There was literally so much going on over the weekend. Let’s do a short recap: Cardib dropped her first studio album ‘Invasion of Privacy’, Rihanna released Fenty Beauty’s highly anticipated ‘Body Lava’, Cardib revealed her pregnancy via SNL, chadwick Boseman hosted SNL, annnnd Drake released his newest single ‘Nice for What’.

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The song is a sample of the great Lauryn Hill’s song ‘Ex-Factor’, from her album “The Mis-education of Lauryn Hill’ which she won 5 Grammy’s back in 1998. Not only is the song a hit on the premise that the original track was a hit but the video was full of #Girlpower and #blackgirlmagic. This is definitely not your typical rap video. Drake definitely knows how to stay relevant and on top of the current social trends. He

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1. Drake had Karen Evans a 22 year old videographer out of Canada direct the video. He provided an opportunity to a woman to showcase her talent to the world

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  2. The video featured all women in all of their glory, respectfully.
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3. The fact that he had Tracee Elliss Ross, Yara Shahidi, Misty Copeland, Issa Rae, Tiffany Haddish among others is a WIN!
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4. We saw another side of Drake. We saw the Drake that loves not only women with nice bodies but with brains too.
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5. He honored motherhood by showing Zoe Saldana with her daughter

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Drake gave women back their power with this video! We thank him for that!

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