Daylight
Daylight is track 5 of For All the Dogs (2023), produced per Wikipedia's credits by Southside and Smatt (with T9C as co-producer and Lil Esso as additional producer) and built around uncredited dialogue samples from Brian De Palma's Scarface (1983). It reads as one of the album's nocturnal interior monologues — the title evoking the disorienting transition from a sleepless night into morning — moving between flexes, paranoia and weariness rather than narrative. The Scarface texture reinforces the rise-and-isolation framing that runs through the project: wealth and proximity rendered as transactional and the narrator increasingly guarded. As a deep cut it isn't built for radio; it works as connective tissue, sustaining the album's mood of restless, sleepless self-assessment.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "Daylight" and For All the Dogs. Drake Universe catalogs songs by album placement, verified collaborators, producers, samples, and themes, and avoids unsupported lyric-level claims.
- Billboard Canada: For All the Dogs Hot 100 chart weekBillboard Canada · 2023-10-21 chart — Dated reference for the first artist with at least 300 Hot 100 entries claim.
- Billboard: For All the Dogs debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200Billboard · 2023-10-15 — Dated chart report for For All the Dogs debuting at No. 1 — Drake's 13th No. 1 album.
- Complex 360 with Speedy Morman: Drake (2024)Complex / YouTube · 2024-02-28 — YouTube upload of Drake's For All The Dogs Scary Hours Edition Complex feature.
- Wikipedia: For All the DogsWikipedia · 2026-05-18 — Primary reference for For All the Dogs release date, rollout, per-track producer and sample credits, BARK Radio guest outros, reception aggregates, and chart/streaming records.
- Wikipedia — For All the Dogs (incl. Scary Hours Edition)Wikipedia · 2023-11-17 — Scary Hours Edition release date (Nov 17, 2023), six-track listing, per-track producer/sample credits, and reception (Clash 6/10, HipHopDX 2.7/5, The Independent) used for Scary Hours 3 ground truth.
- Drake Releases New For All the Dogs Scary Hours Edition: ListenPitchfork · 2023-11-17 — Dated confirmation of the surprise Scary Hours Edition release on November 17, 2023.
