
Slime You Out
Featuring SZA
Slime You Out was released as the lead single from For All the Dogs (2023), pairing Drake with SZA in a tense, accusatory duet about disloyalty and disillusionment in relationships. The slang title — 'sliming' someone meaning to deceive or set up — frames the song as a catalogue of betrayals, with Drake itemizing women he feels have wronged or used him, and SZA's presence introducing a counter-perspective that complicates his grievance rather than simply endorsing it. The track drew immediate attention for its blunt, sometimes harsh framing of romantic conflict, and became one of the album's defining conversation pieces. Sonically it favors restraint and mood over a conventional hook, letting the lyrical tension carry the song. Within the album it crystallizes For All the Dogs' central preoccupation: relationships rendered through suspicion, transaction, and resentment. As the lead single it effectively previewed the project's emotional register before release.
