 Music writers liken Thank Me Later to Kanye West 's 808s & Heartbreak . Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club writes that , " musically , Drake favors warm washes of synthesizers that create a melancholy , fragile mood redolent of 808s & Heartbreak . " Comparisons are also drawn to Man on the Moon : The End of Day by Kid Cudi , a protégé of West . By contrast , Joshua Ostroff of The Globe and Mail feels that Thank Me Later 's " emotional navel @-@ gazing lacks West ’ s often @-@ suffocating self @-@ pity and offers a proper synthesis of rap and R & B. " Jeff Weiss of the Los Angeles Times views that the album ignores West 's celebratory side " in search of anthems for the easily alienated . " 
