Drake Rapping in Arabic on a UK Drill Track Has the Internet in Meltdown

Oh Drakey boy. The purveyor of baby-making R&B has no problem topping charts, but has often found himself trending in the unforgiving kingdom of social media for all the wrong reasons. Keeping up the solid theory that he has some kind of infatuation with Arab culture, the Canadian has raised eyebrows amongst Middle Eastern music fans with his latest outing on UK drill artist Headie One’s latest release, ‘Only You Freestyle'.

With Headie One being one of the top drill artists in England, the track has its merits – but Drake’s brief foray into Arabic (at around the 40-second mark) will ring in your ears throughout the rest of the track.
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Just in case you missed that, here’s what Drizzy says: “Arabic ting told me that I look like Youssef, look like Hamza/Habibti please, أنا أكيد، إنت وأنا أحلى/With Pop Skull in Gaza but not that Gaza, but still it's a mazza.”

Needless,  phlegmy use of ‘kh’ aside, it’s not a bad effort to be fair to him, but that hasn’t stopped Twitter users from having some fun…
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">which one of y’all keep teaching drake Arabic??? I just wanna talk <a href="https://t.co/HMo7hrCS1i">pic.twitter.com/HMo7hrCS1i</a></p>&mdash; ChampagneJuJu (@jhabashy15) <a href="https://twitter.com/jhabashy15/status/1285314412312748032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Truly <a href="https://t.co/gmqMHiVDpv">pic.twitter.com/gmqMHiVDpv</a></p>&mdash; ( ´_ゝ`) (@oceanadie) <a href="https://twitter.com/oceanadie/status/1285339622495723520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="ar" dir="rtl">damn اخونا دريك بن مفلح <a href="https://t.co/Im2Rbf65V5">pic.twitter.com/Im2Rbf65V5</a></p>&mdash; • (@delusi0nalllll) <a href="https://twitter.com/delusi0nalllll/status/1285476405996732417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He taught him <a href="https://t.co/RcCjTuuibE">pic.twitter.com/RcCjTuuibE</a></p>&mdash; Ben Zimba (@d_ben28) <a href="https://twitter.com/d_ben28/status/1285360774572134409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>