Canadian rap star Drake dropped the music video for his hit song “Hotline Bling” yesterday.
After checking out Drake’s uninspiring, Carlton-esque dance moves, Black Twitter pronounced him the dorkiest rapper on the planet.
Gawker.com’s black writers believe Drake knows exactly what he’s doing. They say he’s just putting us on, and that he is in on the joke. Let’s hope so.
From Gawker.com:
In the absence of a music journalist with access to him and the courage to ask him about this, we may never have a definitive answer. I don’t want one, either. I would much rather luxuriate in these margins of dubious intention and watch the spirited conversations they inspire. How refreshing it is to not be spoon-fed by mainstream culture, to have someone who repeatedly (dating back at least to his “Best I Ever Had” video with its artificial set and Drake’s wild gesticulation) sparks the internal debate of “What exactly am I looking at?”
