Drake’s Latest: Album Or Playlist?
For almost a decade, Drake has been a star and also a curator, the artist most responsible for hip-hop’s evolutionary changes and the one most likely to spot the next in line for the crown. He has also been a bit of a formal innovator — he releases albums, and also mixtapes, as well as loosies when the feeling strikes. The traditional album cycle may be on the verge of extinction in the pop sphere; Drake has made peace with that. His latest project, “More Life†— which had its premiere Saturday on OVO Sound Radio, his label’s weekly show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, and is available on all major platforms for streaming and sale — is billed not as an album, or a mixtape, but a playlist, a choice that has both rhetorical and business import.
