Amid never-ending rap beef and lawsuits, the embattled rapper looks to reset the board with his new album Love him or hate him, Drake isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. After suffering a blistering defeat in 2024’s great Rap Civil War , he’s been methodically picking up the pieces, revitalizing his fanbase, and working to channel as much goodwill as he can. Luckily, long before Kendrick’s eviscerating diss track “Not Like Us” — now the subject of pending, probably misguided litigation — Drake was the biggest star in the world, perhaps only rivaled by Taylor Swift (The Boy says as much on “Red Button” from For All The Dogs: Scary Hours Edition), so it hasn’t been difficult for Drizzy to make positive inroads over the past year. There was his mostly well-received collaborative project with PartyNextDoor, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, which featured the bona fide hit “Nokia,” which has proven to have a decent amount of staying power over the past few months.…