{"id":789984,"date":"2026-10-02T20:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789984\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:24:14","slug":"drake-don-toliver-solar-eclipse-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789984\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake \/ Don Toliver: \u201cSolar Eclipse\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Together, Drake<\/a>, Don Toliver<\/a>, and Ella Langley<\/a> are a covetous power throuple. Between Langley\u2019s chart-conquering country ballad \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas<\/a>,\u201d Toliver\u2019s world-conquering<\/a> album Octane<\/a>, and Drake\u2019s triple-album buffet ICEMAN (which defied the laws of public shame to rebirth Drizzy as the goofy hitmaker we first swooned over), 2026 was their regnal year. The sharpest move on Drake\u2019s comeback ascent might just be joining their star power on \u201cSolar Eclipse,\u201d a slurry, blacked-out remix of \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d Even more shrewd, he released the song as an addendum to the least remarkable ICEMAN album, HABIBTI<\/a>, a lukewarm suite of sulky R&B that mostly sounds like the plagiarizing little brother of 2011\u2019s Take Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forfeiting the twang of the source material, \u201cSolar Eclipse\u201d staggers across the faded interiors of psychotoxic trap-soul. The original blonde temptress of the Stagecoach Ballroom in Fort Worth melts into the backdrop of Houston\u2019s after-hours lounges, where there\u2019s sweat on the strip pole at 5 a.m. and scattered P\u00e9rignon bottles abandoned for the next midnight delight. Drake relies on the subtle emotion of his singing voice to transport us to these mood palaces. He sings, \u201cA cowgirl ends up riding off on me\u201d in the opening chorus, flipping \u201cA cowboy always finds a way to leave\u201d into a sex scene, while Langley\u2019s line \u201cI can tell by the way he\u2019s two-steppin\u2019 \u2019round the room\u201d becomes, well, another dick reference. Drake ditches the tear-salted Jack and instead sloshes through enough \u201cyak\u201d (cognac) to expedite his feral impulses.<\/p>\n

In his verse, a smooth-talking Don Toliver leaps at the opportunity to shout out his home county of Fort Bend, Texas. While Toliver shares Drake\u2019s loverboy swagger, his rizz is almost strictly reserved for escapades occurring on the way to, from, and at the club, with the bass boosted and a cup of lean at his side. When his crackled Auto-Tune rap-singing hits \u201cSolar Eclipse,\u201d it\u2019s a rock-star entrance layered on top of electric guitar stabs. As he surveys the aftermath of his last sexual conquest, he nods to some familiar comforts: \u201cPre-rolls in my house, it\u2019s guns in my couch\/Don\u2019t touch unless you wanna find out.\u201d It\u2019s a classic Don Toliver blend: hinting at the potential for tenderness, then immediately cutting it with the everlasting promise of danger. The formula has enraptured heartachey women still sporting a devilish twinkle in their eyes at clubs the world over, and now it makes for a heavensent counterweight to Drake\u2019s well-worn sensitivity. This New Yorker has no tethers to Texas, Tennessee, or Toronto, but the next time I\u2019m in a car gliding down a dark highway, this post-summer anthem gets the first play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Together, Drake, Don Toliver, and Ella Langley are a covetous power throuple. Between Langley\u2019s chart-conquering country ballad \u201cChoosin\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,59113,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-789984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-tracks","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}