Drake’s Recent EP Release “Scary Hours 2” Offers a Piece of His Mind
By: Kailah Lee
At the stroke of midnight March 5., the scary hours began when Canadian-born rapper Drake announced via Twitter that his newest project Scary Hour 2 is out.
If you haven’t heard before now, it’s official. Drake recently dropped Scary Hours 2, the follow-up to 2018’s Scary Hours which included “God’s Plan” and “Diplomatic Immunity.”
Scary Hours 2 is comprised of three lyric-heavy songs: “What’s next,” a solo track; “Wants and Needs,” featuring Lil baby; and “Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” featuring Ross Ross.
The three-track project is obviously not as lengthy as a 20-song studio project, but it came with a message and it did at least two things: Eased and Teased his listeners.
Back in October 2020, Drake announced the coming of his six-studio album Certified Lover Boy, a follow-up to his last major project, Scorpion (2018) to release in January 2021.
But plans changed and the highly awaited Certified Lover Boy was delayed after Drake underwent knee surgery. However, in just two subsequent months, he delivered this surprise to us all.
Scary house 2 gives us three tracks, each composed with different stylistic approaches and, all detailing the cyclical pressure of an artist of his caliber.
“Lemon Pepper Freestyle,” featuring Rick Ross has that traditional, mellow, Poundcake type of feel. The underlying message of the bars with the brilliance in the production makes for an abundance of salty, sweet, and slightly spicey musical flavor.
Not to mention, Drake speaks from his heart saying, “These days, fame is disconnected from excellence,” and “They say they love me, but they hardly know me.”
Like the aftermath of enjoying wet-rub wings, dealing with public pressure can equally become a sticky mess.
In the Lil baby collaboration “Wants and Needs,” Drake laments further with “Leave me out the comments, leave me out the nonsense,” and “Speakin’ out of context, people need some content.”
But the cherry topper to Drake’s overall situation was in the song “What’s Next,” where he speaks on the continual speculation of his absence saying “Summer, all I did was rest, okay? And New Year’s, all I did was stretch, okay? And Valentine’s Day, I had sex, okay?
“Dude is straight up telling y’all that he is more than a music machine… he is a human man,” said Darrell Lee, a Virginia resident.
Besides, Drake should be stretching after major surgery, or doing other libidinous activities because he is still a person, living in a pandemic, and trying to maintain his sanity.
It’s not like Drake disappeared completely off the map. He appeared in multiple singles throughout 2020, he put out music videos in 2020, and his latest mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes was released in 2020.
Drake has always brought quality entertainment to the table, even at the beginning of the pandemic. So, for now, Scary hours 2 along with hundreds of his other works will be an appropriate placeholder for the heat that is sure to come.
