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A debonair Aubrey Drake Graham covers the latest GQ “Style Bible” issue. Drake seriously may be too strung out on compliments and overdosed on compliments because in a recent interview with GQ’s Claire Hoffman, the cocky rapper almost expected for her to sleep with him. The entire interview was set up like (as Claire stated) “the most amazing first date ever.” Drake led Hoffman around his San Fernando Valley mansion–from backyard waterfalls to his “paisley-swathed sleeping chamber, complete with a California king bed.”

The “Take Care” rapper/singer dished about how he feels about his, the music industry’s evolution, how he feels about women and the 15 minutes immediately after an orgasm. Oh and it gets juicier. Once the interview was over, Drake asked, “Would I have you already? Are you sleeping with me?” Hoffman claimed she immediately left, but knew that Drake wanted an answer. Really Drake? Check out some of his standout quotes from the interview.

On his father: “Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything 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 the changing mood of the music industry: “Rap now is just being young and fly and having your shit together,” he says. “The mood of rap has changed. Some of my favorite rappers, some of my heroes”—DJ Screw, Aaliyah—”there might be like 200 pictures of them because there was no Internet,” he says. “Whereas with us, it’s like every moment is documented.”

On his feelings for women: “I’m trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough,” he says. “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. That feeling is hard to capture when you’re sitting out here in a space like this.” He gestures to the pool, the tennis court, the volleyball court, the stables. “It’s really difficult for me to find something that makes me feel small.”

On the fifteen minutes after orgasm: “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.”
What do you think about Drake’s semi-steamy GQ interview? Let’s discuss on Twitter @Rhapsodani.

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