Consider it the song where you should turn over on your lounge chair.Ī good place for “Fake Love,” the Drake smash with mild steel drum vibes that preceded the More Life period, and which probably fits a little better into our More Views here than it did near the very end of Drake’s own playlist. It’s a logical choice for a Side One closer.Īn underrated interlude buried towards the end of Views, the Majid (of Majid Jordan)-sung, guitar-soaked Isleys soul of the 1:46-long “Summers Over” makes for a perfect palate cleanser in between our two halves of our playlist. But it’s still relatively frisky for Mixtape Drake, with a skittering beat, prancing synth hook, and and always-lively guest verses from Thugger and 2 Chainz. The closest thing that our More Views has to a downbeat track, “Sacrifices” is certainly more obviously landlocked than most of the tracks on this playlist - though it does mention 40 having a house on the lake, at least. It’s basically Drake’s Side Two of Abbey Road, a blissful, majestic five-song medley whose fragments are virtually inseparable - though radio may certainly try its hand at isolating “Passionfruit,” arguably the most sublime pop song of Drizzy’s career to date.Ĩ. Black Coffee & Jorja Smith)Ĭan’t interrupt or relocate the early-album stride of More Life, certainly one of the most dazzling sequences of worldly pop music assembled on record this decade. And if you’re assembling your own version at home, to try to locate the version with Popcaan’s verse still in tact, rather than the slightly neutered solo version from iViews. It’s a good way to ramp up into the peak run of both More Life and More Views. Seems to make sense to start the playlist with the smash that essentially kicked off this period in Drake’s career, the irresistibly skanking, Timmy Thomas-sampling megapop of “Hotline Bling.” It felt out of place as a bonus cut tacked on to the end of Views, but it seems more logical as an opening salvo, if for nothing else than to get it out of the way early.Ĭertainly a definitive single in Drake’s recent discography, with its dancehall-derived beat and borrowed-slang hook.

“Hotline Bling” (non-album single, Views bonus track)

Read on below, listen to the whole thing at the bottom, and be sure to apply the appropriate amount of sunscreen before playing.ġ. So, we present More Views: A playlist combining the best globetrotting pop of Views and More Life into one 17-track cruise. Drake Sets the Course for Yacht Rap on 'More Life': Critic's Take

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