Theme
Songs about loyalty
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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Daniel Caesar
Hold Me Down
A bruised love song about wanting devotion from a partner whose ambitions are pulling her out of the relationship
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Rihanna
Umbrella (feat. JAŸ-Z)
A promise of shelter to someone you love when their weather turns bad, dressed up in stadium-sized pop hooks
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Drake
One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla)
A club plea dressed up as a love song, where a single dance with a stranger becomes a pause from danger, distance, and the pressure of where the narrator comes from
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Drake & 21 Savage
Firm Friends
An imperative-mode walkthrough of joining a brotherhood, gang, fraternity, or any institution that swallows your old self in exchange for status
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Lil Baby
Right On
A standalone flex single where Lil Baby measures his rise by what he can hand out, who he can ignore, and how little he has to prove
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Drake
Drake, Qendresa - Slap The City
A Toronto rap star tries to convince himself, and a sharp-tongued woman he's circling, that he's ready to stop sleeping with the whole city and settle into something real
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Drake, Future & Molly Santana
Firm Friends
An imperative-mode walkthrough of joining a hierarchy, gang, fraternity, label, cult, where the price of getting ahead is shedding the self you arrived with
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Drake, Future & Molly Santana
B’s On The Table
A boast and a complaint at once: the money in front of Drake is so big it has isolated him from friends, women, and even the urge to look back
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Jville, Ace 2K & LaLa
Lil Baby Freestyle
A street-rap freestyle that flexes survival, loyalty to the block, and refusal to break under pressure, built on the beat Lil Baby made famous
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Drake
National Treasures
A Toronto loyalty oath disguised as a flex, where Drake reframes himself as civic monument and settles scores with friends who turned distant
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Drake, Future & Molly Santana
Ran To Atlanta
A three-way flex record that uses Drake's reunion with Future and a new Molly Santana co-sign to stage a victory lap through Atlanta, money, and rap's pecking order
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Drake
Club Paradise
A homecoming monologue about the cost of leaving, where success has replaced the people and city that made the artist feel known