![]() Drake appears on the bleary "Come and See Me," unsurprisingly the album's most popular cut. Apart from a little crafty sonic detailing, nothing distinguishes them from what came before. That and a couple other exceptions aside, the hour-plus set offers more variations on the narcotic, boast-filled slow jams for which Brathwaite and his fellow OVO Sound artists are known. "Only U" is clearly a bid for sustained crossover success, as it's also one of the few clean tracks on the album, all about longing and devotion instead of bold objectification and poisonous relationships. The stretched-out productions seem cloaked in a cloud of smoke, although flirtatious asidesscattered across tracks. Canadian producer/songwriter PARTYNEXTDOOR came up as part of Drake’s OVO Sound collective, and his debut album fits right into the crew’s late-night vibe. On this album, Brathwaite brags "You heard a lot about Jamaicans and you wanna know what it feel like," occasionally slips into patois, and reconnects with Boi-1da for "Only U," a harder-hitting dancehall cut. This is hazy R&B for intimate one-on-one hangouts. Between his second and third PartyNextDoor releases, Jahron Brathwaite scored his first number one pop hit with Rihanna and Drake's "Work," a lightly dancehall-tinged song credited to several other writers, including fellow Jamaican-Canadian artists Boi-1da and Sevn Thomas.
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