One line tracking chat9/2/2023 So that brings us to 2018 and Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” where Drake raps, “I did half a Xan, 13 hours till I land/Had me out like a light, like a light/Slept through the flight.” I think it’s not a coincidence that his presence on Twitter, at least, seems to have dropped off since around that time. He says they were threatening to revoke access to his own social media. The next thing he remembers is waking up after the plane had landed and his management team being furious with him for posting such an insane caption. Before he knew it, he was on the plane and felt compelled to take a selfie. He says he remembers being at his house, and, perhaps due to flight anxiety, he popped something. But first we opened up our conversation by getting right to the most pressing matter: that insane Instagram post.ĭrake was flying from Los Angeles to Europe (my memory is telling me it was the U.K., but I can’t confirm. Later, we got to nerd out on music with Sir Graham and even put him onto a band he’d never heard of called Hiatus Kaiyote, whom he’d later sample on “Free Smoke” without crediting us (hear this full story on Hannibal’s episode of my podcast). We assured him that it was really no problem at all and quickly realized that not only were we going to get to ask Drake our one burning question, we were also going to be forced to carry on an entire conversation with him until people started showing up. The first thing Drake did when we arrived-apologizing for asking us to be there so last-minute-immediately gave away how Canadian he is. The version of Drake we met was Sir Graham, looking like Bruce Wayne: arms folded behind his back, pacing the building, sampling the hors d’oeuvres, and making sure the feng shui was just right. As Hannibal mentions in our conversation on The Nostalgia Mixtape, “We were super early,” so when we arrived at this spruced-up warehouse space, the only people there were us, the catering staff, Drake, and one of his managers. So there we were in that luxury sedan on our way to dinner. This was shortly after Hannibal had done the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, and I guess someone in OVO had been watching that too, so I called Hannibal and he said he was down. Second, someone-maybe the same person-in Drake’s camp had been told that I was friends with Hannibal and asked if we’d be able to convince him to do a surprise roast of Bun at the dinner. First, someone in Drake’s camp had found my UGK documentaries and wanted to play clips from them at the dinner (this was going to be a big tribute to Bun, after all). We did not get to ride in Drake’s white Rolls Royce Phantom, although we did get to look at it later.īut why were we in that luxury sedan? I mean, someone from OVO had sent it for us, but why were we there? Without getting too existential, we were there for two reasons. Soon thereafter, Hannibal and I hopped in a luxury Lincoln Town Car to head to the dinner. Regis up on Briar Oaks” and I was “at the Derek up on Westheimer,” so I made my way to the St.
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