Drake reveals tracklist for Views, includes Hotline Bling
Lakshine Sathiyanathan, Errol Nazareth | CBC News | Posted: April 27, 2016 9:22 PM | Last Updated: April 28, 2016
Album out on Friday, additional tour dates announced
Your summer sixteen tracklist is out.
On Wednesday, Drake revealed the tracklist for the long-waited album Views — formerly Views from the 6.
The list includes Pop Style and One Dance, two singles that were released earlier this month as well as Controlla that was leaked and yanked offline.
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His 2015 hit Hotline Bling is a bonus track but his single Summer Sixteen — the namesake of his multi-city tour — is not on it. Drake premiered Summer Sixteen during an episode of OVO Sound Radio in which he announced that he would release Views in April.
Meanwhile, the cover art of Views — which features the 6 God sitting atop the CN Tower — has inspired a firestorm of memes as well as a meme generator.
We were particularly taken with this one:
The album cover also had people questioning whether the rapper was indeed perched atop the iconic landmark or Photoshopped on it.
The official Twitter account of the CN Tower deep-sixed that debate on Monday.
On Wednesday, Drake announced that his Summer Sixteen tour, featuring Atlanta-based rapper Future, Roy Woods and DVSN, will kick off July 20 in Austin, Texas and wrap up in Vancouver on September 18.
The tour will make four stops in Canada, including two at the ACC in Toronto on July 31 and August 1 and two at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver on September 17 and 18.
Drake's hugely popular OVO Fest in Toronto will happen on Aug. 1 and will feature Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa.