God's Plan

God's Plan was the lead single from the Scoary EP that previewed Scorpion, released in January 2018 alongside the track Diplomatic Immunity. Produced by Cardo, Yung Exclusive, Boi-1da, and Noah '40' Shebib, the song moves on a minimal, plucked-string motif and slow trap drums that leave space for Drake's half-rapped, half-sung delivery. The chorus is widely read as a gratitude-and-grievance prayer — Drake thanking the higher power that keeps positioning him above his enemies. The video, directed by Karena Evans, was filmed in Miami and showed Drake giving away the song's reported one-million-dollar production budget to ordinary Miamians: a single mother, a high school's full senior class, a women's shelter, a grocery store's worth of customers. The combination of the song's hook and the video's gift-giving spectacle made God's Plan the dominant pop story of early 2018. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed there for eleven weeks, becoming the longest-running solo number-one of Drake's career and one of the most-streamed songs of the year.