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Drake, of course, entered through the back door a few hours earlier and is now sitting pretty in FC 24 Coins room 324. Even here he can’t escape female attention. A journalist sits on the steps outside his room waiting for an interview. “I don’t want to do it”, she whispers to us, her knees clanging together anxiously. “I never normally get nervous, it’s just him, you know?” “Just him” is one of the most confusing characters in music today. Last year he celebrated his second Number One US album, ‘Take Care’. The night before we meet he played the second of two sold-out nights at The O2, shows which are basically a warm-up for his headline slot in the UK Capitals Hyde Park this summer. On paper, 25-year-old Drake is a transatlantic superstar. Yet he’s spent the past 24 hours in London acting more like a teenager bedroom-producer from Clapton. “I’ve just been playing FC, eating Jamaican Food and listening to dancehall in little basements”, he tells us as we settle in his suite. This morning he was hanging out with 19-year-old Sneakbo, a boxfresh rapper from south London known for his pirate radio smash ‘The Wave’. “That’s just what I do. I don’t wana change just ‘cos I’m in The O2. There’s only about five rappers who could sell out there right now. I just happen to be the young boy there’s no point me trying to be older than I am.” It’s not just in snatched moment’s bogling in the nightclubs of Shoreditch – he was spotted ambling out of Dalston slum-trendy club Catch 22 recently – in which Drake eschews rap clichés. ‘Take Care’ is packed with minimal off-kilter production more at home in room two of Fabric than on MTV. Drake’s currently scouting for new producers to join him for album three, with Jamie Smith from The xx, SBTRKT and a number of cheap EAFC 24 Coins bashment and dancehall stars in the frame. 2023-09-13 at 08:42:58 |
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