The production credits are also revealed. It's also the title of his upcoming tour with Future.Ġ4-28-16: It's confirmed that Drake's album is no longer Views From the 6, but simply VIEWS. Noticeably absent is "Summer Sixteen," the song Drake played six times on OVO Sound Radio back in January to announce *Views' *April arrival. Of his 2015 singles, only "Hotline Bling" made the final cut as a bonus track. There are no confirmed features, but it includes "One Dance," "Pop Style" (which may have Kanye West and Jay Z on it), and the leaked song "Controlla" (possibly with Popcaan).
1 song in his native Canada.Ġ4-27-16: Drake finally reveals the *Views From the 6 *tracklist. The folks behind the CN Tower ensured that the art is Photoshopped because Drake not, like, 11 feet tall.Ġ4-26-16: "One Dance" becomes Drake's first No. Proportionally, it would make his legs incredibly long with how far they come off the 1,800-foot building. There’s no indication whether the signing is official or if either of the English grime emcees will end up on Views, but if Drake is signed, it might suggest some kind of working relationship, and it could produce album collaborations, as in the reverse case with OVO’s PARTYNEXTDOOR and Majid Jordan.Ġ4-25-16: The Views album art features Drake atop Toronto's CN Tower. That same day, Kanye West tweets that he Drake and Future will be releasing new music together soon.Ġ2-24-16: Drake claims he’s signed to JME and Skepta’s Boy Better Know label. He’s discovering new flows, new cadences, new patterns.” As soon as one of those ideas gets his attention, we start heading that way.” Shebib also suggests Drake was looking to release a more straightforward rap album post- Nothing Was the Same (“He wanted to do what all of the other rappers get to do”), before finally setting expectations: “It’s going to be what everybody expects and wants from Drake and from us. If we love it, we love it.”Ġ2-18-16: In an interview with the New York Times, Noah “40” Shebib opened up about the release before a session, discussing their process: “I just make 50 ideas in one day.
I have to go sit with him, and we have to really put in effort.” They decamped to - but of course - the 6, where the sounds of the city were said in this piece to have inspired them.Ġ9-25-15: In a complementary profile of OVO co-founders Oliver El-Khatib and Noah “40” Shebib, El-Khatib tells FADER that Views will be a return to their formula: “We’re just really getting back to basics and not giving ourselves any sense of deadline. If I want to make the album I want to make, I have to go find him. And now he is not that guy – I have another guy who does that. He used to be the guy who would track me in hotel rooms at 4 am. The show also premieres “Hotline Bling,” then tagged “Cha Cha” Remix.ħ-29-15: Drake follows with “Back to Back,” his second diss in five days, which acknowledges the beef as a digression from Views, closing: “I just took a break from Views, now it’s back to that.”Ġ9-20-15: OVO Sound Radio premieres Drake’s collaboration with Future, What A Time to Be Alive.Ġ9-24-15: In his FADER cover story, Drake says that longtime producer Noah “40” Shebib has been as hands-on with Views as he was for projects like So Far Gone and Take Care: “We’ve grown a lot over the years.
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The mixtape continues Drake’s ongoing Toronto rebrand with songs like “6 God,” “6 Man,” and “You & the 6,” plus the “Know Yourself” tagline, “I was running through the 6 with my woes.” All serve as free Views advertising.Ġ4-16-15: In a profile for the (now defunct) fashion blog Four Pins, Drake reveals that he only has two songs finished for Views that he likes: “a collaboration with Beyoncé that he recorded a while ago” and “a song that he expects to inspire a paradigm shift.”Ġ5-21-15: A song with Beyoncé, “Can I,” (perhaps the one teased above) leaks online.Ġ7-25-15: Drake releases “Charged Up” on his OVO Sound Radio show in response to Meek Mill’s ghostwriting allegations. 02-12-15: Drake postpones all things Views From the 6 in favor of an online surprise release for said mixtape, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.
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