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\n\tEven the staunchest Drake<\/a> hater can probably name at least one song that does it for them. For better or worse, Aubrey Graham has spent nearly two decades giving voice to the millennial subconscious more skillfully than any mainstream musician not named Taylor Swift<\/a>, soundtracking the fears, insecurities, and romantic delusions of a generation raised on reality-TV melodrama and the first wave of social media\u2019s main-character ethos. It should come as no surprise, then, that Earl Sweatshirt<\/a>, underground rap<\/a>\u2019s poet laureate, has singled out the deep Iceman<\/a><\/em> cut \u201cDon\u2019t Worry,\u201d singing the song karaoke-style to close out his recent live sets. The track is the purest distillation of Drake\u2019s appeal since the Take Care <\/em>era, and a quiet reminder of why it\u2019s hard to imagine him going away any time soon.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the clips, which first started circulating around late May, during Earl\u2019s Home on the Range Tour with MIKE on the heels of their Surf Gang-produced project Pompeii \/\/ Utility<\/a><\/em>, it\u2019s the song\u2019s final turn that has Earl & Co. the most hyped up. \u201cI just wanna see that boy beg on the pavement,\u201d Drake coos, the type of revenge fantasy he\u2019s built a career out of conjuring. Drake goes on. \u201cI just wanna see that boy struggle with the phone bill,\u201d he sings, getting specific. \u201cThe light bill\/That\u2019s how I feel.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s PhD-level pettiness with a weirdly relatable spin. One must know the more treacherous depths of being broke to pinpoint the humiliation of struggling with the phone bill, and here Drake is wishing such luck onto anyone \u201ctrippin\u2019 with the gang.\u201d Whereas his entire catalog is fueled by this kind of anonymous sense of betrayal, it hits harder here. You can feel the sting of 2024\u2019s rap beef<\/a> in the glee with which Drake sings his imagined get-back, landing on an infectious melody all while basically giving a speech you\u2019d expect from the Joker. \u201cI might just get that boy hit for entertainment,\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n \n\tThis is classic Drake, turning the darker inner thoughts most people would be ashamed to admit into something almost beautiful. He is, in a way, rap\u2019s Lena Dunham, finding art on the other side of cringe.\u00a0<\/p>\n