What Would Pluto Do
What Would Pluto Do is track 15 of For All the Dogs (2023), produced per Wikipedia's credits by Lil Yachty, Gent! and Bangs with Bnyx as co-producer. It invokes 'Pluto,' a longtime alias of Future, as a half-serious philosophical reference point for navigating women, fame and emotional self-protection. The conceit — posing the title as a guiding question — frames Future's famously detached, indulgent persona as a coping strategy for the romantic disillusionment threaded through the album: when intimacy keeps disappointing, the song suggests, the answer is the unbothered remove 'Pluto' embodies. It functions as both a tribute to a frequent collaborator and a thesis statement for the record's hardened stance toward relationships, crystallizing the recurring tension between Drake's wounded vulnerability and his aspiration toward invulnerability.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "What Would Pluto Do" 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.
