Drake responds to criticism of his new album

• Drake – real name Aubrey Graham – shocked followers by announcing he’d be dropping new music at midnight on Thursday.
• Fans were unimpressed after staying up late to listen to the tunes, questioning why he’d gone for a creative change and created a house music album.
• Drake sent fans into a frenzy when he posted the cover art for his new album, which is his seventh studio album, following last year’s release of Certified Lover Boy.

Drake has spoken out in support of his seventh studio album, which he surprised fans with just one day ago.

The 35-year-old musician appeared in a video shared on Twitter, saying, “That’s what we do.” We’ll be patient while you catch up.’

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Fans had already used social media to express their mixed feelings about the dance-themed initiative.

The rapper was hardly visible in the 12-second video clip provided by the Twitter account Rap Alert, since he was in a dark room.

As he contributed his two cents, one of the songs from his 14-track release played in the background.

At the top of the snippet he said, ‘It’s all good if you don’t get it yet,’ before finishing with, ‘We caught up already. On to the next.’

Drake – real name Aubrey Graham – shocked followers by announcing he’d be dropping new music at midnight on Thursday with just a few hours notice.

Fans, however, were unimpressed after staying up late to listen to the tunes, questioning why he’d gone for a creative change and created a house music album.

Taking to Twitter, fans penned: ‘Honestly Nevermind is quite frankly what drake should have done before he decided to release whatever the fuck this album is.’; ‘Drake is in his laziest era and it will impact his legacy in the long run, constantly choosing relevancy over creating high quality bodies of work.’

‘Pretending to agree with people that Drake’s “surprise” album is actually good is exhausting. It’s whack.’; ‘Drake dropped Scorpion and I really thought it was hands down his worst album ever, but NEVER did I think his next album would be worse and the NEXT album even WORSE than THAT. omg.’

On Saturday, Graham resorted to Instagram to offer a carousel of new photographs that demonstrated how unconcerned he is with the negative press.

‘Sympathetic 22,’ he added in the caption, which matched his camouflaged clothing, which said ‘sympathy’ in capital orange font.

In one photo, the father-of-one sipped from a wine glass while flashing his middle finger.

The singer shared outtakes with a number of friends, one of them being DJ Khaled.

Other of his friends showed up as well, some wearing the same clothing as him and wearing showy jewellery.

Another photo showed the successful media personality taking a private aircraft journey.

As a display of silver balloons bearing the title of his record drifted against a neighbouring wall, he occupied himself with his phone.

While plenty of listeners were displeased, some were happy with the new music, however, who tweeted: ‘Drake did a ting though. Can’t even hate. Respect the artist and the boundaries he pushed on this one’; ‘Is Drake new album good or did it just catch me in a great mood this morning.’

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It came after Drake sent fans into a frenzy when he posted the cover art for the project, which is his seventh studio album, following last year’s release of Certified Lover Boy.

‘7th studio album “HONESTLY, NEVERMIND” out at midnight,’ the Canadian hitmaker captioned the photo, simply featuring the name of the new album.