![]() “Everyone who doubted me is askin’ for forgiveness”Ī lyric about success – Drake was bullied at highschool, so we guess he’s referring to them in this track. Either way, this is some dope wordplay once again. “I’m about my business / Killin’ all these rappers, you would swear I had a hit list”Ī lyric about winning – Again, Drake puts himself on a pedestal as if Eminem, Kanye and Lil’ Wayne aren’t even there. Fun fact? He hadn’t even released a studio album at the time of spitting this line – we guess he knew he’d be the GOAT.ĥ. Use it When: Your ego gets the best of you.Ī lyric about confidence – Drake sure had some guts rapping this bar among three of hip-hop’s greatest (Kanye, Lil’ Wayne, Eminem). “This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan”Ī lyric about finding yourself – Consider yourself a “lost boy”? Who needs Peter Pan to fly when you can do it all by yourself? Lyrical wordplay at its finest. Like your everyday guy, Drake also had setbacks on his way up.ģ. Use it When: You have setback after setback.Ī lyric about failure – Everyone wants to be successful like Drake and Trey Songz, but the road to success usually means slipping up a few times. “I want things to go my way / But as of late, a lot of sh*t been goin’ sideways” He wrote this track when dating models Teyana Taylor and Cat Washington. Use it When: Complimenting your love interest.Ī lyric about love – This line pretty much (see what we did there) tells us that Drizzy likes his girls au naturel. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin’ with no make-up on / That’s when you’re the prettiest” So, find yourself needing a quick pick-me-up? Are you a brokenhearted emo like Drizzy? From songs like Worst Behavior to Shot for Me, we’ve dug deep through his song catalog to find the best Drake lyrics.įeel free to use them as Instagram captions or simply be inspired by! 1. No wonder Billboard refers to him as “the leader of a new hip-hop generation.” Drake’s rhymes are so lyrically clever, emotive and relatable, they’ve even been turned into internet memes or used as viral inspirational catchphrases. With both aggressive and emotional lyrics, this rapper can energize you, put you in a chill mood, but also melt your heart with his lines – I mean, this guy made it cool to be an overly emotional rapper, right?Ģ0+ Facts About Drake You Didn’t Know Until Now On the one hand, Drake can sound like the baddest rapper around, but at other times, he’s rap’s biggest softie, yet. This song is such an important critic of how we as a society deal with relationships, how it is normally better to be “with someone who you don’t like, then to be alone”.He raps about success, money and romance, but he also spits brutal bars about Meek Mill, Pusha T and Rihanna (without dropping names, of course). This is one of the last stanzas in the song, which is really more a reflection and a review of the values of todays society. We live in a generation of, not being in love, and not being togetherīut we sure make it feel like we’re togetherĬause we’re scared to see each other with somebody else Drake is trying to do the right thing by not being with her but it is really hard as he has mixed feelings for her. In this part of the chorus Drake discusses the impacts of dealing with a break up. Talk if you need to, but I can’t stay to hear youĬause you’ll say you love me, and I’ll end up lying Touch if you need to, but I can’t stay to hold you So cry if you need to, but I can’t stay to watch you He discusses how many people stay in relationships not because of love but because we tend to become comfortable and don’t want to change. In this stanza he talks about how we as a generation tend to place so much importance on being in a relationship, yet it shouldn’t be. ![]() In the first stanza Drake, discusses the realist issues with relationships, how sometime things just don’t work out. It’s just the end of a world, that you had with one girlĪnd she’s the reason it happened, but she’s overreactingĪnd it’s all because she don’t want things to change ![]() When a good thing goes bad it’s not the end of the world Haley has asked that I start with his song, “ Doing It Wrong”. I really like Drake’s songs because of the way they realistically depict relationships. This week I want to talk about one of my favorite artists, Drake, and specifically songs from his Take Care album released in 2011. So for the last few weeks I’ve been discussing Kanye West songs because of his powerful use of metaphors in his lyrics. ![]()
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