Drake revealed who “Too Good” is basically about.
On Tuesday, the 37-year-old Canadian rapper dropped 100 gigabytes of never-before-seen content material from his private archives, together with footage, movies and some unreleased tracks. Newly launched studio footage exhibits that his 2016 track “Too Good,” wherein he raps about his “love” for somebody being taken “for granted,” was written about Serena Williams, 42.
Within the video, Drake dishes to his mom, who’s off digital camera, that “Too Good” is about “me and Serena,” to which she responds, “I gathered that.”
“If I’m gonna talk about [women], I’ll at least do them the justice of making them a song that they like,” Drake says. “So, I know Serena very well and I know that she’ll hear it loud and clear but she’ll also not hate me for it because it’s lighthearted.”
On the finish of the clip, Drake’s mother reminds him that Williams has already moved on to another person. Drake brushes it off and responds, “I don’t know, Mom.” Williams was relationship her now-husband Alexis Ohanian on the time of the track’s launch.
In “Too Good,” Drake raps, “Years go by too fast / I can’t keep track / How long did we last? / I feel bad for asking / It can’t end like this / We gotta take time with this.”
The ultimate verse concludes: “And I wanna tell you my intentions / I wanna do the things that I mention / I wanna benefit from the friendship / I wanna get the late night message from you, from you / I put my hands around you / Gotta get a handle on you.”
Drake and Williams’ relationship — and potential beef — goes all the best way again to 2011 when he tweeted, “@serenawilliams I cannot wait to put it on you and make you sweat……….during our match this weekend.”
He then referenced her in his 2013 monitor “Worst Behavior,” rapping, “I’m with my whole set, tennis matches at the crib/I swear I could beat Serena when she playin’ with her left.”
Through the years, Drake has been noticed supporting Williams at her matches, together with at Rogers Cup and US Open in 2015. That 12 months, TMZ caught them making out. He supported her once more at Wimbledon in 2018, a 12 months after she married Ohanian.
By 2022, Drake was throwing photographs on the couple. On “Middle of the Ocean,” he rapped, “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a groupie / He claim we don’t got a problem but / No, boo, it is like you comin’ for sushi.”
However Williams has lately thrown photographs too. Whereas talking at a panel at ESSENCE Fest 2024 in July, Williams referred to as Kendrick Lamar‘s “Not Like Us” the “hit of the summer,” seemingly taking Lamar’s facet of his rap beef with Drake. On “Not Like Us,” Lamar name-drops the tennis star singing “better not speak on Serena” as an added jab at Drake.
“I love that song. It’s like the hit of the summer,” Williams mentioned on the time. “When they play that jam, I’m jamming. That jam is jamming.”
Later that month, Williams danced on stage to “Not Like Us” whereas internet hosting the 2024 ESPY Awards. “Don’t pick a fight with Kendrick [Lamar],” she mentioned on the time.
Williams and Ohanian share two daughters — 6-year-old Olympia and 1-year-old Adira.
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