Intro

The opener of Comeback Season, this intro is Drake's second mixtape curtain-raiser — and the contrast with Room for Improvement's version is the point. A year of work between tapes shows in the tone: the comeback framing positions this as a return, a re-entry, a sharpened second attempt. It reads as a more assured statement of intent than the debut's intro, the sound of an artist who's started to believe the narrative he's selling. The 40 and Boi-1da production carries the brooding Toronto signature the pair were steadily refining. As a scene-setter it does its job — establishing the comeback thesis the tape's title promises — and in the catalog's long view it marks measurable forward motion toward the breakthrough still two years off.