2013Released
6:06

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Interesting facts and trivia about Tuscan Leather. By Songfacts®.

Drake opens his Nothing Was the Same album with this lengthy, six minute and six second song where he boasts about how long the track is, his ability to change up his flows and the recognition that he can subvert the mainstream Hip-Hop form and still get radio play: "This is nothin' for the radio, but they'll still play it though Cause it's that new Drizzy Drake, that's just the way it go." Drake also references the fact that the song is made up of three verses, an outro and no hook. "Heavy airplay all day with no chorus," he brags.

Tom Ford Tuscan Leather is an expensive cologne. Drake explained the concept behind the song title to GQ magazine as, "Tom Ford fragrance that some say smells like a brick of cocaine."

Drake and Young Money label mate Nicki Minaj had a special connection in the past, even getting married on one track. However, Drizzy alludes here to a strained relationship with the Queens MC: "Not even talkin' to Nicki, communication is breakin' I dropped the ball on some personal s--t, I need to embrace it." Drake admitted to MTV News that he was to blame for the breakdown of their friendship, but they subsequently reconciled after he'd penned the song. "That line in Tuscan Leather isn't exactly where I am in my life right now but like a year ago, eight months, seven months ago, it was how I felt. I'd done something wrong and I wasn't speaking to her," said the Toronto MC. "I think the dialogue actually between us was already opened up," he added. "I had already solved that issue. I wrote that a while ago and I kinda felt guilty changing it." Drake stood by his choice to include the lyric on Nothing Was The Same, despite the pair being back on speaking terms. "It was a sentiment that I had when I started this album and felt like that's how it should be," he explained. "The album should start one place and end in another."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Tuscan Leather.
F♯Key
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
78BPM

Album

The album Tuscan Leather is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Tuscan Leather.
Cash Money Records/Young Money Ent./Universal Rec.
© 2013 Cash Money Records Inc.
℗ 2013 Cash Money Records Inc.

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