You might remember that Drake cast Jamaican dancehall superstar Mavado in the video for 2010’s ‘Find Your Love’, so ‘9’ feels like something of a callback. (from Gangsta for Life: The Symphony of David Brooks, VP, 2007) Read next: A guide to the samples on Kanye West’s The Life Of Pablo. Click on each track to hear a comparison.

At 20 tracks, it doesn’t pull any punches either, packing in as many references as possible in its 82-minute (!) runtime, from DMX’s chants on ‘U With Me?’ to the sizzling Timmy Thomas sample on the now-ubiquitous ‘Hotline Bling’.įACT teamed up with WhoSampled to provide a guide to the patchwork of songs behind Views. Views, which dropped this week, is Drake’s most eagerly anticipated album to date, appearing only a week after Beyoncé’s Lemonade and in the same year as Rihanna’s ANTI and Kanye West’s sprawling The Life Of Pablo. That’s not to detract from his personality either, but Drake’s production unit – led by the enigmatic Noah “40” Shebib – has helped steer the star through the pop landscape, giving what could have been a cheesy prospect (“child star makes rap album”) an innovative, unimpeachable backbone. Since his breakout mixtape So Far Gone, Drake’s success has been chained to his production choices.

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