Must Hate Money

Featuring Rich Boy

"Must Hate Money," featuring Rich Boy, leans on the confident, anyone-who-doubts-this-must-not-want-to-win posture common to come-up rap — money and ambition as proof of seriousness. It reads as a pre-fame Drake performing the rhetoric of winning before the wins, a rehearsal of confidence rather than a report on it, with Southern rapper Rich Boy adding regional muscle to the bravado. Produced by Neenyo and Jump over a sample of 334 Mob and Rich Boy's "Supafly," it stays grounded rather than flashy. As a Comeback Season deep cut it is a minor entry, but representative of the tape's aspirational core: talk the success into existence first. In hindsight the posturing is interesting precisely because the success it imagined actually materialized.