Madonna

'Madonna' uses the pop legend's name as shorthand for a kind of untouchable, larger-than-life appeal, applying it to a woman in Drake's orbit. Over moody Vinylz production, the track is widely read as a study in mixed signals: admiration laced with possessiveness, fascination tangled with the suspicion that the relationship is more performance than connection. The Madonna reference frames the woman as both desirable and unattainable, a public figure in her own small world. As a deep cut on If You're Reading This It's Too Late, it extends the mixtape's recurring preoccupation with status, image, and the difficulty of trusting people who are drawn to proximity rather than the person.