Singers Tory Lanez and Sevyn Streeter made cameo appearances in the video. Drake's reaction to Brown's dance during the dance battle, in which he quips "Ooo wow", has since garnered meme popularity. The video has a total run-time of 9 minutes and 6 seconds. The "No Guidance" music video was directed by Chris Robinson, and released on July 26, 2019. Desire Thompson of Vibe stated that the song proves that Brown and Drake "make a good R&B team". Vulture's reviewer Craig Jenkins said that: "their first proper one-on-one collaboration, sparks but never exactly glows", finding it to be "too familiar", but ending up saying that "I’ll be stuck on it for the next few days either way". Trent Clark of HipHopDX complimented the song, saying that it "serves as a timeless bluesy groove". In the song the two artists express to a woman their intention of establishing a life-changing love relationship with her, but also manifesting paranoia caused by respective mistakes that led to the end of their previous failed relationships. Its production contains an uncredited vocal sample of "Before I Die", written and performed by Che Ecru. It was written by Brown, Drake, Velous and Nija Charles, while the production was handled by Vinylz, J-Louis, 40 and Teddy Walton. Drake stated: "I just always had a lot of admiration for his talent and I think finally he gave me the mutual respect and admiration by allowing me to take the lead on the song". ĭrake, when discussing his reconciliation with Brown during a Tidal interview, talked about the making of the song, saying: “We’ve come together before and tried to link and make music and we were always kind of forcing it”, and after finally ending their beef in 2018 they found it more natural to work together. Even before its release, various news outlets called the song a contender for 2019's "Song of the Summer". On June 5, 2019, Brown teased the song on his social media and two days later announced that the song would be released that night. įollowing Brown's announcement of having collaborated with Drake on his Indigo album, snippets of the song, taken from Brown's 30th birthday party, were leaked online on May 5, 2019. The performance sparked rumors about a possible collaboration and Drake later teased a possible collaboration with Brown on Instagram in early 2019. However, on October 12, 2018, Drake brought out the singer on his Aubrey & the Three Migos Tour date in Los Angeles and publicly ended their feud. The following years the artists sporadically made offensive comments aimed at each other, expressing their hatred. (Remix) " by rapping "Dearly departed, I bought a plane I departed/ And if you started from the bottom, go on and come out the closet," rhyming that on the song's final verse, making a clear reference to Drake and his " Started from the Bottom" single. In 2013 Brown even dissed Drake on Young Jeezy's song " R.I.P. Background īrown and Drake have had a history of feuds dating back to 2012 over singer Rihanna, which escalated in June of that year after friends of the musicians started throwing bottles at each other in a New York City nightclub. The song won three Soul Train Music Awards and received a nomination for Best R&B Song at the 62nd Grammy Awards. Among the certifications it gained, it was most notably certified octuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), quadruple platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and triple platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (MC). The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and also reached the top ten in Australia and New Zealand, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic and UK. The song dominated on both pop and hip-hop radio, breaking the record for most weeks at number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, being subsequently surpassed by " Go Crazy", also by Brown. The song received great success, becoming Brown's highest charting single as a lead artist on the Billboard Hot 100 since " Forever". "No Guidance" garnered positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the song's catchiness and Brown's vocal performance. The song was written by Brown, Drake, Velous and Nija Charles, and produced by Vinylz, J-Louis, Teddy Walton, and Canadian producer 40. It was released on June 8, 2019, as the fourth single from Brown's ninth studio album, Indigo (2019). " No Guidance" is a song by American singer Chris Brown featuring vocals from Canadian rapper Drake.
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