The Singles Jukebox

Pop, to two decimal places.

Drake & Future – Jumpman

There’s also a video game. But it isn’t this


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Alfred Soto: The return of zombie Future, rapping to the rhythm of Drake’s metronome. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Or, 2015: the year I learned to stop worrying and embrace Future. I’ve liked Drake for a while, so that was never the issue. Metro Boomin’s track slays. And now that I’m copacetic with Future, it all comes together. “Chanel number nine, Chanel number five, now you got both.” 
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Micha Cavaseno: *cue IG meme of Drakk scowling and looking gross in some sweats with an ugly beard*, *cue IG meme of Russell Wilson being haunted by a ghostly aura of Future going “Sensational”*, *cue a formula for the dilution of a pure element (namely Future), and the addition of artificial sweet-boy sweeteners that will inevitably lead to cancer (namely Drakk)*, *cue me deleting the whole internet within the week*, *cue me listening to rappers rapping well and not foisting out generic retail albums and mistagging them “mixtapes” because labels are now trying to kill the old industry means of making song selection happen*,*cue me continuously amazed at how Honest had better than anything on here*
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Andy Hutchins: More impressively boring: The mini-hook(s) here, which use(s) repetition to make sure the idea that them boys (are) up to something by drilling into it your head with six doses, or gifted melodists Drake and Future settling for essentially 1.5 cadences each over an endless 205 seconds? “Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu” makes me smirk every time, and is a totally unintentional callback to Future filling a bar with “Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo” on “Racks,” a 2011 song that seems to be from far further in the past. As proof of the concept that this duo can probably say literally anything over a Metro Boomin beat and make it popular, “Jumpman” holds some appeal; as a song, not so much.
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Brad Shoup: We ever seen Drakk and that crow in the same place? It’s an advanced class in cadence — constructing a flow around a snowclone and a grab-bag of boasts. On Twitter, it’s a [10] for sure.
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Crystal Leww: At this point, I’m usually grumpy when a new Drake or Future release drops, complaining about how all this stuff is mostly unlistenable (at a computer, where I usually am listening to this stuff for the first time), but you can still find me shouting all the words in the club. What’s the truth? (The truth is that this is great. I am wrong.)
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