Drake Quiz: Guess the Song & Test Your Trivia

A Drake quiz asks what you rarely ask a Toronto rapper: is he even rapping? Guess the Drake song when a sung, melodic clip like 'Hotline Bling', 'Marvins Room', 'One Dance' or 'Passionfruit' is just as likely as a hard verse from 'Nonstop', 'Back to Back' or 'Started From the Bottom'. Test your trivia back to the So Far Gone mixtape and 'Best I Ever Had' and 'Houstatlantavegas', then see how well you really know Drake when a soft hook and a rapid bar can both belong to the same artist.

Main genreRap (with R&B, pop and dancehall)

ActiveSince 2009 (2010s, 2020s)

Real nameAubrey Drake Graham

Best-known songs to guessGod's Plan, Hotline Bling, One Dance, In My Feelings, Started From the Bottom

Deep cuts fans missMarvins Room, Best I Ever Had, Houstatlantavegas, From Time

The quiz twistHalf his hits are sung, not rapped, so a melodic clip is often just Drake

FromToronto, Canada (home of his OVO Sound label)

Related artistsThe Weeknd, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar

Quiz difficultyEasy on the singles, hard on telling rapping Drake from singing Drake

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Name as many tracks as you can from short audio clips. The faster you answer, the more you score.

10 questions4 answers each

Guess the Drake Song: Bars or Melody?

The two modes fight you here: one clip is a hard verse, the next a sung hook like 'Passionfruit'. Name the track, and find out how wide your ear can go.

God's Plan

Hotline Bling

One Dance

In My Feelings

Started from the Bottom

Nice for What

Passionfruit

Marvins Room

Drake Trivia: Degrassi, OVO and the Charts

He got his start as an actor on the teen drama Degrassi, later built the OVO label that helped make Toronto a rap capital, and turned sung hooks into a signature that blurred rap and pop. The details reward close fans.

✦Before music, Drake played the character Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen drama 'Degrassi: The Next Generation'.

✦Many of his biggest hits, like 'Hotline Bling' and 'Passionfruit', are sung rather than rapped, which is why a Drake clip can sound more like pop than hip-hop.

✦'One Dance', powered by Afrobeats and dancehall, became his first solo number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016.

✦He built the OVO Sound label and the annual OVO Fest, helping turn his hometown of Toronto into a rap capital.

✦His 2009 mixtape 'So Far Gone' led to a deal with Lil Wayne's Young Money and set the sung-and-rapped template he still uses.

How Well Do You Know Drake's Two Modes?

His catalog runs in two modes. Start with the inescapable singles, then test yourself on the melodic hits, the hard bars and the mixtape deep cuts that only diehards place.

The hits you can't escape (the warm-up)

Start with the singles that were everywhere. 'God's Plan', 'Hotline Bling', 'One Dance', 'In My Feelings' and 'Started From the Bottom' spent months on the charts, and most players name them from the first bar. These are the gimme points before the modes start to blur.

Singing Drake (the melody trap)

Here is where a Drake quiz catches people out. 'Hotline Bling', 'Passionfruit', 'Marvins Room' and 'Take Care' with Rihanna lean on sung, melodic hooks that sound more like R&B or pop than rap. Guessers who expect hard bars often miss that these are Drake at all.

Rapping Drake (for the purists)

The other mode is all bars. 'Nonstop', 'Back to Back', '0 to 100' and 'Energy' are rapid, quotable and built for the rap crowd. Placing these is easy for hip-hop heads, and that contrast is exactly what makes the two-mode format work.

The mixtape-era deep cuts (OVO territory)

The deepest points live early. 'Best I Ever Had' and 'Houstatlantavegas' from the So Far Gone mixtape, plus album cuts from Take Care and Nothing Was the Same, separate the diehards. Name these from a short clip and you are ahead of almost everyone.

Drake Quiz FAQ

How well do you know Drake?

Play a Drake quiz on Songtrivia and find out. Guess the song from a short clip and answer trivia across a decade of hits. Score 8 out of 10 and you count as a real fan; a perfect 10 that catches the mixtape cuts is rare.

Which Drake songs come up the most?

'God's Plan', 'Hotline Bling', 'One Dance', 'In My Feelings' and 'Started From the Bottom' are among the most-guessed, with mixtape deep cuts like 'Best I Ever Had' saved for the diehards.

Are Drake's sung songs in the quiz too?

Yes, and that is the fun of it. Melodic hits like 'Hotline Bling' and 'Passionfruit' sit right next to hard-rapping tracks like 'Nonstop', so guessers who expect only bars get caught out.

Is the Drake quiz free?

Yes. Every Drake quiz is free to play, with no signup and no Spotify account needed. Just pick one and play.

What is Drake's real name?

His real name is Aubrey Drake Graham. He was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1986 and got his start acting on Degrassi.

📚 Sources & methodology

Sources consulted

Wikipedia · AllMusic · Pitchfork · Billboard · Songtrivia editorial team.

Our methodology

Each topic is curated by a Quiz Master with category expertise. Selection crosses cultural impact, chart performance, recognition potential and era variety.