Raining in Houston

"Raining in Houston" is the album's clearest piece of place writing, a city Drake has long mythologized across his catalog as a site of romance, nightlife, and nostalgia. Rain functions as the emotional weather of the track, the OVO shorthand for melancholy and reflection. With 40 and Boi-1da producing, the arrangement leans into the slow, humid atmosphere the title implies. On $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, where setting often stands in for feeling, this song reads as a mood piece, using a specific city to locate a more general sense of longing. Houston's recurring presence in Drake's work makes it less a literal location than a symbol he returns to when the writing turns wistful.