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.”
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.”