Hype

One of the album's hardest-hitting rap moments, this track is widely read as Drake confronting critics, imitators, and the noise around his fame with a deliberately combative posture. The beat switches and rhythmic shifts give it a restless, defiant energy. It reads as a flex record in the literal sense — the narrator dismissing 'hype' and people who only arrived once he was winning, while asserting that he created the wave others ride. The song functions as the album's adrenaline release between its more introspective and melodic stretches.