

Live performances įoxx and Drake performed the song on Decemon The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He cited it as being refreshing to hear him "finally switch up his script". In a review of the album, Jonah Weiner of Rolling Stone notes "Fall for Your Type" as being the album's "one break from the good times". "Fall for Your Type" is a "somber track", in which Foxx "drops into a pained purr and gives guest Drake a run for his melancholy-player money." Critical response The song contains an "icy cold", hip hop landscape. August Brown cited the song as being a "lovers' rock for a techno dystopia". "Fall for Your Type" is a downtempo ballad, with a length of four minutes and thirty-one seconds (4:31). He told MTV News in August 2010 that he wished that the song was included on the album, but revealed that: "I have other plans for that record, so it's gonna be good".

Drake recorded "Fall for Your Type" for his debut studio album Thank Me Later (2010).
