Look What You Ve Done Drake Analysis

Although it is very apparent Drake has had a theme of lost love throughout the majority of his work, the pattern he has towards love being lost tells us that he has a way of overcoming the love that has disappeared from him. Allowing him to not only have a theme of lost love but also a theme of Overcoming lost, not just with love but with things in his life overall. In the song “Look What You’ve Done”, Drake touches on his past when he lived at home with his mom in 2009. In 2009, he lost his job as a star in Degrassi and was on the verge of having to get a regular job to take care and help his mother with bills. He raps, “Maybe I wouldn’t have to work so hard if you were healthy/ and it weren’t so bad/ Maybe I should walk up the street and try to get a job/ at the bank”(19-21). However, a few lines later he
Also, in the second verse of this song Drake reminisces on the loss of his father. After the divorce, Drake’s father moved to the states leaving him to be raised by his mother. He reflects on how charges his father had, and the lack of child support kept him from coming back to Drake, however Drake’s Uncle, his mother’s brother, was like a father figure to him. Drake remembers how his uncle told him he could be anything he wanted to be in life, and that he would be success. Drake overcame the loss of his father, by having his uncle there as a fatherly figure to continue to guide him, mentally and finically whenever he could. When Drake became successful he gave his Uncle back every dollar he loaned to him plus more because “He deserved it.” Throughout this song, Drake speaks on his tough experiences within his family life that have ultimately brought him to become the person he is today. With him from his mother, grandmother, and uncle, Drake overcame the loss of different aspects within his life by gaining new means to the missing