Drake & SZA Drop ‘Slime You Out’ Collab: Stream It Now

Drake and SZA joined forces on “Slime You Out,” which was released midday Friday (Sept. 15) as the first single from Drizzy’s upcoming album For All the Dogs.

The five-minute song is a slugfest fueled by disappointment and lies. Drake leads the way on the R&B-centric tune by expressing his frustrations about spending an exorbitant amount of money on women. Clever lines such as “sending wires on wires on wires like Idris” are aplenty. At the same time, SZA delivers counterjabs about her beau’s fraudulent behavior, including one colossal haymaker: “Tripping when that d–k is barely third place.”

The superstar rapper first announced the single at the Austin stop of his It’s All a Blur Tour with 21 Savage. “I’m even going to say something tonight in Austin, Texas, I haven’t said yet,” he shared at Moody Center. “I know y’all excited to hear the album. I know it’s, like, two weeks out. I’m a drop a song for y’all this week. Yeah, yeah. What a time, what a time. I appreciate y’all. Deeply, by the way, I do. It’s a lot of love in Texas.”

The green slime-covered cover art for “Slime You Out” originates from Halle Berry getting slimed at the 2012 Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards.

Although “Slime You Out” marks Drake and SZA’s first official collaboration, the two have nodded to each other multiple times throughout their musical releases. SZA’s 2016 “2AM” track — which was officially released last June as part of CTRL‘s deluxe edition to commemorate her critically acclaimed debut studio album’s five-year anniversary — refers to PartyNextDoor and Drake’s “Come and See Me” from the former’s 2016 album PartyNextDoor. On Drake’s “Diplomatic Immunity” track from the 2018 Scary Hours two-pack, he raps, “I just pulled up on Solána show, the girl’s a natural/ I knew her way back when Hollywood was international.”

On “Mr. Right Now” from 21 Savage and Metro Boomin‘s 2020 joint project Savage Mode II, he raps “Yeah, said she wanna f–k to some SZA, wait/ ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08” in his guest verse. (She later confirmed on Twitter — now X — that the pair dated in ’09, but “in this case a year of poetic rap license mattered.”) And most recently, SZA’s guest verse on the Future-assisted “Telekinesis” from Travis Scott‘s 2023 Utopia album seems to directly respond to Drake’s third verse on “Marvins Room” from his 2011 sophomore album Take Care.

For All the Dogs will be released next Friday, Sept. 22, via OVO Sound and Republic Records. He announced the highly anticipated album’s release date by posting an archival video on Instagram of his father, Dennis Graham, from the early ’90s, singing alongside a blues band on the local Toronto TV show Stormy Monday With Danny Marks. 

For All The Dogs marks the 6 God’s eighth studio album and his first solo album since his dance-heavy Honestly, Nevermind project that he released in June 2022. Five months later, he teamed up with 21 Savage on their joint LP, Her Loss. Both releases debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. 

Listen to “Slime You Out” below.