Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR Provide the Soundtrack to Valentine’s Day With ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’

As promised, Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR have shared the timely $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, their first joint full-length together.

The project features appearences from Chino Pacas on “Meet Your Padre,” Yebba on “Die Trying,” and Pim on “Pimmie’s Dilemma.”

Now more than a decade into his time with OVO Sound, PND most recently resumed his eponymous album series with P4, the decidedly NSFW cover for which became a hot topic on X and beyond last April. Drake, meanwhile, last went the solo full-length route with 2023’s For All the Dogs.

That album featured “First Person Shooter,” a track that ultimately led to a response from Kendrick Lamar on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That.” This, of course, grew into a full-fledged back-and-forth that saw both Drake and Kendrick sharing multiple diss tracks in quick succession. Among them was “Not Like Us,” which went on to win five Grammys and was this past weekend included in Kendrick’s Super Bowl set.

All of this means that $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, available now wherever you stream music, arrives at a compelling time for the 6 god. Given the tone of the rollout and the expectations surrounding what a full-length Drake and PND project might sound like, it seems unlikely, at least going into this, that Drake will spend much time directly addressing anything Kendrick-related this time around. (Then again, that could have already been proven to be inaccurate by the time you read this.)

Excitement is fittingly high, regardless, with even some of Drake’s more vocal detractors having expressed a desire to hear Drizzy in this context. Joe Budden, for example, recently told listeners “I like Drake with the melodies” while responding to an instance of Finsta trolling earlier this week.