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No Guidance › Released
2019

No Guidance" is a song by American singer Chris Brown featuring vocals from Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on June 8, 2019, as the fourth single from Brown's ninth studio album, Indigo (2019).[2] The song was written by Brown, Drake, Velous and Nija Charles, and produced by Vinylz, J-Louis, Teddy Walton, and Canadian producer 40.[3]

"No Guidance"

Single by Chris Brown featuring Drake
from the album Indigo
Released
June 8, 2019
Recorded
2018–2019
Genre
R&B[1]
Length
4:20
Label
RCA
Songwriter(s)
Christopher BrownAubrey GrahamJoshua HuizarAnderson HernandezTravis WaltonTyler BryantNoah ShebibNija CharlesMichee Lebrun
Lyricist(s)
Christopher BrownAubrey GrahamTyler BryantNija Charles
Producer(s)
VinylzJ-Louis40Teddy Walton
Chris Brown singles chronology
"Haute"
(2019) "No Guidance"
(2019) "Heat"
(2019)

Drake singles chronology
"Girls Need Love (Remix)"
(2019) "No Guidance"
(2019) "Omertà"
(2019)

Music video
"No Guidance" on YouTube
"No Guidance" garnered positive reviews from music critics, who complimented the song's catchiness and Brown's vocal performance. The song received great success, becoming Brown's highest charting single as a lead artist on the Billboard Hot 100 since "Forever". 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.[4] 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. 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 won three Soul Train Music Awards and received a nomination for Best R&B Song at the 62nd Grammy Awards.[5]
Background
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Brown 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.[2] In 2013 Brown even dissed Drake on Young Jeezy's song "R.I.P. (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.[6] The following years the artists sporadically made offensive comments aimed at each other, expressing their hatred.[7][8] 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.[9] The performance sparked rumors about a possible collaboration and Drake later teased a possible collaboration with Brown on Instagram in early 2019.[10]

Following 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.[11] 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.[12][13] Even before its release, various news outlets called the song a contender for 2019's "Song of the Summer".[14][15]

Drake, 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. 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".[16]
Composition
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"No Guidance" is a mid-tempo R&B song.[1] It was written by Brown, Drake, Velous and Nija Charles, while the production was handled by Vinylz, J-Louis, 40 and Teddy Walton. Its production contains an uncredited vocal sample of "Before I Die", written and performed by Che Ecru.[17] 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.[1]
Synopsis
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The video starts with some dialogue cuts that set up a party where the two artists accidentally meet. It later depicts the confrontation between Brown and Drake surrounded by their crews and multiple ladies in a Miami carpark, which ends up being a dance battle.