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• Here, Travis Scott reunites with Drake for their seventh collaboration. Both artists rap about their superiority in the music industry while firing some jabs at other celebrities. The song is the seventh track from La Flame's fourth studio album, Utopia.
• Drake seizes the track, spitting with ice-cold swagger. "Tension's rising," he mutters, before unleashing hell on Pharrell Williams and Pusha T.
  
  Drake targets Williams for taking the late Virgil Abloh's creative director role at Louis Vuitton, a friend of the Toronto MC.
  
  I melt down the chains that I bought from yo' boss
  
  Drake references jewelry previously owned by Williams that he flexed in the music video for the Her Loss track "Jumbotron S--t Poppin."
  
  You lucky that Vogue was suing
  'Cause I would've been with the Wassas in Paris
  
  Vogue sued Drake and 21 Savage after they released a fake Vogue cover to promote their Her Loss album. In June 2023, Pusha attended a Louis Vuitton fashion show held by Williams in Paris. If it wasn't for the lawsuit, Drake would have rolled up in the French capital with the backing of Wass Gang, a street gang from his hometown of Toronto.
• The rivalry between Drake and Pusha is no secret as the pair have a long history of beefing each other, but the jabs at Pharrell are more surprising. After all, Pharrell produced another track, "Looove," for Utopia.
• Elsewhere on "Meltdown," Scott references gun violence and shows support for the incarcerated Young Thug, who features on another Utopia track, "Skitzo." He also combats claims of being a worshipper of Satan.
  
  They think I'm satanic, I keep me a reverend
  
  Scott counters the rumors by noting that he has "a reverend" in his life, implying that he's Christian.
• "Meltdown" serves as a spiritual successor to another Scott and Drake collaboration, "Sicko Mode." Packing a quartet of producers (Hit-Boy, OZ, Cubeatz, and Tay Keith), "Sicko Mode" features three abrupt beat change-ups. On "Meltdown," Coleman, BNYX, Boi1da, Vinylz, Tay Keith and Skeleton Cartier incorporate a couple of beat switches into the production.
• While performing at the Rodgers Arena in Vancouver on August 29, 2023, Drake brought out Travis Scott to give "Meltdown" its live debut.