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Why it matters

Drake spends twenty tracks turning Toronto's cold-weather loneliness into a mood board, sprawling because he can afford to and because sprawl is the point of being king of a city that never used to matter.

The real gambit is the two tracks that don't sound like the other eighteen: "One Dance" and "Controlla" import dancehall and Afrobeats and hand Drake the biggest hit of his life, a chart smash sung mostly in a borrowed cadence. That move mattered more than any confession here adio and Caribbean pop into the North American mainstream, and every rapper who later chased a summer riddim was following this map. The rest of Views leans into a chilly, self-pitying gorgeousness "Feel No Ways" gliding on that bright synth, "Weston Road Flows" flipping soul into hometown nostalgia hat grows numbing by hour's end. What lasts isn't the sulking; it's the proof that a rapper from Toronto could set the world's dance floors in motion.

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Tracklist

1. 01Keep the Family Close5:29
2. 0294:16
3. 03U With Me?4:57
4. 04Feel No Ways4:01
5. 05Hype3:29
6. 06Weston Road Flows4:14
7. 07Redemption5:34
8. 08With You (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR)3:15
9. 09Faithful (feat. Pimp C & dvsn)4:50
10. 10Still Here3:10
11. 11Controlla4:05
12. 12One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla)2:54
13. 13Grammys (feat. Future)3:40
14. 14Childs Play4:01
15. 15Pop Style3:33
16. 16Too Good (feat. Rihanna)4:23
17. 17Summers Over Interlude1:46
18. 18Fire & Desire3:58
19. 19Views5:12
20. 20Hotline Bling4:27