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Drake can still win this

Drake can still win this

It's not over until the fat lady sings

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Byron Crawford
Jul 08, 2025
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We’ve reached a point where all but the most hardened Kendrick Lamar stans have grown tired of hearing “Not Like Us”—or any West Coast rap music, for that matter—and most self-respecting straight adult men are at least somewhat ambivalent about the idea of attending a tour Lamar is co-headlining with SZA. Now is as good a time as any for Drake to debut a new set of abs and drop a song complaining about people who showed up to the Pop Out concert.

Unemployed blacks on X f/k/a Twitter claim to not be impressed, but what do they know? They couldn’t get fake abs if they wanted to. It costs too much.

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