Homages to many classic sitcoms, innuendo and camp are the order of the day in many episodes. (“I never needed none of y’all,” for instance, could be a shot at the former collaborators whose contributions to If You’re Reading This earned Drake accusations of ghostwriting.) That said, chances are good that, whoever it is that Drake is mad at, listeners who are singing along to this song will just fill that mystery in by conjuring the haters in their own lives.Like its fellow TeenNick programs, the show is aimed at preteens and young teenagers, but notable for many jokes aimed at adults. “I’m getting straight to the point with it,” he raps here, “Need y’all to know that I never needed none of y’all.” The problem for Drake is that, ever since his extended showdown with Meek Mill last summer, every song he writes in which he sounds angry and vengeful is going to seem like it’s about that situation. For my money the song works better without guests: Drake sounds like he’s talking to himself when he says, “I/ can’t/ trust/ no/ fuckin’/ body” and the absence of any other voices here amps up the sense that this is an inward-facing mutter rather than an attempt to intimidate anyone.įor the album closer-bonus track “Hotline Bling” doesn’t count-Drake revisits the brawny state-of-the-union flow he has previously used on statement songs like “ Tuscan Leather” and “ 5AM in Toronto.” It’s the mode he enters when he wants to demonstrate his chops as a rapper while declaring his independence from everyone in his life who would like to think he depends on them. The album version is all Drake-a fact that’s revealed as soon as you hear him say Jay’s line (“They still out to get me/ I don’t get it /I cannot be gotten-that’s a given”) at the top of the second verse. The single version of this song included a verse by Kanye West and a brief appearance from Jay Z.

He is mad that this person has ruined the Cheesecake Factory for him by fighting with him there, and once again he has no interest in holding back his pettiness. “Don’t make me take you back to the hood,” he says at one point, which will surely strike some listeners as problematic and cause them to accuse Drake of being a bad boyfriend.

Like a lot of songs on Views, “Childs Play” demonstrates in no uncertain terms that Drake is not concerned about being jumped on by bloggers for having politically incorrect feelings about women.

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