But a collaborative album with both artists jockeying for mic time feels like it would be a strained, cringey, and even include some passive-aggressive barbs at each other. 1 single that a Drake “Lift Yourself” would have been. Kanye is a fantastic producer for Drake-2011’s “Find Your Love” worked perfectly-and I’m still salty we never got to hear the No. Unfortunately, Kanye and Drake aren’t a great combination. We got a taste of their synergy-2016’s “Pop Style” and 2017’s “Glow,” both of which ended up on Drake projects. Wolves is the name for the Drake-Kanye joint album teased from 2015 to 2016. So, find and listen to these fragments while you still can. Each year, download links disappear, and copyright claims bury what remains. Everything is lost to time eventually, but some things erode faster than others. We based our rankings on the quality of the demos we heard and the anticipated result. Our criteria for inclusion on the list were the projects had to be named and started. But there are good folks on the internet who’ve put together approximations of the albums, and you can find certain projects-including So Help Me God, Yandhi, and the original version of The College Dropout-all online. Only the artist and his collaborators-like engineer Andrew Dawson, who we interviewed last month-know what’s real or not.

Reviewing unreleased albums will always be a tricky endeavor-like trying to weigh butterflies, their silhouettes impossible to trace with exactitude.

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