Drake - No Long Talk

Music 4 years ago

Drake - No Long Talk

Following the paranoid, sonically muddy VIEWS, Drake’s latest album—correction, “playlist”—More Life feels like a cool breeze.

There’s less gloomy lyrical introspection, more musical range, and the added emphasis on dancehall, grime, and Afrobeats marks a dramatic, Black Atlantic sea change.

Though much has been made of More Life’s reliance on a heavyweight features list over the development of Drake’s lyrical persona,

the balance between the rapper’s ambivalent tone and the blissful, eclectic music selection works uncannily well.