It was a weird experience when I heard Drake had dropped an album out of nowhere, my reaction was simultaneously "Hell yeah!" and " GODDAMNIT NOW I'VE GOT TO COUNT MORE WOMEN!!!!"Īnyway.as I pointed out above, If You're Reading This is absolutely loaded with references to specific women.
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Speaking of which, full disclosure, we originally had the research for this finished and then had to go back and revise everything after Drizzy's surprise project dropped. Turns out that if she wants the old Drake back, Drake would mostly just be tempted to rap less about women. By contrast, If You're Reading This features 12 specific women mentioned on 11 different songs so 11/17 songs on the If You're Reading This contains a specific girl, compared to only 1/22 on Room for Improvement. With the exception of "Special," which in retrospect feels like the blueprint for his later ex-girlfriend raps-"Its true, I been talking to Aleshia, Keisha and Nadia"-the entire mixtape is almost completely devoid of specific women. Almost shockingly, his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, features relatively few explicit women. While off the bat that 129 number means Drake's reputation as a lady's man is well earned, it's important to note that reputation is relatively recent. Drake's Upward Women-Mentioning Trajectory And as long as we're here, let's take a moment to appreciate that 129 is, indeed, a lot of different women to mention in rap songs. On the whole, while that means 129 probably isn't an exactly accurate number, I'm willing to stand by it as a pretty damn good benchmark. There just must have. And given his impressively high women-to-songs ratio, that also means we must have missed some women. Given that, the number of different women might likely be less than 129.Īt the same time though, while we listened to Drizzy songs until our brains started to leak out of our ears, there must have been some songs we missed. There are a number of times when Drake appears to be rapping about the same woman in different songs (more on that below), but he doesn't name them specifically so it's impossible to say for sure. So without further ado, let's dig into what we've found: Total Different Women Mentioned: 129įor the sake of accuracy, I should say approximately 129 women. Murray (his former manager), but otherwise, if they were in possession of a vagina and Drake rapped/sang about his often complicated relationship to them and/or their vagina, we got it down.įrankly, it was an insane amount of work, but greatness never comes without great sacrifice, and we're determined to be great. Spoiler alert, that turned out to be a lot of times.įor the record, that means we only counted when Drake mentioned a woman, as in "that specific woman right there," not just women in general, as in " Girl, move that thang like you gettin money for college." We also disqualified all the women he mentioned in an obviously plutonic sense. So we didn't count all the times he mentioned his mother, or grandmother, his friend's mother, his producer's mother or his piano teacher, or Sylvia Rhone or Ms.
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I had the DJBooth squad listen to every Drake song we could find - we're talking every project from Room for Improvement to 6 God to If You're Reading This, plus guest verses, and we wrote down every time he mentioned a woman in the romantic/sexual sense.
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Well, it turns out there is if you're willing to do an insane amount of work. If there was only some way to turn that subjective feeling into cold, hard, mathematical fact. Like all the time. Or at least it certainly seems like Drake's favorite topic is the fairer sex. In hip-hop we hold certain truths to be self-evident: Illmatic is a classic, JAY Z is past his prime and Drake raps about women, a lot.