Passionfruit

Passionfruit is the song most often cited when fans defend More Life as Drake's most consistent project. Produced by Nana Rogues, a London-based producer Drake had befriended through the city's broader scene, the track moves on a clean, deep-house pulse with airy keys and minimal percussion. It opens with a recorded voicemail intro from Moodymann, the Detroit house legend, that frames the song as a kind of dance-floor philosophy lecture. Drake spends the song 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 as part of the More Life 'playlist' in March 2017, Passionfruit became one of the biggest pop hits of the year despite no traditional single rollout, peaking inside the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching number one on the U.S. R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. It's frequently positioned as Drake's most graceful integration of European dance music into a pop-rap context, and one of the songs that opened a wider audience to UK house textures within American R&B charts.