The Drizzy Effect - Drake (Mixtape)

...DJ E-V-hosted mixtape that features the works of the Toronto, Canada rapper Drake. The mixtape uses all of his most well-known material and packs in many remixes to tracks that he has done where he brings in his won verse to popular hits from others.

1. “Fear”

He gets on DJ Khalil’s beats for the opening track to the mixtape (and one that wasn’t originally found on the “So Far Gone” mixtape. It is a fly one and a tune that ...
...one that has him easing the listeners into his work well as you see that he bring a tune that has him coming out with some very commercial material and something that I would have expected to be a successful single had it come out in this manner. He brings raps which have him relaxing the complexity in order to make for a tune that doesn’t run the risk of going over peoples’ heads.

**Five Stars**

3. “Killers”

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“The Drizzy Effect” was released in Autumn 2009 and came as a DJ E-V-hosted mixtape that features the works of the Toronto, Canada rapper Drake. The mixtape uses all of his most well-known material and packs in many remixes to tracks that he has done where he brings in his won verse to popular hits from others.

1. “Fear”

He gets on DJ Khalil’s beats for the opening track to the mixtape (and one that wasn’t originally found on the “So Far Gone” mixtape. It is a fly one and a tune that is seen to effectively bring the release to a close as you see that in it you have him bringing through some of his innovative rhymes whilst going off from some strong beats that do all they need to support what he does and leave it on a high.

**Four Stars**

2. “The Winner”

This is a light tune and one that has him easing the listeners into his work well as you see that he bring a tune that has him coming out with some very commercial material and something that I would have expected to be a successful single had it come out in this manner. He brings raps which have him relaxing the complexity in order to make for a tune that doesn’t run the risk of going over peoples’ heads.

**Five Stars**

3. “Killers”

This was an unexpected collaboration, but one that, of course would work as you find that here Drake works with another newcomer in the game as the West Coast Rap artist Nipsey Hu$$le comes to do his thing with Drizzy and they come to do it all in the futuristic style of the main artist (where Nipsey is known more for the general Gangsta Rap out of LA as he acts as a new age Snoop Dogg) but does well to keep up here.

**Five Stars**

4. “My Darlin’ Baby”

This one is all about the heavy duo of Drizzy and his label owner Lil’ Wayne (who is behind Young Money) and you see that together you are able to see just how well the chemistry comes as their rhyming styles are so similar that many had thought that initially Drake was simply getting all of his rhymes written by Weezy. It is a banger of a tune and you see that they don’t hold back as they try to get the girl they have their eyes on.

**Five Stars**

5. “Forever”

This is a killer track from the artist and is seen to be his version of “Swagger Like Us”, a track that featured Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z and T.I., however in this case, with Drake on the hook you see that here you get a heavy line-up as he is followed by Kanye and Lil’ Wayne and then finally Eminem, all of whom bring verses that are seen to try and out-do the talent of the one who came before as they deal with the themes of “Successful”. With T.I. in prison at the time of recording and Jay-Z having Drake appear on his 2009 album, you can see why you get who you do here.

**Five Stars**

6. “I’m Goin’ In”

This was a very popular one from the mixtape and one that needs deserves the attention it received as you see that in it Lil’ Wayne and Young Jeezy come to assist him on a pure Dirty South club banger of a tune that competes with some of the best that have come out of the area from the last few years. Needlz is behind the beats and he brings something perfectly in-line with the trends to make for one of the best on the mixtape.

**Five Stars**

7. “I Get Paper”

This is a fly tune and one that I can se many people getting into as it uses a very familiar melody and with this it means that it makes it easy for anyone, in spite of the type of music they are into, to get down to this kind of thing. As you find that here the progressive production is in-line with Drake’s innovative musical directions and how exactly he managed to mix the rapping and great R&B vocals.

**Five Stars**

8. “Money To Blow”

Here you get a banger of a joint where Lil’ Wayne joins Drake on a track that is actually done by Wayne’s ‘daddy’ Birdman, and is seen to be a pure club banger of a tune where it is all designed to appeal to this sort of area and come out with nothing but what everyone is almost guaranteed to enjoy as they hit up these areas. The tune goes hard and doesn’t have any major flaws to it to pull it down.

**Five Stars**

9. “I’m Still Fly”

Here you get a track to prove that Drake isn’t the fraudster that haters assume he must be in order to have come up so quickly and so efficiently and so he comes in with a freestyle and shows just how well he is able to improvise killer rhymes that show that he hasn’t got others writing everything he does. He ensures that every line is perfectly on-point and does as much as possible to hint on his iner potential.

**Five Stars**

10. “Throw It In The Bag” (Remix)

This is a remix from a Fabolous track and you see that in it you have Fab’ calling for the assistance of the young rhymer to add just a little something extra to this big single that popped off his “Loso’s Way” album. Drizzy offers all I believe is possible to make for a tune that pretty much completes it as it was a decent cut, but didn’t have what previous joints by him had and so it isn’t the best here, but is still valued.

**Four Stars**

11. “Successful”

With this, he drops into one of the artist’s big singles as he is seen to work with two names who are known to associate heavy with him as he gets ATL’s bad boy R&B singer Trey Songz joining him, as they do things on some cold synth and deep snares to pull out the energy within it as he talks of his game plan. It is a killer tune and one that seems to stand out hugely for the atmosphere that it creates as it changes everything up.

**Five Stars**

12. “Slow It Down”

In this one you see that he gets down to one where he makes the effort to show a bit more of his strengths and potential as he does one where it is largely built on his ability to come out with a great R&B performance that is able to compete just as well as his Rap game. It has a throwback feel to it and so he doesn’t seem as hungry in this side of things, but he doesn’t really lose anything in doing it.

**Four Stars**

13. “The One”

This track is one from Mary J. Blige and has Drake as the featured artist. It is a track that seems to be on-trend for contemporary R&B and so you can’t really fault it here, but then again it isn’t anything really that special and doesn’t really end the mixtape in a significant manner as it was a single from the Hip Hop Soul artist and so rather well-known and doesn’t really need to be added on here.

**Three Stars**

14. "Digital Girl” (Remix)

This one is the hit track from Jamie Foxx and one that has the likes of The-Dream and Kanye also being added into the mix (in addition to Drizzy) and you find that they simply take things to another high. It is a heavy tune and one that keeps the R&B side of things rolling nicely whilst Kanye and Drake hold up the rapping side of things and work to the best of their ability even with the apparent laid-back approach.

**Five Stars**

15. “Off That”

This is a Jay-Z track with a feature from the Canadian rapper and singer Drake (who is restricted to just being kept as the hookman on this one) you get a Timbaland-produced offering here. Personally, I felt that the beats weren’t really saying a lot and as Timbo was said to have openly kept his best compositions for his next album it seems right. It is a lively one, but one that you could easily forget about, even with Drizzy being a part of it.

**Three Stars**

16. “I Invented Sex”

Here you get a big one as Trey Songz links up with Canada’s Drake (who raps this time around) and together they make for a banger of a joint that forces you right in through the lively nature of the production and how everything else appears to fall into place after it. You find hat he bigs up bedroom performance massively as he talks of how he does it so well that it will make the girl he’s with think that he must have invented sex after he’s put on a little Usher, and he gets down to it.

**Five Stars**

17. “Stunt On You” (Lude)

18. “Take You Down”

After a little more R&B on the interlude, you see that here he still hasn’t had enough of this end of things as he comes in with his interpretation of the Chris Brown track of the same name and comes out with a seductive tune that I can’t say I felt was really as strong as the things you get from the original, but is good at showing what Drizzy has within him where this side of his music is made to be more prominent.

**Four Stars**

19. “Rock N Roll”

As we get into the latter stage here, he goes off on top of some lively club beats and I felt that this meant that he was half the way to getting things done well before you finally see that it turns into a heavy jam once you here his futuristic flows that take on lots of Lil’ Wayne’s style. It is good for the fact that you really don’t need much effort to enjoy what you get from it as it is a very straight forward banger of a tune that will appeal to a wide range of people.

**Five Stars**

20. “Best I’ve Ever Had” (Swizz Beatz Remix)

This is a killer remix to his breakthrough tune and one that has Swizz Beatz taking over the production in order to twist it around in a completely new direction so that it has much more of a club feel to it. The only weakness in it is that Swizzy feels that he should actually get a role in rapping and his wack lyrics are brought out from the get-go to essentially spoil the final track on the mixtape.

**Four Stars**

As with any project that features Drake as the most prominent artist, this is a strong mixtape. I have to say that I wasn’t happy with a couple of the choices that went into it, but you can’t really say that they hold things back too much as there is a wide range of tunes by him and a sizable chunk of these are R&B-based to add to the mix (as most mixtapes typically feature just his raps).
 

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