Star67

Album: If You're Reading This It's Too Late (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title of this song and some of the rhymes takes us back to Drake's pre-rapping days when he did a phone scam to support his mom:

    I am not a man, I can't do this on my own
    So I started askin' them if they would put me on
    And they did put me on, yeah, they did put me on
    Now we in the basement and we workin' on the phone


    Drake's friends Haffa and Jordan put him on the scam, which is done by *67 a phone number. The result is the cell number you are calling comes up as unknown.
  • The song starts off with a sound clip from 2007 of Lil Wayne expressing his frustration with the rap game. Drake then opens the first verse by appearing to be taking shots at the YMCMB camp.

    Walk up in my label like, where the check though?
    Yeah I said it, wouldn't dap you with the left ho


    Drake is likely referring to the in-house fight between Birdman and Lil Wayne over Weezy's freedom from Cash Money Records. There were also reports of Birdman's refusal to pay out outstanding monies.

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