Drake Teaches the History of Drake at the Apollo

Near the midway point of his set in Harlem on Saturday night, Drake paused to reminisce about an occasion he had come to New York earlier in his career. It was a different time, and the memory was a bit fuzzy: “I think I was at, like, the Spotted Pig.” The restaurant closed in 2020 and had its celebrity heyday a few years prior to that. A decade-plus into the Canadian rapper’s run at the top of hip-hop and pop, there’s a deep trove of moments, styles, recalibrations, and swerves to mine. Or, as he put it in a characteristically… Read Full Article