If Drake didn’t have enough on his plate – including collaborative projects with the gods Kanye West and Gucci Mane – it sounds like he’s opening a strip club in one of his favourite cities.
Drizzy’s obsession with Houston has been longstanding – he even featured a posthumous verse from Pimp C on his last album – and he took to the Southern city for a pop-up ‘dance experience’ earlier this week. It marked the beginning of a new venture called ‘The Ballet’ which will open its doors to Houston punters sometime in 2017. But what exactly is The Ballet? Well, Drake says it isn’t a strip club but it kinda maybe sounds like a strip club.
“This is about the fact that there’s a culture out there of dancing and it’s not about no strip club shit. It’s really just about these amazing women that we’ve got in one spot, this music that we’ve got, this Houston culture that we got. And I just wanna let you know that I’m going to bring it to you in the most honest and genuine way possible,” Drake told the attendees at the pop-up.
He further supplemented his statements with an Instagram post, saying “Treat yourself don’t cheat yourself. Where the women are on a pedestal and the surroundings are unforgettable.” As noted by Jezebel, many media outlets have reported Drake’s new establishment as a strip club, while others have named it a ‘classy’ strip club, while they themselves speculate that it could be a strip club/ballet hybrid or simply a shrine to Rihanna in the ‘Pour It Up‘ video. Whatever it is, it sounds like Drizzy is attempting to differentiate himself into the upper echelon of clubs with beautiful people dancing provocatively.
Drake’s history with strip clubs has been notable: He got photographed making it rain with a cool $50,000 in Charlotte, he appeared in a strip club in his last video for ‘Child’s Play’ and he made an entire mixtape with strip club veteran Future. Still, it’s not a strip club. Apparently.
If The Ballet does eventuate, and if it is a strip club, let’s keep our fingers crossed that Australia’s Number. 1 Strip Club DJ, Leon Smith gets booked in for a residency. Let’s also hope that it’s just as much fun as Homer Simpson’s interpretation of the ballet. We’ll have to wait and see what the club brings to Houston come 2017.
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