

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? On the one hand, Drake can sound like the baddest rapper around, but at other times, he’s rap’s biggest softie, yet. 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).
