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The Meaning Behind Drake and Lil Yachty’s “Another Late Night”

by Thomas Galindo October 13, 2023, 3:30 pm

On October 6, Drake not only included “ Another Late Night ” as the 21st song on the track list for his For All The Dogs album, but he also provided the music video for the track as well. As his second-ever vocal collaboration with Lil Yachty, and his first-ever visual directed by Lyrical Lemonade founder Cole Bennett, “Another Late Night” has a lot of history involved with it.

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Seeing both Drake and Yachty deliver melancholic raps over the groovy, synth-filled instrumental, “Another Late Night” is the product of a years-long relationship between the two rappers. This friendship first began in 2020, after the two first worked together on the hit single “Oprah’s Bank Account,” also featuring DaBaby.

“I feel like that was like a one-time thing for me,” Earl On The Beat, the producer of “Orprah’s Bank Account,” told American Songwriter in a recent interview . “But for [Drake] and Yachty, that was the beginning of their relationship, that record.”

Following this, Yachty would go on to earn production credits on four songs from Drake’s 2022 collaborative album with 21 Savage,  Her Loss . On one of the tracks Yachty co-produced with Earl On The Beat, titled “Privileged Rappers.”

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Then, when it came to crafting For All The Dogs , Drake finally felt it was time to make another joint song with his new best bud. But, it wasn’t just that Drake wanted to work with Yachty, he also wanted his input on how the album sounded before it came out.

During an episode of his A Safe Place Podcast in early September, Yachty revealed that Drake played him a good chunk of the album to get his opinions. Though Yachty had reservations about the direction Drake was going in, he explained that Drake ultimately convinced him of the vision for FATD , which included “Another Late Night.”

“It’s interesting, it’s coming together a lot better than I thought when I—I just had a talk with him a couple days ago in Vancouver and I was a little worried, ’cause I have a lot of the songs, I don’t have all of ’em, I have a lot of ’em though,” he told A Safe Place co-host Mitch Gone Mad. “And I was just like, ‘Man, I just don’t know if it’s—how are you gon’ put this together? Because it’s like, it’s a lot of  great  songs but they don’t really—in my brain I was like, they didn’t really sound together.

“And then we had a talk about it and he explained to me his thought process about it. And we drove somewhere, we drove to that video shoot which was like an hour away, and we listened to it, and it makes sense now.”

Even more intriguing is that the video shoot Yachty discusses was the one for “Another Late Night,” which took place in Vancouver. When touching on how the video was made, as it includes shots of illuminated trees in a dark forest, director Cole Bennett said that he emphasized privacy for the artists when selecting a location.

“The [Vancouver] location felt the most tucked away and ducked off, and it was surrounded by trees, and it felt like the safest place to do it and a place where the artist could feel comfortable,” Bennett said in a recent interview .

Overall, it seems that Yachty was around Drake frequently while the latter was finishing up For All The Dogs . And, even when it came to songs that weren’t “Another Late Night,” Yachty’s fingerprints ended up being all over the LP, indicating how close the two have become in recent years.

“I don’t think this album is what it is if I don’t get to run everything by you,” Drake told Yachty on his Sirius XM radio show Sound 42 last Thursday (October 5). “If I don’t get to sit in the studio and write with you, and think with you, and if you don’t send me beats, and if you don’t tell me what you believe in or don’t believe in.”

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• (Grow up, nigga) Grrah, grrah, ayy This lil' Drizzy reppin' 'Crete, ayy My brother Capo from the way, he from the street, ayy Wanna fuck with me? Well, baby, I'm discreet, ayy Ayy, thinkin' 'bout this pill I took, pillow talkin' Shawty rinsin' Dillon Brooks, can't believe this nigga talkin', damn My bank account is magnolia, Milly rockin', ayy Weirdos in my comments talkin' 'bout some Millie Bobby, look Bring them jokes up to the gang, we get to really flockin' Or send a finger to your mama in some FedEx boxes Open up that shit, it's jaw droppin', really shockin', ayy I ain't pretty flacko, bitch, this shit get really rocky, ayy, what? Damn, what? Dirty how I did him in the Wraith, what? Say She actin' Hollywood, this ain't L.A., no way She a pretty little lie like she Shay, but that's bae Long as she don't lie to me, then it's okay It's just another late night with my bitch, ayy Just another late night with my bitch, ayy (with my bitch) And I hate to even call her ass my bitch, ayy (yeah, my bitch) 'Cause I love that ho, don't even make no sense, right, yeah (pssh, pssh) Just another late night with my dawg (pssh, with my dawg) Just another late night with my bitch (pssh, with my bitch) And we ridin' 'round tryna make sense (make sense) Of whatever comes first, it comes next (yeah, blatt) Hm, hm (grrah, pssh), hm (yeah, pssh), hm (yeah, pssh) Hm, hm (pssh), hm (Concrete), hm Huh, yeah (pssh), yeah, yeah, huh (pssh) It's Lil Boat, I'm practically now from the 6ix (pssh, I'm from the 6ix, pssh) My doggy Luxxy ignorant, he from the bricks (from the bricks) Thinkin' 'bout this styrocup, really Wockin' Let her fuck on one my opps, let's see who really poppin' Demolition gang, pop out, yeah, we get it knockin' Boost a white bitch up and now she think she really poppin' Fuck my bitch new body, sadly, I got demoitis My bitch know it's us without openin' either of her eyelids (us) It be so pure I don't even fuck, ain't tryna raise her mileage You take G6s knowin' you'll never take one with pilot ('kay) I let her go, she fine as hell but baby wasn't stylish (yeah) She had big tits like Billie Eilish but she couldn't sing (drip) We catch the opps, don't want no apologies, just kiss the ring (mwah) (Brrt) yeah, ring, (brrt, damn), yeah, ring (Brrt) mwah, ring, (brrt), yeah, ring I'll support the opps before I support sippin' green ('kay) We up in Turks with twenty bitches, just me and my team (us) It's just another late night with my bitch, ayy Just another late night with my bitch, ayy (with my bitch) And I hate to even call her ass my bitch, ayy (yeah, my bitch) 'Cause I love that ho, don't even make no sense, right, yeah (pssh, pssh) Just another late night with my dawg (pssh, with my dawg) Just another late night with my bitch (pssh, with my bitch) And we ridin' 'round tryna make sense (make sense) Of whatever comes first, it comes next (yeah, blatt) Writer/s: Aubrey Drake Graham, Deshawn Terry Jackson, Miles Parks McCollum Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
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Drake goes on a trippy late night ghostride in the new video for his For All the Dogs song “Another Late Night.” The Cole Bennett-directed clip that dropped to coincide with the rapper’s latest studio album features Lil Yachty living it up in a forest illuminated by Christmas lights and, for some reason, frequented by a pack of wolves and a luminous owl.

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Drake, 36, also appears to hit back at “weirdo” haters who criticized his close friendship with Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, who he said in 2018 that he texted with frequently when the British actress was just 14 years old; at the time Brown said Drake was a “great role model.”

On “Another Late Night,” Drizzy raps, “My bank account is magnolia, Milly rockin’, ay/ Weirdos in my comments talkin’ about some Millie Bobby, look/ Bring them jokes up to the gang, we get to really flockin’,” in what then appears to be another set of shots at Rocky.

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