Drake vs. Big Sean: Which Album Did You Like Better?

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It’s an OVO/FFOE thing

Hip-Hop fans know this damn well, but before Kanye West completely invaded the UK a few days ago, the chatter online and around rap circles was how Drake‘s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late album fared in comparison to Big Sean‘s Dark Sky Paradise. From personal experience between everything I saw and heard, it seems to be a split decision. It’s like the Drake haters prefer Sean Don and then everyone else was on their Drizzy shit.

Whether you think If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is a mixtape or an album is a different conversation. Save that shit for technicalities and traditional definitions of each.

If I’m just judging both off bodies of work, regardless of what they’re officially titled, I have to give the edge to Drake based on how he started the project. He has this fire stretch after the first track that spans all the way to the middle of the album that not even the haters can deny. “Energy” into “10 Bands,” “Know Yourself” and “No Telling” is the way you start a goddamn album. Once “I RUNNING THROUGH THE SIX WITH MY WOES!! You know how that should go” drops at the middle of “Know Yourself,” you’re hitting full stride.

To me, Big Sean doesn’t have a stretch like that on his album sonically. “Paradise” comes out of the radio-friendly Chris Brown & Ty Dolla $ign record. “All Your Fault” is too soulful to listen to after “Blessings.” “IDFWU” is still kinda hard, but it’s gotten five months of burn already. Those dope Jhene Aiko and Lil Wayne are buried at the bottom of the album too.

At no point am I saying the Sean album isn’t good, though. It’s a solid record. Personally, I would have switched up the order of the tracklist a bit, but that’s just me.

Regardless of how you may feel about either album, one thing is for damn sure, Drake and Big Sean are a golden pairing on wax. Their two album collaborations are anthems.

So that’s why I cooked up this Drake vs. Big Sean playlist, to celebrate both efforts at the same damn time and to get a feeling about what an album from these two would sound if it actually happened. The chances of that going down may be slim, but as long as they keep giving us collaborations on each other’s album, everyone will be satisfied.

This playlist consists of pretty much all the hard tracks from both of their new albums, plus a few select joints from previous records that sound like they would both rock. Imagine the 6 god on “Mona Lisa” or Detroit player on “The Language”?

Now that you’ve had a little over a week to stomach the two projects, who’s album did you prefer? Do you find yourself loading up Sean’s album in the whip or are you riding for your woes with Drizzy out of the auxiliary chord? Either way, listen to the playlist. It’s fire.

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