Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness

by Aubrey Graham, Kenza Samir

Aubrey Drake Graham is a cultural phenomenon – a record-breaking musician, style icon, creative entrepreneur, and actor. Graham has been writing and having fun with poetry as a means of personal expression for quite some time.

His first book, Titles Ruin Everything: A Stream of Consciousness, is a collection of never-before-published poems written together with his long-time friend Kenza Samir. Flowing across 168 pages, the provocative musings translate Graham's wit and talent for wordplay into potent stanzas. Together, these meditations on fame, romance, and relationships offer an unfiltered view of the artist’s inner world.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Music

168 pages, Paperback

First published July 5, 2023

Reviews

[ash]

this made me feel very confident about the poetry i wrote when i was 14

[persephone ☾]

i don't know what i expected from a collection of "poems" written by DRAKE out of all people but seriously "I’m a terrible texter, but a great writer" WHO LIED TO THIS MAN ???

[Téa]

Misogyny. And I quote “there are two kinds of women in this world: those who like giving head and those I don’t like.” Tf

[Logan Hawke]

I feel like I just scrolled through Drakes Twitter for 15 minutes

[Dhia Nouioui]

trees were cut for this.....

[Jacob]

“There are two types of women in this world, women who like giving head and women I don’t like”

“You were in my dream last night…they call that a nightmare right?”

“I’m not four you…really starting to put two and two together”

“Y’all more liquid than solid”

Rupi Kaur I’m so sorry I took you for granted.

[nark]

disappointed but not surprised. you should have just put these lines in a song girlie

[Hay]

Salute the Redditors that fly the black flag for us who don't want to support this trash with our own money 🫡 Thanks for your sacrifice.

Anyway, Drake's poems make Rupi Kaur look like Sylvia Plath. If you white out the lines, maybe you'll actually get use out of this book. Otherwise, it's a waste of paper.

RIP to all the trees lost for this publication 🪦 💐

[Sotiria Lazaridou]

this was atrocious

[Samuel]

Felt like this book was written by Tedros

[mari]

haven't read this and never will im just a hater

[ymd]

He wrote a sentence!

[Sara Wheat]

This book gets a 1.5 because of how hard some of these “poems” made me laugh

[Danny]

Read this whole thing through a series of TikToks, as God intended. As we all could have guessed, it's absolutely awful, but was it awful in an interesting way? No, it wasn't that either.

For most of the book, Drake struggles to put together a coherent sentence, let alone one with any poetry to it. When he manages to clear that hurdle, it's usually something whiny or cruel about either women or people who earn less money than him.

The most generous reading of this book is that he's intentionally scamming his own fans into overpaying for some poorly-written instagram captions that he's managed to stretch into a book through an almost impressive amount of wasted paper.

Any other reading suggests a lack of self-awareness bordering on the concerning.

[anna near]

not to be that person, but the fact that taylor swift had to change her lyrics in better than revenge, but drake can write; "There are two kinds of women in this world: those who like giving head and those I don’t like." in 2023 is insane.

[R A K]

" I’m a terrible texter, but a great writer."
This book should be called the "The Audacity of Men"

[Goodreeds User]

laziest, vainest, and most mean-spirited thing I've ever read. would give it 0 stars if I could. thank god someone put this whole thing on tiktok

[Sophie]

In the words of Tyra Banks, “It is so bad, I want to give you a zero, but that's not possible, so I give you a one."

i don’t know what to say. this felt boring and like drake just pulled a load of random lyrics from his songs + insta captions together..idk if you have to be a drake fan to enjoy this but i’m not a drake fan and i didn’t enjoy this. only read it because my girlfriend purchased it and it was super short (i mean, two lines a page max)- this just was not for me🤷🏼‍♀️.

[Mary Tozer]

In this bizarre and mostly uninteresting series of words, Drake showcases himself as an intensely dislikable misanthrope, vainly publishing his notes app thoughts. The most egregious waste of a tree I have ever seen. Luckily I managed to get cover to cover (or tiktok part 1 to tiktok part 96) in less than 10 minutes. Other than being angry it exists, I will certainly never think about this text again.

[Saurabh]

36 year old man btw

[Matthew Renteria]

How does one spoil this book?

You can’t. Don’t buy it. Read Twitter instead.

Save your money and get al pastor tacos instead.

[Allison]

coming soon to an IG post near you 🫡

[aliya]

holy shit okay this is by far the worst book i’ve ever read (it’s literally 7 pages if you delete the blank pages and spaces). i wouldn’t wish this on my enemies. drake girl this is so bad. all tea all shade.

[Nick Barbieri]

Immaculate vibes, exactly what you would want / expect from a book of Drake poetry, excellent Instagram caption potential.

[Mary Everett Morin]

drake wtf?????????? plz don’t waste your money on this

[Miloni]

this was awful. i need to learn to listen to jack edwards bc all i saw was a video titled daylight robbery and off i went to ruin my day.

[sami]

drake the type of guy who writes a bunch of (terrible) rap verses and publishes it as a poetry collection.

[Natalia]

“Swimming in regret….is not cardio”

I don’t know… regretting tracking down this book online definitely has me feeling tired like doing cardio would.

Here are some other laughable nuggets of “stream of consciousness” and “poems”:

“My therapist told me to stop listening to what other people tell me… but if I take her advice wouldn’t I be listening to what other people tell me?”

“You’re not thuggin’, you’re kidding…. One sided beef is not beef, it’s chicken”

“It’s always some unemployed ho tryna work my nerves”

“Said you’re one in a million, not one in seven point eight billion, relax”

“You’re nothing to write home about”

Drake, are you ok?

Anyway, DJ Khaled said it best after reading it - “He wrote a sentence!”

😂

[Beebo]

he's trolling right ... this is a performance art about releasing a poetry book more than it is an actual book right.... I got so mad at myself for buying this when I opened the package and saw all the pages were basically empty lmao he got me

[Molly Clark]

Diabolical