PDancehall
About This Sample
Popcaan, the Jamaican dancehall artist signed to Vybz Kartel's Portmore Empire, was the original vocalist on the leaked early version of 'Controlla' from Views (2016). The final commercial version replaced his hook with a Drake-only vocal but retained Popcaan's melodic phrasing and the dancehall riddim built by Nineteen85 and 40 around a chopped horn motif and a one-drop drum pattern. Beenie Man also appears as a sampled vocal tag on the released cut. The track is the clearest example of Drake's 2015-16 dancehall absorption: Toronto producers building a Jamaican riddim, lifting Caribbean vocal cadences, then routing them through pop song structure. It hit number two on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.
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