MR RECOUP Lyrics – 21 Savage & Drake

21 Savage and Drake are exhaling trap’s long-held breath on WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?, the surprise joint tape that just cracked open today through Slaughter Gang under exclusive license to Epic Records, and “MR RECOUP” slinks in like a shadowed ledger—tallying debts with a grin that says payback’s the ultimate flip.

This cut, track six on the 14-song sprawl, is the duo at their most surgical: OZ and Reske lace it with those sinister piano loops and trap snares that echo like alleyway echoes, blending Drake’s melodic menace with Savage’s stone-cold snarls. It’s Southern gothic trap evolved—grimy 808s rumbling under ad-libs that pop like suppressed shots, no overkill drops, just that creeping tension of a stakeout gone verbal.

Thematically, it’s a ledger of the game’s grim math: brothers gunned down, opps scraping bus benches for scraps, and that rush to recoup blood debts before patience snaps. Lines like “Niggas shot my brother, now I don’t know who to trust” land like indictments, flipping vulnerability into vendetta vows, while flexes on Alex Moss chains and “fifty-somethin’ old screws” nod to the grind’s glittering scars. Born from late-night Toronto-Atlanta FaceTimes post their Her Loss victory lap, it’s got that effortless chemistry—Drake the strategist, 21 the executioner—teased in cryptic IG stories last week that had stans mapping the bars to real beefs.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? digs into that question like a cold case: what killed the code? A raw, 45-minute autopsy of Atlanta’s underbelly, from opener “WHERE YOU FROM” to the teary “ATLANTA TEARS,” stacked with heat like “STEPBROTHERS” ft. Young Nudy (implied from the reposts) and “J.O.W.Y.H (JUMP OUT)” that screams car-jump starter. No bloated features; just 21’s Slaughter Gang kin and Drake’s selective shine, all executive-produced by the duo to reclaim the lane they paved. Recorded in piecemeal sessions between 21’s London runs and Drake’s Toronto bunker, it’s a love letter to the ghosts—lost homies, faded blocks—proving the streets ain’t dead, just regrouping.

21’s owning his dual-citizen throne post-american dream’s platinum introspection, while Drake’s shaking off For All The Dogs’ backlash with this low-key pivot—together, they’re the unlikely elders schooling the chaos, trading beef headlines for blueprint bars. Fresh off 21’s sold-out Slaughter Tour and Drake’s viral Wireless set, this drop’s their mid-career mic-check: evolution without apology, reminding us the game’s still theirs to recoup.

Dive into the MR RECOUP lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS? tracks for more of 21 Savage & Drake’s shadowed trap revival.