Worst Behavior

Worst Behavior is the moment on Nothing Was The Same where Drake stopped trying to seem above the fray and let himself sound openly aggrieved. Produced by DJ Dahi with Noah '40' Shebib, the track is built on a snarling, distorted vocal flip of Mase's repeated 'motherf---ers never loved us' tag from Diddy's All About the Benjamins (Remix) era, looped into a confrontational drum pattern. Drake is widely read as airing out years of slights from a music industry that he believes underestimated him and his Toronto team. The track is a stylistic outlier on a mostly subdued album — closer to the brash IYRTITL energy he would lean into two years later — but it's also a thesis statement for the chip-on-shoulder mode that recurs throughout his catalog. The Hype Williams-directed video, shot in Memphis with appearances from Juvenile and Mannie Fresh, doubles down on Southern-rap homage and reframes the song as a generational thank-you to the Cash Money era that Drake was eventually signed under.