Parade on Cleveland: Young Thug features Drake on Album-Track

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS: Young Thug features Drake on the “Parade on Cleveland” song. Listen, stream, read the lyrics, buy the song produced by Metro Boomin, Kid Masterpiece, DAVID x ELI & Zinobeatz.

Young Thug and Drake is a duo that’s given us no shortage of fire collaborations over the years. “Way 2 Sexy” with Future and “Sacrifices” with 2 Chainz are definite standouts, though we also frequently revisit “Ice Melts” and “Bubbly” with Travis Scott. Though Thugger remains behind bars as his YSL RICO trial wages on, his team managed to drop an album on his behalf, BUSINESS IS BUSINESS, which has the Atlanta-based artist on top of his game once again.

Opening the 15-track effort is “Parade on Cleveland,” a nearly four-minute long song that features Drake and finds him showing off his singing chops over Metro Boomin’s dreamy production. “Ayy, soon as I’m fresh out the box like a Tic-Tac / We havin’ sex soon as I get my b**ch back / It ain’t gon’ be sexy when I get my lick back,” the 36-year-old cleverly rhymes shortly after the song begins. Later we hear a phone call between Thug and his friend, during which he seemingly throws shade at Gunna.

“Uh, I ain’t doin’ s**t, man / Just pushin’ more Peter, more sweeter, more completer / Than any Peter pusher around,” the So Much Fun hitmaker tells Drake from Cobb County Jail. “See what I’m sayin’, twin? Ha (Ha-ha-ha),” he added as both men laugh. Of course, the track follows Gunna’s a Gift & a Curse album, which put him back in the good graces of many hip-hop heads after being outcast for taking a plea deal in the YSL RICO case.

Young Thug – Parade on Cleveland (ft. Drake) (prod. Metro Boomin, Kid Masterpiece, DAVID x ELI & Zinobeatz)

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23 June 2023
1 Song, 3 minutes
A Young Stoner Life Records/ 300 Entertainment release, ℗ 2023 Elektra Entertainment Group, Inc.

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Lyrics

[Part I]

[Intro: Drake]
Woah

[Verse: Drake]
How the fuck you out here goin’ tit for tat? (Tit for tat)
I should’ve saw the signs, how could I miss that? (How could I miss that?)
Ayy, soon as I’m fresh out the box like a Tic-Tac
We havin’ sex soon as I get my bitch back
It ain’t gon’ be sexy when I get my lick back
I’m about to mop up some boys, it’s custodian time
Me and my thoughts is the loneliest time
Don’t tell me ’bout loyalty, show me this time
Don’t tell me ’bout loyalty, show me this time
Business is business, you owe me this time
Slime on your head, Nickelodeon time

[Chorus: Drake]
Oh, woah
Parade on Bleveland soon as I get home
I’m comin’ home
I’m comin’ home
All the dawgs, all the lifers
All the pythons, all the vipers
Parade, parade on Bleveland soon as I get home
You already know, you already know

[Segue: Young Thug & Drake]
Hello, this is a prepaid call from Jeffery
An inmate at the Cobb county adult detention facility
To accept this call, press zero
To refuse this call, hang up or press one
Yo, what’s up, my brother?
What’s up, my brother?
Talk to me, what’s the word?
Uh, I ain’t doin’ shit, man
Just pushin’ more Peter, more sweeter, more completer
Than any Peter pusher around
See what I’m sayin’, twin? Ha (Ha-ha-ha)

[Part II]

[Verse: Young Thug]
Spider back, I’m a big dawg, you a cat
How is that you was ever in the format?
Honeybun, on the bed, yeah, hundred racks
Sun’s up, I ain’t sleep, I been countin’ stacks
Hands down, yeah, the big dawg comin’ back
Think you good? Nigga, pants down, you smokin’ crack
Michael Kors robe, mm-mm, nah, Michael Jackson
Back in like forty days, forty seconds
Backend after backend like I’m trappin’
Actually, I been trapped in, but I took a black bitch to Beverly Hills
Now she white, Michael Jackson
After we fuck, she told her friends, “Bitch, it’s crackin'”
Made a jail call to your bitch, she say you down
You a bug in the grass, finna get ate by my cow
I’m just livin’ my life on the jet, ridin’ ’round
Two hoes with me, one white, the other one Bobby Brown

[Refrain: Young Thug]
Business is business, business is business, business is business
Business is business, business is business, yeah
Business is business, business is business, business is business
Business is business, business is business, yeah
Business is business, business is business, business is business
Business is business, business is business, yeah
Business is business, business is business, business is business
Business is business, business is business

[Outro: Young Thug]
(Metro)