Within the final instance of sport recognizing sport, Drake makes a humble acknowledgement on the lyrics to “Purple Button,” the opening observe from the 6 God’s shock Scary Hours 3 EP. The six-song assortment that dropped on Friday (Nov. 17) as a part of an expanded editino of his latest For All of the Canine album, kicks off with the headlong lyrical tumble observe that finds Drizzy paying homage to the chart prowess of none aside from Taylor Swift.
“Taylor Swift the one ni–a that I ever rated/ Just one might make me drop the album just a bit later/ Remainder of y’all I deal with you such as you by no means made it/ Depart your label devastated/ Even when your pad the stats, interval, I by no means hated,” he raps on the music co-produced by Lil Yachty that surrounds his bars with an angelic refrain and a scorched-earth sequence of situations wherein the Toronto native guarantees winter is coming for his detractors.
Drake — who’s in a perpetual Billboard chart horse race with Swift over probably the most Sizzling 100 hits crown — launched his most up-to-date album, For All of the Canine, on Oct. 6, three weeks earlier than Swift launched her 1989 (Taylor’s Model), the newest in her sequence of catalog re-records. Final yr, Swift launched her Midnights album on Oct. 21, with the Drake/21 Savage joint album, Her Loss, initially scheduled for Oct. 28, then pushed to Nov. 4, seemingly giving Swift just a few weeks to run the boards.
Her Loss then bumped Midnights out of the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album charts upon its launch.
Drake additionally finds time to take a light swipe at Kanye West in a couplet suggesting that the long-running feud between them just isn’t fairly settled. “Each time that Yeezy name the truce/ He had my head inflated/ Considering we lastly peace it up and get to levitating/ Realized that all the things premeditated,” Drake raps concerning the disgraced MC whose profession melted down final yr after West (who now goes by Ye) went on a sequence of hateful antisemitic rants.
The Drake/Ye feud dates again years and although it appeared to tamp down when the 2 received collectively for the “Free Larry Hoover” profit live performance in Los Angeles in 2021, it was reignited final yr with Drizzy taking photographs at West on the Her Loss observe “Circo Loco” and this yr’s “Search & Rescue,” which featured a pattern of Ye’s ex, Kim Kardashian, speaking concerning the couple’s cut up.
Drake introduced the third in his Scary Hours sequence on Wednesday in an elaborate video that includes the Toronto Symphony Orchestra wherein he revealed that he’d cooked the lyrics up simply days earlier than the gathering’s launch.
