Camila Cabello Defends Drake as ‘Such a Delight’ and Weighs In on Kendrick Lamar Beef: ‘It’s So Frustrating’
variety.comThania Garcia There are many surprising elements to Camila Cabello‘s transitional fourth LP, “C,XOXO.” After dominating pop radio as a solo act with “Señorita” and “Havana,” Cabello’s new effort has her testing new territories that range from glitchy hyper-pop to trap-imbued club tracks.
One of the most defining factors of the album has been its features: JT and Yung Miami (who have since called it quits as “the City Girls“) on “Dade County Dreaming”; PinkPantheress on “Pink xoxo”; Playboi Carti on the album’s lead single “I Luv It;” and Lil Nas X on the sultry “He Knows,” among others.
Most striking of all are the pair of Drake features — “Hot Uptown” and “Uuugly” — that arrive in the throes of his loss to Kendrick Lamar.
After the pair unleashed a string of diss tracks on each other, Drake and Lamar’s beef completely took over the zeitgeist, leading Lamar to notch a No.
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