Drake refers to himself as the “6 God,” where the “6” represents Toronto. Just like people pray to God, Drizzy has people putting their hands together as if they were saying grace.

The cover art for “6 God” (left) and IYRTITL (right) also show a pair of hands pressed together as if praying (one theory is that the cover art was inspired by a 1508 painting by Albrecht Dürer).

Referring to himself in the second person, Drake claims that he’s now on Jay Z’s level by referencing Hov’s verse on “Seen It All” and saying that he deserves to join Jay and Kanye on The Throne.

Fun fact: during his performance at OVO Fest in 2013, Kanye had this to say about Drake’s influence on WTT:

Me and Hov woulda never made Watch The Throne if this nigga weren’t puttin' pressure on us like that

Even more interesting, when Kanye went on The Breakfast Club on 2/20/15, he mentioned that a Drake-Kanye collab album may be on the way. Also, in April of 2016, Drake dropped “Pop Style” from his fourth studio album, Views from the 6, featuring Hov and Ye under the moniker, “The Throne”.

When Drake was first coming into the rap game, all the labels didn’t believe in him and wouldn’t give him a deal because he was “too hard to market.” He dropped his first mixtape Room For Improvement in 2006 but wasn’t signed until June 2009 – after dropping Comeback Season in 2007 and So Far Gone in February 2009.

As he rapped on “Forever:”

Dropped the mixtape, that shit sounded like an album
Who’d a thought a countrywide tour be the outcome
Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm
Everybody got a deal, I did it without one

Now Drake is one of the best rappers in the game. Hard time marketing him huh? They slept on Drizzy.

Drake is cooking up hits like celebrity chef Guy Fieri crafts meals in the kitchen. This isn’t the first time Drake has compared himself to a chef:

Been cookin' with the sauce, chef, curry with the pot, boy

Back in Dec. 2012, Guy actually gave Drizzy a cooking lesson while in Toronto filming for his TV show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

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Drake references both Wyclef Jean’s “Gone Til November” and his own song “Worst Behavior” from Nothing Was The Same. He always talk about being gone from Toronto for long spurts of time, but he remembers to come back and stunt for his city.

Wayne dropped a similar line on Drake’s “Miss Me” (though while Drake was presumably away on tour, Weezy was in prison):

Damn, I’ll be gone ‘til November
But fuck it I ain’t trippin’, I know Drizzy gonna kill ‘em

Kennedy Road is a major street that runs north-south through Scarborough – a region in east Toronto. Drake mentions Scarborough as the place where most of his friends lived, where he met girls and where Degrassi was filmed.