EDM DJ Cashmere Cat even sampled it for his break-out hit “Mirror Maru” in 2012. That bed squeaking noise that Drake samples in “Currents,” Jersey Club producers have been using that for years. The Current Dance Music Sceneĭrake and Beyoncé’s “house music revival” isn’t new in the present standpoint, nor in the past. If not repossession, then probably an awareness for where house music originated.

Instead, I’d call it a repossession of house music, at least in a mainstream pop-culture sense. Many people would call what they’re doing the revival of house music through mainstream hip-hop. The following day, Beyoncé dropped her new single, “BREAK MY SOUL,” reinforcing the strangeness that Drake’s album touches on. Personally, I wouldn’t go as far as to give it four stars, but I would agree that Drake is doing something interesting and peculiar when looking at the hip-hop genre.

The Daily Beast says the album “Is Proof He’s Way Past His Prime” while Complex said he “Finally Stopped Trying to Do Something For Everyone.” Pitchfork gave the album a 6.6 out of 10, while Rolling Stone gave the album four stars out of five, saying “He Has the Power to Reconfigure Taste-And Elevate Hip-Hop.” Lizzo said in a statement she never wanted to promote derogatory language.ĭisability advocate Hannah Diviney, who pointed out Lizzo’s lyrics that lead to the change, wrote on Twitter that hearing the word again used by Beyoncé “felt like a slap in the face to me, the disabled community & the progress we tried to make with Lizzo.The music industry received Drake’s album with mixed reviews. Lizzo also removed the word from one of her songs, “Grrrls,' in June after disability advocates complained about the lyrics. The song “Heated,” which was co-written with Canadian rapper Drake among several others, uses the word “spaz,' which is considered a derogatory reference to the medical term spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a spokeswoman for Beyoncé wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday. Beyoncé is removing an offensive term for disabled people from a new song on her record “Renaissance,' just weeks after rapper Lizzo also changed lyrics to remove the same word.

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