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I don't feel like I'm in the position to comment on whether Drake is "qualified" to use Carribean music elements on his songs or not. All I can say, as a listener, is that his attempts at these sound unnatural. His voice and delivery on Rihanna's "Work", for example, sound out of place for me and make me cringe. I'd much rather have someone like Sean Paul who is actually Jamaican and has the right patois to pull it off featured on the song instead.
Also, if he's really going for a summer vibe on this album with catchy, easy-going, Afrobeat influenced party songs then that cover art doesn't fit at all.
It reminds me of Bieber's album from last year, where the singles sounded very "bright" and had a summery "tropical house" sound (a subgenre that contains elements of dancehall), but then the cover art ended up looking dark and Bieber was posing as a white kid who's going through a phase where he wishes he was 2Pac. I was like WHAT?
To sum it up, those pop artists really need to learn how to choose their covers better.
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