Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "DRAKE & VANESSA CARLTON - WIRELESS FESTIVAL NIGHT 2"

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

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Thank you to the one and only Champagne Poppy. And because I'm reading this for Vanessa Carlton's voice, I got to let y'all know that, but also just to be safe, I got to throw a pause in there. You guys, see, that's the problem. Anyways, reading the rest of this message from Vanessa Carlton. Thank you, Champagne Poppy, for inviting me to be a part of his show and for the sweet introduction.

I am so moved and have been a fan since the beginning. And thanks to everyone behind the scenes that pull this off for us. So now I can personally recommend Drake's fabulous wireless fest experience. You have one night left. Don't sleep. And they should put a capital X. I don't know what that means. Put two more X's and Kendrick just might pop up.

But anyways, but that'd be. said the thing that threw me off the most about this is that there was no comments on this video now i'm not saying anything right i'm just saying 8 000 likes that's a lot of likes for no comments but that's just me that's just me you know what i ain't trying to say none i thought this was a fake account at first it's the actual vanessa carleton account and ultimately i was just making an astute observation anyways without being said night two from the goat the mascot of hip-hop concluded all the way back in July 12th in Finsbury Park, London, when Jake, when Drake shut down the wireless festival for three nights straight. First night, R&B type vibe, bringing out Givion, Mario, Bobby V, you know the usual, you feel me?

The second night bringing out Lotto, bringing out 21 Savage. Oh, yeah, I had to make sure. bringing out 21 Savage, bringing out K-trap. Nobody even know who that is, but bet you he's rapping about that trap life. And then ultimately, sexy red out here doing cartwheels, twerking, while Drake is running a 40-yard dash to get behind that twerk win. And at the end of the night, Vanessa Carlton pops up. Now, I'm thinking myself,

Ain't no way. This man that has sexy red twerking for no reason. Lotto out here looking like a whole snack. 21 Savage out here looking like him and Lotto ain't together. Oh my fault. Let me chill. Skepter. Dave looking like they agree with Drake saying that UK rappers are the best in the world.

And then now you have Vanessa Carlton out here giving a remix for a thousand miles. I mean, goodness gracious. But then you know what I'm saying? I was like, damn, look at the state of hip hop. Like, what's going on? Now, usually FOMO doesn't kick in for me because I believe I saw Drake at a very prime time in his career. when he just put out back to back and that was a pivotal moment. Because essentially speaking, in the career of Drake, let's just say publicly,

he hasn't won that many superstar-like rap battles. I mean, there's Pusha T, there's Kendra. I think he's won a lot from a lyrical standpoint because nobody don't want to talk about how he went to Kanye and then Push-a-T had to speak up. Nobody wanted to talk about all the bodies he just laid out in the street as far as Rick Ross, as far as A-Sab Rocky, as far as Leland Wayne, I mean, Metro booming, as far as demon, I mean future.

You know, so many bodies and everybody just wants to focus on the pedophile anthem. Anyways, the reason I say that is because I think it was a prime time to watch Drake performing that back-to-back, especially all the way back when he was putting out views because remember he ended back-to-back like, oh, okay, now I could put out views. And I think views was phenomenal. No matter what crack, I mean, no matter what old head Joe Button said about views, is ultimately one of the better albums that Drake has put out back in 2016. Uh, 2016.

So, um, for Night 2, when he's getting back into his rap bag, and of course, he talks about some of the nonstop tracks, the Sickle mode, uh, what else he had? He had one to know with Dave, which I think is an underrated track as far as a UK artist and Drake. I think that's one of the better tracks that he has with the UK artists. And then after that, he brought out Central C, but Vanessa Carlton, let's focus on her so if you don't know you know besides her hit a thousand miles that came out um when is when did a thousand miles come out so a thousand miles let me see a thousand miles when they just come out so this essentially this essentially came out two thousand to

goodness gracious i was two years old when this was a hit so um that's insane i ain't gonna kept to you but anyway oh yeah a thousand miles is a huge hit but it's very um it's very you know as far as the correlation between the the features and Vanessa Carlton I would say it's very a is a obtuse angle is that the right way to phrase it the way that Vanessa Carlton came out and the other features it wasn't really no correlation there between like you know you go from party next door to Lotto you know it kind of makes sense you go from Lotto to sexy red oh that definitely makes sense you go from sexy red to 21 Savage and you mine as well just throw on to be right

And then you go for 21 Sabbath to Vanessa Carlton and then now we're looking like, hold up man. Ain't no way you just brought out all these trap artists. And now we got Vanessa Carlton singing in a thousand miles. But that's exactly what happened for night two. So that's essentially why I wanted to get into. Um, when it comes to Drake, I think he's just showcasing his immense respect that he's garnered in the music industry as if you can see right here, Analytic Dreams video on Spotify

to see the video along with the audio. But as you can see right here, these are all the artists that came out in the entire performance. So if this is not a jam-pack list of just straight legends and if people at their wireless festival say they didn't get their money's worth no matter what night they went to, I think they're absolutely lying. But, you know, everybody's experience is a little different.

So that's what I wanted to focus on. And more specifically, that's what I want to talk about as far as for night two. I wanted to get more into Vanessa Carlton, but she really doesn't have a lot going on. There's some type of lawsuit going on with her nose. neighbors. That's literally how they said it. So it's definitely white people business going on right now. Because what type of, you know, that's the stuff that, you know, some Johnny Depp type lawsuit. Well, it's just like, hold on now, we're supposed to care about this? How about y'all just take care of y'all first world problems and we'll get back to her music?

So nothing really going on in the Carlton world. She's just going through a lawsuit. Nothing too crazy. Noisy neighbors are obstructing their home or whatever, home studio. Very, very, very, very, very, very. very caring like activities. I ain't a lot to you. So anyways, with that being said, click my link, sure in my bio. Let me know on one of my social medias. What do you think about Drake bringing out Vanessa Carlton and iTunes?

And at the end of the day, what was your favorite track in the entire set list of Drake at the Wireless Festival for three nights straight?