Fact Check: Did Drake steal “No Face” lyrics and flow from Orlando rapper? Viral accusations debunked

After dropping three new songs on 100 Gigs for Your Headtop, Drake surprised his fans by dropping three more tracks via his alleged Instagram burner account @plottttwistttttt. One of the songs from the recent drop, called No Face, was released on streaming services on August 31, 2024, and has made headlines owing to allegations of being stolen.

An Orlando-based rapper recently posted a video on TikTok showing the similarity between his track and Drizzy's No Face, which originally featured Playboi Carti. The Orlando rapper captioned the video:

"DRAKE YOU COPYCAT AHHHHH"

The Orlando-based rapper's video alleges that the Passionfruit rapper copied the flow and lyrics of his song. Toward the end of the video, the Orlando-based rapper questioned if people were going to let Drizzy "pull the X" on him, referring to allegations of Drake copying the flow of XXXTentacion's Look At Me in his 2017 track KMT.

However, the context section on one of the tweets on X dismisses the allegations against Drizzy and states:

"This is fake. This person has also accused Trippie Redd of stealing from him as well. When it comes to SoundCloud, you can switch out a file for another song to make it look like it was posted a while ago."

(Image via X/ @Murph2Times)

Additionally, an X user @Murph2Times attached a screenshot to his tweet showing that it is possible to replace a track with an audio file on SoundCloud.

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Drake's Take Care album reached the milestone of spending 600 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart

While Drizzy has released six new tracks altogether recently, the One Dance rapper's previous releases are still making waves. Released in November 2011, Drizzy's studio album Take Care will complete 13 years in 2024 and according to reports by Chart Data, the album has spent 600 weeks on Billboard's Hot 200 chart.

The God's Plan rapper's fans have been celebrating this milestone. However, Drizzy's Take Care record is still behind Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city.

Drizzy hasn't commented on his 2011 album reaching a new milestone yet. However, he had previously addressed the negative comments his album was getting. In October 2023, Drake took to his Instagram Story and posted a screenshot of multiple negative reviews from the time Take Care dropped.

The Family Matters rapper captioned the story:

"Reading these comments from when Take Care dropped 😂."

Drizzy took to posting old negative reviews as his newly released album at the time, For All The Dogs, was facing negativity as well. Hence, the Hotline Bling rapper wanted to show that the negativity and hatred might only be for a moment.

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In other news, one of Drizzy's latest drops No Face initially featured Playboi Carti when it was released via Drake's alleged Instagram burner account. Additionally, the rapper also shared an Instagram story featuring his picture side by side with Carti, hinting at the latter's collab on No Face.

However, when the track was dropped on streaming services, Playboi Carti's verse was no longer present. There hasn't been an official comment from either rapper as to why Carti was removed from the track.