About This Song
Media personality Taylor Rooks dropped the phrase "in the city, you're the national treasure" during a chat with Drake, and he kept it. He turned those words into the title for a track that blends eerie synths with heavy trap drums before shifting into sampled voices and industrial noise halfway through. The beat came from Boi-1da, Oz, London Cyr, Nico Baran, Patron, Ben10k, Ryan Bakalarczyk, and Wraith9.
Drake used the song to talk about the people he values most while also taking aim at DeMar DeRozan. He pointed out that the former Raptors star never reached the NBA Finals, contrasting that record with Kawhi Leonard winning a championship in his first season with the team. The release landed on May 15, 2026, as the ninth track on his tenth studio album Iceman.
Listeners responded quickly. By June 24, 2026, the song hit 100 million streams on Spotify, making it the third cut from Iceman to reach that number. Critics liked the production too. Armon Sadler of Billboard called it the third-best song on the project.
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Credits
Songwriters
Drake, Boi-1da, Oz, London Cyr, Nico Baran, Patron, Ben10k, Ryan Bakalarczyk, Wraith9
Producers
Boi-1da, Oz, London Cyr, Nico Baran, Patron, Ben10k, Ryan Bakalarczyk, Wraith9
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Song Info
- Artist
- Drake
- Album
- Iceman
- Released
- 2026-05-15
- Duration
- 3:20
- Label
- OVO Sound, Republic Records
- Track #
- 9
- Peak Chart
- #4 Billboard Global 200
- Title origin
- Taylor Rooks told Drake "in the city, you're the national treasure" in a conversation.
- Music video location
- Andrews Building, University of Toronto Scarborough campus.
- Spotify milestone
- Surpassed 100 million streams by June 24, 2026.
- Chart peak
- #4 Billboard Global 200, #3 Canada, #3 Ireland, #4 Australia.
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