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6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 474 Ratings

  • Summary: The "playlist" project for the Canadian hip-hop artist features guest appearances from 2 Chainz, Black Coffee, Giggs, PartyNextDoor, Quavo, Sampha, Travis Scott, Jorja Smith, Kanye West, and Young Thug.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. Mar 21, 2017
    91
    The singing and melodies are massaged with a care unheard in the prior Drake discography; this album flows as improbably as The Life of Pablo, with more assured lyrics and smoother sequencing, to offset the lack of a certifiable genius at the helm.
  2. Mar 24, 2017
    83
    Drake’s consistent use of global beats and international artists carry the bulk of the weight throughout More Life. Elements of grime and British street culture, along with trap, Caribbean dancehall and Afrobeat give a warmth and freshness that keeps the mood brisk.
  3. Mar 20, 2017
    80
    A nuanced collection of 22 new songs that recall various stages of Drake’s own development, as well as a tour of other styles and artists that he’s partial to. It is both craven and elegant.
  4. Mar 21, 2017
    80
    He allows the various sounds, guest features and flavours of the production, which he and his crew adopted from all over the world, to steal the show.
  5. Mar 28, 2017
    80
    While fans and critics argue over whether or not he’s one of the greatest MCs of his generation, let alone among the greatest of all-time, Drake continues to prove his worth as an elite talent with More Life, another blockbuster from rap’s golden child with the midas touch.
  6. Mar 29, 2017
    70
    Ultimately, More Life does a terrific job creating a mood with its dancehall-flecked, atmospheric production (handled most impressively by the likes of Nineteen85 and Frank Dukes), and it certainly points to a fascinating fork in the road moment for the world’s biggest rapper.
  7. Apr 28, 2017
    50
    More Life is another overly serious, musically uninteresting effort.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 77
  2. Negative: 7 out of 77
  1. Apr 21, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Now since this is a "playlist" its more about the listening experience than the body of work. You have tracks for everyone to like and dislike at the same time: From R&B to trap influenced records to dancehall and even some grime, its all in here. This can obviously be good and bad, depending on how much you enjoy the different genres of music. This also implies that there is a clear lack of direction, which was probably intended, and personally I don't mind that. But it brings out one major issue: The focus on Drake kinda falls back on this one. It seems like its not him carrying this playlist, its the variety of sounds, the production, the samples, the features. Because fully focusing on Drake only further establishes that he seems to be running out of topics to talk about: Most of it is brag rap, there are 1 or 2 introspective tracks and of course his lovey dovey songs which at this point are mostly recycled from previous tapes. There is no clear identity behind the musician who is Drake anymore. Expand
  2. Mar 22, 2017
    10
    Drake it at his best when he is playing curator and blending genre bending styles from Dancehall, Grime, EDM, R&B, and Hip-Hop. HisDrake it at his best when he is playing curator and blending genre bending styles from Dancehall, Grime, EDM, R&B, and Hip-Hop. His versatility sunshine atop top shelf production. Expand
  3. Mar 20, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. "More life" the most diverse project, was a good playlist but at the same time it wasn't for many. More life gives us a more vocal Drake, where he gets personal in songs like "Lose you", "Can't have everything", and "Do not Disturb". Drake gave us more tropical, island type vibes throughout the playlist.
    It's (in my opinion) the most interesting work Drake ever did. He gave us a playlist we can relate to and gave us the (old) Drake that we knew from "Best I've ever had" to "Take Care". Hopefully Drake gives us a better mixtape, album, or playlist in 2018.
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  4. Jun 17, 2022
    8
    This album was a pleasant surprise
    Free Smoke, No Long Talk, Passionfruit, Jorja Interlude, Get it together, Portland, KMT and Ice Melts are
    This album was a pleasant surprise
    Free Smoke, No Long Talk, Passionfruit, Jorja Interlude, Get it together, Portland, KMT and Ice Melts are by far the best tracks on this "Playlist."
    However that's not to say that there was some skips on this "Playlist." an immediate example is that the songs that are not listed up above either dragged for me or I just glossed them over as I was doing other things
    The production of this album is incredibly diverse, and as expected sounds polished, and mix beautifully, with the exception of the flute on Portland, which sounded intentionally poor, at least to me anyways
    This "Playlist." definitely was more enjoyable than Views, despite being less focused than say Scorpion, I know that there will be people who either liked the songs I listed exclusively, and there will be people who liked the whole thing all the way through, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I severely doubt people would say this is better than Drake's previous work
    overall, definite recommend
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  5. Aug 30, 2019
    7
    It is this feeling of being in the lower New York, watching the train pass in front of house in Brooklyn with the estuary to the maximum.
  6. Apr 6, 2017
    6
    If you didn't like Views, you wont like this either. I really tried to enjoy this mixtape... playlist... whatever. But it really just feelsIf you didn't like Views, you wont like this either. I really tried to enjoy this mixtape... playlist... whatever. But it really just feels like the b sides to an already sub par album, Views. Expand
  7. Mar 28, 2017
    0
    Boring beats aside from like maybe 3/4 songs, tons of filler, and Drake isn't saying anything new that we haven't heard previously before onBoring beats aside from like maybe 3/4 songs, tons of filler, and Drake isn't saying anything new that we haven't heard previously before on his past albums. Expand

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