Worst Behavior

Where his introspective work tends toward warmth, this track runs cold and hard, built on a thrashing, almost confrontational production aesthetic. The beat is dense and layered, percussion hitting with unusual aggression for a Drake record — the kind of track that feels physically louder than its surroundings even at moderate volume. He arrives here not as the vulnerable confessor of his slower songs but as someone cataloguing slights and proving a point. The vocal delivery shifts register frequently: melodic crooning gives way to a rapid, clipped rap cadence, then back again, keeping the listener slightly off-balance. The subject matter circles around loyalty, betrayal, and the particular kind of bitterness that comes from watching people dismiss your rise and then scramble for access to your success. Lyrically, there is a scorekeeping quality — names are named, incidents referenced, debts called in. Produced by Noah "40" Shebib and others, the track shows how Toronto's sound could be weaponized, the usual dreamy atmospherics sharpened into something confrontational. It fits a very specific listening context: the tail end of a night when adrenaline is still running high, or those morning moments when you remember something that made you angry and decide to let yourself stay angry about it. It is less a song about success than a song about memory and the long reach of old grievances.