Welcome to 8tracks radio: free music streaming for any time, place, or mood. Hoodie Allen, Chiddy Bang, and o2l. You can also download one of our free apps to enjoy internet radio on your favorite device.UPDATE 2: As Rolling Stone previously reported, Zane Lowe is conducting an exclusive interview with Drake during OVO Sound Radio for Beats 1. The interview time has been changed to 10:45 p.m. ET. Views will be officially released at midnight ET on iTunes and Apple Music and following its release there will be a special Drake-related @AppleMusic Snapchat. Drake Debuts Two New Songs Featuring Kanye West, Jay Z Watch Taylor Swift Cover Drake, Future's 'Jumpman' Drake, Future Embarking on Summer Sixteen Tour UPDATE: Drake's producer and engineer, Noah "40" Shebib, has unveiled Views' track list alongside each song's producers on Instagram. The listing he posted reveals much of the production was helmed by 40 himself. Nineteen85, Boi-1da, Kanye West, and others are also listed.

Drake is preparing to release Views, his fourth studio album, on Friday after a long, mysterious wait. He began discussing the follow-up to Nothing Was the Same in 2014 – and even gave it a provisional title, Views From the 6 – but instead of releasing his next proper full-length, he has surprised fans with several unofficial singles and two acclaimed album-length mixtapes: high-profile solo effort If You're Reading This It's Too Late and Future collaboration What a Time to Be Alive. sjove hoodiesGiven his prolific output for the past three years as he has wrapped up the LP now simply titled Views, information is muddled as to what fans can expect from the upcoming release. spca hoodieHere is what we know, so far.detroit tigers postseason hoodie

In keeping with the original title of Views From the 6, a reference to Drake's home of Toronto – the current city was formerly made up of six smaller cities – the album's cover shows an image of the city's CN Tower. The image is Photoshopped so that it appears as though the rapper is seated atop the landmark. Drake confirmed the final track list of the album on Twitter earlier this week. Noticeably absent is "Summer Sixteen," a track he debuted on OVO Sound in January just moments before confirming the April release of his new album. gd one of a kind hoodie ebayThe single's title also happens to be the name of his summer tour with Future, which begins in July.hoodie allen & jme The track list does, however, include Drake's recently released songs "One Dance" featuring Wizkid and Kyla and "Pop Style" featuring Jay Z and Kanye West, who are billed together as the Throne. topman hoodie singapore

His 2015 smash hit "Hotline Bling," a song he debuted during his radio show last summer amid his Meek Mill feud, is the album's sole bonus track. Leaked tracks "Controlla" featuring Popcaan and "Faithful" featuring Pimp C, which Drake has not released officially, are also included on the final track list. The track list Drake released prior to the album's official debut did not specify guests, even for the previously released songs, but the roster of featured artists ranges from hip-hop heavyweights like the Throne to international artists such as dancehall performer Popcaan and British singer Kyla. As on his other studio albums, Drake has continued to work with his OVO team, including Oliver El-Khatib and Noah "40" Shebib, both of whom spoke about the album last September with the Fader. "We're just really getting back to basics and not giving ourselves any sense of deadline," El-Khatib said. "Just letting it happen naturally. That's how we've always done it. When it's done, it's done.

If we love it, we love it." Both Drake and Apple Music confirmed that the album would be an Apple Music exclusive, though a trailer the rapper released on "Views Eve" noted that the exclusive would be for a limited time. Apple Music's Tumblr account then revealed that a special OVO Sound show on Beats 1 on Thursday night would serve as the album's "global listening party." Zane Lowe will also be interviewing Drake on the program, which usually runs on Saturday evenings. Hours before Views' official release, Noah "40" Shebib took to Instagram to unveil the production credits for each song. Producers include 40 himself on many of the tracks, Maneesh, Boi-1da, Brian Alexander Morgan, Kanye West, Jordan Ullman of Majid Jordan, Nineteen85, Beat Bully, Murda Beatz, Daxz, Supa Dups, Allen Ritter, Wiz Kid, Southside, Cardo, Young Exclusive, Sevn Thomas and Frank Dukes. He also gave a shout out in the Instagram comments to additional producers not listed, including Metro Boomin, Hagler, Jordan, Vynalz, Oz, Cue Beatz and Di Genius.

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She added, “and it is raging.” It certainly is fierce. From the opening line of “I would cut my legs and tits off when I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski in the dark of the moon” to the 20-minute closer ‘Junior Dad’, it’s a punishingly aggressive record. So what is that Bowie hears in the album that so many other people are obviously missing? in light of his comments, revisiting the album this week, it’s no easier to listen to. But that just might be the point. Most right-thinking people were found scratching their head when the two acts announced they were pairing up. Lou Reed: an art-rock pioneer, whose subtlety and darkness blazed significant trails for counter-culture music. Metallica, on the other hand: metal veterans fresh from recording a monstrously dull album, ‘St Anger’, and complete strangers to subtlety. On closer inspection, Reed and Metallica weren’t cut from such different cloth. They enjoyed challenging their fans, had all lived full and extreme lives, had been through intense therapy, were often seen wearing all black and more than anything, have reputations for being a real set of bastards in person.

If it was an odd idea, the result, ‘Lulu’, was even more baffling; 77 gruelling minutes of Metallica at their most-sludgy, over which Lou Reed, in that unmistakable thin rasp, took on the character of a stripper-turned-social climber who ends up working as a prostitute. In lyrics based on Frank Wedekind’s late-19th-century play ‘Earth Spirit’ and its sequel ‘Pandora’s Box’, we find Reed, in character, describing in fine detail numerous encounters with different punters. One of which hears him begging to be fisted. Reviews were largely very negative. Pitchfork awarded the record 1.0. The Guardian gave it a generous two stars. NME’s Jeremy Allen, however, gave the album an unprecedented 7/10, called it “a surprising triumph” and said: “You’re unlikely to play this record at your next soirée but the breadth and ambition is to be applauded. Metallica have performed way beyond what many thought them capable; they improvise freely as Reed’s musical bitch, while for him this marks his most outré offering since ‘Metal Machine Music’.

Pretty damn fine actually.” Elsewhere though, the reaction to ‘Lulu’ was mainly one of dismay and disappointment. It could just be Bowie and his famous sense of humour having one last dig at his old sparring partner – the pair famously fell out after an argument in a restaurant in 1979 but reconciled years later – a kind of playful, parting shot. Most likely of all was that Dame Dave’s point was, in terms of summing up Reed’s provocateur spirit and gleefully antagonistic personality, the much-derided ‘Lulu’ is actually a brilliant snapshot of Lou Reed the man and mischief-maker. He was, after all, an artist who said he wore sunglasses on stage because he couldn’t stand the sight of the audience, and even his biggest fan, journalist Lester Bangs, called a “vaguely unpleasant fat man.” It’s likely a sizeable chunk of Metallica fans, outraged and put on edge by Kirk Hammett wearing eyeliner, found the album not to be to their tastes. But perhaps the biggest problem with ‘Lulu’ is not the lyrics or the music in isolation, but the fact they seem to have so little bearing on each other.