Drake Shouts Out Young Thug & Pays Tribute To Virgil Abloh On "Sticky"

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The seventh song on Champagne Papi's seventh studio album has quickly emerged as a fan favourite.

Though not everyone is an immediate fan of Drake's Honestly, Nevermind album, one song, in particular, has quickly emerged as an obvious favourite – the infectious, fast-paced dance track, "Sticky."

On the just over four-minute-long title, the Canadian icon raps about everything from his relationship with his mother and wearing luxury jewelry from Frank Ocean's Homer to his bedroom activities and Young Thug's incarceration

"Ayo Eric, bring them girls to the stage / 'Cause somebody's getting paid and / Free Big Slime out the cage," the father of one rhymes on the second verse. "Shawty try to play it cool but / Now she wish she woulda stayed 'cause / Every song that I made is / Ringin' like I got engaged (Yeah)."

At the very end, we hear a sampled snippet of the late fashion designer Virgil Abloh, to who Drake dedicated his album. "Like, we weren't supposed to come up with something this clean," he can be heard saying. "Like, something happened."

Stream "Sticky" on Spotify, Apple Music, or Soundcloud below, and tap back in with HNHH later for more hip-hop news updates.

Quotable Lyrics:

Ayo Eric, bring them girls to the stage
'Cause somebody's getting paid and
Free Big Slime out the cage
Shawty try to play it cool but
Now she wish she woulda stayed 'cause
Every song that I made is
Ringin' like I got engaged (Yeah)

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.

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Dillon BrownDillon Brown
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Song is mid
11 10ReplyJune 17, 2022
Danny PhantomDanny Phantom
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This and Jimmy Crooks are easily the best joints on there, and they both have no singing, go figure
5 0ReplyJune 17, 2022
mp-14mp-14
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Waiting for the Logic posts
0 3ReplyJune 17, 2022
johndj101johndj101
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mid song
3 6ReplyJune 17, 2022
T-Pain!!!T-Pain!!!
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This song is the perfect example of hip hop fans being hypocrites. I just saw someone on a Lil Baby song saying he makes the same song every time and that's a common critique. Drake always switches it up but when he does, people want the old Drake back. So make up your minds people, do you want rappers to switch it up, or do you want rappers to stay the same?
12 1ReplyJune 18, 2022
lazelaze
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Ok this song is fire
8 1ReplyJune 18, 2022
Weeknd GLAMWeeknd GLAM
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you know how sticky it gets ay 🔥
0 0ReplyJune 22, 2022