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“I’m a pop necessary individual, but this shit ain’t bubblegum / You would possibly possibly likely well potentially think my manager is Scooter Braun.”
That’s what Drake raps a minute into “Popstar,” an ethereal unusual collab with DJ Khaled that dropped on Friday (July 17). It used to be honest one amongst Aubrey’s several references to, you guessed it, pop stars — “Watch, Ariana, Selena, my Visa / It’ll decide as many fees because it wants to” and “Shit produce now now not even generally procure this astronomical with out a Bieber face” — as smartly as one amongst two songs the pair launched concurrently.
The extra melodic “Greece,” within the period in-between, finds Drake having access to a substantial higher vocal register than he is been showcasing currently. It be a breezy fragment of escapist trap&B that finds the, ahem, pop necessary individual itemizing off the general stuff you and him would possibly possibly likely well furthermore enact collectively on a jaunt via the Mediterranean. “Reach with?me,?inch away?your entire?issues, yeah / We can?stop at Gucci, stop at Louis V, yeah,” he sings. “Reach with me, flit you out to Greece / Elephantine tempo, survoler Paris.”
Both comprise what Khaled’s been calling “THE 2 KEYS ???” and “THE 2 ANTHEMS ???” while promoting the songs on Instagram. And both come correct as we enter the dogs days of summer season, the attach a flex about celeb and a daydream about exotic locales both sound somewhat horny.
Khaled also shared extra homemade visible companions for each and every note on his Instagram online page. For “Popstar,” he is on the motivate of a luxurious automobile on a dreary evening joyride, while “Greece” finds him partying in a pool with his wife.
They’re both slated to appear on Khaled’s unusual album, Khaled Khaled, at some level within the likely come future. On the 2d, verify out both tracks (with owl- and key-heavy visualizers, clearly) above.
