Between his second and third
PartyNextDoor
releases,
Jahron Brathwaite
scored his first number one pop hit with
Rihanna
and
Drake
's "Work," a lightly dancehall-tinged song credited to several other writers, including fellow Jamaican-Canadian artists
Boi-1da
Sevn Thomas
. On this album,
Brathwaite
brags "You heard a lot about Jamaicans and you wanna know what it feel like," occasionally slips into patois, and reconnects with
for "Only U," a harder-hitting dancehall cut. "Only U" is clearly a bid for sustained crossover success, as it's also one of the few clean tracks on the album, all about longing and devotion instead of bold objectification and poisonous relationships. That and a couple other exceptions aside, the hour-plus set offers more variations on the narcotic, boast-filled slow jams for which
and his fellow
OVO Sound
artists are known. Apart from a little crafty sonic detailing, nothing distinguishes them from what came before.
appears on the bleary "Come and See Me," unsurprisingly the album's most popular cut. ~ Andy Kellman