"Drake the type of nigga/guy/Alliterative Aubrey to (insert very polite, dorky, or outright cartoonish action here)." ExplanationIn 2011, a Twitter user joked◊ that "Drake the type of dude that let his woman propose," setting off similar jokes ascribing feminine or gay traits to Drake that eventually turned into making him out to be a character in an old-timey Zany Cartoon or a mediocre PG-13 movie ("Drake the type of guy to start flying when he smells a really good pie," "Drake the type of guy to say 'He's right behind me, isn't he?' when a monster's behind him," and so on). More examples.
"Embarrassiiiiiiiiiiiing!" ExplanationWhile streaming with Lil Yachty in 2023, Drake tried to donate to another streamer but got his card declined, leading him to belt...this out in a sing-song voice for some reason in an apparent attempt to diffuse awkwardness that was already fading. This only supercharged the "Drake the type of guy to" memes (see above).
"Started from the Bottom" has many memes based on its opening lines.
"No New Friends" has its own Tumblr based on all of the new friends Drake has made over the years.
"(thing) goin' up... on a Tuesday!" – even though it's not his song, Drake's remix was undoubtedly what made the line go viral.
His "Hotline Bling" music video featured Drake dancing; two poses he makes early on led to the phenomenon of "Drakeposting", in which Drake non-verbally voices disapproval of one thing followed by approval of another.
"Hotline Bling" has often been compared to the Wii Shop Channel music and vice versa. There's even a mashup of the two.note In reality, "Hotline Bling" samples the Timmy Thomas song "Why Can't We Live Together," but it's easy to hear why the songs all sound similar.
"No don't do it, please don't do it" from "Headlines".
The album artwork for Views (which has Drake Photoshopped to be sitting on top of the CN Tower) has gotten extremely popular just based off of people editing out Drake and making him sit on all kinds of things.
A bizarre Sprite commercial that Drake did in 2010 has been used as a source of mockery and memes. The most famous meme from the ad has been dubbing it "Funtime Drake", due to Drake's puppet looking similar to the animatronics in FNaF.
Vegan cookie recipesExplanationA reference to a bizarre micro-feud Drake entered in 2022 with — of all people — Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop. In September of that year, Fantano posted a joke video on his personal YouTube channel about Drake privately messaging him on Instagram a vegan cookie recipe, but a few days later, Drake publicly revealed in a screenshot that he actually messaged Fantano a few days before he made his video, insulting him out of nowhere over his marriage with a black woman and implicitly threatening him with "Your existence is a light 1. And the 1 is cause you are alive" (Fantano later explained wanted to keep this interaction private and simply made his cookie recipe video in jest). The sheer oddness of the whole kerfuffle has led to "vegan cookie recipes" becoming a recurring symbol whenever fans discuss Drake's DM history or other private online beefs.
Another out-of-context line, this one from "Girls Want Girls" where he says "Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too", being cited as proof of him being gay, along with changing the name of the album to Certified Boy Lover.
"Where are the ghostwriters?"/"Drake wrote this line"ExplanationAmong the biggest early dents in Drake's reputation was Meek Mill outing Drake as relying on ghostwriters, baggage that's stuck with him for the rest of his career (there's even substantial proof that some of his diss tracks — where credibility is just as important as brutality — were written by someone else). Because of this, any moments where Drake sounds impressive is semi-jokingly attributed to his ghostwriters, while any instances of him dropping a corny bar or worse is framed as something that Drake himself definitely wrote.
"Kendrick just opened his mouth, and I'm 'bout to put my dick in it right now"ExplanationA rewrite of the lyrics of the third part of "Family Matters" that retains the rhyme scheme but turns Drake's diss into a description of a supposed sexual encounter with Kendrick. The vocalist uses an AI model of Drake's voice to make it sound like he's actually saying it. See "Drake the type..."
"BBL Drizzy"ExplanationOriginally a phrase coined by Rick Ross as part of an accusation that Drake had undergone cosmetic surgery, record producer Metro Boomin decided to respond to Drake's previous disses on "Push Ups" and "Family Matters" by releasing the infamous Ear Worm of an instrumental titled "BBL DRIZZY 150 BPM.mp3" on SoundCloud. In addition to the release of the instrumental, Metro also announced a contest where whoever could produce the best freestyle rap over "BBL Drizzy" would receive $10,000 and a free beat directly from him as a prize. This single event resulted in multiple social media platforms being flooded with a biblical amount of tracks from aspiring rappers across the globe, all dissing Drake in increasingly absurd and hilarious ways (including being dissed entirely in other languages such as Japanese, French, and Spanish,) along with some music enthusiasts putting their twist on the beat. While Drake himself would earnestly try to adopt the disparaging name for himself on Sexxy Red's "U My Everything"...the attempt was near-unanimously laughed at as yet another contribution to his Memetic Loser status.
"Not gonna lie, this shit was some good exercise."ExplanationThis line from "The Heart Part 6" — while intended to be a flex during Drake's feud with Kendrick Lamar in 2024 — was widely mocked due to just how poorly-received this final diss track was, with critics and casual listeners decrying it as being one of many hollow brags attempting to preserve Drake's dignity after having his image and credibility severely tainted from the beef, not helped by how a month later, he would remove all mentions of it and any other Kendrick diss from his Instagram. The most common joke is attaching the line to images of characters who have been visibly curb-stomped or otherwise messed up as a stand-in for Drake.
Kendrick Lamar? More like Kendrick Lame-ar ExplanationMany people on Kendrick's side of his feud with Drake mocked his diss tracks by claiming that his next tracks would include extremely weakand juvenile insults such as "Diss me, diss me, now you gotta kiss me" or "You a poopy pants, you a poopy pants", sometimes even using AI replications of his voice. See "Drake the type..."
"Big as the WHAT?!/Big as the Super Bowl"ExplanationAfter Kendrick made the bombshell announcement that he would be headlining the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in the aftermath of his landmark victory against Drake, many people across the internet have begun echoing this poorly-aged bar from Drake's "First Person Shooter" to highlight how hard that track got turned on its head.
"Unfazed and unbothered"ExplanationFollowing Drake's devastating feud with Kendrick, a handful of fellow rappers in Drake's close circle, including Lil Wayne and Lil Yachty, claimed that behind the scenes, Drake "was genuinely unfazed" and didn't care about it in the months afterwards, with Drake himself putting up a similarly composed, albeit quiet front on social media. This completely went out the window when between November 2024 to January 2025, he would begin exercising legal action, properly suing UMG (which is also the label he is signed to) for "allowing" Kendrick's "Not Like Us" to become popular, with the public case filings and accusations making it extremely clear how bothered he actually was towards the diss and its perceived damage towards his reputation. This act was widely seen as wildly frivolous, a sad display of indignity, further proving Kendrick's points of Drake not being a part of or respecting hip-hop culture, and subsequently tarnishing his tough exterior and making his self-purported claims of being "unfazed" seem blatantly disingenuous, naturally making for a common taunt by detractors.
"DRAKE": Don't. Rap. Against. Kendrick. EVER.ExplanationSeeing as how his 2024 beef with Lamar went, many in the music world are in the agreement to never go up against the self-proclaimed Rap Boogeyman, turning Drake's emphatic defeat into a cautionary tale.
I'm the Iceman, I'm a pretty nice man. ExplanationIn the lead-up to the release of Iceman, fans joked that he would rhyme "Iceman" with "nice man", including creating parody tracks with the rhyme. Hilariously, this turned out to be true: "National Treasures" would include the line "Ironic, 'cause the iceman was a nice man, now I'm hot 'n cold".
, in which Drake non-verbally voices disapproval of one thing followed by approval of another.
