Editor's Pick: Drake Covers GQ Magazine--Talks About Not Being Considered A 'Hard' Rapper (Excerpt Inside) /
Drizzy Drake just so happened to appear on one of the 3 covers of GQ Magazine’s first ever ‘Style Bible’ for men; with Everything a man needs to know to look his best in 2012. He’s in good company, too, since he’s sharing the spotlight with actors John Slattery and the adorable Dave Franco. I must say, Drake looks very dapper in his sleek & slim fitting suit, seafoam green tie and huge grin. Although, I wouldn’t necessarily consider the YMCMB rapper quite stylish; outside of GQ, Drake’s style may not be on point but his SWAG definitely is.
On not being a “hard” rapper:
“Rap now is just being young and fly and having your shit together. The mood of rap has changed.
I’m actually really happy. I’m trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough. When I was in my mom’s house, I had nowhere to go, no real obligations. My girlfriend at the time, if she was mad at me, my day was all fucked-up. I didn’t have anything else. And that made for some of the best music, I think, to date. Records where I felt small.”
On Why He’s Been Successful:
“I’ve never been reckless—it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.”On His Father:
“Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect ianything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along. We laugh. We have drinks together. But I spent too many nights looking by the window, seeing if the car was going to pull up. And the car never came.”
On his promiscuous past:
“There’s just a time where it was like, just getting pussy. Where I was in that sort of ‘I’m young, I’m going to disconnect from my emotions and just do what everyone else tells me I should do and just be a rapper and have my fun.’ And for me as a person, it just doesn’t work. I just need something else. The seconds after a man reaches climax, that’s like the realest moment of your life. If I don’t want you next to me in that fifteen, twenty seconds, then there’s something wrong.”
Behind-the-Scenes:
I dig how intellectual Drake is. I hope the young kids catch on to that, too! The more and more I see him in a suit, the more curious I become of what an Obama biopic, starring Drake, would be like. Hhhhmmmm ...
