Scholarships
Featuring Future
'Scholarships' appears on What a Time to Be Alive, the 2015 Drake & Future joint project, produced solely by Metro Boomin (writers: Graham, Wilburn, Wayne). The song is widely read as a materialist flex built around a single extended metaphor - spending money on women as if funding 'scholarships' - a framing that folds generosity, ego and transactional relationships into one ironic image. It leans on Future's melodic trap sensibility with Drake matching the project's harder register. Pitchfork's Sheldon Pearce specifically praised the track as a moment where 'Drake throws Future the perfect alley-oop,' one of the collaboration's most effective setups. Drake Universe treats this as editorial context, not lyric republication.
Sources & verification
Citations below were matched specifically to "Scholarships" and What a Time to Be Alive. Drake Universe catalogs songs by album placement, verified collaborators, producers, samples, and themes, and avoids unsupported lyric-level claims.
- Pitchfork: Drake & Future 'What a Time to Be Alive' reviewPitchfork · 2015-09-23 — Dated review of the joint mixtape.
- Wikipedia: What a Time to Be Alive (Drake & Future)Wikipedia · 2026-05-18 — Authoritative track-listing table (per-track producers and writers), personnel, recording locations, charts, certifications, and critical reception used to correct fabricated producer credits and enrich editorial copy.
- Genius: Drake & Future - What a Time To Be Alive (album page)Genius · 2026-05-18 — Album page and Q&A confirming Metro Boomin produced 7 of 11 tracks; the four he did not produce are 'Plastic Bag,' 'I'm the Plug,' 'Change Locations' and '30 for 30 Freestyle.' Confirms 'Jersey' as a Future solo and '30 for 30 Freestyle' as a Drake solo. Discrepancy with Wikipedia on 'I'm the Plug' noted.
- Pitchfork: Drake / Future - What a Time to Be Alive (review)Pitchfork · 2015-09-23 — Sheldon Pearce review (7.0/10) used for critical framing: lack of chemistry / Drake as 'bystander,' Metro's 'glimmering' production, and the highlights 'Scholarships,' 'Jumpman,' 'Diamonds Dancing,' 'Jersey' and '30 for 30 Freestyle.'
