Drizzy has also released three songs based on collaborations with Latto, 21 Savage and Young Thug.
Thanks to leakers, a lot of Drake’s music has made its way online over the years, and now he’s decided to turn the tables and intentionally leak 100 gigabytes of content from various eras of his career on Tuesday (August 6).
Drizzy emptied the vault with stacks of folders, including three new songs featuring 21 Savage, Young Thug and Latto, as well as photos, videos and lost album covers that matched clips from the studio sessions.
It all started when fans noticed Drake following an IG account titled “Plotttwistttttt,” which led to speculation about upcoming new music.
After the account was taken out of private mode on Tuesday, the floodgates opened and led fans to the website 100GIGSFORYOURHEADTOP. The OVO boss also posted the IG account’s music clips on his Instagram story.
Drake has been cautious with his music since his feud with Kendrick Lamar. In the months that followed, he collaborated with Sexyy Red, Camila Cabello and Gordo, but has not released any songs in an official capacity and has now pursued a deliberate leak strategy.
Numerous clips have gone viral in the hours since the leak surfaced, including his recording of the reference track to what became Kanye West’s “Yikes” from his 2018 album. Her album. He also described how a partner inspired him to create “Hotline Bling” in 2015.
If you’re looking for an answer to Kendrick Lamar, you won’t find it here. After sifting through the 100 gigabytes of OVO content, here are the eight best moments from the compilation material.
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Playing table tennis with NBA star Steph Curry
Steph Curry came to Drake’s mansion and the two engaged in a heated game of ping pong, but it’s unclear who ultimately came out on top. The NBA star then showed off his talents on the outdoor basketball court, where he cooked for all six of God’s friends and partners. This appears to have been in the mid-2010s when Drizzy was at Views.
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Hearing “March 14” for the first time
Pusha T beat Drake to the punch when he revealed that the 6th God had a son named Adonis in his scathing 2018 diss track “The Story of Adidon.” Shortly after, Drake decided to go ahead with his plan to reveal his child to the world. Scorpio‘s “March 14.” Footage from the 100 gigs drop shows Drake intently listening to every detail of the track on an iPhone.
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Seeing Air Drake for the first time and designing AD2
Drake had one of those “my life is a movie” moments when he saw his hard work pay off when he boarded his luxurious Air Drake private jet for the first time. While listening to Yeat, he also gave his fans an insight into his design process for the sister aircraft, the Air Drake 2. “She’s probably on board” is a fitting tagline for OVO Aviation.
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Performing “Take Care” with Rihanna at the soundcheck
Rihanna and Drake’s relationship is strained these days, with her baby daddy A$AP Rocky and Drizzy even exchanging insults on diss tracks. But it wasn’t always like this, as Drake and Rih worked closely together in the first half of the 2010s, and more than that. In a clip from 100 Gigs, Drake and Rihanna can be seen soundchecking their 2011 collaboration “Take Care” in front of an empty arena. Even then, the chemistry between them was obvious.
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How a Drake girl got together with the inspired “Hotline Bling”
A one-night stand inspired Drake to write one of his diamond anthems. Drizzy explained that a girl’s phone always rang when they were together, which led to him saving her in his phone as “Hotline Bling.”
“We would be in bed together… and her phone would ring. So I saved her name in my phone as ‘Hotline Bling.’ That’s always been her name on my phone,” he said. “And when I looked at it today, I thought, ‘Hotline Bling’ is a dope name. That should be a stage name.”
He eventually put the energy into making a record with her contact name as the title and the rest is history. Interestingly, Drake almost got Future to join him on “Hotline Bling.” “When I wrote it, I wrote it as a Shy Glizzy song,” he said. “That’s why I asked if we should put Future on that shit.”
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Recording of the reference track to “Yikes” by Ye
Drake’s 2018 Wyoming trip proved to be a turning point in the breakdown of his relationship with Kanye. At the time, Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg reported that Drake flew to Wyoming to work with West and was initially left out as a co-writer on “Yikes” when the track was released as part of Yeezy’s Her Album.
Now we have footage of Drake working on what became the hook of “Yikes” while recording the reference. A line can be drawn from the deteriorating relationship between Drake and Kanye to the feud between Pusha T and Drizzy that boiled over a few months later in May 2018.
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Recording of “Over My Dead Boy” in the closet of a hotel room
Drake brought it back to the Watch out era, when he set up a makeshift studio in a hotel room closet to record the poignant opening track, “Over My Dead Body.” Footage shows him instructing Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk on how to open the album with an exhilarating introduction.
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Game planning for Jay-Z’s “Certified Lover Boy” feature
When Jay-Z agrees to appear on a record, you move mountains to make that happen. Drake was clearly pressed for time when he game-planned with OVO 40 to be ready for Jay to send through his verse for what became 2021’s “Talk Up” Certified Loverboy.
Hov’s engineer Young Guru put the situation into context, explaining that they were in a difficult time-wise position as Jay was in Europe performing with Beyoncé as part of the OTR2 tour and had to record his verse immediately after a show.
