He teased the opening with a post on Instagram and a new tag line “treat yourself don’t cheat yourself”.
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While some have described Ballet as a strip club, so far Drake has not tagged it that way and spokespeople for the rapper who calls Houston his second home have not responded to Billboard’s request for comment on the club’s concept.
Drake’s ongoing love affair with Houston has been well-documented. “He namechecks the city in his 2009 song ‘Houstatlantavegas, ‘” reports NME.
Yes, Drake is so appreciative of Houston that he has a weekend-long festival celebrating the city.
The Ballet pop-up took place on the same night Drake played at Houston’s Toyota Centre as part of his Summer Sixteen tour. It’s really about these fantastic women that we got in one spot. He promised that he is “going to bring it to you in the most honest and genuine way possible”.
Reluctant to call it a strip club, Drake insisted that ‘The Ballet would be a classy experience, “a different take on how it [i.e. the typical strip club] should be done”, according to Highsnobiety.
Drake’s fan site, Word on the Road also features footage of him discussing the club from his pop-up event last night. Not that that’s a diss to either the city or Drizzy’s new club; it’s just about calling a spade a spade and a thong a thong. “REDEFINED. THIS IS VIRGINIA BLACK”, reads the liquor’s official website. And it’s not about no strip club sh*t.
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Drake will finally be able to get that one dance for which he’s been waiting after opening his very own strip club.
