More Life

Drake - More Life
Critic Score
Based on 25 reviews
2017 Ratings: #317 / 940
Year End Rank: #36
User Score
2017 Rank: #771
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
Consequence of Sound

The singing and melodies are massaged with a care unheard in the prior Drake discography; this album flows as improbably as The Life of Pablo, with more assured lyrics and smoother sequencing, to offset the lack of a certifiable genius at the helm.

84
HipHopDX

On More Life, you can literally pick out your favorite type of Drake and have a handful of those songs within ear’s reach, which not a lot of contemporary rappers have the ability to do.

83
Paste

22 songs is a challenge — too many tracks can easily jump the rails, leading to an uneven and tiring project. But, as the first three songs bear out, More Life doesn’t lose too much momentum even as it stumbles along its path.

83
A.V. Club

Despite its playlist tag, it is unmistakably a Drake album—it even has a Blueprint highball closer like each of its predecessors—and as an album, it is probably Drake’s worst. But as a collection of totally atomized songs and ideas, it’s up there with anything he’s released. Maybe that makes it a playlist after all.

83
Entertainment Weekly

More Life is a serious commitment, if not a test of one’s patience. But Drake does at least have a better grasp on how to maintain momentum this time.

80
Exclaim!

While VIEWS served as an ominous soundscape to a never-ending winter and reflected a booming hunger in the city, his newest release, More Life, presents the fruits of that labour in a sunnier, more celebratory arrangement.

80
The Young Folks

Though More Life is extremely long—22 tracks in total—it is absolutely packed with rhymes, rhythms, and, unusually for Drake, relaxation.

80
The Independent

With plenty of guests dropping by to chip in a verse or a rap, over 80 minutes’ worth of grooves and beats sculpted by a veritable army of producers. Pleasingly, two of the best are British, Sampha capping “4422” with an emotive outburst, and Skepta getting an entire “Skepta Interlude”.

80
Crack Magazine

Drake has convincingly positioned himself as an architect for a borderless age of pop music.

80
NOW Magazine

He allows the various sounds, guest features and flavours of the production, which he and his crew adopted from all over the world, to steal the show.

80
The Guardian

More Life offers little solace for those who never bought what the Canadian rapper was selling but for his fans that gave his songs billions of streams last year, they’ll hear no issue.

80
Rolling Stone

More Life is his finest longform collection in years, cheerfully indulgent at 22 tracks and 82 minutes, a masterful tour of all the grooves in his head.

80
XXL

More Life ... is less of a return to form and more of an expression of Drake’s hunger for widespread acclaim beyond the borders of rap, and is indicative of where the arc of his career and legacy is trending towards.

80
Tiny Mix Tapes

The playlist is less an embodiment of the “experience,” Drake-playing-Drake via others, and more a headspace in which these voices, genres, and styles are given breathing room.

78
Pitchfork

Drake's course correction to VIEWS bursts with energy—more South African house, more grime, more Kanye. It's a long player made for luxuriating and a total immersion into Drake's world-pop lifestyle.

73
GIGsoup

It could be likely that Drake is saving his best bars for a more official project. Not that it matters, as there are enough great moments over the project’s 22 tracks to get fans excited; with the more melodic numbers in particular standing out.

70
The 405

Essentially any criticism one can level at More Life is irrelevant. It does exactly what it was intended to do, so on his own terms, it's a resounding success.

70
PopMatters

Drake’s idea of “more life” is “more everything”. My idea of More Life is less music, and the best thing about this playlist will be the one I eventually build for myself.

70
Drowned in Sound

More Life does a terrific job creating a mood with its dancehall-flecked, atmospheric production, and it certainly points to a fascinating fork in the road moment for the world’s biggest rapper.

67
Pretty Much Amazing

Regardless of your opinion of Drake’s music, you have an opinion on Aubrey Drake Graham, and because of this, More Life both succeeds and suffers. In Drake’s never-ending expansion into all areas, he waltzes into many a genre with ease, but at a cost of diluting his credibility and talents.

64
Sputnikmusic

The turnaround from Views is remarkable, and the occasional standout does indicate that Drake’s been listening to some of the basic criticisms. It all stacks up as an agreeable (not wonderful, definitely not boring) assortment of thumpers, enough to pass the time until Drake finds a new culture to pillage.

60
The Observer

By definition, More Life has sprawl in-built, so judicious use of the skip function is required, but this is high-quality filler.

50
AllMusic

The few choice tracks, high-profile guests, and occasional stylistic shifts aren't enough to keep More Life from being another disappointing release.

50
The Needle Drop
Drake achieves auditory indifference with his new "playlist."
AllAboutMusic
81

98% of Drake haters are Kanye and Kendrick dickriders tbh

Cambridge
75

More Life is a culmination of the sound that has made Drake so successful. Boasting his versatility, it's a playlist that of a sonic synopsis of what the OVO aesthetic has personified. From his witty introspective talk-rap & somber mood of lustful R&B to refreshing melodies on dancehall riddims & sprinkles of 40s magical stardust of production, it's a very Drake project that many October born will worship for the upcoming months & the common anti-Drake will scorn with the ... read more

Dax_Wilder
58

This has a lot more life than Views did lol. After listening to Views a little while back during studying, I found the album to be a mixed bag sonically that left with me little to return to afterwards (besides "Feel No Ways" which is an absolute bop). More Life is apparently a B-Sides "playlist" of Views, but it's surprisingly a more consistent and coherent experience, with a decent amount of highlights. The first half of the album balances out the dancehall songs and more ... read more

Jimshair46
40

Drake Review #8 "More Life" Playlist/Mixtape

God. This is like one of his best I thought. I guess it still is. The second half is SO DEAD. I am bugging. Sacrifices is one of the best things of all time though.

Liked Tracks: Free Smoke, Passionfruit, Get It Together, 4422, Gyalchester, Skepta Interlude, Sacrifices, Teenage Fever

Favourite Track: Sacrifices

Worst Track: Since Way Back

aleejaa_sanzzz
NR

favs: skepta interlude, get it together, teenage fever, KMT
highlights: the versatility in this album really leaves a satisfied taste, one moment you’re hearing afrovibes with teenage fever and the next you’re hearing agressive trap beats with KMT and skepta interlude <3

Wjay4
70

Drake is very diverse on this one. You have bangers like Portland and Gyalchester and more rnb songs like Fake Love and Since Way Back. Also we did NOT need two Giggs features. It’s too long which seems to be a common theme for Drake.

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Track List

1Free Smoke
3:38
78
2No Long Talk
2:29
feat. Giggs
65
3Passionfruit
4:58
91
4Jorja Interlude
1:47
72
5Get It Together
4:10
74
6Madiba Riddim
3:25
67
7Blem
3:36
62
84422
3:06
feat. Sampha
76
9Gyalchester
3:09
74
10Skepta Interlude
2:23
72
11Portland
3:56
76
12Sacrifices
5:07
72
13Nothings Into Somethings
2:33
64
14Teenage Fever
3:39
73
15KMT
2:42
feat. Giggs
63
16Lose You
5:05
69
17Can't Have Everything
3:48
67
18Glow
3:26
60
19Since Way Back
6:08
57
20Fake Love
3:30
72
21Ice Melts
4:10
64
22Do Not Disturb
4:43
81
Total Length: 1 hour, 21 minutes
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Added on: December 3, 2016