Last night, one of hip-hop’s most enduring duos added a new song to their work. Drake and Rick Ross have been appearing on songs together since 2009 and doing one-on-one collaborations since 2011, and they bring something special from each other – all of these songs would be counted among the best by fans. As Drake put it on The Rap Radar Podcast, they are always on the same tacit wavelength – he can send Ross something moving like “Gold Roses” or optimistic like “Money in the Grave” and get the complementary feature he’s looking for without any direction.
The chemistry between them comes from the long time Drake spent in Ross ‘native Florida, when he lived in Miami for a period in his daughters’ early days. With Drake entering his imperial phase working on his acclaimed Take care, and Ross in the middle of his own Teflon Don, the two were on similar creative spikes that yielded a lot of studio time and winning collaborations. “Whenever we enter the booth, I always play the older brother. And he will always be the fly’s little brother, ”Ross once told me. “From the first day, when I met him, he was just one of the people I really fuck with. He knew I would have muddied my shoes for him. We all became a family and it just continued to be that way. “
There was even talk of a suitable joint album, which Ross provisionally voiced The YOLO Tape at the time. Obviously, this never materialized, but less than a brief period in the late 2010s, when Drake was fighting with Ross’s protégé, Meek Mill, the two never failed to deliver heaters ranging from modeling training beats to Chicago even begged women to tattoo their names as the last sign of devotion.
This sequence continues with Drake’s new song, “Lemon Pepper Freestyle”, and if you believe in Chad Ochocinco, can only lead to the dodge tape we’ve been waiting for. By then, they already have enough to fill a playlist: here are all the songs in which they appear together, classified.
17. “Fed Up” (2009)
DJ Khaled has been listening to connect a variety of artists in their collaborations. In 2010 Victory, Khaled gets Jeezy, Rick Ross, Drake, Lil Wayne and Usher as a star anthem about being tired of being tired. Renzel yells at Khaled saying he has it for the rest of his life; Drizzy raps about Weezy telling him not to retire. Some ties are eternal, however, this song pales in comparison to what these two and Khaled would do together and apart in the years to come.