Rihanna Cruz

One of Drake's problems when it comes to pop, R&B and rap, it's hard to identify him with one particular genre, which goes back to the mission of these albums.

It's to establish himself in each of these apartments.

Iceman's the rap album.

Habib T is the R&B album.

Maid of Honor is the pop album.

And whether or not I agree with the approach, I do think he's actively trying to become not just a jack of all trades, master of none, but a master of all.

Habib T is the music-focused, R&B-oriented album, and I find the song classic to be the record's mission statement in that vein by throwing it back to previous eras of R&B.

Very 90s, very 2000s.

There's the nods of Harrell with the four-count instrumental, twinkling synth pads here, smooth vocals, blown out 808s as if it's coming through like a car speaker or something.

And the narrative he immediately starts off is like talking to a girl.

You know, he heard some rumors.

It's very Usher Confessions vibe.

This is smooth, suave Casanova character Drake.

If Iceman is a character...

this is another character.

I completely agree.

And maybe Drake hedges those complaints by having this track classic function as two halves, where the first half is him singing, doing his R&B thing.

And then the back half is actually an extensive sample of the already existing 90s R&B track, Don't Beat Around the Bush by Just Cause.

I was going to draw a connection to another Drake track, which is a little bit ironic considering what you just said, Charlie.

But I was going to say this song reminds me of Drake's song Teenage Fever on More Life because that song uses an extensive sample of J-Lo for that track's hook.