Others, again fairly, will wonder why any artist would abandon such demonstrably fecund ground. There will be those who fairly point out that Drake’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 2015’s ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’ left off, a tour through some of the least glamorous locales on God’s grey earth.īut this being a Drake album, if ‘Views’ looks anywhere, it’s inward. There was reason to believe the album formerly known as ‘Views From the 6’ would be Drake’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 – 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 – at the top, enthroned and imperious, and with nowhere to go but down.
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