Drake Opens the Vault: Four 'FOMO' Tracks Land on 'HABIBTI'

TORONTO — Drake had fans sitting with FOMO for weeks. Now four of the songs that fueled the conversation are out of the vault: the Toronto superstar has expanded HABIBTI with official versions of four tracks previously heard in his self-funded short film FOMO, the hour-long piece documenting his summer in Toronto that premiered September 15 with unreleased music woven through the footage.

Leading the additions is "Solar Eclipse" featuring Don Toliver — the official arrival of the long-teased "Choosin' Texas" flip, which reworks Ella Langley's country hit into a woozier hip-hop record. It's Drake and Toliver's first official collaboration, and it's the clearest example of the film's whole strategy: let the clips circulate, let the demand build, then release the record the fans were already humming.

They double down immediately. "Cold Shoulder" brings Yebba into the mix for a moodier, soulful three-way collaboration — a different temperature entirely from the "Solar Eclipse" bounce, and a reminder that the vault has range. The fans wanted the music without having to run the movie back; during a Stake livestream Drake acknowledged the demand and said he planned to release "enough of them." He delivered four.

Step back and the scale of the year gets absurd. Back in May, Drake simultaneously debuted three full-length projects — ICEMAN, MAID OF HONOUR, and HABIBTI — then followed months later with an hour-long self-funded film. The vault strategy is the oldest trick in the mixtape era, but Drake is running it at a scale nobody else attempts: the film as the teaser, the streamers as the payoff, the FOMO as the marketing budget.

The archivist's read: scarcity used to be about pressing limited CDs. Now it's about controlling the window between the clip and the official drop. Four tracks, one livestream promise kept, and a film that did the promo work for free. The tape keeps rolling.

Here's the track-by-track, because the details are doing the story here. "Solar Eclipse" is the official arrival of the long-teased "Choosin' Texas" flip — Drake and Don Toliver's first official collaboration, reworking Ella Langley's country hit into a woozy hip-hop record — and it comes with a footnote worth the price of admission: DJ Akademiks reported that Drake gave up his publishing share on the record entirely, his would-be portion going back to the original side. It's the kind of deal that makes A&Rs squirm and fans lean in. "Quebec," meanwhile, is the one The FADER flagged as the head-and-shoulders highlight of the batch: a wisp of a melody, Drake's flow skipping across an invisible drum pattern, the kick drum finally pulsing in more than a minute deep and pushing his vocals into more urgent harmonic intervals. It's Drake the stylist at full stretch. "Cold Shoulder" pairs him with Toliver again, this time with Yebba in the mix for a moodier, soulful three-way — three of the most distinctive voices of their respective generations on one record, and it sounds like it. And "Classic PT2" revisits track seven of the original HABIBTI — "Classic" — as a 2:59 mirror image parked at the album's new closing slot, track 15. The expansion takes HABIBTI from 11 songs to 15, the original sequence preserved, the four additions appended like a post-credits scene.

The context around the drop is as big as the drop itself. This time last year, the obituaries were being drafted — Drake struck mute by the fallout from the Kendrick Lamar beef, the culture moving on, the narrative calcifying. Then came May: ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR all at once, a triple launch that recemented his position as one of the genre's biggest gravitational centers, powered in no small part by the runaway summer hits "Shabang," "Janice STFU," and "Cheetah Print." HABIBTI itself showcased the more melodic, R&B-driven side of his catalog — which is why the atmospheric FOMO additions slot in so naturally; this is the lane where Drake has always been most dangerous. Then the FOMO visual project premiered on YouTube in September as a surprise: more compilation of music videos than conventional short film, with a few standout clips — The FADER's staff singled out Loe Shimmy and Drake dressing up as War Machine and Iron Man in the "I'm Spent" video — plus previews of unreleased music that included a few Don Toliver collabs and, per 24Hip-Hop, an unreleased cut where Drake says "Pray for Gaza." The fans did what fans do: they clipped, they uploaded, they hummed along. The official versions were inevitable; the only question was which ones would survive the vault. Four did — enough of them, as promised on the Stake livestream.

And that's the larger play, the one the industry keeps pretending not to notice. HABIBTI (FOMO) treats the album as an evolving body of work: songs get teased through visuals, performed or previewed publicly, generate their own conversation, and only then land on streaming — released through OVO under exclusive license to Republic Records — once the audience has already started connecting with them. The film was the teaser, the streamers are the payoff, the FOMO is the marketing budget, and the whole operation is now pointed squarely at October's Very Own season. With the vault reportedly still full and the year's scale already absurd, the question isn't whether Drake has more coming — it's whether he has an off switch. Keep an eye on our Drake hub for everything as the season rolls on.