Since the success of “So Far Gone,” Drake has become one of pop music’s most polarizing figures as well as one of its most influential. (Under his birth name, Aubrey Graham, he played a basketball star on “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”) As with his predecessor Kanye West, there was something novel about a male rapper who appeared to be so sensitive. But what distinguished Drake was a sense of shameless guile, a confidence in his complex persona that was due partly to his background as an actor. There had been artists before him, like Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott, who toggled between rapping and singing. On “Views,” the rapper bleeds onto the page and then admires the pattern.
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