The more people jeered Drake’s defiantly soft approach and clumsy bars, the louder the cheers drowned them out.

A former teen soap opera actor? From Canada? And he’s cooing sweet melodies over fluffy synthesizer clouds like some hipster R&B singer? This was no one’s idea of a superstar rapper. When So Far Gone first blew up, Drake had been an easy punchline for rap skeptics and self-professed guardians of “real hip-hop” alike. “I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that,” he’d rap the following summer, owning up to Thank Me Later‘s flaws - not that that the album’s bizarre sequencing, rampant self-pity, and abundant hashtag-rap clunkers stalled out his career momentum whatsoever. Instead, Drake delivered a confounding LP that, even as it spun off hits, raised questions about whether a debut could be a sophomore slump. But with his 2009 mixtape So Far Gone, he had rocketed straight to superstardom and begun the process of fundamentally altering the sound of mainstream rap. Technically, Thank Me Later, released 10 years ago, was his debut album. But he doesn't do it convincingly enough to evoke sympathy.Drake had already changed the game. Its songs are redundant, both musically and lyrically, with Drake rapping about what he knows best: the pressures of celebrity life. Thank Me Later is, simply put, a pop-influenced hip-hop album. But for an MC whose buzz was so powerful for the past year and a half, the album disappoints. His highly anticipated major-label debut features dreamy melodies and electric synths, along with big-name guests like Jay-Z and Timbaland. The EP became the fifth-best-selling album of 2009, unheard of for a mixtape, and the rapper scored a record deal with Lil Wayne's label, Young Money Entertainment. Last year, 'Best I Ever Had,' Drake's hit from his So Far Gone EP, exploded onto Top 40 radio. He formerly starred as Jimmy Brooks, the basketball star from Degrassi: The Next Generation - a popular Canadian teen drama. Aubrey Drake Graham has been hailed as hip-hop's newest star, but he's not new to the world of entertainment. Toronto-based rapper Drake released his debut album, Thank Me Later, on Tuesday. Thank Me Later is Drake's hotly anticipated major-label debut.

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