If You're Reading This It's Too Late Songwriting Credits by Drake

If You're Reading This It's Too Late is a surprise mixtape/commercial project by Drake, released in February 2015 on Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records. It was technically positioned as a mixtape by Drake but treated commercially as a studio album, a distinction that highlighted the blurring of format categories in the streaming era. Drake wrote or co-wrote all his own material; the project is production-heavy and melodically sparse relative to Nothing Was the Same, leaning toward the harder, darker trap production that was dominating rap in 2015 rather than the atmospheric introspection of Shebib's earlier work. 'Energy,' 'Used To,' and 'Know Yourself' (containing the 'started from the bottom' callback and the line 'running through the six with my woes' that became a defining cultural reference point of 2015) were the principal tracks. The project debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 495,000 first-week units (at the time the largest streaming week ever for any release on Spotify) and has been certified seven-times platinum in the United States. If You're Reading This It's Too Late represents Drake's first experiment with using a non-album format to execute a full commercial release cycle, a strategy he would refine on subsequent projects and that other artists would adopt widely in the following years.