Down Hill

"Down Hill" uses the image of a downward slope, which can mean either an easy coast or a deterioration, and the song reads as Drake holding both meanings in tension: a relationship or situation that is either gliding effortlessly or quietly worsening. The track belongs to Honestly, Nevermind's moodier dance register from the Black Coffee and Gordo sessions, its production sitting back in a way that lets the ambiguity of the title carry the song. It is generally interpreted as a track about momentum in decline, the sense that something has tipped and is now moving on its own, without resistance and without rescue. As across the album, the dance bed prevents the theme from becoming a dirge, framing the slide as something to move through rather than mourn.