Drake Credits Gracie Abrams With Helping Him No Longer 'Hate' His Birthmark: 'Now It's Art'

Drake previously shouted out the beat switch on Gracie's "I Knew It, I Know You."

August 5, 2025
Drake performing on stage with a microphone, wearing a white vest. Gracie Abrams playing guitar in a red dress and headscarf, smiling.
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Drake, already on the record as a Gracie Abrams beat switch appreciator, is now crediting the Good Riddance artist with helping him accept his birthmark.

Monday, the Iceman-teasing OVO Sound co-founder, currently out on the road in support of his and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U project, shared a selfie of Abrams to his Instagram Stories. In it, a birthmark is visible on the “That’s So True” singer’s arm. He followed this with a photo of himself featuring a similar birthmark.

“I used to hate my birthmark but Gracie got the same one so now it’s art,” Drake wrote when sharing the photos.

In March, Drake shouted out Abrams’ The Secret of Us track “I Knew It, I Know You,” specifically the “GOAT beat switch” that leads into its second half. Production on the song, like the bulk of the Taylor Swift-featuring album’s 13 tracks, is credited to Abrams and The National’s Aaron Dessner.

Not much is known about Iceman, Drake’s next full-length. While $$$4U was dropped off this February, Iceman will mark Drake’s first solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs. The rollout has been an interesting so far, complete with a Pinocchio chase and the debut of two new tracks. “Which One,” the most recent of the two, features Central Cee.

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