Views from the 6 drake fourth studio album

ItвЂ™s been two-and-half years since DrakeвЂ™s last studio album вЂ“ more than enough time to record too many songs. The result is new patterns, new tones and new pockets of DrakeвЂ™s secret weapon: empty space. This is glittering, diamond-sharp stuff that sees Drake switch from the dulcet lothario of вЂTake CareвЂ™ to the clipped, canine street rapper of вЂIf YouвЂ™re Reading This ItвЂ™s Too LateвЂ™.

Tropical club bangers aside, DrakeвЂ™s fourth studio effort is above all else a headphone album, possessed of an instrumental palette of astonishing depth and variation. This second camp might point you to вЂChildвЂ™s PlayвЂ™, wherein the multimillionaire asks, quite seriously, вЂWhy you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake? You know I love to go there.вЂ™ (The Cheesecake Factory, for the uninitiated, is the kind of place North American kids might go for a fifteenth birthday.) Others, again fairly, will wonder why any artist would abandon such demonstrably fecund ground. There will be those who fairly point out that DrakeвЂ™s self-absorbed shtick is getting, er, less young: the absence of trust, the presence of doubt, the love of mum and money. Sure enough, the affection is palpable: improbable co-signs for questionable local rappers, sly references to criminally slept-on OGs, obligatory condo building shout-outs and, picking up where 2015вЂ™s вЂIf YouвЂ™re Reading This ItвЂ™s Too LateвЂ™ left off, a tour through some of the least glamorous locales on GodвЂ™s grey earth.Д«ut this being a Drake album, if вЂViewsвЂ™ looks anywhere, itвЂ™s inward. There was reason to believe the album formerly known as вЂViews From the 6вЂ™ would be DrakeвЂ™s love letter to Toronto. It was a year that saw him drop two wildly acclaimed mixtapes and the invention of the meme-able hit record вЂ“В aka the omnipresent 'Hotline Bling'. The prospect of building on his success in 2015 must have been galling for the 29-year old. Drake is undeniably, immovably here вЂ“ at the top, enthroned and imperious, and with nowhere to go but down.

Views from the 6 drake fourth studio album