--- title: Drake Gives Away a Million Dollars in God's Plan Video description: In the music video for his latest hit song, Drake distributes stacks of cash to families and gives scholarships to students — while dancing. canonical: https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-16T17:25:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:44.219Z og:title: Drake Actually Gives Away $1 Million in His New Music Video og:description: It's a good day when Drake drops by with a stack of cash to give away og:url: https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Drake Actually Gives Away $1 Million in His New Music Video twitter:description: It's a good day when Drake drops by with a stack of cash to give away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Drake Gave Away $1 Million in His New Music Video Because He's a Generous Dancing King > Sponsored content. 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Turns out it was more like $1 million, a good deed that Drake [teased](https://www.instagram.com/p/BfOaadbhSQG/?taken-by=champagnepapi) was the “most important thing” he’s ever done in his career. In the video for “God’s Plan,” released Friday, [the 6 God](http://www.thedrive.com/aerial/18287/drake-just-used-a-drone-to-film-music-video-for-gods-plan) makes a point to show just how much he gave away. “The budget for this video was $996,631.90,” it tells us. “We gave it all away. Don’t tell the label…” (That would be Young Money Entertainment, founded by Lil Wayne, and Cash Money Records.) From handing out literal stacks of cash to a shocked family sitting on a curb to announcing over megaphone that all the shoppers in a grocery store are getting their food for free, Drake comes through like an unexpected angel of generosity, leaving emotional fans in tears in his wake. But he’s having fun while he’s at it: working with his [signature “Hotline Bling” moves](http://time.com/4148212/hotline-bling-drake-supercut/), Drake does take time for a dance break in a shopping mall and at a school. The video serves as a kind of early campaign piece for the return of Drake. And this time, he’s leaning fully into his soft side, distributing hugs and grins like candy. “We’re nothing without our mothers, so thank you,” a clip shows him saying to a woman at the end of the video. At least he’s consistent: “I only love my bed and my momma” is one of the most [memorable lines](https://genius.com/Drake-gods-plan-lyrics) in the song. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/"},"headline":"Drake Gave Away $1 Million in His New Music Video Because He's a Generous Dancing King","datePublished":"2018-02-16T17:25:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:44.219Z","description":"In the music video for his latest hit song, Drake distributes stacks of cash to families and gives scholarships to students — while dancing.","url":"https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5162778/drake-gods-plan/","name":"Drake Gave Away $1 Million in His New Music Video Because He's a Generous Dancing King"}}]}] ```