While Views failed to garner the critical acclaim of the rapper’s earlier work, it was a major success among fans and led to a stadium tour that only further established Drake as the biggest rapper in music today. The album broke sales records and set a new trend for streaming in the new age of music. In 2016, Drake released his fourth and most commercially successful studio album Views. One such artist is R&B and hip-hop artist Drake. With the introduction of streaming platforms like Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music, artists have tailored their marketing strategies to fit in with new trends in music streaming. The extreme length, and the absence of a real theme end up being the real weaknesses of it.ĭespite having released some really good tracks, Drake is still insufficiently concrete and coherent nevertheless, he seems to be on the right path, and More Life remains a really enjoyable and well made playlist.Music distribution has changed drastically over the last few years.

The feeling though is that, despite this being a great step forward from the dull and boring Views, the high quality and the concept behind More Life is still not good enough to justify the peculiarities of the album. More Life is a well-built, quite successful attempt at renewing Drake‘s style the artist moves gracefully from one genre to the another, proving again his potential. Yeezy’s exuberant personality really moves the Toronto artist on the background of the track, and the result is a decent song, that is unfortunately totally disconnected from the rest of the album. Nonetheless, every track of the album is recognizably a Drake song, regardless how strong and influent all the featurings are, as we can appreciate in “Sacrifices”, with the likes of 2 Chainz and Young Thug. The only exception is “Glow”, featuring Kanye West. Aubrey brings out the best in his guests: an example is “Portland”, a perfectly made trap anthem featuring Quavo and Travis Scott, two of the genre’s most mainstream and appreciated representatives. The canadian artist flirts with house music in “Get It Together”, featuring Black Coffee and Jorja Smith, another really well -chosen track.ĭuring the whole length of the album, Drake plays the role of an actor, interpreting different protagonists but always leaving his mark on them. “Passionfruit” is, probably, the biggest single of the album again, a totally new flow and beat for Drake, that masterfully gives his markedly R’n’B turn to a tropical instrumental. The attempt to make grime more attractive to a non-british audience is a great accomplishment of Drake’s new work, made even more clear in the perfect “Skepta Interlude”. Drake isn’t surely a bright example of conciseness and just one year after the rambling and exceptionally boring Views, the Canadian artist makes his comeback with a 81-minutes-long new selection of songs titled More Life. This new project, conceived by Drake as a playlist, is an eclectic and diverse album, that includes a number of different genres and styles.Īlthough the extreme length and the playlist concept inevitably recall what we heard with Views the substantial differences with the predecessor are made clear from the very first tracks.ĭespite “Free Smoke”, the opening act of the album, being a classic, not too inspired trap song, “No Long Talk”, featuring grime icon Giggs, perfectly explains what More Life is all about: Drake experimenting with different flows, genres and styles.

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