Drake's Worst Behavior unintentionally sums up the (mis)treatment of Black feminism/womanism as well as the mis(treatment) of Black women&girls themselves and the politics of refusal stemming from that (mis)treatment. (I know what you're thinking. Let me explain.)
The chorus "I'm on my worst behavior/Don't you ever get it fucked up/Muthafuckas never loved us/Man, muthafuckas never loved us" could and does apply to the way Black girls&women have been (mis)treated, and the politics of refusal they enacted in response ("worst behavior").
"Niggas still play my old shit/But your shit is like the police asking us questions/Nigga we don't know shit" refers (unintentionally) to the pilfering of Black feminist/womanist epistemologies&to the distortion that they then endure.
Black feminist knowledge is first discarded, then slowly seeps, though almost completely blurred&unrecognizable, into the work of people who are then praised for "their" insight.
"I'm liable to do anything when it comes to that you owe me/You owe me/You owe me/Bitch you better have my money when I come for this shit" literally echoes Rihanna's BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY, and once again represents the unpaid debt of Black feminist labor.
Black feminism and Black girls/women are understood as unvisible yet hypervisible, void of any interior lives, and a free buffet for all (including some Black girls/women themselves) to partake in.
While the visuals for the song are populated with men, and the message of the song is adressed to men, the words he raps in the two first verses (and the chorus) eerily could be a Black feminist manifesto.
"Worst behavior" then transforms into a call for the poetics of Black feminist refusal, but also the ordinary resistance (and to borrow from Saidiya Hartman, the waywardness) of Black girls&women through the everyday.
This doesn't make Drake any less of a predator, this doesn't make him any less corny, but it provides an interesting way of (mis)reading texts whose intention was never Black feminist to begin with.
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