Gimme A Hug

Album

Some Sexy Songs 4 U

Label

OVO Sound

Genre

Hip hop

Composer(s)

Aubrey Graham

Entered Chart

Jan 3, 2025

Peak Date

Jan 3, 2025

Released

March 4, 2025

Recorded

2024 Studio S.O.T.A (Florida) Sanctuary (Nassau)

"Gimme A Hug" is a track from Some Sexy Songs 4 U, Drake's collaborative album with PartyNextDoor. It serves as both a victory lap and a subtle continuation of his ongoing cold war with Kendrick Lamar. The album marks Drake's first full-length release since his bruising 2024 rap war with Kendrick Lamar. While much of Some Sexy Songs 4 U finds Drake luxuriating in his usual themes of wealth and romantic escapades, "Gimme A Hug" includes a few sharp jabs aimed at his Compton adversary. He accuses unnamed rappers - including Lamar - of "using [him] for promotion," a not-so-veiled jab at those who profited, both financially and culturally, from their conflicts with him. Lamar's Drake diss track "Not Like Us," for instance, dominated the charts and scooped up five Grammys. Drake later works in a reference to Lamar's intricate, layered lyricism. He describes women at Houston's Area 29 strip club "on stage twerkin' with a dictionary." Given Lamar's reputation for dense, literary bars, some fans have taken this as an amusing dig at his lyrical complexity - a suggestion that while Drake's world revolves around vibes, Lamar's is cluttered with footnotes. Just as the song seems poised to drag Drake back into battle, he pivots. "F--k a rap beef, I'm trying to get the party lit," he declares, as if shaking off the weight of hip-hop warfare in favor of more pleasurable pursuits. From that moment on, "Gimme A Hug" transforms from a meditation on betrayal and industry politics into a celebration of his return to one of his favorite haunts: Houston's Area 29. For Drake, the club isn't just a venue for indulgence; it's a sanctuary, a place where he is welcomed like royalty, greeted not with animosity but with hugs. The production, courtesy of Gordo, Kid Masterpiece, Klahr, Liohn, Simon on the Moon, and Noel Cadastre, incorporates two beat switches. The first arrives midway through, shifting to a more hedonistic, party-oriented vibe. The second switches to an upbeat, club-friendly beat that integrates a sample of Aaron Hall's 1994 R&B classic "I Miss You." The song ends with Drake echoing Hall's mournful vocals from his hit.

Thank the Lord above for all that I've become (the Lord God in me)
Thank the Lord above for all that I've become (will He make a choice for some, the Lord God in me)
Thank the Lord above for all that I've become (will He make a choice for some, the Lord God in me)
Thank the Lord above for all that I've become (will He make a choice for some, the Lord God in me)

Yeah, Drake elimination, fake intimidation
Take a minute, take a deep breath, have a little bit of patience
"Drizzy, you amazin', you the inspiration
You set the bar for the next generation"
You Neo in the matrix, these niggas just Nemo in the ocean
Small fish, making kids feel emotion
Using you for promotion, truer words had never been spoken
Niggas want to see RIP me on a t-shirt like I'm Hulk Hogan
I appreciate the fans rocking with me, this is really just a small token
Really fuckin' with a visionary
Only reason I ain't got a girl and I ain't gettin' married
'Cause I'm really out here, filling up the itinerary 'til I'm six feet in a cemetery
Bulletproof doors so heavy, got me rollin' 'round like a dignitary
Funny how it's only bitch niggas that are waiting on the boy's obituary
'Cause if I die, it's these niggas that become the sole beneficiary
And what the fuck are they gon' do with it?
Have the girls up at 29, on stage twerkin' with a dictionary
Guilt trips, not Turks trips when it's cold out here in February
'Cause right now, shorty parachuting molly like she flying for the military
This girl face so pretty, I can only think of fuckin' missionary

Fuck that, make the beat switch, turn the hoes up, give a million to 'em
Right now, I got so many villas booked, I'm like a villain to 'em
Durk's boy told me Marvin's Room was his favorite song, he was drilling to it
Thousand niggas rappin' murder shit and like ten niggas that'll really do it
Savage, you the only nigga checkin' on me when we really in some shit, brother
Melyssa Ford, you a legend from the 6, hate to see you with a dick-sucker
Shit about to be a lit summer, tell Tony, "Leave the motor runnin'"
Tell Mike that the ceiling's too low in Booby, how we supposed to throw a hundred?
Damn
They be droppin' shit, but we be droppin' harder shit (droppin' harder shit)
Fuck a rap beef, I'm tryna get the party lit
Tryna get the party lit for the bitches
Them Nike tights is huggin' on that ass like they missed it
What's up?
Niggas is hating the boy for sure, the women in love
Walk in the strip club, damn, I missed you hoes, give me a hug
Give me a hug, give me a hug, give me a hug, give me a hug

Yeah, I know that you work at the club
Know that these people might judge
But fuck it, you family to us
So come over here and give me some love
Yeah, give me a hug
I miss you hoes, give me a hug
Give me a hug, give me a hug
What can I say? I miss you girls, I'm stuck in my ways
Princess, Gigi, Pooh, Pink, Luxury, y'all gotta come to the stage
Yeah, come to the stage and show me some love
You know how I'm comin', I'm giving it up
The niggas in here ain't spendin' enough

Bae, I miss you
I'm talkin' to you, baby, I miss you
You, you, you, you, you
Yeah
I miss you
I'm talking to you, baby
I miss you