Sasha Frere-Jones on Drake and the dissolution of genre:

What is exciting, beyond the music itself, is how Take Care shows that hip-hop (and pop in general) is in a period of transition in which formal constraints have dissolved almost entirely. How do you even know whether something is hip-hop? Its characteristic rhythms and sounds can be found everywhere in pop these days. We may have finally reached the moment when breaking popular music into genres is pointless.