I'm pretty sure it's possible to spoon too much. Clearly feels good. But should you get all post-coital cute after your first hookup, or roll the other way? What about the second time? The first sober shag? I bet rappers don't have this problem. I'm not even sure if rappers sleep, what with all the cough syrup, pills and weed. Apparently rappers don't even go down on girls (they find it 'unsavory'), save maybe only Lil' Wayne (success among women: explained). Snuggling, though? Forget it.
OK, of course this isn't true. Ask Drake.
Read more about Drake, including his tryst with a star singer and his latest video after the jump
In anticipation of Drake's excellent album, Thank Me Later, released yesterday and pumping through my earbuds now, Drake talked to the NYTimes about a number of things, including his rise to stardom, from humble beginnings as a half-black bar mitzvah'd Jew in middle class Toronto, to angsty childhood sitcom actor, and finally to making it big with the most successful mixtape ever, "So Far Gone" (seriously, if you don't have it, go get it. So good, I have to link twice). What I liked about the article though is the intimacy he shares about his ups and downs with relationships and how it reflected in his music. Some of my favorite songs off his third mixtape were in both good times and bad thanks to the ladies in his life. Sensitive? Yep. Decent? Very.
You might be saying, "Sure, pre-famous Drizzy might have gotten burned a few times, but what about now when he's blown up? Who could possibly blow him off now?" Welp, how about Rihanna.
On Rihanna:
"'I was a pawn,' Drake said. The song he wrote for her never got released. 'You know what she was doing to me? She was doing exactly what I’ve done to so many women throughout my life, which is show them quality time, then disappear,” he said. “I was like, wow, this feels terrible.'"
And again, a great song comes out of it, with some pretty touching lyrics. From "Fireworks:" (Bold is my "I feel you Drake" notes)
"I'm just such a gentleman,
You should give it up for me,
Look at how I'm placing all my napkins
And my cutlery.
I can tell it wasn’t love,
I just thought you'd fuck with me.
Who coulda predicted luck could strike would have you stuck with me,
Damn
I kept my wits about me, luckily
What happened between us that night?
It always seems to trouble me
Now all of a sudden these gossip rags wanna cover me
And you making it seem that it happened that way because of me.
But I was curious and I’ll never forget it baby,
What an experience
You coulda been the one
But it wasn't that serious
Their was smoke in the air before
Now that was me clearing it
That felt good
All and all I learned a lesson from it though
You never see it coming
You just get to see it go
Yeah I shoulda looked up in the sky at first
Now I can see it in her eyes,
Fireworks
I hate to say it makes me feel good that ballers get shot down, but that's what we want from famous people, right? To see that they bleed too. And Drake bleeds a lot. Snuggling though? My guess is sometimes, but definitely only big spoon.
Drake - "Find Your Love"
Bonus: Drake - "Over"
7 comments:
Does your Mother still read this?
Momma MLR is pro-spooning, though she recommends I "buy her dinner first."
That's a semi-quote.
you spoon with your MOM?
I have to disagree with the statement that rappers don't perform cunninglus.
Eminem's new song feat. Lil Wayne:
"They call me a freak cuz I like to spit on these p*ssy's before I eat them" (If this quote is not appropriate for this family oriented blog, admin may remove it as I do not want to offend the younger audience)
Maybe it's a white rapper's thing, but I don't agree on the unsavory...
Beside's that Drake's new album is good... Not terrific, but it'll be a good way to pass the time until Kanye drops something new.
MLR, good post. Given that Drake is a pal of my roommate and all, I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I'm just not sure I can respect the guy after he says, "Their was smoke in the air before..."
"Their" is not equal to "There." Cuddle or no cuddle, it looks like he should have stayed in high school.
As much as I'd like to throw Drake under the bus, I pulled the lyrics down from a website and tried to fix all grammatical / spelling errors. I failed.
Boo this editor.
haha. I actually figured that this might have been the case. Either way I stand by my earlier statement that if Drake had stuck more seriously to his upperclass Jewish education, then he could have ended up more like JZ - not the rapper; JZ my roommate.
MLR, too bad you didn't squeeze a few English classes in there between all your premed, engineering and banking bs.... :)
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