The Motion
The Motion surfaced in 2013 among the songs Drake dropped to SoundCloud ahead of Nothing Was the Same, and was ultimately tucked away as a Best Buy exclusive bonus track on that album's physical deluxe edition before being removed from SoundCloud. Co-produced by UK artist Sampha (who also sings background vocals) and Noah '40' Shebib, it is widely read as a song about transactional relationships and exhausted attention: people who only call when they need a favor, intimacy reduced to repeated, automatic motion. On Care Package it represents exactly the kind of track the compilation was built to rescue, a physical-only bonus cut fans had long treated as canon despite its non-streaming origins.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "The Motion" and Care Package. Drake Universe catalogs songs by album placement, verified collaborators, producers, samples, and themes, and avoids unsupported lyric-level claims.
- Genius: Drake '30 for 30 Freestyle' lyricsGenius · 2019-10-25 — Primary lyric page for the Care Package track read as containing subliminals.
- Complex: Drake — Care Package and the 2010s (2019)Complex · 2019-08-02 — Complex Care Package feature.
- Care Package (album) — WikipediaWikipedia · 2026-05-18 — Primary verification for release date, per-track original release history, samples/interpolations, credits, critical reception and chart/certification data.
- Drake — The Motion (Genius)Genius · 2026-05-18 — Confirms 2013 SoundCloud release, Best Buy deluxe bonus-track status for Nothing Was the Same, and Sampha co-production/vocals.
