Drake and Kai Cenat have had a friendship that could best be described as chaotically casual. One minute, Drizzy’s giving Cenat a shoutout on For All The Dogs and calling him mid-stream like a proud uncle tuning in. The next, he’s name-dropping Cenat in his lawsuit, specifically as one of the streamers who helped turn “Not Like Us” into a global roast session.
You can always count on Drake to keep things petty and playful.
Despite the awkward lawsuit cameo, the two seem to be on solid ground again. Drake apparently even took Cenat’s feedback to heart after the streamer flamed the visuals for “NOKIA” during an April review, saying it wasn’t a “banger” and (respectfully) he should’ve been the one directing it.
“…I don’t think that’s a song where you got to do symbolism…We’re looking for color, we’re looking for arcades, we’re looking for roller skating rinks. That’s what it gave me. We’re looking for going to modern day to as soon as the beat changes, we’re in the ’90s now. You see the vision?” Cenat said.
Apparently, Drake did see the vision—because now Cenat’s helping him and PARTYNEXTDOOR pick the director for the “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” music video. On stream in May, Cenat revealed they’ll be choosing 20 winners, each walking away with $15K to bring their treatments to life.
Drizzy won’t be streaming away the pain
Now comes the most Drake part of all: the announcement stream to choose the winner was supposed to happen on June 12 at 8 PM ET. Which just so happens to be the exact time Lamar hits the stage in Toronto with SZA for his GNT tour stop.
“We were blown away by the creativity and thought poured into each submission. We were suppose to go live today but needed a little extra time to review them. Tomorrow DRAKE & I gonna go through some of the submission with you guys, share some of my favorites and some of the not so good ones and let ya’ll know which 20 ppl [are] getting money to bring their treatments to life,” Cenat said via his IG Stories.
Yes, that means Lamar is performing in Drizzy’s hometown for the first time since their beef blew up. Obviously, the fans had to point out the obvious online.
However, there was more drama to come. Just hours before the stream was set to go live, Cenat popped up with a casual announcement: they’re “pushing the stream back a few more days.” Insert Lamar’s sinister Super Bowl grin here. There were supposedly too many submissions to sort through—but let’s be real, the original timing felt petty, and some fans think the postponement is calculated.
Maybe Drake wasn’t in the mood to watch Twitch chat light up with “THEY NOT LIKE US” all night long. Maybe there actually were a bunch of dope treatments that the team couldn’t decide between. Either way, the timeline was flooded with videos of Lamar performing “Not Like Us” in Drake’s hometown to a full stadium of Torontonians screaming “A-Minoooor”—the final boss of belt to ass. And worst of all? The crowd begged for an encore.
