Drake and SZA joined forces on “Slime You Out,” which was launched noon Friday (Sept. 15) as the primary single from Drizzy’s upcoming album For All of the Canines.
The five-minute tune is a slugfest fueled by disappointment and lies. Drake leads the way in which on the R&B-centric tune by expressing his frustrations about spending an exorbitant sum of money on ladies. Intelligent strains comparable to “sending wires on wires on wires like Idris” are aplenty. On the identical time, SZA delivers counterjabs about her beau’s fraudulent conduct, together with one colossal haymaker: “Tripping when that d–okay is barely third place.”
The famous person rapper first introduced the one on the Austin cease of his It’s All a Blur Tour with 21 Savage. “I’m even going to say one thing tonight in Austin, Texas, I haven’t mentioned but,” he shared at Moody Middle. “I do know y’all excited to listen to the album. I do know it’s, like, two weeks out. I’m a drop a tune for y’all this week. Yeah, yeah. What a time, what a time. I respect y’all. Deeply, by the way in which, I do. It’s loads of love in Texas.”
The inexperienced slime-covered cowl artwork for “Slime You Out” originates from Halle Berry getting slimed on the 2012 Nickelodeon’s Children’ Selection Awards.
Though “Slime You Out” marks Drake and SZA’s first official collaboration, the 2 have nodded to one another a number of occasions all through their musical releases. SZA’s 2016 “2AM” monitor — which was formally launched final June as a part of CTRL‘s deluxe version to commemorate her critically acclaimed debut studio album’s five-year anniversary — refers to PartyNextDoor and Drake’s “Come and See Me” from the previous’s 2016 album PartyNextDoor. On Drake’s “Diplomatic Immunity” monitor from the 2018 Scary Hours two-pack, he raps, “I simply pulled up on Solána present, the lady’s a pure/ I knew her method again when Hollywood was worldwide.”
On “Mr. Proper Now” from 21 Savage and Metro Boomin‘s 2020 joint undertaking Savage Mode II, he raps “Yeah, mentioned she wanna f–okay to some SZA, wait/ ‘Trigger I used thus far SZA again in ’08” in his visitor verse. (She later confirmed on Twitter — now X — that the pair dated in ’09, however “on this case a 12 months of poetic rap license mattered.”) And most not too long ago, SZA’s visitor verse on the Future-assisted “Telekinesis” from Travis Scott‘s 2023 Utopia album appears to straight reply to Drake’s third verse on “Marvins Room” from his 2011 sophomore album Take Care.
For All of the Canines will probably be launched subsequent Friday, Sept. 22, through OVO Sound and Republic Data. He introduced the extremely anticipated album’s launch date by posting an archival video on Instagram of his father, Dennis Graham, from the early ’90s, singing alongside a blues band on the native Toronto TV present Stormy Monday With Danny Marks.
For All The Canines marks the 6 God’s eighth studio album and his first solo album since his dance-heavy Truthfully, Nevermind undertaking that he launched in June 2022. 5 months later, he teamed up with 21 Savage on their joint LP, Her Loss. Each releases debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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