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Emotionless by Drake

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Drake

Emotionless

Release date: 28th June 2018

From Scorpion
Track 4
5:02
Hip-Hop/RapMusicRapR&B/Soul
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About This Track

A track from Drake's fifth studio album 'Scorpion', 'Emotionless' builds around a sample of Mariah Carey's 'Emotions', the interpolation earning Carey and producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole songwriting credits alongside Drake, No I.D., Noah "40" Shebib, and The 25th Hour. The production lifts cleanly from the club-remix source, anchoring verses that turn inward on fame's isolating mechanics.

Drake examines the gap between aspiration and arrival, writing 'Missin' out on my years / There's times when I wish I was where I was / Back when I used to wish I was here'. The song catalogues disillusionment with heroes, the performative churn of social media, and the corrosive effect of constant scrutiny. He sketches figures trapped in cycles of validation-seeking, their online captions at odds with private distress, the verses moving from personal confession to broader social diagnosis.

The track also addresses fatherhood obliquely, acknowledging the existence of his child Adonis after months of rumour and public dispute. That revelation threads through the album's wider themes of exposure and mistrust, the song's title naming the numbness that follows sustained visibility.

"Emotionless" is a track by Drake, from the album Scorpion, released 28th June 2018. The track is 5:02 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Drake.

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Drake

Drake

Lyrics

Emotionless

You've got me feeling emotions
Ayy, higher
Ah-ah-ah-ah
You've got me fe–
Emotions

Don't link me
Don't hit me when you hear this
And tell me your favorite song
Don't tell me how you knew it would be like this all along
I know the truth is you won't love me until I'm gone
And even then the thing that comes after is movin' on
I can't even capture the feeling I had at first
Meetin' all my heroes like seein' how magic works
The people I look up to are goin' from bad to worse

Their actions out of character even when they rehearse
Workin' in the land of the free, the home of the brave
I gotta bring my brothers or else I feel out of place
Breakin' speed records on roads that these niggas paved
And they don't like that, it's written all on they face
I don't know how I'ma make it out of here clean
Can't even keep track of who plays for the other team

Iconic duos rip and split at the seams
Good-hearted people are takin' it to extremes
Leavin' me in limbo to question what I believe
Leavin' me to ask what's their motive in makin' peace
Leavin' me to not trust anybody I meet
Leavin' me to ask, is there anybody like me?

You've got me fe–
Emotions
You've got me fe–
Emotions, ayy

Missin' out on my years
There's times when I wish I was where I was
Back when I used to wish I was here
Missin' out on my days
Scrollin' through life and fishin' for praise
Opinions from total strangers take me out of my ways
I try and see who's there on the other end of the shade
Most times it's just somebody that's under-aged
That's probably just alone and afraid
And lashin' out so that someone else can feel they pain

I always hear people complain about the place that they live
That all the people here are fake and they got nothin' to give
'Cause they been starin' at somebody else's version of shit
That makes another city seem more excitin' than it is

I know a girl whose one goal was to visit Rome
Then she finally got to Rome
And all she did was post pictures for people at home
'Cause all that mattered was impressin' everybody she's known
I know another girl that's cryin' out for help
But her latest caption is, leave me alone
I know a girl happily married 'til she puts down her phone
I know a girl that saves pictures from places she's flown
To post later and make it look like she still on the go

Look at the way we live
I wasn't hidin' my kid from the world
I was hidin' the world from my kid
From empty souls, who just wake up and look to debate
Until you starin' at your seed, you can never relate
Breakin' news in my life, I don't run to the blogs
The only ones I wanna tell are the ones I can call
They always ask, why let the story run if it's false?
You know, a wise man once said nothin' at all

I'm exhausted and drained, I can't even pretend
All these people takin' miles when you give 'em an inch
All these followers, but who gon' follow me to the end?
I guess I'll make it to the end and I'ma find out then

You've got me fe–
Emotions, ayy
Higher, higher
You've got me fe–
Emotions, ayy
Higher, higher

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Track details

From Scorpion

5:022018
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Album
Scorpion
Scorpion
Drake
29th June 2018
Track number
4
Release year
2018
  1. 1Survival
    2:16
  2. 2Nonstop
    3:59
  3. 3Elevate
    3:05
  4. 4Emotionless
    5:02

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