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The song extends its record as longest-running male/female duet on the Official Singles Chart.
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London producer AXL Beats, known for bringing UK drill sounds to Brooklyn, supplies the beat here, and Drake leans into the genre's stark, menacing rhythms with conviction. Released initially in winter 2020 to support longtime manager Oliver El-Khatib's partnership with a high-end incense brand, the track made its way onto 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes' a few months later. Drake adopts UK slang and cadence throughout, the delivery tight against the skeletal production.
The lyrics catalogue street-level paranoia and old allegiances, Drake name-checking associates and recounting wariness around informants. He raps about distrust, about debts settled, about keeping a low digital footprint. The tone is cold and factual, the boasts matter-of-fact rather than celebratory. There's a brief nod to an OVOXO link-up and a roll call of crew members, but the song stays locked in its drill template, sparse and unyielding.
Drake framed the track as an attempt to uplift Toronto rappers gaining attention, though the song itself plays out as a tense internal monologue. It remains one of his more effective recent exercises in genre adoption, the UK drill framework holding his focus where looser structures might have let him drift.
"War" is a track by Drake, from the album Dark Lane Demo Tapes, released 30th April 2020. The track is 3:00 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Drake.
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