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Kind of baffling to me.

Yeah, it feels like a demo.

You know, he kind of chopped it up a little bit in Ableton or whatever and just kind of threw it out there.

Well, unfortunately, Rusty Intro is the most interesting song on the record by far.

But in the other tracks on Habib T, we get this idea of Drake trying to connect himself and this era to previous Drake eras to maybe remind us of what we loved about him prior to all this drama.

The track High Fives by and large feels like first draft Drake.

And I mean that derogatorily.

Take this line that I haven't stopped thinking about since I heard it.

Rhyming Peach Bellini with Sidney Sweeney is nasty work.

But High Fives, musically, is founded on this sample of reverse the lyrics.

And I think it's intentionally trying to evoke, whether it's the same sample or not, the vibe of the first track on Drake's 2013 record, Nothing Was The Same, the song Tuscan Leather.

Here's the beat of Tuscan Leather.

And here's what he's got going on on High Fives.

Yeah.

And maybe it's a coincidence.

You know, it's not super novel to reverse sped up soul vocals.

But I do think it's Drake maybe intentionally trying to remind us as fans who may have strayed from Drake's light to recall the hits and remember why we may have liked him in the first place.

And Tuscan Leather is regarded as one of Drake's best songs.

So I don't think it's an accident that these tracks sound similar.

On this album, Habib T, Drake is also trying to do something else, as I mentioned, which is connect to a larger canon of musical context.