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 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/x5fd - What’s My Name? features the similarly young and talented Drake mulling the "square route of 69" over choppy Caribbean rhythms that reappear on Man Down
 * http://www.nme.com/reviews/rihanna/11718 - its tone better paced, from the Caribbean-tinged anthem for doomed youth of ‘[b]Man Down[/b]’ via the glossy, dark tectonic beats of ‘[b]What’s My Name?[/b]’ (featuring [a]Drake[/a])
 * http://www.spin.com/reviews/rihanna-loud-def-jam/ - Oh, lady, you just earned our 15 bucks. Rihanna will sell millions of copies of Loud, her fifth album, and she'll deserve every penny of it -- not because it's a dependably excellent club-shaker, though it is, but because no woman should have to endure the kind of pick-up line Drake shoots her way on "What's My Name," the record's second single. "I heard you good with those soft lips / Yeah you know word of mouth," purrs the Canadian rapper (and Ri-Ri's rumored fling). "The square root of 69 is 8 something, right / 'Cuz I been trying to work it out."

Woof. But while Casanova rolls over in his grave, Rihanna smirks and takes it in stride. Drake may open the track, but she reigns in their shared world -- with a coquettish flip, she glides into a chorus that leaves no doubt: "Hey boy, really wanna see / If you can go downtown with a girl like me." In the video, she struts happily around New York's Lower East Side in a zebra-striped jacket, a nod to the actual animal she sat atop in the video for last year's "Rude Boy" -- with her bodysuit covered in Keith Haring-esque graffiti to match the floor and walls, like Haring himself was bodypainted to melt into his own squiggly backdrop in Annie Liebovitz's 1986 portrait. "Rude Boy," from last year's defiantly terse but uneven Rated R, was released when the young pop star was still struggling to overcome her well-documented romantic difficulties with boyfriend Chris Brown, and seemed about to melt into the tabloid stories.
 * http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/11/album-review-rihanna-loud/ - “What’s My Name (Ft. Drake)”, an unhurried, futuristic R&B joint built around a tawdry conversation between the former lovers, has already become the first of Loud‘s number ones.
 * http://www.contactmusic.com/rihanna/music/rihanna-loud - Tracks like Only Girl and What's My Name are already worldwide hits that smash into the psyche. What's my name, in particular, is a smooth, urban track with Caribbean influences that make you feel like you are strolling down the streets of Rihanna's homeland, Barbados. Ironically, Rihanna's Bajan twang is perfect here, which is perfectly complemented by Drake's charming vocals.
 * http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/11/album-review-rihannas-loud.html - “What’s My Name” has a disarming double-entendre chorus — a line like “Hey boy, I really want to see if you can go downtown with a girl like me” has come-hither undertones, but you can also imagine Rihanna wanting something as exotic as dinner and a movie out on the arm of a good guy.
 * http://www.avclub.com/review/rihanna-emloudem-48120 - her bubbly patois and soaring divatronics elevate the generic R&B and Euro-dance flavors of “What’s My Name” and “Complicated
 * http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/review/a291681/rihanna-ft-drake-whats-my-name.html#~p53cEo1G6Z77ki
 * http://www.rollingstone.com/music/songreviews/whats-my-name-20101105
 * http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12023-whats-my-name-ft-drake/
 * http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/viral-videos/950994/rihanna-cuddles-with-drake-in-whats-my-name-video - video
 * http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/music/168837/Review-Rihanna-Ft-Drake-What-s-My-Name
 * http://www.chicagonow.com/booth-reviews/2011/02/song-of-the-day-whats-my-name-by-rihanna-feat-drake-plus-shy-ronnie-feat-adam-samberg/
 * http://www.ew.com/article/2010/11/10/loud
 * http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/album-reviews/id.1572/title.rihanna-loud - A cameo from her rumored former lover Drake on “What’s My Name” proves Rihanna can still take her sound back to the yard effortlessly.
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/arts/music/16choice.html?_r=0 - in which she responds wholeheartedly to come-ons from Drake.
 * http://theaustintimes.com/2010/11/review-rihanna-is-loud-%E2%80%94-and-clear/ - And collaborations with Drake and Nicki Minaj on “What’s My Name?” and “Raining Men,” respectively, are enjoyable uptempo jams.
 * http://drownedinsound.com/releases/15803/reviews/4141526 - Destined to be a future single, her collaboration with Drake and StarGate ‘What’s My Name?’ is a potent mix of posturing and affection, utilising her voice in a manner where many of the syllables flow rather satisfyingly into one another.