Don't U Have a Man

Featuring Dwele, Little Brother

"Don't U Have a Man," featuring Dwele and Little Brother, engages a complicated, ethically gray relationship scenario — pursuing or being pursued by someone who is already attached. It reads as an early instance of the morally ambivalent, self-aware-but-still-doing-it relationship writing that would become one of Drake's most discussed and divisive modes. The Dwele and Little Brother features place him in conversation with respected neo-soul and underground-rap voices, lending the cut credibility unusual for an independent 2007 tape. Produced by Boi-1da, it stays dim and intimate. As a deep cut it is minor in profile but notable in lineage: the willingness to narrate messy romantic situations without flattering himself is present here years before the records that made that approach famous.