{"id":14972,"date":"2016-02-19T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2016-02-19T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T00:01:39","slug":"drakes-views-album-will-be-what-everyone-expects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=14972","title":{"rendered":"Drake&#8217;s Views Album Will Be What Everyone Expects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/40_ohsodj.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14978\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/40_ohsodj.jpg?resize=223%2C210\" alt=\"40_ohsodj\" width=\"223\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14978\" \/><\/a>Last week, while Drake was hosting the 2016 All Star weekend in Toronto, his producer and right-hand man, Noah &#8220;40&#8221; Shebib chatted with the New York Times about what the direction the Toronto rapper is taking on his new LP &#8211; <strong>Views from the 6<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Drake has been working on his forthcoming album since at least 2014 when he announced the title of the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter <strong>Nothing Was the Same<\/strong>, Drake was like, \u2018I want to do a rap project,\u2019\u201d 40 recalled. \u201cHe wanted to do what all the other rappers get to do.\u201d But that approach is \u201ca thing we can\u2019t do that much on a Drake album,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have other fans we need to satisfy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be what everybody expects and wants from Drake and from us,\u201d 40 went on to add. \u201cA lot of introspection, very vivid. He\u2019s discovering new flows, new cadences, new patterns.\u201d As for the music, \u201cI\u2019m trying to find ways to pull more untraditional sounds in, to push the boundaries a little further.\u201d The overall approach may be the same as the one that the duo has finely honed, but still, something about it should be special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Last week, while Drake was hosting the 2016 All Star weekend in Toronto, his producer and right-hand man, Noah &#8220;40&#8221; Shebib chatted with the New York Times about what the direction the Toronto rapper is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=14972\" title=\"Drake&#8217;s Views Album Will Be What Everyone Expects\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[30,366,807],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-30","tag-drake","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-3Tu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/40_ohsodj.jpg?fit=223%2C210&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}