Drake and Playboi Carti’s highly anticipated collaboration, “Pain 1993,” has landed on Drake’s newly released mixtape, Dark Lane Demo Tapes.
The Pi'erre Bourne-produced track is a tribute to fashion designer Ian Connor, who first teased the track back in June 2019.
Genius contributor deathintune breaks down Drake’s shout-out in an annotation: Connor first entered the music industry through A$AP Bari and became the creative director for A$AP Rocky.
The designer later consulted for Kanye West on the rapper’s Yeezy Season lines, but has also been the subject of numerous rape allegations—which Connor has denied on social media and in interviews.
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