Drizzy lands on the cover of the latest issue of XXL and for his cover story the Toronto native dishes on his feelings about the recent buffet of albums that dropped this past summer as well as his own LP dropping next month.

Check out a brief excerpt from the mag below:

I remember coming into this year thinking, “How am I going to cut through all these people and shine?” I’ve never been part of a year when so many legends are dropping projects. How am I going to be seen? I’m going to be like the kid waving in the background in the photo with all of his tall relatives. And, I guess, those were my initial thoughts, and not to say that I haven’t enjoyed some of the stuff that has come out this year, but it didn’t pan out the way I thought it was going to. I think I am going for it, to really establish what are murmurs or things being said quietly, “Um, I think that Drake might actually…” On September 17th I want people to be like, “Oh, we were right.”

Thoughts??