His experimental streak continued with the following year’s double album, Scorpion, which found Drake dividing his rap persona and R&B persona into separate discs. A year after releasing the massively successful album Views in 2016, Drake offered up what he termed a “playlist” instead of a traditional album, More Life, on which he embraced diasporic musical influences like South African house and tropicália. The indelible pop hooks and bleeding-heart lyricism found on his early albums, especially 2010’s Thank Me Later and 2011’s Take Care, won him legions of fans and plenty of scorn.
In less than half a decade, the Toronto-born rapper Drake went from being a former child actor and Lil Wayne’s protégé to one of the world’s biggest entertainers.
