{"id":2445364,"date":"2019-06-15T07:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=848570"},"modified":"2019-06-15T07:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:01:16","slug":"hear-drakes-two-new-songs-omerta-and-money-in-the-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-drakes-two-new-songs-omerta-and-money-in-the-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Drake\u2019s Two New Songs \u2018Omert\u00e0\u2019 and \u2018Money in the Grave\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9197380e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByrWjudlQOn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">As promised<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/drake\/\" id=\"auto-tag_drake\" data-tag=\"drake\">Drake<\/a> dropped two new songs Saturday, \u201cOmert\u00e0\u201d and \u201cMoney in the Grave,\u201d to celebrate the Toronto Raptors\u2019 NBA championship win. The two-track <em>The Best in the World Pack<\/em> mark the rapper\u2019s first songs of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the two-pack\u2019s cover art, neither track mention the basketball team or make any reference to the Raptors\u2019 win. However, both \u201cOmert\u00e0\u201d and \u201cMoney in the Grave\u201d with Rick Ross feature Drake boasting about his unlikely rise in the rap game, a victory similar to that of the Raptors\u2019 championship over the three-pear-seeking Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rise to the top of this mountain has been biblical,\u201d Drake says on \u201cOmert\u00e0,\u201d while he adds on \u201cMoney in the Grave,\u201d \u201cI was on top when that shit meant a lot \/ Still on top like I\u2019m scared of the drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFOiJ5ZvQlE?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drake serves as the Toronto Raptors\u2019 global ambassador and is a fixture (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/the-nba-spoke-to-drake-about-his-courtside-antics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">at times controversially<\/a>) court-side at the team\u2019s games. Following the Raptors\u2019 Game 6 win against the Warriors in Oakland, cameras caught Warriors star Stephen Curry FaceTiming with Drake outside the locker room. \u201cY\u2019all deserve it man. Congrats,\u201d Curry told the rapper. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/06\/15\/drake-nba-finals-raptors-security-oakland-dennis-graham\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">According to TMZ<\/a>, Drake didn\u2019t attend Game 6 in Oakland due to \u201csecurity concerns.\u201d)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.4507042253521\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenCurry30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@StephenCurry30<\/a>&#8216;s full phone conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Drake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Drake<\/a> congratulating him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Raptors?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@Raptors<\/a>&#8216; championship\u2014only on CloseUp360. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CU360?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#CU360<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#NBAFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mKjAKHS3RS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mKjAKHS3RS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CloseUp360 (@CloseUp360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CloseUp360\/status\/1139410357682749442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">June 14, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Soon after the Raptors\u2019 win, Drake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByrWjudlQOn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">took to social media<\/a> and wrote, \u201cTHE CHIP TO THE 6!!!!!!!!!!!! SEE YOU 2MRW WITH A 2 PACK.\u201d The songs are Drake\u2019s first since the rapper released his <em>Scorpion<\/em> in June 2018. Since then, the rapper has made a series of guest appearances, including on songs by former adversaries like Meek Mill (\u201cGoing Bad\u201d) and Chris Brown (\u201cNo Guidance\u201d) plus Summer Walker\u2019s remix of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-summer-walker-girls-need-love-remix-801045\/\">Girls Needs Love<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ByuJeLVlJrC\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-7.2182320441989\"><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-new-songs-omerta-money-in-the-grave-raptors-848570\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, Drake dropped two new songs Saturday, \u201cOmert\u00e0\u201d and \u201cMoney in the Grave,\u201d to celebrate the Toronto Raptors\u2019 NBA championship win. The two-track The Best in the World Pack mark the rapper\u2019s first songs of 2019. Outside of the two-pack\u2019s cover art, neither track mention the basketball team or make any reference to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 00:04:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}