#Drake find your love screwed full#
The young Drizzy, not yet jaded with the rapper lifestyle or ready to go full late-night Tumblr confessional, saw women as entry points to locations that signified his emergence as an artist. “Best I Ever Had,” the single that launched Drake into the mainstream consciousness, is not especially illuminating about the kind of woman that Drake was fawning over at the time, though in an interview with Toronto’s FLOW 93.5, he claimed that the song was about an ex, Nebby, who “represented everything about the city that I loved.” That insight is perhaps the defining connective thread of the women Drake pines over on So Far Gone (and, to a lesser extent, throughout the rest of his career): geography. One moment he raps, “If she wants it, she’ll get it on her own,” praising this woman's independence and hustle, but then on the next verse Drake is taking advantage of her in a compromising situation:“ You go get fucked up and we just show up at your rescue/ Carry you inside, get you some water and undress you.”
#Drake find your love screwed movie#
On the former, you can see the outline of who Drake would become later in his career coming into focus, like the montage in a superhero movie where the hero goes through all the different iterations of their outfit before finally landing on the right one. On “Houstatlantavegas” he waxes poetic about a jet-setting stripper, and on “November 18th,” he’s flexing about a Houstonian girl in one of his earliest instances of cribbing from a specific regional style (in this case chopped-and-screwed). As such, the psychographic of women he lusted over was more in line with your run-of-the-mill mid-2000s rapper.
With So Far Gone, his career-changing 2009 mixtape, the Drake ethos that we’ve now come to expect was still only being formed. Be warned: For those with especially low Drake tolerance, the following dosage may prove fatal. What follows is an album-by-album breakdown of the women Aubrey Graham has discussed and how he’s talked about them. And this raises the question, has Drake’s attitude about women changed over the years? Now seven albums/mixtapes/playlists into his career, there’s a pretty staggering amount of Drake's work to parse, plenty of it dealing with women. While Drake can fall back on prototypical rapper bluster and bravado, throughout his career he has, for better or worse, made a concerted effort to find a place in his lyrics for every woman he’s ever passed on the street or thrown money at in a strip club. Maybe they're better called his "women songs," occasionally profound, often insightful, and always confessional to a fault. While he’s spent plenty of time putting on for Toronto and roasting Meek Mill like an ant under a magnifying glass, what’s brought Drake a tremendous amount of fame are his songs about love.