Drake has suddenly dropped two surprise new songs

Drake has taken us all by surprise by dropping two brand new songs which we absolutely did not see coming.

These days, you can expect to go to sleep one day and wake up to the news that Drake has dropped new songs while you were sleeping. Sometimes he might even drop an entire album which isn’t actually an album but a playlist, and is only exclusive to a single platform. The options are limitless when it comes to the Canadian rapper.

Dropping onto SoundCloud this time around, Drake released ‘When to Say When’ and ‘Chicago Freestyle’ alongside a brand new music video on YouTube. In the video that the songs have been bundled together in, you can see Drake running around New York City as he probably always does, making a stop at Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, where he was spotted in early February. The tracks themselves include a couple of nods to other rappers, including a sample of JAY-Z’s ‘Song Cry’ and an interpolation of Eminem’s ‘Superman.’

You can listen to both of the new Drake singles in one video below.

The brand new two-pack of Drake songs establish the rapper as someone who takes old tricks and refines them into something brand new. It’s good to hear him come back from the days of dropping things almost every week, and still sound like he has something to say. With his recent abandonment of traditional release strategies, Drake has found the perfect way to share the music he is making without playing slave to the industry.

It is still unclear as to whether these songs are standalone projects, but it would be unlike the rapper to not have something brilliant in the works for us somewhere. Surely we can expect an album possibly later this year or in the early days of 2021.

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