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Controlla

Controlla

One of the album's signature dancehall-influenced moments, Controlla is widely read as Drake's tribute to a partner whose pull over him he embraces rather than resists. Built on a Caribbean-inflected riddim and patois-tinged delivery, it reads as a love song where surrender is the point — the narrator wanting to be 'controlled.' The track became one of Views' defining sounds, central to the album's embrace of dancehall and Afro-Caribbean textures that shaped Drake's global-pop era and broadened his international footprint.

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