The world was waiting with bated breath for Drake to finally release his newest project, an album/playlist hybrid called More Life, which he finally did today, and now that people have pored over the tracks and the samples contained therein, it looks as though Drake might just be a fan of some of our Aussie talent.
With Drake’s ambitious 22-track playlist project being finally released today, music fans the world over were waiting anxiously to see just how it stacked up in comparison to his more conventional mixtape and album releases. The general consensus is that it’s pretty good, but fans have had a chance to go over the credits and samples on the record and have discovered a little Aussie band tucked away at the start of it all.
The playlist’s opener, ‘Free Smoke’, is a pretty free and easy track that features numerous samples amongst Drake’s trademark flow, but if you’re a fan of Aussie music, you might just have noticed that the first thing you hear on the album isn’t Drake at all, but rather, the soulful vocals of Nai Palm by way of a\a sampling of Melbourne’s Hiatus Kaiyote and their track ‘Building A Ladder’.
That’s right, our favourite Canadian rapper now joins the ranks of musicians who are big fans of Hiatus Kaiyote’s music as well, with artists such as Questlove and Q-Tip already having expressed their love of the Melbourne band in addition to a Grammy nomination a few years back.
Give the original track a listen below so that you may reacquaint yourself with the Aussie work being sampled before you enjoy the rest of Drake’s new album… playlist… whatever you want to call it.
