The best character Drake’s ever played in one of his music videos is the pre-feast mafiosa in the awkward Missoni sweater in “Headlines” (above). Who needs jokes when you’ve got Drake’s actual body in front of you?
Can we all agree that Drake looks like he likes food… just a little? While he’s in no way ugly, his jowls suggest that his mama keeps him well-fed with lots of Matzah Ball soup. Appropriately, Foodie Drake has taken the two most humorous part of Drake’s oeuvre, his lyrics and his cute guff, and created one, envisioning the sensitive rapper as a foodie. Some examples of the lyrical translation into silly “foodie” language include, from “Cameras“: “How you mean? How you mean? Thought you really loved poutine?” or:
So, is Foodie Drake a blog about Drake being a foodie or a blog about foodies wanting to be more like Drake? I can’t tell.