Drakeĭespite being one of the cornier verses in his catalog, you’d be hard pressed to find another Drake guest spot as funny as his appearance on Game’s “Good Girls Go Bad.” The 16-bar verse is filled with hilarious quotables, from the opening lines (“ Good evening, I’m in Chicago at the Elysian / With some girls that say they models but ummm, I don’t believe ‘em”) to his use of childhood TV references as pickup lines, to the way in which he tosses aside a former flame in brutally honest fashion. N****s like Walt Disney around this bitch.” Thankfully, Drake made up for his counterpart’s no-show and went in with a double-time delivery on the second verse. Instead, Jigga merely spoke 16 words on the intro, “ We gotta sell these bitches the dream, my n***a. Timbaland’s “Know Bout Me” could’ve been another stellar collaboration between JAY-Z and Drake. After owning the winter with “Look Alive” and “Walk It Talk It,” the summer with “Yes Indeed” and “SICKO MODE,” and the fall with “Never Recover” and “MIA,” Drake still had enough left in the tank to supply his former rival, Meek Mill, with one of his best verses of the year on their reunion collaboration, “Going Bad.” Drakeĭrake’s 2018 guest-appearance blitz will go down as one of the best in his career. Following a couple of cringy lines early on ( “I never cheat unless you count the girls I cheat on ” “ Homesick just when I thought I was sick of home”), Drake finds his sweet spot and begins rapping like the superstar he’d soon become. Nine years on, Drake’s verse on Bun B’s “Put It Down” has aged like fine wine. In the summer of 2016, their feud culminated in Drake sending multiple shots at Budden on French Montana’s “No Shopping.” In hindsight, these barbs overshadow Drizzy’s superb verse, which has earned its place in the canon of underrated Drake guest spots. Scorpion needed ‘Gold Roses’ more than Port of Miami 2.”Ĭongrats to Joe Budden for turning a one-sided war against Drake into the most unnecessary rap beef in recent memory. As a lyricist and performer, Drake must be considered a great rapper. The words don’t have any weight, and his voice never fumbles the cadence. Writing about the song in his review of Port of Miami 2, my friend Yoh said it best: “Drake has one of the most seamless deliveries in hip-hop. Producer: OZ, Syk Sense, Vinylz, & The Rascals I wish I could say Sean learned his lesson, but considering what took place three summers later (Kendrick’s guest spot on “Control”), we both know the answer. Predictably, his decision backfired: Drake not only washed the Detroit rapper on his own song (“Made”), but arguably had the best overall verse on the entire mixtape. In the summer of 2010, Big Sean should’ve known better than to request a feature from the Rap Rookie of the Year. Even more, it contains one of the best Sad Boy Drake sequences in his catalog. You’d be remiss to bring up this verse around lyrical heads, but admit it: Drake’s performance on “DnF” is unbelievably catchy. Producer: Noel Cadastre & Noah “40” Shebib