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.
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. 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.