Zach Baron wraps up a slick, strategically-written defense of Drake over at the Village Voice.  Here’s his “whaaa?” kicker, which is quite brilliant actually:
Like the similarly loathed Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola, who have eloquently staked out the territory of upper-middle-class malaise in cinema, Drake’s done the same thing in rap. How much [...]

“Wes Anderson doesn’t make movies anymore. He creates overly precious paintings inhabited by emasculated man-children who knit sweater vests to the accompaniment of Belle & Sebastian while fantasizing that they’re macho enough to skin a caribou with a pocketknife.”
Vice, “Criterion’s Little Fuck-Ups.” Saves me the time of hating on some of these flicks/directors myself, and [...]