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Known for being brutally honest in his lyrics. Drake often references family, friends and ex-girlfriends in songs.
He's at it once again on his newly released Nothing Was the Same album. On the song "From Time" he talks about an ex-girlfriend named Courtney.
"The one that I needed was Courtney from Hooters on Peachtree / I've always been feeling like she was the piece to complete me / Now she's engaged to be married, what's the rush on commitment? / I know we were going through some shit, name a couple that isn’t/ Remember our talk in the parking lot at the Ritz? / Girl, I felt like we had it all planned out, I guess I fucked up the vision/ Learning the true consequences of my selfish decisions/ When you find out how I’m living, I just hope I’m forgiven / It seem like you don’t want this love anymore / I’m acting out in the open, it’s hard for you to ignore / But girl, what qualities was I looking for before? / Who you settling for? Who's better for you than the boy, huh?"
It didn't take long for the internet to find Courtney. The questions is, did she want to be found? Especially if she's now in a committed relationship.
Courtney from Hooters
Spin recently published an article in which they chided the rapper for going too far.
What makes this verse particularly troublesome, though, is its specificity: We get a name, place of work, and location. Throwing those into a song feels mean and vindictive. Immediately, the Internet located "Courtney from Hooters on Peachtree." Her name is Courtney Janell and she works at the Hooters restaurant on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Not going to link to this nonsense, but VLAD TV posted images from her Instagram with these instructions, "Check out Courtney, the hottie Drake shouted out on new album." Hip-Hop Wired accompanied the pictures with this SMH-worthy headline, "Bangin' Candy: Courtney Janell, aka Drake's One That Got Away." Just like that, "Courtney from Hooters" became part of the hip-hop gossip blogosphere and an IRL element of Drake's sad-dude mythos. An actual person, with a name and a job (and social-media accounts) got balled up into the hype for a rap album, and there's nothing she can do about it.
On this morning's episode of Hot 97's "The Realness," Peter Rosenberg agrees with Spin.
"The question is ladies and gentlemen, did Drizzy got too far with the realness? Could he have just left it at there was a girl named Courtney? Not reference Hooters Peachtree?" Rosenberg asked.
The sentiment among everyone at the station was that the rapper went too far.
What do you think? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Drake "From Time"
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