Knife Talk

Featuring 21 Savage, Project Pat

Knife Talk is the Certified Lover Boy track that anchors the album's harder, Memphis-and-Atlanta-leaning side. Produced by Murda Beatz and Tay Keith, the song is built on a sample of Project Pat's 'Knife Talk' (with a Three 6 Mafia DNA running through every drum hit) re-pitched and looped under a sparse, menacing trap beat. 21 Savage handles the song's opening verse in his signature deadpan, flat-affect threat mode; Drake follows in a comparable register, with the lyric widely read as a string of city-by-city tour-bus toughness. The Memphis lineage is made explicit by an outro feature from Project Pat himself. Released alongside CLB in September 2021, the song debuted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and rose to the top five in subsequent weeks. It's frequently cited as the song that began re-cementing the Drake-21 Savage musical partnership, which would later expand into the 2022 collaborative album Her Loss.