On "Emotionless," Drake flips Pusha-T's "hiding a child" claim, attempting to set the record straight. More: Drake responds to blackface controversy on Pusha T's diss track in long-running feud It’s breaking my spirit / A single father, I hate when I hear it / I used to challenge my parents on every album / Now I'm embarrassed to tell them I ended up as a co-parent / Always promised the family unit / I wanted it to be different because I've been through it / But this is the harsh truth now." Two times / And both times were nothing like the new times / Now it’s rough times/ I’m out here on front lines just tryna make sure that I see him sometimes. "I had to come to terms with the fact that it’s not a maybe / That (expletive) is in stone, sealed and signed / She’s not my lover like Billie Jean, but the kid is mine / Sandi used to tell me all it takes is one time / (Expletive) we only met two times. “Yesterday morning was crazy," he raps, seemingly describing the process of realizing that he was going to be a dad. On "Scorpion," Drake isn't hiding anything related to his son, peppering in references throughout the album and dedicating a song to him, "March 14." To Drake, "Scorpion" isn't just a new release - it's a gift, an entire extra album's worth of songs bestowed upon listeners with the expectation that we won't be able to look away.Īnd to ensure that his new album would dominate the headlines the day after its release, Drake added the hot gossip that fans were hoping for - news about the child that Pusha-T alleged Drake was "hiding" in his diss track "The Story of Adidon." It comes from the same impulse that compelled the rapper to, in "God's Plan," buy a grocery store's worth of people everything in their carts. Because there's nothing more prototypically Drake than believing listeners will happily spend an hour and a half listening to "Scorpion," and the rest of the day trying to process it. It's almost more surprising that all Drake albums aren't 20-plus tracks. That's why it's entirely unsurprising that Drake's new album, "Scorpion," released Friday at midnight, is 25 songs. Flashy Super Bowl spots and "Saturday Night Live" appearances, mixtapes and playlists in the off months in between albums, eagerly timed singles corresponding with song-of-the-summer season - the rapper knows that attention is currency, far more valuable to him than the handfuls of cash he handed out to strangers in his "God's Plan" video. Watch Video: Drake confirms he has a son in new songĭrake has spent the good part of a decade on a meticulous quest for hip-hop domination, and with it, his listeners' time.