Intro

"Intro" opens Honestly, Nevermind by immediately signaling that this is not the rap album most listeners came for. Built on the album's house and Afro-tech foundation steered by Black Coffee and Gordo alongside longtime collaborator Nineteen85, the track functions less as a song than as an atmospheric threshold, a brief mood-setting passage that conditions the ear for the dance-floor pivot to follow. It is widely read as a deliberate palate cleanser: Drake clearing the conventional hip-hop expectation before the album commits to four-on-the-floor rhythms. The minimal vocal presence here reads as intentional, foregrounding texture, pulse, and space over verses. Released in June 2022 with almost no rollout, the song's understated entrance mirrors the album's surprise-drop framing.