i can't get over the picture of all the books stacked on top of each other and it just saying "AAAAAA", which is probably an accurate emotion reading this book
There was once a man named Drake, who went and made a grave mistake. He picked up paper and a pen, thought to his life, and then wrote down his unwanted views in incel lines on unearned virtues.
So we've reached the: a single sentence written by a celebrity=poetry phase of society. I maintain that we are in the dumbest time-line. Not the darkest. The dumbest.
I really want to know who is buying this and reading it cover to cover (besides reviewers lol). Who would genuinely enjoy this?? Even Drake superfans-presumably they enjoy him for, like, beats, and more than one line at a time. A Drake fan seeking a more sensitive, candid side of him isn’t finding it here. A Drake fan who wants to feel like a cool womanizer probably isn’t going to read a poetry book cover to cover. What is going on
@@guyanomalyso true. I imagine the person who got "Drake" tattooed on their forehead is doubley regretting that decision now.😅 For real though, hope they're OK. 😬
I love that Rachel is so offended by a bad (read: missing) rhyme scheme that she wrote her own misogynist poem to fix it. Rachel, you are too much XD and this is why we love you!
Let me fix that "poem" for him: There are two types of females in this world: high school freshmen girls who I can manipulate into giving me head, and females I don't like. To be clear, that is from Drake's perspective and is not representative of my actual opinions.
His tendency for grooming younger girls is definitely not moral. However, we can not ignore the factual reality, evolutionarily-driven motivation for: 1. Men to seek out reproductively fertile women 2. Women to seek out men that possess an abundance of resources (Wealth, high social status etc.)
“A Steam of Consciousness” is pomposity for “a bunch of half-baked judgemental thoughts I have on a daily basis” This translation was brought to you by the Society for Intelligent Communication
There’s a brazilian writer called Clarice Lispector and she published books in the 1940s up to the 70s, one of her works “água viva” was steam of consciousness… i guess what I’m trying to say is that drake’s poetry sucks and people calling using that excuse of ohh it’s supposed to be just a bunch of thoughts makes me think there’s probably tons of writes rolling in their graves (also english is not my first language, just in case I got wrote things wrong)
There are two types of folks in this world; Those who use their heads, And those who use their mouths. See, even my half-assed attempt at poetry conveys a greater meaning than Drake’s self-aggrandizing misogyny. It even has a double entendre!
Thing with this poetry book is that if you gave it to someone who didn’t know Drake or at least didn’t know his legal name, it’s likely they absolutely wouldn’t believe you if you told them that the person who wrote this dreck was an internationally famed & awarded musician. Not only is the 1 line per page structure a display of talentless pretension but there is zero lyricism or flow or rhythm or insight.
Sub-sub title: "Also doubles as a sketchbook" If you are not versed in visual arts, you are welcome to just write "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" on every page, so as to vent your frustration.
Drake's poetry is basically him being mad because Nicki Minaj didn't want to be romantically involved with him. Then he started creeping on people like Millie Bobby Brown when she was an under-age teenager. He's not even a real drake. He's not a 4 limbed, wingless dragon. Nor is he a member of a sub-species of large reptiles from southeast asia. Weak sauce, my dude. Weak sauce.
Wait wait wait. All this time, I honestly thought he was calling himself a duck. I never even considered that he would meen drake as a dragon. Being a duck fits much better.
What's most infuriating about these kind of books is the ones with lost potential. Take the soundtrack one for instance, "I am the soundtrack for lives that go on without me." That could be the start to a really cool piece about the experience of being known and you and your art being loved by millions while you have a connection with so few. It's actually a pretty nice line that could lead into a very insightful and personal piece... which makes it all the more disappointing when he stops there. It's almost harder to listen to than the ones that are just straight up shallow. Edit: LMAO I guess me and Rachel are on the same wavelength. Paused the video to copy the line only to hear my comment repeated back to me.
The Golddigger theme with people Like Drake Always Cracks me Up because... ... Youre "Love Songs" are all about how much Money you have. How you throw your Money at your girlfriend. How you fly them out on your private Jet. How hot your girlfriend is in Designer Fashion. Rarely a Word about your Girls character, about what she Likes, about what you do for her that isnt rooted in Money. Sorry but If all you offer in a relationship is your Money, are you surprised thats what your Partners react to? It's all you ever brag about
I live in Boston, Massachusetts (USA, New England) A fairly progressive and safe place. I just read an article this morning about how a local woman was attacked by a man who thought she snubbed him by not saying “good morning” to him. He ATTACKED her. This is the world we live in.
@@Keznen she at the very least is alive, but i couldn't find any article that specified if she has brain damage from being hit in the head so many times. so since they didn't specify that she did i'd assume she doesn't and is okay
these "poems" could've just been text messages, what a waste of paper 😭 + your poem using food imagery was lovely, i really liked the twilight line!!!!
i cant quite fathom how this entire thing was somehow written by two people? the most believable thing to me is that they just went through their text conversations and put some random texts on paper
Imagine Drake being this open about how disgusting a person he is. He's really showing his misogyny and lack of talent, and seems completely unaware of it.
And how! Though I can't imagine it takes much effort to gather together a fistful of scribbled napkins & post-it notes & hand them to the editor. (Type them up and email them?! That takes _work!_ And those DMs to under18s won't write themselves. [Ugh.])
Poetry has been so devalued in our society, and it's quite awful how poets often struggle to get paid for their work. But some dude like Drake managed to publish his discarded lyrics and actually make money. BTW, if you had seen Drake's "freestyling" live session, this would gain even more context. Dude cannot come up with more than a few coherent words strung together as "lyrics" -- and there actually is a fair amount of people who argue he doesn't even write his song lyrics at all. F.D Signifier has an excellent video about Drake, if his mediocrity has piqued your curiosity. (Oh, look, that rhymed -- maybe I need to publish snippets of comments in a book)
"one-sided beef is not beef........ its chicken" made me giggle because i genuinely had no fucking clue what it meant until i actually read it a second time. drake has a beautiful mind
I ADORE your videos. Somehow I always "leave" them feeling like I've learned something, or understood poetry better. Even when you make videos addressing BAD works, and criticizing them, you always contrast them with perfect examples of better works and how they went about a similar idea, only with... talent. And care. And more than two seconds of one misogynistic braincell talking😭
There was something I learned early on in creative writing. It was 'don't fall so in love with your own work that you think it's perfect without any editing, something can always be improved upon.' Drake would do well to consider this. And secondly...why didn't he just use these as lines in his songs?? I think a lot of them would work so much better that way, though I'm not familiar with his music.
Halsey is a fantastic songwriter, the album if I can’t have love I want power is phenomenal, sonically and lyrically. And produced by nine inch nails too! In an interview Reznor said she wrote all the songs and brought them to him and he was so impressed and excited to work on them with her. I’m not surprised her poetry is great too! I should pick up her book
I’m pretty tolerant of pop poetry like Rupi Kaur because I think it has the potential to get young people interested in the genre. Mary Oliver, who was arguably a “pop poet” of the 90s, was the first poet whose work made me feel that transcendent, indescribable feeling, and made me want to write poetry myself. But this trend towards one-liner tweet poetry makes me so sad. To say nothing of the misogyny-which is already analyzed beautifully in this video-I don’t see how this would make anyone want to read more poetry. I support stretching the art form and exploring its bounds 100%, but this isn’t that. It’s a brainless cash grab.
When I subscribed to you (I think you were at 19K) you spoke very poorly of your own writing ability and were too shy to read us any of your works. It's so lovely to see you become more confident and self-assured enough to accept the risk of people not liking something you made. I'm genuinely happy for you! Also my favorite book is Fire by Kristin Cashore, I think you'd really like it. It has a lot of themes of love, femininity, and misogyny, but also neurodivergence and exceptionality.
It's always so interesting to me when people assume that, because they're talented / famous, people are interested in their "stream of consciousness". I've never found that sort of thing better or more interesting than something someone actually thought out, wrote down, and edited. 🤷♀️ ...it also strikes me as a lazy cash grab, so!
Your videos about terrible poetry are probably some of my favourites on TH-cam. I love that you don't just eviscerate them for being bad, but also show how much better other people have done the same thing!
i love how you were able to improve drake’s terrible poems [at least a bit] by thinking about it for literally a few seconds or minutes and offering changes! also i really enjoyed your poem and the other ones you shared as examples of better poetry!
"Trees died for this!" Yes, exactly, Rachel! A broom would be better, I know. The fact that the spine tells you all you need to know about the content is ironic. It's the exact same comment I make when I see a big spider and I run.
The worst part is Drake pretty much says the exact same things in his music. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a collection of drafts from a studio session
Dick & Jane books had more thought put into their narrative. Dick and Jane had a baby sister named Sally, parents named "Mother" and "Father" a cat named Fluff and a dog named Spot. They didn't do a whole hell of a lot of interesting things, they ran, walked, ate breakfast, brushed their teeth, yadda, yadda, yadda, but it was far more entertaining than Drake's shower mental musings.
And pictures. The least he could have done is add pics or made it a popup book to appeal to it's target audience of self-professed Alphas who never stopped going through puberty.
He's always struck me as an extremely insecure and kinda nerdy guy who was desperate for street cred which, I think is a big part of what he hoped to acquire with this book. The really weird thing is that Drake appears to be pretty close to his mother. He serenaded her at a concert this summer and there's lots of photos of them together. Really curious what she thinks about this masterpiece.
I could write a book like Drake's. I'd call it "The Fella Abides", it could have random thoughts that don't rhyme and not take up a lot of space like "I hate when things fall on my exposed toes, but then when I realize it's not life threatening and sh!t happens The Fella Abides." and "I had an itch, scratched it 'till it bled, now my cat is licking it. Cats are weird but the Fella Abides."
Why is no one talking about how beautiful Rachel's poem was??? I LOVE all the fruit imagery and the image of eating twilight. Damn, that was beautiful. It was worth sitting through all of Drake's shitty poems to hear your beautiful one. Also, I love Rosetti too. I have an English degree and wrote about her in uni. "The Goblin Market" is one of my favorite poems, but I interpreted it to be about sexual violence rather than the dangers of female sexuality. I enjoyed hearing your interpretation!
it's really lovely getting to watch you grow into your own over the years - seeing the self promotion makes me happy every time just because i remember how downright anxious you seemed when you first started trying to make a habit of it X) love the work you do. seeing your videos still makes me smile (and i save the long ones for when im feeling down sometimes). so happy to see you hit 300k, congrats rachel 💓💓💓
This book was Yes Manned into existence. All of these are song lyrics that didn't hit and some goon thought they were deep. He's so boring and eventhough he harasses younger girls, just like Nicki's husband, she still ain't wanna be with him. Actually it's amazing how many rap ladies want nothing to do with him. He can only get fans or girls. Sad.
My favorite book of all time is Harrow the Ninth. It's prose, but every sentence has more poetry to it than the entirety of this collection. A particularly evocative paragraph: "You looked at the blanketing bodies of the dead children of the Ninth House, were aware of yourself as an ova cluster of two hundred pinpricks of light. You were a sigil: you were an intermingled fire. The fluid was sucked from your sinus cavities, and with it your brain, soon disassembled. You were made small. You were a throat, you were an oven. The water was boiling hot and your skin was sloughing off you in reddened, shrinking frills; those pinpricks boiled within you, and the bodies boiled without-you were a hunger without a stomach. You felt the thanergetic pit inside the coffin, the curve of a childlike jaw, the pallid bow of a dead mouth. You did not understand yourself as standing, nor understood yourself as walking, but you were doing both. You were dying in that hot water; whatever wanted your meat suit could have it."
At 1:26, I love how that image of stacked Drake's 'poetry' books reads "EEEEE NNNNNAAAAA" 😂 Like someone mentioned here, it perfectly describes the emotions of the book's readers. This image itself should be a warning to the buyers 😂 I believe that if Drake's 'poems' can get published, then someone can publish a response book consisting of some of the sassy comments here 😂
The "I can't see the signs hun, I left my glasses at home." could be a good start to a great poem but on it's own in a book with a lot of misogyny it just sounds like him making excuses for being a bad partner.
@@Anindeterminateamountofbees just google "Girls Like Girls lyrics". If you don't have a gun in your mouth after reading the first verse, I would be legitimately impressed
"My talents include a pen. Your talents include a bed..." What I learned from Drake's poetry is that he must be terrible in bed if he thinks his writing is the talent he needs to highlight.
Haha ! Rachel has her flame-thrower out and I love it. I am not so familiar with British Rap but French rappers achieved recognition in the 1990s through the very, very high standard of their poetry. On top of my head, I am thinking of "Caroline" by M.C. Solaar "Je suis l'As de Trèfle qui Pique ton Coeur". I think he took inspiration from Serge Gainsbourg a lot, because Gainsbourg's lyrics were phenomenal. If you think of Françoise Hardy "Sous un aucun prétex-te je ne peux, devant toi surex-poser mes yeux, derrière un Kleenex je saurais mieux, comment de dire Adieu." Middle rhymes in -ex but never refering to what everybody thinks. Gainsbourg embraced rap in the early 80s. And the standard stayed very high _not for everybody of course. Slam got fashionable in the 2010s with people like Abdel-Malik (Gibr Al Tar) or Grand Corps Malade.
My depression notebook where I put down on my shitty thought so I can think about them before i act say anything about them has more cohesion substance and thought and it typically devolved into literal scribbles.
I like that you’re adding more of your sense of humor into your videos! Your content on mainstream poetry is some of your best work imo! Bc you use it to expose people to much better poetry. It helps make poetry more accessible! I hope you never stop making these (as long you enjoy doing it)!
Personally want to thank you, I’m working on my own poetry book and watching your reviews and reading your own is really helping me know what to do as well as what to avoid. Thank you, you’re really doing great work!
3:41 «this book is actually subtitled ‘Streams of consciousness’ which makes me a little concerned for how empty Drakes head must be» made me giggle. I’m sure you’re not alone in that
I genuinely thought Logic had the worst “I’m an award-winning rapper, therefore I clearly know how to write a book despite having no idea how to write a book” book but Drake just went a proved me wrong. Don’t know how, but he did. Congrats?? I think??? (Thank you for your sacrifice ma’am. We appreciate you)
I can't tell you how excited I am to see another poetry review - I love the other content you've been putting out too but your poetry reviews will always have a special place in my heart, Rachel.
19:50 oh man, I wasnt expecting to be reminded of myself a few years ago browsing r/inceltears in this poetry review lol Ive definitely had a similar experience of "holy shit I actually understand their hateful rapidly shifting nonsense terminology and Im barely phased by it if its not outright threats of CSA" in regards to incels even though I was going through a subreddit where the discourse around the statements in question was definitely anti-incel
on that one-sided beef line: i think it could have been fire as part of a bar in a song. the interpretation rachel goes into could be supported really well by the context of a verse, maybe even working as a punchline at the end where the absurdity becomes cool
Finally, something worse from Drake than The Heart Part 6 and Taylor Made Freestyle. edit: speaking as a male hip-hop fan, I don't idolize Drake (never really did, his lyrics were weak, AND GHOSTWRITTEN), and I'm willing to bet that not a lot of people do now, given the beef between him and Kendrick (mentioning Kendrick's fiance, the whole AI Tupac thing, "I got a son to raise, but I can see you don't know nothin bout THAAAAT," "I hate the way that you walk, the way you talk, I hate the way that you dress," and of course "tryna strike a chord, and it's probably A MINOOOOOORRRR").
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i can't get over the picture of all the books stacked on top of each other and it just saying "AAAAAA", which is probably an accurate emotion reading this book
😂
Maybe it was well thought out after all
yeah the "EEEE", "NNNNN", and "AAAAA" are pretty good representations of the noises of discomfort you'd probably make while reading it....
He hit that A Minor
I think they don’t understand what “stream of consciousness” literary style is. This is absolutely just awful blue-check tweets
Yeah i hardly see evidence of any consciousness in this at all.
like what mood is in while writing this? I can't even tell.
the closest thing i can detect to a "tone" is something like..."smirk."
"Poetry by Drake
was a big mistake."
That's it. That's my contribution to this video. More poetic than that whole "poetry book" of his.
*Golf clap*
Bars!
There was once a man named Drake,
who went and made a grave mistake.
He picked up paper and a pen,
thought to his life, and then
wrote down his unwanted views
in incel lines on unearned virtues.
@@js66613Bars.
*snaps*
So we've reached the: a single sentence written by a celebrity=poetry phase of society. I maintain that we are in the dumbest time-line. Not the darkest. The dumbest.
Tbf, he's the only one calling it poetry
I really want to know who is buying this and reading it cover to cover (besides reviewers lol). Who would genuinely enjoy this?? Even Drake superfans-presumably they enjoy him for, like, beats, and more than one line at a time. A Drake fan seeking a more sensitive, candid side of him isn’t finding it here. A Drake fan who wants to feel like a cool womanizer probably isn’t going to read a poetry book cover to cover. What is going on
@@guyanomalyso true. I imagine the person who got "Drake" tattooed on their forehead is doubley regretting that decision now.😅
For real though, hope they're OK. 😬
Simp culture is out of hand.
@@guyanomaly to be fair, you can read the book cover to cover just by reading the title 😄😄
I think we just found out the target audience! 😅
I love that Rachel is so offended by a bad (read: missing) rhyme scheme that she wrote her own misogynist poem to fix it. Rachel, you are too much XD and this is why we love you!
I really like how the spine yells "AAAAAAAA" when you line up a bunch of these "books". A very fitting scream of dispair for the quality of these
The only reason to buy multiple copies of this book 😂
Kendrick fans seeing a bunch of these books be like, "I REMEMBER YOU WAS CONFLICTED."
Let me fix that "poem" for him: There are two types of females in this world: high school freshmen girls who I can manipulate into giving me head, and females I don't like.
To be clear, that is from Drake's perspective and is not representative of my actual opinions.
And that’s why you put the disclaimer first, kids! 😂
The disclaimer wasn't necessary for people familiar with Drake's unusual pursuits
His tendency for grooming younger girls is definitely not moral.
However, we can not ignore the factual reality, evolutionarily-driven motivation for:
1. Men to seek out reproductively fertile women
2. Women to seek out men that possess an abundance of resources (Wealth, high social status etc.)
@@anonanon-mx5wg watch out we got an evo-psych over here
@@anonanon-mx5wg i hear you like em young
“A Steam of Consciousness” is pomposity for “a bunch of half-baked judgemental thoughts I have on a daily basis”
This translation was brought to you by the Society for Intelligent Communication
There’s a brazilian writer called Clarice Lispector and she published books in the 1940s up to the 70s, one of her works “água viva” was steam of consciousness… i guess what I’m trying to say is that drake’s poetry sucks and people calling using that excuse of ohh it’s supposed to be just a bunch of thoughts makes me think there’s probably tons of writes rolling in their graves (also english is not my first language, just in case I got wrote things wrong)
@@claricecosta5267
You hit implicitly on the worst part-this is such low effort that he had to give it a pseudo-deep title 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤
Idk if you accidentally wrote steam but that's what made it all for 😂😂
@@h3corptempbutevadinganass
I didn’t mean to misspell, but now I wish I had 🤣
There are two types of folks in this world;
Those who use their heads,
And those who use their mouths.
See, even my half-assed attempt at poetry conveys a greater meaning than Drake’s self-aggrandizing misogyny. It even has a double entendre!
I would wear this on a shirt or a pin
Thing with this poetry book is that if you gave it to someone who didn’t know Drake or at least didn’t know his legal name, it’s likely they absolutely wouldn’t believe you if you told them that the person who wrote this dreck was an internationally famed & awarded musician. Not only is the 1 line per page structure a display of talentless pretension but there is zero lyricism or flow or rhythm or insight.
Well his music sucks too, so it's not too surprising.
He also has been accussed of stealing all of his song from older songs. Not using the techniques but straight up stealing.
Just looking at the empty pages makes me want to get a paint set and fill up the pages with actual art and not just mindless empty words
Do it, whatever you do in those pages will have more artistic value than the original book
Thats such a good idea tho
Sub-sub title: "Also doubles as a sketchbook"
If you are not versed in visual arts, you are welcome to just write "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" on every page, so as to vent your frustration.
Salutations from the future to say that this aged like a fine Chianti.
This has aged beautifully
Drake's poetry is basically him being mad because Nicki Minaj didn't want to be romantically involved with him. Then he started creeping on people like Millie Bobby Brown when she was an under-age teenager.
He's not even a real drake. He's not a 4 limbed, wingless dragon. Nor is he a member of a sub-species of large reptiles from southeast asia. Weak sauce, my dude. Weak sauce.
Drake in his head: Smaug
Drake in reality: Those weird donkey-dragon abominations from Shrek
Fuck that's brutal lmao. Still, doing my dronkeys dirty they don't deserve that xD
Wait wait wait. All this time, I honestly thought he was calling himself a duck. I never even considered that he would meen drake as a dragon. Being a duck fits much better.
@@Wolf_AvatarThis is exactly what I was about to say
This comment required more linguistic talent than all of Drake's poetry did
What's most infuriating about these kind of books is the ones with lost potential. Take the soundtrack one for instance, "I am the soundtrack for lives that go on without me." That could be the start to a really cool piece about the experience of being known and you and your art being loved by millions while you have a connection with so few. It's actually a pretty nice line that could lead into a very insightful and personal piece... which makes it all the more disappointing when he stops there. It's almost harder to listen to than the ones that are just straight up shallow.
Edit: LMAO I guess me and Rachel are on the same wavelength. Paused the video to copy the line only to hear my comment repeated back to me.
Great minds think alike! :)
The Golddigger theme with people Like Drake Always Cracks me Up because...
... Youre "Love Songs" are all about how much Money you have. How you throw your Money at your girlfriend. How you fly them out on your private Jet. How hot your girlfriend is in Designer Fashion.
Rarely a Word about your Girls character, about what she Likes, about what you do for her that isnt rooted in Money.
Sorry but If all you offer in a relationship is your Money, are you surprised thats what your Partners react to? It's all you ever brag about
Witness me writing my first poem EVER:
There are two types of Drakes:
mystical beings that don't exist
and assholes.
What about male ducks?
@@Keznen Never heard of that, but I always like to learn :)
@@Keznen
(I'm VERY sorry for this stupid thing lmao)
There are two types of Drakes :
The ones who quack
And the ones who can't f-
I live in Boston, Massachusetts (USA, New England) A fairly progressive and safe place. I just read an article this morning about how a local woman was attacked by a man who thought she snubbed him by not saying “good morning” to him. He ATTACKED her. This is the world we live in.
Also a Masshole (former North Shore expat now living near Worcester), WTF
Was she okay?
@@Keznen she at the very least is alive, but i couldn't find any article that specified if she has brain damage from being hit in the head so many times. so since they didn't specify that she did i'd assume she doesn't and is okay
@@xyzzyx4839 Hope she doesn't have brain damage. Depending on the severity that can be a fate worse than death.
these "poems" could've just been text messages, what a waste of paper 😭
+ your poem using food imagery was lovely, i really liked the twilight line!!!!
I feel this is too stupid to even be a text message. If someone texted me these lines id probably block them and get a restraining order.
i cant quite fathom how this entire thing was somehow written by two people? the most believable thing to me is that they just went through their text conversations and put some random texts on paper
you might be on to something there... that actually makes a lot of sense
Imagine Drake being this open about how disgusting a person he is. He's really showing his misogyny and lack of talent, and seems completely unaware of it.
The book could be really funny as a satire of a douchy rapper... Missed opportunity
That makeup and shirt combination is gorgeous. Also cannot wait to see you rip this to shreds goodness this should not have been published
Looks bright!
Which is something that cannot be said for neither Drake nor his “poetry”
This video has resurfaced at just the right time.
i’m pretty sure rachel put more work into this video than drake put into that entire book
By spades
And how! Though I can't imagine it takes much effort to gather together a fistful of scribbled napkins & post-it notes & hand them to the editor. (Type them up and email them?! That takes _work!_ And those DMs to under18s won't write themselves. [Ugh.])
Celebrities stop writing poetry books because they think it requires no effort Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
I really hate it when people call tweets/shower thoughts poems. That's not what micropoetry is meant to be.
"oh rats. I need a paycheck but my ghostwriters are all on vacation. ... Aha, I know! 💡"
I fully believed you when you said these poems were bad and I was still shocked by how bad they were.
Same here. I was fully prepared for them being bad yet I wasn't prepared enough.
It can't be that ba- *Rachel reads the first poem* ok, it is that bad.
This was me HAHAH. I was shocked
I learned a long time ago that when Rachel covers something it will *always* somehow get worse
I was like: how can it be that bad than others she covered and holy shit it is so bad...
I'm absolutely living for you roasting the shit out of Drake in this video. This book is a waste of paper.
Poetry has been so devalued in our society, and it's quite awful how poets often struggle to get paid for their work. But some dude like Drake managed to publish his discarded lyrics and actually make money.
BTW, if you had seen Drake's "freestyling" live session, this would gain even more context. Dude cannot come up with more than a few coherent words strung together as "lyrics" -- and there actually is a fair amount of people who argue he doesn't even write his song lyrics at all.
F.D Signifier has an excellent video about Drake, if his mediocrity has piqued your curiosity. (Oh, look, that rhymed -- maybe I need to publish snippets of comments in a book)
Drake very famously doesn't write his own lyrics. Kendrick Lamar called him out for it a few years ago
'friends dont let friends publish books this bad' rachel you kill me
Drake’s poetry makes Gabbie Hanna’s look like Shakespeare
Do not go that far! Rupi Kaur is Shakespeare hahaha
These aren't poems; they're tweets.
Straight up
"one-sided beef is not beef........ its chicken" made me giggle because i genuinely had no fucking clue what it meant until i actually read it a second time. drake has a beautiful mind
Lol I'd like to expand that:
One sided beef isn't beef
It's chicken
And I'm vegetarian
Pass me the cheese.
as a rachel fan and a drake hater, this video has aged beautifully
Do you even know what he's been up to since Kendrick publicly executed him?
“Makes me worried for how empty Drakes head must be” 🤭🤭😂
I ADORE your videos. Somehow I always "leave" them feeling like I've learned something, or understood poetry better. Even when you make videos addressing BAD works, and criticizing them, you always contrast them with perfect examples of better works and how they went about a similar idea, only with... talent. And care. And more than two seconds of one misogynistic braincell talking😭
I feel the same way! But you worded it so nicely. Cheers!
There was something I learned early on in creative writing. It was 'don't fall so in love with your own work that you think it's perfect without any editing, something can always be improved upon.' Drake would do well to consider this.
And secondly...why didn't he just use these as lines in his songs?? I think a lot of them would work so much better that way, though I'm not familiar with his music.
The issue is, there are barely any words to edit there
His music is horrible too. He can't sing worth a damn and just mumbles gibberish. Not worth your time.
Halsey is a fantastic songwriter, the album if I can’t have love I want power is phenomenal, sonically and lyrically. And produced by nine inch nails too! In an interview Reznor said she wrote all the songs and brought them to him and he was so impressed and excited to work on them with her. I’m not surprised her poetry is great too! I should pick up her book
I’m pretty tolerant of pop poetry like Rupi Kaur because I think it has the potential to get young people interested in the genre. Mary Oliver, who was arguably a “pop poet” of the 90s, was the first poet whose work made me feel that transcendent, indescribable feeling, and made me want to write poetry myself. But this trend towards one-liner tweet poetry makes me so sad. To say nothing of the misogyny-which is already analyzed beautifully in this video-I don’t see how this would make anyone want to read more poetry. I support stretching the art form and exploring its bounds 100%, but this isn’t that. It’s a brainless cash grab.
You were ahead of all of us on that 😂
When I subscribed to you (I think you were at 19K) you spoke very poorly of your own writing ability and were too shy to read us any of your works. It's so lovely to see you become more confident and self-assured enough to accept the risk of people not liking something you made. I'm genuinely happy for you! Also my favorite book is Fire by Kristin Cashore, I think you'd really like it. It has a lot of themes of love, femininity, and misogyny, but also neurodivergence and exceptionality.
Drake's poetry book is the natural and inevitable follow up to Kim Kardashian's Selfies book.
Kim Kardashian's what?
WHAT
"It's not funny.
It's not clever.
It's not original.
It's not true."
Bravo, Rachel! 👏👏 You're amazing!
It's always so interesting to me when people assume that, because they're talented / famous, people are interested in their "stream of consciousness".
I've never found that sort of thing better or more interesting than something someone actually thought out, wrote down, and edited. 🤷♀️
...it also strikes me as a lazy cash grab, so!
I’d for one never deign to sell *my* intrusive thoughts-why, it’s bad enough I get them for free!
@@warlordofbritannia This made me laugh out loud. Definitely relatable.
Your videos about terrible poetry are probably some of my favourites on TH-cam. I love that you don't just eviscerate them for being bad, but also show how much better other people have done the same thing!
i love how you were able to improve drake’s terrible poems [at least a bit] by thinking about it for literally a few seconds or minutes and offering changes!
also i really enjoyed your poem and the other ones you shared as examples of better poetry!
you'd think such a "successful musician" like drake would have some concept of rhythm and rhyme.
"Trees died for this!" Yes, exactly, Rachel! A broom would be better, I know.
The fact that the spine tells you all you need to know about the content is ironic. It's the exact same comment I make when I see a big spider and I run.
The book cover looks just like a Jeopardy question card.
The spine design doesn't matter as the target market is unlikely to have many books already.
The worst part is Drake pretty much says the exact same things in his music. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a collection of drafts from a studio session
Exactly. He's a talentless hack that doesn't deserve fame.
lmaoo tha is more than possible
I remember he used to be referred to as "the sensitive one" or whatever too. 😆😆
Dick & Jane books had more thought put into their narrative. Dick and Jane had a baby sister named Sally, parents named "Mother" and "Father" a cat named Fluff and a dog named Spot. They didn't do a whole hell of a lot of interesting things, they ran, walked, ate breakfast, brushed their teeth, yadda, yadda, yadda, but it was far more entertaining than Drake's shower mental musings.
And pictures. The least he could have done is add pics or made it a popup book to appeal to it's target audience of self-professed Alphas who never stopped going through puberty.
AND there is a version of Dick and Jane with vampires in it. It’s called Dick and Jane and Vampire. Literally just Dick and Jane with a vampire in it
And unlike Drake, you can have Dick & Jane books near children!
He should’ve asked the guy who ghostwrites his lyrics to contribute to this book
That'd be hilarious after he apparently had Quentin Miller blackballed.
3:40 ‘it’s titled streams of consciousness which makes me a little concerned for how empty drake’s head must be’ IM CRYING LMAODNSNDKF
He's always struck me as an extremely insecure and kinda nerdy guy who was desperate for street cred which, I think is a big part of what he hoped to acquire with this book. The really weird thing is that Drake appears to be pretty close to his mother. He serenaded her at a concert this summer and there's lots of photos of them together. Really curious what she thinks about this masterpiece.
I could write a book like Drake's. I'd call it "The Fella Abides", it could have random thoughts that don't rhyme and not take up a lot of space like "I hate when things fall on my exposed toes, but then when I realize it's not life threatening and sh!t happens The Fella Abides." and "I had an itch, scratched it 'till it bled, now my cat is licking it. Cats are weird but the Fella Abides."
"A stream of consciousness" The book from two people so asleep they don't realise how far behind society they really are.
...The one time he was honest about getting a ghostwriter, and this is what we got?
The cover looks like an operator's manual to a German packaging machine.
Wow this video has aged like a fine port
Why is no one talking about how beautiful Rachel's poem was??? I LOVE all the fruit imagery and the image of eating twilight. Damn, that was beautiful. It was worth sitting through all of Drake's shitty poems to hear your beautiful one. Also, I love Rosetti too. I have an English degree and wrote about her in uni. "The Goblin Market" is one of my favorite poems, but I interpreted it to be about sexual violence rather than the dangers of female sexuality. I enjoyed hearing your interpretation!
yea no that first poem gave me one of the worst feelings I've ever felt. a red flag so big it felt like i got sacked on the head by one.
I'm a need her to react to Kendrick's diss songs towards Drake 😂😂
it's really lovely getting to watch you grow into your own over the years - seeing the self promotion makes me happy every time just because i remember how downright anxious you seemed when you first started trying to make a habit of it X) love the work you do. seeing your videos still makes me smile (and i save the long ones for when im feeling down sometimes). so happy to see you hit 300k, congrats rachel 💓💓💓
This book was Yes Manned into existence. All of these are song lyrics that didn't hit and some goon thought they were deep. He's so boring and eventhough he harasses younger girls, just like Nicki's husband, she still ain't wanna be with him. Actually it's amazing how many rap ladies want nothing to do with him. He can only get fans or girls. Sad.
1:27 that spine spelling out AAAA is a mood when talking about this guy 😂
My favorite book of all time is Harrow the Ninth. It's prose, but every sentence has more poetry to it than the entirety of this collection.
A particularly evocative paragraph: "You looked at the blanketing bodies of the dead children of the Ninth House, were aware of yourself as an ova cluster of
two hundred pinpricks of light. You were a sigil: you were an intermingled fire. The fluid was sucked from your sinus cavities, and with it your brain,
soon disassembled. You were made small. You were a throat, you were an oven. The water was boiling hot and your skin was sloughing off you in
reddened, shrinking frills; those pinpricks boiled within you, and the bodies boiled without-you were a hunger without a stomach. You felt the
thanergetic pit inside the coffin, the curve of a childlike jaw, the pallid bow of a dead mouth. You did not understand yourself as standing, nor
understood yourself as walking, but you were doing both. You were dying in that hot water; whatever wanted your meat suit could have it."
At 1:26, I love how that image of stacked Drake's 'poetry' books reads "EEEEE NNNNNAAAAA" 😂 Like someone mentioned here, it perfectly describes the emotions of the book's readers. This image itself should be a warning to the buyers 😂
I believe that if Drake's 'poems' can get published, then someone can publish a response book consisting of some of the sassy comments here 😂
11:50 ... from the future this was like a line from the Kendrick track......wow! well done
Loving the sunset eyeshadow look!
The "I can't see the signs hun, I left my glasses at home." could be a good start to a great poem but on it's own in a book with a lot of misogyny it just sounds like him making excuses for being a bad partner.
Drake, what a legend, The self proclaimed "lesbian".
WHAT
@@Anindeterminateamountofbees just google "Girls Like Girls lyrics". If you don't have a gun in your mouth after reading the first verse, I would be legitimately impressed
Kendrick definitely saw this at some point.
Oh for some reason when i’ve heard you say “drakes poetry” I thought it was a different drake…. this is going to be even better than i expected lmao
"My talents include a pen. Your talents include a bed..."
What I learned from Drake's poetry is that he must be terrible in bed if he thinks his writing is the talent he needs to highlight.
This review age well. ❤ Always
Oh it is Drizzy Drake! I didn't know Jimmy from Degrassi made "poetry". Rachel, i don't know how you find these topics but bravo to you
I didn't think it was possible but this made me miss the days of "family is relatives"
😂😂
Haha ! Rachel has her flame-thrower out and I love it. I am not so familiar with British Rap but French rappers achieved recognition in the 1990s through the very, very high standard of their poetry. On top of my head, I am thinking of "Caroline" by M.C. Solaar "Je suis l'As de Trèfle qui Pique ton Coeur". I think he took inspiration from Serge Gainsbourg a lot, because Gainsbourg's lyrics were phenomenal. If you think of Françoise Hardy "Sous un aucun prétex-te je ne peux, devant toi surex-poser mes yeux, derrière un Kleenex je saurais mieux, comment de dire Adieu." Middle rhymes in -ex but never refering to what everybody thinks. Gainsbourg embraced rap in the early 80s. And the standard stayed very high _not for everybody of course. Slam got fashionable in the 2010s with people like Abdel-Malik (Gibr Al Tar) or Grand Corps Malade.
My depression notebook where I put down on my shitty thought so I can think about them before i act say anything about them has more cohesion substance and thought and it typically devolved into literal scribbles.
I like that you’re adding more of your sense of humor into your videos! Your content on mainstream poetry is some of your best work imo! Bc you use it to expose people to much better poetry. It helps make poetry more accessible! I hope you never stop making these (as long you enjoy doing it)!
Personally want to thank you, I’m working on my own poetry book and watching your reviews and reading your own is really helping me know what to do as well as what to avoid. Thank you, you’re really doing great work!
3:41 «this book is actually subtitled ‘Streams of consciousness’ which makes me a little concerned for how empty Drakes head must be» made me giggle. I’m sure you’re not alone in that
I genuinely thought Logic had the worst “I’m an award-winning rapper, therefore I clearly know how to write a book despite having no idea how to write a book” book but Drake just went a proved me wrong. Don’t know how, but he did. Congrats?? I think??? (Thank you for your sacrifice ma’am. We appreciate you)
Why can't any celebrities just be normal
Egos
At least we have Keanu Reeves.
@@wiselioness322 Thank god for John Wick
Most of the ones who are aren't A-listers because they don't want to sell their metaphorical soul.
Normal people don't seek fame
Rachel improving misogynistic poetry but keeping the misogyny is not something I expected when I clicked this link but I'm not complaining
Really liked your verse that you shared.
aged well
I can't tell you how excited I am to see another poetry review - I love the other content you've been putting out too but your poetry reviews will always have a special place in my heart, Rachel.
19:50 oh man, I wasnt expecting to be reminded of myself a few years ago browsing r/inceltears in this poetry review lol Ive definitely had a similar experience of "holy shit I actually understand their hateful rapidly shifting nonsense terminology and Im barely phased by it if its not outright threats of CSA" in regards to incels even though I was going through a subreddit where the discourse around the statements in question was definitely anti-incel
Drake the type of guy to write a poetry book
Jokes aside though. That cover is so basic and gives off exactly what the inside contents would be.
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but it’s wonderful when the cover matches the content
What a waste of trees lol.
on that one-sided beef line: i think it could have been fire as part of a bar in a song. the interpretation rachel goes into could be supported really well by the context of a verse, maybe even working as a punchline at the end where the absurdity becomes cool
Finally, something worse from Drake than The Heart Part 6 and Taylor Made Freestyle.
edit: speaking as a male hip-hop fan, I don't idolize Drake (never really did, his lyrics were weak, AND GHOSTWRITTEN), and I'm willing to bet that not a lot of people do now, given the beef between him and Kendrick (mentioning Kendrick's fiance, the whole AI Tupac thing, "I got a son to raise, but I can see you don't know nothin bout THAAAAT," "I hate the way that you walk, the way you talk, I hate the way that you dress," and of course "tryna strike a chord, and it's probably A MINOOOOOORRRR").
I've loved Ashleigh Brilliants Pot-Shot short poems. Like:
You can never discard too many bad ideas.
The cover looks like a Jeopardy question card
you look stunning rachel omg love the makeup! so excited for a new video. that 3 hrs long was a doozy and i enjoyed every minute of it😭
your poetry reviews are my favorite videos! I missed this!