History YMMV / Drake

** During a guest verse on Music/JCole's "In the Morning", Drake dropped the questionably-written lyric "I love thick women 'cause my aunt she rode equestrian," which gave hip-hop heads everywhere pause as it implies that he either lusts for his aunt ''or'' he lusts for ''horses'', [[{{Squick}} with fans everywhere unsure of which is worse]].

* NeverLiveItDown:
** People won't let him forget being on ''[=Degrassi=]''.
--->'''Daquan''': "Drake did not get shot in ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' for this." (''referring to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjeORm4LMDk video]] of Creator/DonaldTrump dancing to Hotline Bling on Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
** His {{intergenerational friendship}}s with both Creator/MillieBobbyBrown of ''Series/StrangerThings'' fame and Music/BillieEilish, both of whom were teenagers when he started texting with them. Despite both girls separately claiming that his relationships with them are completely innocent, there are many who still [[PaedoHunt refuse to believe so]].
** His feud with rapper Pusha T. After being slaughtered on wax about his ParentalNeglect and having blackface photos of himself being revealed, Drake opted out of the beef and released a press statement apologising to everyone.
** A 2019 video showing him kissing a 17 year old girl and commenting on her breasts at a concert of his, which doesn't help the aforementioned rumors about him being friends with two underage female performers.
** Letting a woman from Toronto who is known for throwing a chair off a balcony onto a busy highway have a cameo in his music video for his song "War". Thankfully, he re-released the video that cut out her cameo.
** His accusations of being a culture-vulture because of his use of a fake Jamaican accent on ''Views'' and ''More Life''. Further fueling the fire was his use of a fake British accent in ''Dark Lane Demo Tapes'', trying to imitate the UK Drill style.
** The [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Drake_-_Certified_Lover_Boy.png cover art]] for ''Certified Lover Boy''.
** "TSU" sampling "Half on a Baby" by Music/RKelly. Even more striking is the fact that it was released right when Kelly was on trial for multiple sex charges in Brooklyn, and he would be convicted of all charges a few weeks after the release of Drake's album.

* {{Anvilicious}}: "Nice For What", a song that gets straight to the point about how hard women work and how they don't need to submit to others who talk down on them. It helps that Drake subtly criticizes the hip-hop industry in the song for objectifying women.

** "Take Care": Even the Auto-tune works well with the cold, regretful tone of the song.
** "Nice For What", featuring a funky, danceable beat sampling Music/LaurynHill as well as some great wordplay from Drake.

* EndingFatigue: Neither "We'll Be Fine" from ''Take Care'', "The Language" from ''Nothing Was The Same'' nor "Middle of the Ocean" from ''Her Loss'' need Birdman doing a 40-second+ outro of dull, cliched talking.

** When it comes to his projects, his ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late'' is quite well liked due to its consistency.

* GrowingTheBeard: First ''Take Care'', which refined his rap/R&B/pop aesthetic, and then ''Nothing Was The Same'', which combined all three styles into each song rather than separate genre track went further. The singles he released habitually since ''Nothing Was The Same'''s release were where people who weren't already fans started to take notice however. He's even had comparisons to Music/JayZ.
** ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late'' is also considered this by many of his fans and non fans do to it being a well constructed project front to back with many catchy and hard hitting songs throughout. He also ''literally'' grew a beard around this time, which he's since mostly maintained.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Drake has been steadily gaining more and more criticism for this starting from ''Views'', with critics and fans becoming more aware of Drake's almost exclusive reliance on his signature sound. While he's managed to maintain success and score big hits anyway, his actual albums and various mixtapes have also been been criticized for being [[EndingFatigue too bloated]] and [[{{Padding}} homogenized with filler tracks]], turning his soft, intentionally drowsy style into simply boring and lifeless.

* {{Narm}}: Drake has become infamous among dedicated HipHop heads for this. Especially over the years as he's [[GenreShift shifted more from his initially melodic pop-rap style to his current style of edgier minimalist rap]], a lot more attention has been placed onto his pen game, and listeners have found quite a lot of corny bars from it.

** Drake's infamous "Said that you a lesbian, girl, me too" line off ''Certified Lover Boy''. If you aren't confused by it, you're probably laughing at it and [[TheComicallySerious its completely straight-faced delivery]].
** In a rare of example of the ''beat'' being narmy, the squeaky bed noise that played throughout "Currents" was found by many to be [[FetishRetardant silly rather than sexy]], with some even comparing it to the squeaky boots from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.[[note]]It also doesn't help that people also found part of the melody of "Currents" to resemble the "Spongebob Spongebob Patrick Patrick" meme, only furthering the comparisons to the show.[[/note]]

** The infamous [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Drake_-_Certified_Lover_Boy.png cover art]] for ''Certified Lover Boy''.

** "Dreams Money Can Buy" isn't called "Don't Fuck With Me".
** "Make Me Proud" isn't called "I'm So Proud Of You".

** "Circo Loco" was controversial on release for the line "This bitch lie 'bout gettin' shots, but she still a stallion", which many interpreted as an attack on Music/MeganTheeStallion, accusing her of lying about being shot by Drake's rival-turned-friend Tory Lanez. What sends it into this territory though is that in December 2022, just under 2 months after its release, Lanez was convicted on three charges stemming from shooting Megan, and is facing more than 20 years in prison.

--->'''Daquan''': "Drake did not get shot in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' for this." (''referring to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjeORm4LMDk video]] of Creator/DonaldTrump dancing to Hotline Bling on Series/SaturdayNightLive'')

* EndingFatigue: Neither "We'll Be Fine" from ''Take Care'' nor "The Language" from ''Nothing Was The Same'' need Birdman doing a 40-second+ outro of dull, cliched talking.

** Another out-of-context line, this one from "Girls Want Girls" were he says "Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too", being cited as proof of him being gay, along with changing the name of the album to ''Certified Boy Lover''.

*** Another one is playing the "God's Plan" video backwards, makeing it look like Drake is robbing the family he gives money to.

*** The situation around Drake's illegitimate child and his trying to hide it also cast a new light on some of his earlier lyrics, such as "I never get attracted to fans/'Cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam" on "Ignant Shit" and "I could never have a kid, then be out here still kiddin' round" on "Portland".

** "Take Care." Even the Auto-tune works well with the cold, regretful tone of the song.

** ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late'' is also considered this by many of his fans and non fans do to it being a well constructed project front to back with many catchy and hard hitting songs throughout.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The music video for ''God's Plan'' is basically Drake going around and giving inordinate amounts of money to people to help them with their lives, such as paying for a girls' post-secondary education. He also does several meet-and-greets for different fans, with many of them crying in joy at the sight of him.

** "Circo Loco" was controversial on release for the line "This bitch lie 'bout gettin' shots, but she still a stallion", which many interpreted as an attack on Music/MeganTheeStallion, accusing her of lying about being shot by Drake's rival-turned-friend Tory Lanez. What sends it into this territory though is that in December 2022, just under 2 months after its release, Lanez was convicted of the shooting, and is facing more than 20 years in prison.

* HarsherInHindsight: It's very clear which songs on ''Scorpion'' were written before and after Pusha T ousted him as having and hiding an illegitimate child with a pornstar, with several lines being way more pertinent knowing the context behind it. "I'm Upset" in particular is especially awkward, as many lines are him transparently complaining about having to pay child support to a not-so-hypothetical baby mama "hoe", bragging about still having "seven years of doing what I want" (implying he intended to hide his son for ''much'' longer), and proudly comparing himself to ''his own'' DisappearedDad.

** "Drake the type of nigga that (insert very polite action here)."