The most anticipated rap album of the year has arrived. Today, on September 24, 2013, Drake finally released his third studio album "Nothing Was the Same (Cash Money)."

Just like the title of album hints, "Nothing Was the Same" is indeed nothing like you ever heard before. In this album, the rapper opens up more to the listeners with his honesty and emotions, and he definitely keeps everything else minimal: there are almost no choruses to sing along and few hooks.

Drake's new album is not for the party: it's rather heavy-hearted and confessional. It's actually meant for alone time, dark rooms, and headphones. It's something that you would play it by yourself to think over, think about, or think of. The Toronto native reflects on how the success, the money, the drugs, and the party life have left him, his crew, and other successful friends, feeling empty and alone.

In the first and most-awaited song of his third album, "Tuscan Leather," which 40 sampled Whitney Houston and flipped it 3 different times, the "Started From The Bottom" rapper opens up the album with a bold verse, "This is nothin' for the radio / but they'll still play it though / Cause it's that new Drizzy Drake / that's just the way it go."

What makes "Tuscan Leather" exceptionally great compared to other songs in the album is the fact that Drake is upright about his mistakes, and talks about how his mistakes lead on wearing out his relationship with his family friends, including Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne.

In this track, he admits making mistake in relationship with Nicki Minaj, "I gotta stay with the family / Not even talkin' to Nicki / Communication is breakin' / I dropped the ball on some personal shit, I need to embrace it / I'm honest. I make mistakes. I'd be the second to admit it / Think that's why I need her in my life, to check me when I'm trippin'."

During an interview with Power 106, a Los Angeles radio station, Drake discusses how the relationship with Nicki Minaj has been mended since the recording of "Tuscan Leather":

"The album is a journey, so the first song is not where I'm at in my life right now. I started this album a year and a half ago, and it did kind of go in chronological order, for the most part. That song kind of picks up at an earlier point in my life. I had done something that I had to just reevaluate and fix. We're good. We definitely talk. I saw her the other night. It was all love. I choose to express personal things in my music and I don't ever do it with malice. I hope that when she hears that line, she understands that what I'm saying is that she's necessary in my life and that I care about her. It's never with bad intentions. I did express that, and I did also fix that, which I'm happy about."

It is evident that Drake is maturing through his music, and his introspective album is stronger and more meaningful than before, with each play.