In the latest issue of Elle, Drake speaks on everything except music and his upcoming Take Care album. That means lots of chatter about love, sex, and relationships, which gives some context to the emotional banter found in his records. Drizzy talks about his relationships with Nicki Minaj and Rihanna, the type of woman his mother wants him to marry, never having more than one girl in bed at a time, and more. Read the excerpts below.
On loneliness:
"When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty. The 15 or 20 seconds after a man reaches his climax is the realest moment he'll ever have in his life. And if you happen to be with somebody that isn't someone you want to converse with, you start feeling like, I wish I was just here watching True Blood by myself."
On his fake Twitter marriage to Nicki Minaj:
"I don't know if we were really pretending. I'd marry Nicki. I think Nicki would be one of the only people that would understand me at the end of all of this and be able to love me."
On bringing girls home to mom:
"The most intense thing I've ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner. [My mom] just wants me to be happy, but I'm sure she'd love it if I married a Jewish girl."
On receiving naked pictures:
"If you send them without me asking, it's like, You've done this before. But I'm away a lot. If there's a woman I'm into, I might want to get a picture from her to handle business myself, as opposed to doing something I might regret."
On threesomes:
"I've never had one. I swear. I'm a one-woman kind of guy."
On being hurt by Rihanna:
"At the time it hurt, but she didn't mean to. I'll never put that on her. I was hurt because I slowly started to realize what it was. I guess I thought it was more. That was the first girl with any fame that paid me any mind. You spend days reading about this person in magazines. All of a sudden you have this number-one song and you're at some birthday party and there she is. And you're just some naive kid from Toronto staying in some shitty-ass hotel who got invited to this party on a whim. That's just how it happened."
RightBrain October 12th, 2011 at 04:07 PM
Drake's my dude.....but this nigga is SOFT!
Juju October 12th, 2011 at 05:17 PM
soft...? or real...? thats the prob with guys today, always trying to front for other people. no one is robot. every man is going to have his feelings hurt by a woman at some point in his life and... even more astonishing... actually love, and therefore miss a woman (other than their mom). big shocker right? annnnd if drake WAS being fake for the sake of the interview, it's STILL NOT "soft," it's genius. he was talking to ELLE-- a prominent women's magazine (can we say, huge potential consumer base? in laymen's terms, $$$$). why would he act like an ignorant asshole and talk about being too thug/gangster to love, miss a woman or how he "f*cks mad bitches, yo???" exactly. stop worrying about being so "hard body" for all your n*****s and crack open a book and expand your mind. smdh.
Drake October 13th, 2011 at 08:11 PM
@Juju STFU! lol
Cassidy November 13th, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Way To Be An Ass.
Kyema Williams November 13th, 2011 at 02:49 PM
first drake aint soft he just got fellings dont talk about my boy like dat
Derrick October 12th, 2011 at 05:08 PM
Elle?
Juju October 12th, 2011 at 05:19 PM
no one is a* robot.
Kayla October 12th, 2011 at 05:49 PM
This looks like an old ass interview
asdf October 12th, 2011 at 11:59 PM
I call bs
mles October 13th, 2011 at 09:34 AM
Guess Drake never heard of the 5Fs.... Find, Friend, Fool, F**k & Forget....Should spend some time in the Caribbean and learn a thing or two. ;)
LongLungz October 13th, 2011 at 08:09 PM
simp. im truly at a lost for words. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=simp
malie October 16th, 2011 at 01:40 AM
Seriously,a man doesn't have to be "hard and thuggish" to be considered a man. This type of persona is precisely what is wrong with a lot of african males today. I think that Drake is for real and one day he is going to make someone very happy! Take your time Drake, and don't rush into it!
Kyema Williams November 13th, 2011 at 02:55 PM
love nicki and drake '
Andergran January 21st, 2012 at 05:28 PM
No i dont like Drake and Nicki, cos i wanna date Nicki!