Greece
by DJ Khaled (featuring Drake)

Album: Khaled Khaled (2020)
Charted: 8 8
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Drake is offering a romantic interest an expensive vacation in Greece. En route to their high-class Mediterranean paradise getaway, he promises to stop off at Gucci and Louis Vuitton stores.

    Drake's mood has changed by the outro. The girl is causing problems by being too clingy and whinging about the rapper being "silent."
  • Drake sings a couple of lines in French:

    Survoler Paris

    Drake and his woman will "fly over Paris" during their journey to Greece.

    Je suis ton genie

    This is French for "I am your genie." Drake is comparing himself to a genie as he is providing expensive vacations and luxury clothing for his woman.

    This is the first time Drake has released a song where he sings lines in French. 7.9% of the Toronto population is bilingual, speaking both English and French, though Drake is not known to be especially fluent. His son, Adonis, by French actress Sophie Brussax, does speak it as his first language.
  • Swiss producer OZ first produced and recorded his own version of "Greece" with German lyrics after Tiggi (21 Savage's "Monster") sent him a beat. He told Billboard: "I flipped his sample to make it more uptempo and clubby. I did the drums and then sent it to Drake."

    Drake sent the first idea back a fortnight later. From then on they went back-and-forth on the production side.
  • Drake first teased this escapist trap&B song on May 1, 2020 via Instagram Live. Two-and-a-half months later, DJ Khaled dropped the track as a promotional single for his Khaled Khaled album. The Miami emcee simultaneously released another Drake-featuring song, "Popstar."

    The tunes are the seventh and eighth collaborations between DJ Khaled and Drizzy, following "Fed Up," "I'm On One," "No New Friends," "Summer Sixteen," "For Free" and "To the Max."
  • OZ is a frequent Drake collaborator. The Swiss producer also came up with the beat for the Toronto MC's hit single "Toosie Slide" and co-produced his joints with Future ("Life Is Good") and Travis Scott ("Sicko Mode").

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