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    Saturday
    Jul032010

    All I see are fireworks

     "Fireworks" is the song that opens Drake's highly-controversial debut full-length Thank Me Later. I say "highly-controversial" because, after a handful of highly-regarded mixtapes (which lead to his being a million-dollar player on Lil Wayne's Young Money imprint,  the only one other than Nicki Minaj worth a damn thing other than a quickie splurt on "Every Girl In The World" ), it seems that Drake's self-conscious style, alternating on a dime between his grandmother and then about his Benzes and then about how he feels really really bad for talking about his Benzes when he should be talking about his grandmother and then hey look a girl, has grown wearisome for many.

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