty good argument for commercial radio hip-hop. They push the limits, look towards the past and the underground for inspiration and completely admit to their own shortcomings.
Drake does none of that. He’s a canadian teenage actor who happens to have some friends in the music industry and was able to put together some demo’s to put on mix tapes. However, this song got me this year. Something about how dumb it allows itself to be. Drake doesn’t seem to be concerned with saying stupid shit like “You can have my heart or we can share it like the last slice”. He relies on cliche’s, and although the song is supposed to be about a special lady, it ends up being a proclamation to how awesome he is.
All things said, I couldn’t get through this summer without blasting this in my headphones while walking to the train. It was my wake-up, pump-up song. That’s the thing about it, no matter how cliche and dumb it is, you can’t help but tap your feet and just maybe sing along to the chorus.
While Jay-Z declared the death of auto-tune, Drake managed to sneak this one in there without issues.
