Drake is God
Sweeterman
Total Different Women Mentioned: 129
For the sake of accuracy, I should say approximately 129 women. There are a number of times when Drake appears to be rapping about the same woman in different songs (more on that below), but he doesn't name them specifically so it's impossible to say for sure. Given that, the number of different women might likely be less than 129.
At the same time though, while we listened to Drizzy songs until our brains started to leak out of our ears, there must have been some songs we missed. There just must have. And given his impressively high women-to-songs ratio, that also means we must have missed some women.
On the whole, while that means 129 probably isn't an exactly accurate number, I'm willing to stand by it as a pretty damn good benchmark. It may not be 129, but it's not far off. And as long as we're here, le'ts take a moment to appreciate that 129 is, indeed, a lot of different women to mention in rap songs.
Drake's Upward Women-Mentioning Trajectory
While off the bat that 129 number means Drake's reputation as a lady's man is well earned, it's important to note that reputation is relatively recent. Almost shockingly, his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, features relatively few explicit women. With the exception of "Special," which in retrospect feels like the blueprint for his later ex-girlfriend raps - "Its true, I been talking to Aleshia, Keisha and Nadia" - the entire mixtape is almost completely devoid of specific women. By contrast, If You're Reading This features 12 specific women mentioned on 11 different songs; so 11/17 songs on the If You're Reading This contain a specific girl, compared to only 1/22 on Room for Improvement.
Turns out that if she wants the old Drake back, Drake would mostly just be tempted to rap less about women.
Drake Tempt Me
If You're Reading This...
Speaking of which, full disclosure, we originally had the research for this finished and then had to go back and revise everything after Drizzy's surprise project dropped. It was a weird experience; when I heard Drake had dropped an album out of nowhere, my reaction was simultaneously "Hell yeah!" and "GODDAMNIT NOW I'VE GOT TO COUNT MORE WOMEN!!!!"
Anyway...as I pointed out above, If You're Reading This is absolutely loaded with references to specific women. On "Legend," he's apparently converted a Houston stripper into some kind of live-in maid/girlfriend, which is maybe the most Drake line in the history of Drake.
"Got a girl, she from the South / Used to work, used to dance in Texas, now she clean the house."
And sweet baby Jesus, "Energy" is essentially the holy grail of Drake women references. We're talking about girls he bought, in order, a purse, a truck and an entire mall (an entire mall?), all of whom are separate women. Then you've got all the bytches asking for the code to his Wi-Fi, who may or may not be the same women he bought all those things for, and of course his "ex-girl, who's the stripper version of me." (Who we have to assume is different than the ex-stripper, current girlfriend/maid.)
You're going to want to get comfortable, I'm just getting started. There's also:
"10 Bands": My ex asked me, "Where you movin'?" I said, "On to better things" (Stripper version of him ex, or a different ex?)
"No Telling": The woman he's afraid might rob him after that woman robbed him on "The Resistance."
"Madonna": An entire song devoted to making this one girl famous, a girl he's known for a while (yet another ex?).
"6 God": One girl who's his and you can't hit.
"Preach": Miss Cassidy in Miami who he needs to call up.
"Company": An independent-minded stripper he devotes the first verse to. This appears to be a different woman than the stripper he's considering proposing to, who again, is different than the ex-stripper/maid living in his house on "Legend."
"You & the 6": His mom's trainer who's not ready to live the life of a rapper's girlfriend.
"Jungle": The girl who he loved but didn't treat right in the first verse, and the girl who's phone is disconnected in the third verse. It's unclear whether that's the same girl.
"6 PM in New York": Your girl, who he knows well, just not in public.
"The Resistance"
I promise, that If You're Reading This section will be the last time I'll specifically break down every reference on a song or album, if I did this would an actual novel, not just an insanely long internet article.
Ok, I just lied. After I dig into "The Resistance," that will be the last time I specifically break down a song. I only feel so obligated to get into this song because in many ways it's the Rosetta Stone of Drake music about women. From start to finish, we're looking at:
A girl who declines his offer to party and get high.
His mother, who weren't not counting, but worth noting because he runs the full spectrum of women in his life in one song.
His grandmother in a nursing home, see above.
Penny Lane, which is not a movie girl reference so it doesn't count, unless it is a real girl, in which case it totally does.
Some girl he met at a mall.
Some girl who had an abortion after messing with him unprotected (whoa, surprisingly heavy for a throwaway line).
The girl he's laying next to who reads a text from the girl who had an abortion.
DJ Lissa Monet, who misses the old him.
The girl who set him up for a robbery and made him paranoid (see also, "Legend").
The Famous Women:
Not every woman Drizzy mentions is his mom's personal trainer, the man's found himself mixed up with some very high-profile females. And yes, I'm mean high-profile in the sense of actual, global fame, not Instagram famous or stripper famous, which is like being actually famous, but only for boners. Boner-famous. Moving on.....
For the sake of accuracy, I should say approximately 129 women. There are a number of times when Drake appears to be rapping about the same woman in different songs (more on that below), but he doesn't name them specifically so it's impossible to say for sure. Given that, the number of different women might likely be less than 129.
At the same time though, while we listened to Drizzy songs until our brains started to leak out of our ears, there must have been some songs we missed. There just must have. And given his impressively high women-to-songs ratio, that also means we must have missed some women.
On the whole, while that means 129 probably isn't an exactly accurate number, I'm willing to stand by it as a pretty damn good benchmark. It may not be 129, but it's not far off. And as long as we're here, le'ts take a moment to appreciate that 129 is, indeed, a lot of different women to mention in rap songs.
Drake's Upward Women-Mentioning Trajectory
While off the bat that 129 number means Drake's reputation as a lady's man is well earned, it's important to note that reputation is relatively recent. Almost shockingly, his first mixtape, Room for Improvement, features relatively few explicit women. With the exception of "Special," which in retrospect feels like the blueprint for his later ex-girlfriend raps - "Its true, I been talking to Aleshia, Keisha and Nadia" - the entire mixtape is almost completely devoid of specific women. By contrast, If You're Reading This features 12 specific women mentioned on 11 different songs; so 11/17 songs on the If You're Reading This contain a specific girl, compared to only 1/22 on Room for Improvement.
Turns out that if she wants the old Drake back, Drake would mostly just be tempted to rap less about women.
Drake Tempt Me
If You're Reading This...
Speaking of which, full disclosure, we originally had the research for this finished and then had to go back and revise everything after Drizzy's surprise project dropped. It was a weird experience; when I heard Drake had dropped an album out of nowhere, my reaction was simultaneously "Hell yeah!" and "GODDAMNIT NOW I'VE GOT TO COUNT MORE WOMEN!!!!"
Anyway...as I pointed out above, If You're Reading This is absolutely loaded with references to specific women. On "Legend," he's apparently converted a Houston stripper into some kind of live-in maid/girlfriend, which is maybe the most Drake line in the history of Drake.
"Got a girl, she from the South / Used to work, used to dance in Texas, now she clean the house."
And sweet baby Jesus, "Energy" is essentially the holy grail of Drake women references. We're talking about girls he bought, in order, a purse, a truck and an entire mall (an entire mall?), all of whom are separate women. Then you've got all the bytches asking for the code to his Wi-Fi, who may or may not be the same women he bought all those things for, and of course his "ex-girl, who's the stripper version of me." (Who we have to assume is different than the ex-stripper, current girlfriend/maid.)
You're going to want to get comfortable, I'm just getting started. There's also:
"10 Bands": My ex asked me, "Where you movin'?" I said, "On to better things" (Stripper version of him ex, or a different ex?)
"No Telling": The woman he's afraid might rob him after that woman robbed him on "The Resistance."
"Madonna": An entire song devoted to making this one girl famous, a girl he's known for a while (yet another ex?).
"6 God": One girl who's his and you can't hit.
"Preach": Miss Cassidy in Miami who he needs to call up.
"Company": An independent-minded stripper he devotes the first verse to. This appears to be a different woman than the stripper he's considering proposing to, who again, is different than the ex-stripper/maid living in his house on "Legend."
"You & the 6": His mom's trainer who's not ready to live the life of a rapper's girlfriend.
"Jungle": The girl who he loved but didn't treat right in the first verse, and the girl who's phone is disconnected in the third verse. It's unclear whether that's the same girl.
"6 PM in New York": Your girl, who he knows well, just not in public.
"The Resistance"
I promise, that If You're Reading This section will be the last time I'll specifically break down every reference on a song or album, if I did this would an actual novel, not just an insanely long internet article.
Ok, I just lied. After I dig into "The Resistance," that will be the last time I specifically break down a song. I only feel so obligated to get into this song because in many ways it's the Rosetta Stone of Drake music about women. From start to finish, we're looking at:
A girl who declines his offer to party and get high.
His mother, who weren't not counting, but worth noting because he runs the full spectrum of women in his life in one song.
His grandmother in a nursing home, see above.
Penny Lane, which is not a movie girl reference so it doesn't count, unless it is a real girl, in which case it totally does.
Some girl he met at a mall.
Some girl who had an abortion after messing with him unprotected (whoa, surprisingly heavy for a throwaway line).
The girl he's laying next to who reads a text from the girl who had an abortion.
DJ Lissa Monet, who misses the old him.
The girl who set him up for a robbery and made him paranoid (see also, "Legend").
The Famous Women:
Not every woman Drizzy mentions is his mom's personal trainer, the man's found himself mixed up with some very high-profile females. And yes, I'm mean high-profile in the sense of actual, global fame, not Instagram famous or stripper famous, which is like being actually famous, but only for boners. Boner-famous. Moving on.....
Where do this one come from 
