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Daylight by Drake

TRACK

Drake

Daylight

Release date: 5th October 2023

From For All The Dogs
Track 5
2:44
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About This Track

'Daylight' opens with a Scarface sample and a producer tag from 808 Mafia before Drake settles into a confrontational posture. The track, produced by Southside and Smatt with co-production from T9C and additional production from Lil Esso, appeared as the fifth song on Drake's eighth studio album 'For All The Dogs', released in October 2023 through OVO and Republic Records. The title phrase anchors a repeated refrain about violence committed in broad view, Drake's delivery alternating between taunts and wordplay built around similes.

The song's most unexpected turn arrives at the two-minute mark, when a beat switch introduces additional vocals from Drake's son Adonis Graham. The five-year-old's contribution, brief and looped, became a talking point among listeners, a rare instance of Drake folding family directly into the album's sequencing. The juxtaposition between the track's confrontational first half and the child's voice in its closing moments creates a tonal shift that feels both jarring and deliberate.

"Daylight" is a track by Drake, from the album For All The Dogs, released 5th October 2023. The track is 2:44 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Drake.

About the Artist

Drake

Drake

Lyrics

Daylight

You're all a bunch of fucking assholes
You know why?
You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be
You need people like me
You need people like me so you can point your fucking fingers
And say that's the bad guy
Yeah
808 Mafia
Grah

Treat all my exes like Jehovah's Witnesses
Free all the dogs and fuck all the witnesses
They sittin' down, we standin' on business
Ayy, standin' on business
Standin' on business
Standin' on business
Standin' on, ooh
I'm tryna fuck all the bitches that look like my ex
I'm makin' her vex, I'm too complex
I carry a whole lotta gold on my neck
He talkin' down, he get put in a lake
Capo the type to show up to the wake

I'm geekin' hard, don't know what to take
Don't know what I took
My doggy got booked for actin' like Book
He shot 'em in... (Damn)

Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight
(Shot him, he shot him, what? Shot him, what?)
Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight (Broad day)

She went to Joubin, she bought a body
I wasn't there when they caught the body
TBS think that I bought the body
Internet swear that I bought the body
Take more than that to go pop somebody
Them niggas talk about everybody
So lowkey I'm happy they got somebody, nigga, what?
Like what's in your shoe? We sockin' niggas
Like what's on your wrist? We clockin' niggas
Like anyone home? We knockin' niggas
We clumsy as fuck, we droppin' niggas
Like Lenny Kravitz show, we rockin' niggas
Like tennis indoors, we squashin' niggas
Like combo number one, we whoppin' niggas, nigga, what?
We grabbin' his girl and we leavin' a note
She broke up with him and deleted a post
She said she was vegan, she eatin' a goat (What?)

I'm geekin' hard, I know how it look
Don't know to take, don't know what I took
My doggy got booked for actin' like Book
He shot 'em in... (What?)

Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight
(Shot him, he shot him, what? Shot him, what?)
Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight
Shot him in daylight (Broad...)

Don't talk to my man like that
I like it when you like it
My, my, my, my man
My, my, my, my man
Don't talk to my man like that
I like it when you like it
My, my, my, my man
My, my, my, my man
You know which one you want
I don't care which one you want
You can take whatever
I don't care what you do
I will always, watchin' for you

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From For All The Dogs

2:442023
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Album
For All The Dogs
For All The Dogs
Drake
6th October 2023
Track number
5
Release year
2023
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Adonis Graham, Drake, Lil E$$o, Lil Yachty, Smatt Sertified, Southside, T9C
    Composer
    Adonis Graham, Drake, Lil E$$o, Smatt Sertified, Southside, T9C
    Producer
    Lil E$$o, Smatt Sertified, Southside, T9C
    Co-Producer
    T9C
    Vocals
    Adonis Graham, Drake
    Additional Production
    Lil E$$o
    Additional Vocals
    Adonis Graham
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    OUPSiNG
    Mastering Engineer
    Chris Athens, Dave Huffman
    Mixing Engineer
    Noel Cadastre
    Recording Engineer
    Noel Cadastre
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