 Daniel Roberts of PopMatters said that no track on the album was better than " Best I Ever Had " and felt that Drake has an " identity crisis " on the album , finding it " good at parts , but never great " . <unk> Errett of Now found most of the album " just thankless " , commenting that Drake " complains about fame way too much " , and called him " humorless " . In his consumer guide for MSN Music , Robert Christgau called Drake " neither thug nor thug wannabe ... plenty talented , but pretty shallow and without much focus as a <unk> " , and wrote of the record : " <unk> and <unk> though it be , [ it ] consistently bemoans the confusing emoluments and accoutrements of fame " . Pete Cashmore from NME believed " it 's those constant and predictable superstar interjections that prevent the album from standing out as much as it had potential to do . " Slant Magazine 's Jesse Cataldo viewed Drake 's " insistent navel @-@ gazing " as a flimsy " concept " , but commended the album for " nail [ ing ] confused introspection in a genre famous for willful misrepresentation of self . " 
