Screw the World Interlude
Screw the World (Interlude) is track 12 of For All the Dogs (2023), credited per Wikipedia to DJ Screw and built on his 'If I Ruled the World' — itself a slowed take on Nas and Lauryn Hill's 'If I Ruled the World (Imagine That).' As an interlude it isn't a standalone song but a structural pause and mood marker on the album's long tracklist, the chopped-and-screwed lineage (Houston, the late DJ Screw) reinforcing the project's after-hours haze and Drake's longstanding borrowing from Southern rap textures. Functionally it reads as a deliberate sequencing tool — atmosphere over content — that lets the record breathe and underscores how much For All the Dogs is constructed as a continuous mood rather than a set of discrete singles.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "Screw the World Interlude" 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.
