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Bet you didn't see this one coming. In our minds, a Drake and Lenny Kravitz collabo seemed just about as likely as Lil' Kim and Nicki Minaj collabo during the height of their feud. But a Lenny/Drake partnership has happened, and the outcome makes us think these two should team up more often.
Co-written by producer extraordinaire Swizz Beatz, "Sunflower" is a melange of disco, electro, '80s, and synth-heavy pop. All those genres somehow meld together and serve as the canvas on which an old school rock-and-roller and a modern rapper come together. For most of the record, Lenny compares his gal to the cheeriest piece of flora around: "You're making me feel that everything is alright/You're my sunflower, you're my sunflower/...Even when I'm miles away, girl/My heart will be there." Dude is laying it on thick.
But Drake's verse comes next, and he does his best to offset Kravitz's sensitive lyrics in the only way Drake knows how: with a quintessentially clever flow and a menage-a-trois request, obvs. "I don't wanna ever make you mad, girl/...a lil you, a lil me and someone else good/Lord, that's a winner right there/But we really got a story to tell and can't finish right there."
"Sunflower" is slated to appear on Lenny's forthcoming album, Black and White America, due out August 30.
+ Listen to Lenny Kravitz featuring Drake, "Sunflower."