Songfacts®:

• "I'm Spent" is a moody, mid-tempo track that places a deceptively simple question at its emotional core: what happens to love when the money runs out? The title works on at least two levels - "spent" meaning both financially depleted and emotionally exhausted - capturing Drake's dual preoccupation with material insecurity and relational burnout that runs throughout Habibti.
• Structurally, the song is unusually bare. It lacks a chorus or soaring hook, consisting instead of just an intro and two verses, which places the entire emotional burden on the lyrics.
• Loe Shimmy opens by asserting his own significance, declaring, "I'm just not anybody," before introducing the song's nagging concern with a simple question: "What's the cost gon' be?"
  
  Drake takes that uncertainty and pushes it even further. His repeated refrain ("What if I go broke and I got no more racks to spend on you?") is strikingly vulnerable for an artist so closely associated with projecting invincibility. This framing of a wealthy man testing whether his partner would stay if the luxury disappeared aligns with Drake's recurring lyrical preoccupation: navigating relationships under the heavy pressures of fame and wealth.
• The collaboration had been years in the making. Drake had championed Loe Shimmy's music long before they worked together, reposting Shimmy's early track "Tina" around 2022. Shimmy told The Fader the endorsement put "a battery in my back" at a point when he wasn't sure his career would gain traction.
  
  Shimmy sent Drake four songs roughly a year before Habibti was released and assumed they had disappeared into the vast digital wilderness where unfinished ideas go to quietly collect dust. Then Drake unexpectedly FaceTimed him while Shimmy was in Africa telling him he'd got deeply involved in shaping "I'm Spent," helping rework its structure and altering the production. "He helped orchestrate the whole song," Shimmy told The Fader. "Switched the beat up - he a real wizard."
• Mcevoy, Joseph L'Étranger, Jahaan Sweet, O Lil Angel, and b4u produced the song.
  
  Both Mcevoy and Joseph L'Étranger are Vancouver-based producers. L'Étranger has also had placements on tracks by Ariana Grande ("Motive") and Chloe ("Have Mercy").
  
  Jahaan Sweet is a longstanding Drake collaborator, having worked with Boi-1da and built credits across Drake, Eminem, and Kehlani projects.
  
  O Lil Angel and b4u are likewise familiar faces within Drake's orbit, contributing to multiple tracks across his Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour albums.