Drake Plays Ella Langley's 'Choosin' Texas' — June 2026

Drake just played "Choosin' Texas" in a Houston club -- weeks after it blocked him

Here's a crossover none of us had on the bingo card: Drake spun Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" during a Houston club set this week, and a clip of it has been making the rounds. What makes it land is the timing. This is the exact song that kept Drake from sweeping the entire Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 last month -- and instead of holding a grudge, he put it on himself.

What actually happened

A video surfaced of Drake playing "Choosin' Texas" in a Houston club, per Holler's June 24 report. No big announcement, no stage moment -- just the song going on during his set, which is the part fans latched onto. Drake is famously picky about what gets played around him when he's out or on a livestream, so the choice reads as deliberate rather than a fluke.

If you've followed his taste at all, it tracks. Drake has been circling country for years: he name-checked Morgan Wallen on the HABIBTI track "White Bone," pulled Wallen into his "You Broke My Heart" video back in 2023, and joined him for a Houston walk-out. Playing an Ella song in Houston, of all cities, fits the pattern.

Why this is funny: she blocked his Top 10

Last month Drake dropped three albums at once -- ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR -- and flooded the Hot 100. Seven of his tracks landed in the Top 10 on the May 30 chart: "Janice STFU," "National Treasures," "Ran to Atlanta," "Whisper My Name," "Shabang," "Make Them Cry," and "Dust." The one song standing between him and a clean sweep of the entire Top 10? Ella's "Choosin' Texas," which held firm at No. 5.

So a country single from an Alabama songwriter is the reason one of the biggest pop acts on earth didn't own the whole Top 10. And now he's the one playing it in the club. That's the kind of full-circle moment that makes us love watching her year unfold. For the backstory on how that single became a chart monster in the first place, we dug into it in our look at "Choosin' Texas" rewriting the Hot Country Songs record book.

Does this mean a collab is coming?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves -- a club spin is not a studio session. But Drake's history with Wallen shows he turns admiration into actual features, and the rumor mill around a Drake-Wallen team-up has been running for a while. A Drake and Ella Langley track is pure speculation right now, and we'd treat it that way. Still, the door is clearly not closed, and we'd be lying if we said we weren't curious what that would even sound like.

If you want the song that started all of this, our full "Choosin' Texas" breakdown walks through the writing, the Miranda Lambert connection, and the cameo-packed video. And with the Dandelion Tour rolling on through fall, there's a real chance the next viral Ella moment happens on a stage near you.

The short version

Drake played "Choosin' Texas" in a Houston club, weeks after it was the lone song keeping him from a clean Hot 100 Top 10 sweep. It's a wink, not a partnership -- but it's one more sign that Ella Langley's reach now stretches well past country radio.