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Executive Produced by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.įrom Marc Smerling, the creator of Crimetown and The Jinx, welcome to CROOKED CITY. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon - one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Dederich, aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and millions of dollars in assets. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to compounds across the country. Thanks to the rich and nuanced production and Drakes thoughtful, playful, and intense lyrics, Thank Me Later is a radio-friendly, chart-topping collection of singles but also a serious examination of Drakes life that holds up as an album. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. Thank Me Later had the tough assignment of living up to the anticipation and further Drake as an artist, and it totally lives up to the hype. Ultimately, Thank Me Later‘s revelry concludes with emotional disgorgement, but no messy hangover.Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. High Quality Album Artwork / CD Artwork - Thank Me Later by Drake - Album Cover Art. It’s a testament to the album’s weird cohesion that the menagerie of guests-Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, The-Dream, et al.-doesn’t overwhelm the host and turn the entire operation into an unseemly, DJ Khaled-esque bukkake party. Drums disappear, phasers distort everything, and Drake comes in crooning about one stripper or another. ‘Thank Me Later’ (2010) Drake - Miss Me (feat. While overwrought at moments, Views is the last solo album where Drake really experimented and had fun along the way. Designed by english artist damien hirst, the albums artwork. Then there is the infectious groove of One Dance, an Afro-pop banger that helped introduce the exciting genre to the masses. Have you ever wanted to test your knowledge on album covers Certified lover boy is the sixth studio album by canadian rapper and singer drake. Shortly after the release of Drake’s VIEWS album on Apple Music. Beside Alicia Keys on “Fireworks,” he yearns to find the love his divorced parents never had on the title track, he ponders whether former girlfriends discuss him over “double-pump lattes and low-fat muffins.” Drake’s personal anecdotes lack the bravado of bullet-wound boasts, but they’re intimate and lyrically detailed enough to draw blood.Ī reformed backpack rapper with enough brains to move beyond regressive ’90s-worship, Drake unspools his usually clever witticisms over airy, wide-open production (Boi-1da, 40, Kanye West, many others) that’s more suggestive of contemporary R&B: “Toodles to you bitches / And if you dolled up, I got the voodoo for you bitches,” he quips atop the menacing strings of “Up All Night.” The abundance of spacey synths and clattering, reverbed percussion makes Thank Me Later feel like ideal cruising music for a ramshackle UFO, but it also incorporates dynamics like few other hip-hop albums before it. The album cover for drakes new album, certified lover boy, by british artist damien hirst. But vulnerabilities become strengths on this cagily self-aware debut album: He’s an emotionally fragile guy who relishes fame and fortune while second-guessing every smile from a new chum or overly friendly woman.
Due to his unorthodox pedigree-half-Jewish Canadian kid from a comfortable neighborhood who played a wheelchair-bound hoops star on Degrassi: The Next Generation-Drake has enjoyed a level of rap stardom (engineered by Lil Wayne) that often feels like an elaborate hoax.