Drake’s Sunday night at the Billboard Music Awards, where he was crowned Artist of the Decade, was all about his “beautiful” family and one adorable, yapping child.
The rapper-singer, who has achieved incredible success with songs like “Best I Ever Had,” “Find Your Love,” and “Hotline Bling,” as well as “God’s Plan,” “In My Feelings,” and “Toosie Slide,” was actually given the accolade by a group of family and friends onstage outside the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Drake then presented his three-year-old son Adonis, who was sporting blonde cornrows, and asked if he wаnted to handle the trophy.
As Adonis ducked between his legs, the 34-year-old rapper admitted in his victory speech, “The trutҺ is, I’m really bad at taking compliments.” “My music makes me extremely self-conscious, and even when I perform well, I always ask myself how I could have done it better. I don’t usually celebrate things.
A few moments later, the charmingly reserved toddler—Drake’s son with former pоrn star Sophie Brussaux—was yelling a full-fledged tantrum when his laughing father dragged him off stage.
The earliest reports of Drake’s paternity with the adult entertainer surfaced in 2018. Drake’s rival rapper Pusha T had at the time published a diss track claiming that Drake had a son. This caused the former cast member of “Degrassi” to officially confirm Adonis’ existence on his album “Scorpion.”
Drake at last came clean in the song “Emotionless,” saying, “I wasn’t hiding my kid from the world / I was hiding the world from my kid.” “From empty souls who just wake up and look to debate / Until you’re starin’ at your seed, you could never relate,” was another line in the song.
Drake said to the Billboards audience, “To be really honest with you, I don’t quite understand it myself,” in reference to his phenomenal musical success. All I know is that I have devoted countless hours to attempting to figure out what went wrong. However, I’m positive that we accomplished something tonight, at least for once.