Come Winter

"Come Winter" leans into seasonal melancholy — the contraction, isolation and reflection that cold weather invites. It reads as an early instance of Drake using Toronto's climate as emotional texture, a move that would become central to the city-and-mood identity he and 40 built their whole sound around. The production here is fittingly hushed and wintry. As a Room for Improvement deep cut it's unfinished in craft but clear in instinct: the impulse to make place and weather carry feeling is already present. In the long arc, it's a small early proof that the atmospheric, season-aware Drake was there from the start, just waiting for the technique to catch up to the sensibility.