DISSNATION
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4PM in Calabasas

By Drake · Targeting Joe Budden, Meek Mill, Puff Daddy

4PM in Calabasas is a diss track by Drake targeting Puff Daddy, Joe Budden and Meek Mill. Drake addresses several contemporaries through direct and subliminal references during the period following his conflict with Meek Mill.

Released2016
Annotated1
ExplicitYes
Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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    [Verse]

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    Yeah

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    All you self-promoters are janky

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    We established like the Yankees

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    This whole fuckin' game thankless

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    We movin' militant but somehow you the one tankin'

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    No limit to where I can take it

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    And you know me as a Cris' bottle sender, check picker-upper

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    I thought we looked out for one another

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    Saw us all as brothers in the struggle, too blessed to be humble

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    I guess it's different in the city I come from

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    All the sudden I got people showing how much they truly resent me

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    They whole demeanor just spells envy, they tryna tempt me

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    The higher I get, the less they accept me

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    Even had the OG's tryna press me, ha-ha-ha, ha

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    No way out 'cause I'm already in it

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    I'm not attending when I do a show and get a ticket

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    Good business can clean millions, I got the vision

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    I been had it since "No Scrubs" and "No Pigeons"

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    Even back when I wasn't as poppin'

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    When they told me take an R&B nigga on the road

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    And I told 'em no and drew for Kendrick and Rocky

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    I tried to make the right choices with the world watching

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    "Mike never tried to rap like Pac, Pac never tried to sing like Mike"

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    Those my dad's words to me when I asked him how to make it in life

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    And I always said my mother gave the greatest advice, yeah

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    Look at me now, they look at me like the golden child

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    Can't nobody hold me down

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    Especially not right now

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    Certain shit is just too wild to reconcile

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    Take that, take that

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    No love in they heart so they fake that

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    DiCaprio level the way they play that

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    Damn, nigga, what is that?

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    Y'all don't hear no songs

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    They hit my phone like, "You did that"

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    They even hit my line like, "Where you been at?"

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    It's always on some shit like

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    "When can I get a favor?" or, "Where my bitch at?"

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    Like I'm about to tell you where she been at

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    Costa Careyes, I got her kidnapped

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    She ain't sorry and I ain't sorry, it's too late for sorry

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    Green, white, and red on my body 'cause I'm dipped in Ferrari

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    All she wanna do is get high and listen to PARTY

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    She complain, I tell the driver to drop her at Barneys

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    My summer diet is just Rosé and calamari

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    Look, now you got me started

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    I'm the black sheep, rest in peace to Chris Farley

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    I got a lot to lose 'cause in every situation I'm the bigger artist

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    Always gotta play it smarter

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    Y'all shook up, I'm here on the cookup

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    Cameras pointing every time I look up

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    That's why I gotta duck behind Chubb's shoulder just to hit the kush up

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    Sponsorship dollars is sky high

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    He be like, "Drake, will you please stop smoking la-la?"

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    Chubbs, why try? I'm a thug, I'ma die high

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    Got the rose pink tinted lenses, it's a Wednesday

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    Architects takin' dimensions, they redoin' the entrance

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    Yeah, redoin' the entrance

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    Kinda like when you niggas drop on some again and again shit

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    And you still never quite get it

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    Meantime, Drizzy over there, tryna make you, make you dance to this

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    Yeah, I make you dance to this

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    I roll big body, wide body, Calabasas road winder

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    Sun shinin', waxed tires

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    See Kris Jenner, I beep twice and I wave

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    The rest of you boys, I blow Keeks right in your face

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    Pistol by my bed, I'm sleep, but I'm awake

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    For that one night when niggas try reach inside my safe

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    Don't push me 'cause I'm way too uneasy nowadays

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    These guys move so greezy nowadays

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    I tell you my life and y'all don't believe me when I say it

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    Save my stories for down the line

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    I'm too ahead of the curve every time

    Multi-line diss block
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    Just total the hits and see what you find, you SWV

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    'Cause you weak and I'm always, always on your mind

    Block noteMakes the confrontation explicit

    TargetPuff Daddy

    MeaningWhat it means: In “'Cause you weak and I'm always, always on your mind,” Drake addresses Puff Daddy directly and makes the situation described in the quoted line the point of confrontation. Why it was said: Drake addresses several contemporaries through direct and subliminal references during the period following his conflict with Meek Mill. Naming or plainly addressing Puff Daddy removes the safety of a subliminal and makes the quoted claim something the target can either answer or leave standing.

    ContextDrake addresses several contemporaries through direct and subliminal references during the period following his conflict with Meek Mill.

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    [Outro]

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    Yeah, and we can't stop

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    Make you dance to this, uh

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    I'ma make you One Dance to this

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    A-ha-ha-ha, ha

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    Bad breed, bad bwoy

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    Uh-huh, yeah

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    That's right, yeah