September 28, 2021
A Definitive Ranking of Drake’s Intro Songs From Every Project
[ad_1] Drake’s intros aren't usually radio staples, but they still get play. Track No. 1 on his most recent chart-topping, highly anticipated sixth album Certified Lover Boy vitalizes that reality as “Champagne Poetry” mimics the formula that made Nothing Was the Same’s “Tuscan Leather” a well-regarded classic: lyrics that take aim at Drizzy’s doubters and find him comfortable in his seat on the throne, three hook-less verses equipped with their own beat, plus a goosebumps-raising outro laced by Noah "40" Shebib. Distant from the typical archetype of a commercially successful record, “Champagne Poetry” debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100—a feat that, with no shade, a lot of artists can’t reach with the...