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== Critical reception == | == Critical reception == | ||
In a review of the three albums for ''Rolling Stone'', Jeff Ihaza rated ''Habibti'' three-and-a-half out of five stars, describing the record overall as feeling like the more romantic, R&B-oriented Drake album audiences might have received had the [[Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud|2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar]] never happened. The review singled out "Slap the City" as one of several tracks marking a return to a warmer, more melodic register after the combative tone of ''Iceman'', and highlighted its interpolation of "Show Me a Good Time" as a deliberate nod to Drake's earlier catalog.<ref name="rollingstone" /> | In a review of the three albums for ''Rolling Stone'', Jeff Ihaza rated ''Habibti'' three-and-a-half out of five stars, describing the record overall as feeling like the more romantic, R&B-oriented Drake album audiences might have received had the [[Drake–Kendrick Lamar feud|2024 feud with Kendrick Lamar]] never happened. The review singled out "Slap the City" as one of several tracks marking a return to a warmer, more melodic register after the combative tone of ''Iceman'', and highlighted its interpolation of "Show Me a Good Time" as a deliberate nod to Drake's earlier catalog.<ref name="rollingstone" /> Ritchie's ''Pitchfork'' review placed "Slap the City" among a run of songs in ''Habibti''{{'}}s back half that he said swing between brief moments of isolation and longer, less interesting stretches about "keeping score and who's fucking who." He wrote that the song's hook was one of the album's more hypnotic moments even as its verses struck him as thin.<ref name="pitchfork-habibti" /> The song, and Drake's mention of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in particular, also drew notable attention from Canadian university communities and Toronto media.<ref name="queens" /> Some commentators contrasted the warm reception to "Slap the City" with more mixed reactions to other lyrics across the three-album release, which some listeners characterized as uneven in quality given the volume of material released at once.<ref name="queens" /> | ||
Ritchie's ''Pitchfork'' review placed "Slap the City" among a run of songs in ''Habibti''{{'}}s back half that he said swing between brief moments of isolation and longer, less interesting stretches about "keeping score and who's fucking who." He wrote that the song's hook was one of the album's more hypnotic moments even as its verses struck him as thin.<ref name="pitchfork-habibti" /> | |||
The song, and Drake's mention of [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in particular, also drew notable attention from Canadian university communities and Toronto media.<ref name="queens" /> Some commentators contrasted the warm reception to "Slap the City" with more mixed reactions to other lyrics across the three-album release, which some listeners characterized as uneven in quality given the volume of material released at once.<ref name="queens" /> | |||
The collaboration with [[Qendresa]] was widely credited with significantly boosting her public profile. She reported a jump from roughly six-figure to multi-million monthly listeners on [[Spotify]] following the songs' release.<ref name="billboard" /> | The collaboration with [[Qendresa]] was widely credited with significantly boosting her public profile. She reported a jump from roughly six-figure to multi-million monthly listeners on [[Spotify]] following the songs' release.<ref name="billboard" /> | ||