By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor The strange contradictions of the present day are front and center in Drake’s new video, “Toosie Side,” which features the rapper doing a meme-generating dance inside his mansion during lockdown.
The clip begins with scenes of deserted streets in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto before it moves inside a sprawling mansion — his, judging by the trophies and photos inside — while Drake dances around wearing a stylized mask.
The song’s lyrics don’t seem to address the coronavirus pandemic — “Gotta dance, but it’s really on some street shit/ I’ma show you how to get it/ It go right foot up, left foot slide/ Left foot up, right foot slide/Basically I’m saying either way we ’bout to slide” — but the visuals
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