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Drake Releases ‘Search & Rescue,’ Samples Kim Kardashian

Author Autumn Hawkins

Drake dropped his first solo single of 2023 titled “Search & Rescue.” The record is co-produced by Beautifulmvn, Bnyx, Lil Yachty, Noah “40” Shebib, Sadpony, and Wesley Curtis. The Toronto rapper teased the song last week. Shortly after the first verse, you hear Kim Kardashian speaking about she and Kanye’s relationship prior to their divorce.

“I didn’t come this far, just to come this far and not be happy, remember that,” Kim is heard saying on the song. The sample comes from the 2021 season finale of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Kim and Kanye officially divorced in March of 2022. They were married for six years after publicly dating in 2012.

Drake and Kanye were in a three-year-long rap beef that stopped in November 2021. They ended up squashing it to promote the release of Gangster’s Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover from prison.

Elsewhere in the song, Drake expresses how he wants to settle down.

“I need someone to be patient with me/Someone to get money, would not take it from me/They don’t even need to be as famous as me/I don’t think I meet ’em at the places I be/But deep down I think about you all day, mami,” he rap-sings.

He will soon hit the road for It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage on June 6 in New Orleans. Drizzy and 21 dropped their collab album Her Loss back in November. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Listen to the track below:

Drake: 7 Songs You (Might) Not Have Known He's Written For Other Artists

  • "Fall For Your Type" - Jaime Foxx

    Jamie Foxx’s “Fall For Your Type” is off of the singer/actor’s 2010 album Best Night of My Life. Drizzy is featured as a guest artist hit and written alongside Noah Shebib, and Noel Campbell. The track hit No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

  • "Mine" - Beyoncé

    Beyoncé and Drake collabed on “Mine” which was released back in 2014 for her self-titled album. Drake, Beyoncé Knowles, Noah Shebib, Jordan Ullman, Sidney Brown, Dwane Weir are credited as songwriters on the track. Drake is also credited a songwriter for Beyoncé’s “Heated” off her album Renaissance.

  • "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" - Alicia Keys

    “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” arrives on Alicia Keys’ fourth studio album The Element of Freedom. Drake is credited as a songwriter alongside Alicia Keys, Kerry “Krucial” Brothers and 40.Alicia and Drake also paired up along with Noah “40” Shebib, on Drake’s track “Fireworks” off his 2010 debut Thank Me Later.

  • "I'm Single" - Lil Wayne

    Drake linked up with his Young Money boss Lil Wayne for his song “I’m Single.” The track appears on his ninth solo mixtape, No Ceilings, and his 2010 album I Am Not a Human Being. Drake is credited as a songwriter alongside Omen (Producer), Boi-1da, 40 & Lil Wayne.

  • "R.I.P." - Rita Ora

    Rita Ora’s “R.I.P” also makes the list of songs you might not have known Drizzy has written. Drake is credited as a writer alongside Rita Ora, Tor Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen, Patrick Okogwu, Saul Milton, Farhad Samadzada, Renee Wisdom, Will Kennard. The track features Tinie Tempah and was the lead single off her 2012 album, Ora.

  • "30 Hours" - Kanye

    Kanye spoke on Drake’s involvement on “30 Hours” to his since-deleted interview Drink Champs, “I gave him a line and he wrote the whole rap. I wish he wrote all my raps.” Drake is also credited as a songwriter for “Facts” and “Father Stretch My Hands” from Kanye’s seventh studio album Life of Pablo. Kanye, Pharrell Williams, Karriem Riggins, Mike Dean, Charles Arthur Russell, Cornell Haynes, Jason Epperson, Charles L. Brown, Isaac Hayes are also credited on “30 Hours.” The song samples the 1986 Arthur Russell song “Answers Me” and drums from the 1973 Isaac Hayes single “Joy.”

  • “I’ve Been That Girl” – Melanie Fiona

    Growing up in Canada, Drake was a part of the collective called the The Renaissance which is where he met Melanie Fiona. The group ended splitting up but Drake co-wrote Grammy-winning singer Melanie Fiona’s “I’ve Been That Girl” which landed on her LP The MF Life. The album also featured a duet with John Legend and other featured artists such as J. Cole, T-Pain, and Nas.

Autumn Hawkins is the National Hip-Hop and R&B writer for Beasley Media, currently residing in New Jersey. Prior to working at Beasley Media, she was in broadcast news as an entertainment producer. When she's not impatiently waiting for Beyoncé to drop new music, she is reading, shopping, or planning a vacation.

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