Song · Drake
“Nice for What” by Drake
From the album Scorpion (2018)
“Nice for What” by Drake appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2018. It was first released in 2018 on the album Scorpion. Its best result is #40 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #184 alternative song of 2018.
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Drake dropped "Nice for What" in April 2018, video and all, as the second single from Scorpion, his fifth album, and it's a bounce record built on samples stacked inside samples. It lifts from Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor", which borrows from Wu-Tang Clan's "Can It Be All So Simple", which in turn leans on "The Way We Were", so the credits stretch from Hill and all eight Wu-Tang members to Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
Murda Beatz, Noah "40" Shebib and Corey Litwin produced it, with Blaqnmild co-producing, and Big Freedia and 5th Ward Weebie chip in extra vocals. It entered the Hot 100 at number one, bumping his own "God's Plan", topped the charts in Britain and Australia, went diamond in the US and drew a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance; in 2021 The Guardian crowned it the greatest Drake song of them all.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 40 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018 | 100 |
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