How Drake (And Men) Deal With Broken Friendships
What happens when longtime platonic relationships between two men fade out? For Drake, it means dropping three albums in one night that call out more than a dozen people, including some who were once his closest compatriots.
On Friday at midnight, the Canadian rapper dropped 43(!) songs, with “Iceman” alongside two other albums, “Habibti” and “Maid of Honour,”—an obituary of sorts to some of his most notable bromances. That includes cuts at some of his closest career collaborators including Rick Ross, J.Cole, and NBA legend LeBron James, who once called the Canadian rapper “family.”
“A bromance is a man’s attempt to find a true connection. When men get their feelings hurt, we feel abandoned, and we have no language for that,” Dan Griffin, co-founder of The Center for Healthy Masculinity tells Playboy says. “We have no ability to communicate that. So instead, we get angry. We get vindictive.”
Drake’s new tracks exist within a legacy of rap beefs—and within a legacy of men turning to media to learn masculinity.
“Men are authorized to express anger and disrespect, they’re not authorized to say that also fucking hurt my feelings.”
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