At first I was gonna give this this piece the typical
And then I noticed something..
Drake has pretty much dated black women EXCLUSIVELY and the writer made a point where she speaks on him rapping about experiences with black women of different nationalities like Ethiopian and specifically name checking East Africa in his music.
Which ALL would've been well and good...
However, Drake is HARDLY the first rapper, or even amongst the first mainstream rappers to champion black women, to objectify them as objects of love, lust, pining, or romantic inclination. Hell hes not even the first Simp. Common simped a black woman in the Come Close video, a black woman who was supposedly deaf, with the theme that black love transverses words. Common actually DATED Serena Williams and went to war with Drake on some Helen Of Troy shyt before dropping a song called Lovin I Lost, on which he lamented the ending of the relationship and how losing the love of this woman, this BLACK woman, affected him emotionally. Nas tattooed Kelis on his arm, dedicated three songs on his album to their impending marriage, and weathered many rappers, DJ's, and immature "fans" who dissed him for DARING to be proud of being a husband. Ghostface Killah made an entire album of love songs to black women, the first single was about having a child and being a proud and loving father. Jay-Z, long married to Beyoncé, went as far as appropriating a Tupac song about a gun to a ballad about Beyoncé and he riding for each other and all that he could trust was her. The man once used HER as an example of black women having more money and being more of a boss than a rap nemesis.
I could go on and on. Drake's "devotion" to black women is nothing new nor is it something to pat him on the back for, beyond that he doesn't even WRITE his lyrics. He's got writers dreaming up all these lovey Dovey bars
