Today, Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR released the tracklist for their $ome $exy $ongs 4 U album dropping tonight, and Freddie Gibbs has thoughts — not on the music, but the title and artwork. Social media users noticed that their triple dollar sign usage follows Gibbs’ 2023 $oul $old $eparately album, and their recently released tracklist graphic includes three swooning women rabbits. For several years, Gibbs has been calling himself “the rabbit,” making the rabbit akin to Kanye’s bear mascot, and heavily using the rabbit emoji. There’s also a rabbit on the cover of $oul $old $eparately.
Their visual choices seem to be a little more than coincidental in Gibbs’ eyes. “Damn they even stole the rabbits too. I’m flattered,” he posted on X today. Given that it’s his first tweet in two days and came right after the $$$ graphic dropped, it seems obvious that he’s talking about Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR. He’s also been sharing tweets from X users who are calling out the similarities, including one who posted, ”I forgot Freddie Gibbs be using the bunny with dollar signs a lot for his stuff. Yeah, Drake and PND just straight up copied that lmfao.”
Does Gibbs have a point? The triple dollar sign and rabbit usage are undoubtedly similar. Even the Black-dominated color palette of his album and their tracklist graphics feel comparable. It appears one of two adages reigns here: “Great minds think alike,” or, as Gibbs thinks, “the great imitate.”
Maybe there’s a chance Drake, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and the team had dollar signs and Lola Bunny on their mood board when ideating the 21-track project. Or maybe Gibbs himself was there. Representatives for Drake and PND did not reply when asked for comment, so perhaps we’ll never know for sure.
