Drake & Nicki Minaj – Make Me Proud (live on SNL)

Pop music in 2011 has certain rules, and few as unbreakable as the fact you must regard Drake with eye-rolling affection and Nicki Minaj as unfaultably fab. The pair brought their twin abilities of being great rappers and coming across as the sort of people one would reasonably want to hang around with for the second time on Drake’s forthcoming ‘Take Care’ album cut Make Me Proud, which was played by the pair live on Saturday Night Live, an American TV programme Dummy has previously discussed in relation to Radiohead. Drake salutes the rise of the real, speak-rapping conversationally, Nicki fetishes the front, twisting her voice into new structures and sounds. Kind of interesting how well they get along, don’t you think?