Updated: Tuesday 9 September 2025
Drake’s “Somebody Loves Me Pt. 2” is a Cash Cobain rework of the February cut with PARTYNEXTDOOR, premiered during ICEMAN Episode 3 on 4 September 2025 and pushed to streaming a few hours later on 5 September.
It reframes a slow-burn R&B favourite as something springier and more club-leaning without losing the original’s soft-focus ache.
The hook is simple and sticky,“I know there’s somebody who loves me,” and the verses frame that hope against familiar Drake/PND nightlife detail: Miami turn-ups, fragrance-and-weed contrasts, and playful flexes.
It was the only song from that episode to get an official release, with “Dog House” and “That’s Just How I Feel” staying as previews.
The credits reflect the swap, listing Cash Cobain as producer with Noel Cadastre on recording and mix, a different setup from the album version’s DJ Lewis, O Lil Angel, and Wondra030.
The structure now runs Cash Cobain first, Drake second, PARTYNEXTDOOR anchoring the hook and tucking in a brief closing verse; Cobain opens with a “Slizzy” self-ID and city-run flexes, the cadence he’s made signature across sexy drill.
Drake answers with lifestyle frames and selective intimacy over Cobain’s springier pocket, and PND softens the edges, returning the ask to its simplest shape: somebody who really loves me.
Coverage of Episode 3 and early write-ups match this order and note the subtle hook tweak.
Read against the year Drake’s had, it’s a counter-programming move.
While early-2025 discourse circled beef and spectacle, this song shrugs that off and sells pure longing.
Even Pitchfork slotted it among summer’s contenders for emotional pull rather than drama bait.
The opening hook (“somebody who really loves me”) plants the emotional home key, while Drake’s mid-verse turn, seeking someone who’ll “meet [him] at the top,” is the song’s spine.
The outro’s “one-week breaks” line gives the track a wry wink, not a sulk.
The original version of “Somebody who loves me” is a plush, mid-tempo R&B glide; think soft pads, airy ad-libs, and a light percussive pocket that leaves headroom for melody.
Around the release sits a clever video programme that predates Pt. 2 but shapes how the record is being received.
In late August, nineteen fan-made “Somebody Loves Me” shorts rolled out after a May contest run with Kai Cenat, with twenty finalists given a brief to deliver 30–60 second films and winners funded at $15,000 each before the nineteen were posted across Drake Related and YouTube.
The curation ranges from surreal chase pieces in Miami (Justice Silvera’s short) to dance-led takes and animated love stories, each a different angle on the same yearning hook.
Together with Pt. 2 arriving straight out of a fresh ICEMAN episode, it’s a tidy case study in keeping a song alive across formats and seasons.
Critical reaction has been mixed in a way that flatters the track.
Pitchfork had already flagged “Somebody Loves Me” as a 2025 song-of-the-summer contender for its emotional lift, which helps explain why a remix makes sense now.
Financial Times liked the album’s lovers-rap pivot but called the project overlong and forgettable overall at 2/5, which frames this song as a standout inside the sprawl.
Fan chatter tracks that divide. On r/Drizzy, top posts call it a top-tier Drake/PND moment and argue it should have been pushed harder than the discourse tracks like “Nokia.”
In broader communities such as r/hiphopheads and r/popheads you’ll find the split between “sleeper hit” talk and skeptics who see the album’s R&B wash as too uniform, this song included.
Drake’s ICEMAN era has been drip-feeding music through cinematic livestreams, “What Did I Miss?” and “Which One” with Central Cee among them, while keeping a foot on his Valentine’s Day collab; Pt. 2 bridges those worlds as a now-frame remix of a months-old favourite.
The original cut’s timeline stays separate: $ome $exy $ongs 4 U landed on 14 February 2025, “Somebody Loves Me” impacted US rhythmic radio on 11 March, and in the UK it peaked at No. 74 on the Official Streaming Chart.
Taken together, Pt. 2 doesn’t change the song’s centre so much as it rotates the perspective.
Cobain’s first verse brings a club-ready lift, Drake answers with cool-headed snapshots, and PND’s refrain keeps the tenderness that made the original a fan favourite.
The result is faithful to the core sentiment but more forward on the groove, very much in line with early reads that this is essentially a Cash Cobain remix, singled out as the episode’s only immediate DSP drop.
And in a year of loud headlines, it’s the opposite: an uncomplicated want, rendered clean enough to travel from 2 a.m. to a Sunday drive.
