Songfacts®:

• "Miss My Dawg" is a collaboration between Yeat and Drake from Yeat's 2026 EP Cocoon. Drake opens the track with a solemn hook, reflecting on his own mortality and asking us to hold up a light for our lost friends. It is a surprisingly quiet, somber moment to set off a song that shifts into Yeat's usual flexes about cash, women, and substance use.
• Drake has been leaning into "dawg" or "dog" as slang for a close friend across his catalog for years.
  
  2015 On Future's hit "Where Ya At" he asks, "Where were you when all the dogs needed help?"
  
  2017 Reflecting on his day-one crew in "Portland," Drake notes he is "still with the dawgs that I grew beside."
  
  2018 He drops the word six times in his opening verse on Meek Mill's "Going Bad."
  
  2018 Drake repeats "Dogs on this side" three times on "Jaded."
  
  2022 He boasts on "Rich Flex" with 21 Savage: "All the dawgs eatin' off a Baccarat plate."
  
  The word takes center stage on his 2023 album For All the Dogs. The title plays on "dog" as a trusted friend, though Drake frequently blends the term with romantic themes. The album embraces the canine theme head-on, complete with barking sound effects and interstitials from the fictional "BARK Radio," as if Drake had decided that the only thing missing from hip-hop was a canine broadcasting network.
• Yeat takes "Miss My Dawg" in a totally different direction once his verse hits. He moves through rapid-fire lines about women, money, and his past struggles with drug addiction, balancing his typical flexes with recurring notes about missing his partner.
• This was the fourth official team-up between the two artists. They first linked up on "IDGAF" from For All the Dogs, followed by "As We Speak" on Yeat's album 2093, and the joint single "Dog House."
• Drake first previewed "Miss My Dawg" in his FOMO short film on September 16, 2026. Yeat officially dropped it two days later as the third track on Cocoon, where it stands as the sole guest feature on the seven-song EP. Yeat planned Cocoon as a five-track pack written on tour before adding two extra songs, including "Miss My Dawg," for the final release.
• Luc1us, Lucid, Froodough, and Noel Cadastre produced the track.
  
  California producer Luc1us previously teamed up with Yeat on "On Nothing,"
  
  French producer Lucid (Lucien Dunne) has been a frequent collaborator on Yeat's projects and co-produced Drake's 2026 track "Slap The City."
  
  Noel Cadastre has served as Drake's main audio engineer since 2010's Thank Me Later and remains an essential pillar of the OVO Sound crew.