I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today we're going to talk about the number one album in the country by Drake and

Artists we've discussed many times on this show in In addition to topping the album,

Drake's new album, For All the Dogs,

also has seven of the ten top songs in the Hot 100.

And first-person shooter, an excellent track

from this album with Jay Cole, is at number one, which means. and Now of course it's all really apples and oranges when you compare the streaming

era to the pre-streaming era but nonetheless congratulations to Drake and that

success comes despite some mixed reviews and a bunch of negative discourse including a war of words with the rapper-turned

podcaster Joe Button, one of a number of people saying something we've been hearing for a while,

that Drake has failed to mature as an artist.

And joining me to talk all things Drake is Monkapur-Kante.

And Monkapur, there's so much to talk about, and this is continuing a number of things that have been happening in Drake's career.

One is that ever since More Life, which famously he described as a playlist rather than an album,

his albums seem to be getting longer.

And sometimes are hard to get your mind around as a coherent work.

But even though I'd say that for all the dogs is too long, I'm not sure that

general critique totally applies here.

It's funnily enough, More Life is one of my top two favorite Drake projects and some of the things that I like

about more life I like about this album I think more like tried a lot of

different things sonically I think that this album is similar in that regard like for all the dogs taps into the

dance rap movement it taps into like kind of more classic boom bappy or like soul sample

or gospel tinge tip-hop there's the tinges of R&B there's the like street sound and so I enjoy that element of it but I also do think that

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