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10 Very Drake-y Lines From Nothing Was the Same

Baby Aubrey.

Drake’s third album, Nothing Was the Same, started floating around the Internet on Sunday night, possibly as someone’s bold attempt to try offering an hour-long experience even sadder than that episode of Breaking Bad. (Kidding, Aubrey! You’re not just sad! You’re good in lots of ways!) After a few spins, the record is certainly different from Take Care in ways you’ll hear for yourself soon enough, but there are some exceptionally Drake-ian lines that immediately Drake you in the face — the couplets rich with self-awareness one second, devoid of it the next; the fiercely proud sensitivity; Drake’s references to Drake’s mom. Here are ten of the best.

1. “Naked women swimmin, that’s just how I’m livin / donate a million to some children, that’s just how I’m feelin” (“Furthest Thing”)

2. “I needed to hear that shit, I hate when you’re submissive / passive aggressive when we’re texting, I feel the distance” (“From Time”)

3. “The family all that matters, I’m just out here with my kinfolk / off everything my pen wrote, we went from Bundy to Winslow” (“Tuscan Leather”)

4. “Girl, don’t treat me like a stranger / girl, you know I’ve seen you naked” (“Furthest Thing”)

5. “Fuck you bitch, I’m more than high / my momma probably hear that and be mortified / this ain’t the son you raised who used to take the Acura / 5 a.m. to go and shoot Degrassi up on Morningside / for all the stunting, I’ll forever be immortalized” (“Worst Behaviour”)

6. “The one that I needed was Courtney from Hooters on Peachtree / I’ve always been feeling like she was the piece to complete me” (“From Time”)

7. “Told my girl to order in, I need the kitchen / yeah they know I got the hook-up, they just wait on me to cook up / baby I heat up the stove, you do the dishes, ya know?” (“Come Thru”)

8. “Money got my whole family going backwards / no dinners, no holidays, no nothing / there’s issues at hand that we’re not discussing” (“Too Much”)

9. “She used to say you can be whoever you want, even yourself / I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself” (“Connect”)

10. And still: “I done kept it real from the jump / living at my mama’s house, we’d argue every month” (“Started from the Bottom”)

10 Very Drake-y Lines From Nothing Was the Same