Hold On, We're Going Home

Featuring Majid Jordan

Hold On, We're Going Home is the song that made Drake's pop-star ambitions impossible to argue with. Featuring Toronto duo Majid Jordan and produced together with Noah '40' Shebib and Nineteen85, the track moves on warm Rhodes piano, gated drums, and a chord progression that openly echoes the soft-soul and quiet-storm productions of the early 1980s. The hook is widely read as a moment of romantic reassurance, with Drake — for once — singing in a sustained, committed pop register rather than half-rapping. The song was released as the third single from Nothing Was The Same in the summer of 2013 and became one of the biggest pop hits of the year, peaking inside the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 and earning Grammy nominations for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Record of the Year. It also introduced Majid Jordan to a global audience, leading to their signing on OVO Sound. The video, directed by Director X, leans into a stylized 70s-thriller pastiche that frames Drake as a romantic hero rescuing a kidnapped love interest played by Tracee Ellis Ross's character archetype.