Drake performs at Piedmont Park during day 1 of Music Midtown on Sept. 18, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Drake's Views From the 6 is shaping up to be quite the spectacle. With a bundle of leaks (refer to: "Faithful" featuring the late UGK legend Pimp C, "These Days" and "Controlla" co-starring Jamaican dancehall act Popcaan) and a joint delivery of "Pop Style" featuring Jay Z and Kanye West as well as "One Dance" with contributions from Wizkid and Kyla, there are different directions the 6 God could take his Views.
Here's all the rumors Google can reveal about Drake's forth studio effort.
The Release Date
Drake delivered his release date with a montage of his personal highlights on Twitter with the date "4/29/16," an important iCal note for the OVO Hive.
The streaming service
With Drake's OVO Sound radio station on Beats 1 (which spotlights under-the-radar acts with a moody, genre-blending aesthetic [his own artists dvsn and Majid Jordan are staples] sprinkled with occasional dancehall and trap gems bubbling up on the Internet), it's only right that Views will reportedly be available on Apple Music for a week exclusively after its April 29 debut, according to Forbes. (Billboard has reached out to an Apple rep for comment.)
Features
Per iTunes, "0 to 100/ The Catch Up," "Hotline Bling" "Summer Sixteen," "Pop Style" and "One Dance" mark the only Drake releases without a body of work attached since his last studio effort, the 2015 joint Future project What a Time to Be Alive. Based on that criteria, collaborators automatically include Jay Z (who offered two bars for "Pop Style," starting rumors that an extended version is appearing on Hov's streaming service Tidal), Kanye West, songstress Kyla and Nigerian artist Wizkid. Toronto rapper SAFE has also been snapped in the studio with the rap king.
Refer to the leaks though and the features list includes the late rapper Pimp C, Popcaan and (if it counts) Amber Rose, whose Instagram soundbite was sampled on "Faithful." There was also this little number called "Can I" featuring Beyonce, which leaked in May 2015 only to appear on the Oct. 3, 2015 episode of OVO Sound Radio. According to this April 2015 profile on Four Pins, there were two finished songs Drake liked for Views, which included a Bey collaboration and another that he expected to "inspire a paradigm shift," which calls to mind the game-changing and permanently viral "Hotline Bling.
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