Passionfruit

Passionfruit is the song most often cited when fans defend More Life as Drake's most graceful project. It was written by Drake with London-based producer Nana Rogues, who handled production solo, and it moves on a clean tropical-house and dancehall-leaning pulse in G-sharp minor at 112 BPM, with airy keys and minimal percussion. It opens with a recorded spoken intro from Detroit house legend Moodymann (credited with additional vocals, alongside additional vocals from Zoe Kravitz) that frames the song as a kind of dance-floor philosophy. Drake stays in a mostly-sung register, with the lyric widely read as a meditation on the way long-distance and miscommunication slowly drain a relationship. Released March 28, 2017 as More Life's second single (after Fake Love), it became one of the biggest pop songs of the year despite no traditional rollout: it debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, topped both the U.S. Rhythmic and UK Hip Hop/R&B charts, hit the top ten across Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark, and New Zealand, and was eventually certified Diamond by the RIAA. It has been covered by Paramore, John Mayer, Yaeji, Mabel, and others — rare cross-genre reach for a Drake deep-album cut.