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Know Yourself by Drake

TRACK

Drake

Know Yourself

Release date: 12th February 2015

From If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Track 4
4:36
Hip-Hop/RapMusicRapR&B/Soul
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About This Track

'Know Yourself' appeared on 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' in February 2015, the fourth track on a mixtape that arrived without warning and set the tone for Drake's mid-decade dominance. Produced by Boi-1da alongside Oliver El-Khatib and 40, the song builds around a hypnotic loop and a chorus that became one of the most quotable hooks of the year.

Drake anchors the track in Toronto geography and personal history, threading references to Fort York, the 6ix, and a cast of collaborators through verses that move between nostalgia and present-tense assertion. He recalls a job selling Girbaud jeans, a yellow TechnoMarine watch, the moment Kanye's 'College Dropout' shifted the dress code, all of it delivered with the casual authority of someone who has already won the argument. The phrase 'runnin' through the 6 with my woes' became shorthand for a certain kind of late-night ambition, the word 'woes' itself entering the lexicon as Drake's coinage for his inner circle.

The production leaves space around the vocal, letting the repetition do the work. It is a song about knowing where you come from and who came with you, delivered with just enough edge to remind you that the knowledge is not for sale.

"Know Yourself" is a track by Drake, from the album If You're Reading This It's Too Late, released 12th February 2015. The track is 4:36 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

Know Yourself

Hol', hol' it youte, hol' it, hol' it hol' it, hol' it, hol' it
No sleepin' in the streets!
(Yeah mon, mi tiyad mon)
Shaky warrior
Yeah, this that Oliver, 40, Niko shit man
15 Fort York shit, y'know?
Boi-1da, what's poppin'?
Yeah, yeah
Runnin' through the 6 with my woes
Countin' money you know how it goes
Pray the real live forever man
Pray the fakes get exposed
I want that Ferrari then I swerve
I want that Bugatti just to hurt
I ain't rockin' my jewelry that's on purpose
Niggas want my spot and don't deserve it
I don't like how serious they take themselves
I've always been me I guess I know myself
Shakiness man I don't have no time for that
My city too turnt up I'll take the fine for that
This been where you find me at
That's been where you find me at
I know a nigga named Johnny Bling
He put me on to the finer things
Had a job sellin' Girbraud jeans
I had a yellow TechnoMarine
Then Kanye dropped, it was polos and backpacks, damn
That was when Ethan was pushin' a Subaru hatchback
Man I'm talkin' way before hashtags
I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes
Yeah
I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
Runnin' through the 6 with my woes
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
Don't fuck with them niggas they too irrational, whoa
This is that nasty flow
Top boy in this shit, I'm so international
Reps up in here got P Reign and Chubby and TJ and Winnie and whoa
Yeah, and you know how that shit go
I might declare it a holiday as soon as Baka get back on the road
Yeah but you know how that shit go
They so irrational, they don't wanna patch it up
They wanna mash it up, whoa
My nigga Jibba he whip it, I ride in the passenger
I'm way up, I stay up, I'm two up, I'm three up
I had to get back to you, whoa
I'm turnin' into a nigga that thinks about money and women
Like twenty-four seven, that's where my life took me
That's just how shit happened to go
And you know
Runnin' through the 6 with my
With my
I was runnin' through the 6 with my woes
And you know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
Runnin' through the 6 with my woes
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
You know how that shit go
Runnin' through the 6 with my woes
You know how that shit go
Shell out, all if yuh eye nuh big
Always haffi look out, yuh no know if yuh head book out
Dun know, a de Unruly boss, dis man
No bomboclat, otha
And if a boy nuh like OVO or Chromatic
Yuh can jus suck yuh mada
With no apology, if you nuh like we, we nuh like you neither youte
Your girl a say we cute, if you diss you will get execute
That's the truth, OVO Unruly
With my woes

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Track details

From If You're Reading This It's Too Late

4:362015
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Album
If You're Reading This It's Too Late
If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Drake
12th February 2015
Track number
4
Release year
2015
  1. 1Legend
    4:02
  2. 2Energy
    3:02
  3. 310 Bands
    2:58
  4. 4Know Yourself
    4:36

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Allen Ritter, Boi-1da, Drake, Jan Stoeckart, Quentin Miller, Syk Sense, Vinylz
    Producer
    Allen Ritter, Boi-1da, Syk Sense, Vinylz
    Producer
    Boi-1da, SykSense, VinylZ
    Co-Producer
    Syk Sense, Vinylz
    Additional Production
    Allen Ritter
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Coran “Cans” Nariman, Evan Stewart
    Drum Programmer
    Boi-1da, Syk Sense, Vinylz
    Mastering Engineer
    Chris Athens
    Recording Engineer
    Noel Cadastre
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