Victoria Monét made it clear that she has no problem with tricking when she clarified that she didn’t mean to call Drake a “professional trick” during an interview.
On the heels of releasing her latest body of work, Frequency of Love, music’s reigning princess sat down with Complex to talk about what she wants out of love, partnership and dating. When the conversation turned towards being “tricked on,” she gave some insight into what really matters to her saying,
“It’s so far from a necessity that it doesn’t happen that often. And oftentimes, I’m tricking. I’ll do it for other people too. I’m like ‘let me do this for you, let me provide this for you. Let me surprise you and pay for the dinner’. I don’t know what that masculine energy is. I’m trying to relax off that in this new soft, feminine space. But I love to be able to meet people in a place where they’re surprised.”
She continued,
“If you’re tricking, what place do you think it comes from? Do you feel like it’s because you don’t have enough time so replace it with this? Or are you really like wanting to have a bunch of write offs? Do you feel like you just have so much that you need to get it out of your account? Do you just feel like you can save the world by what you can buy? Like is it ‘daddy’ you want? Is that like a kink? I want to know what’s in the mind of a trickster.”
After the interviewer evoked Drake’s documented lavish gifting, the two briefly spoke about his spending habits with Monet referring to him as a “professional trick.”
“He’s a trickster. He’s a trick-or-treat master,” she said.
Well, fans thought word must have gotten back to “The Boy” as blogs reported that he’d responded in the comments of a post to set the record straight, calling it part of his giving back a part of what he’s been blessed enough to receive. Cute!
“There’s a return on investment in your soul for doing things for people who you feel deserve it,” he wrote. “It’s self awareness that you have been blessed with an obscene amount of money and joy is the emotion that excites you the most. So once you have experienced enough joy from material things for yourself sometimes the only way is to see the joy on faces after unexpected gestures for others. Transactional exchanges with the expectation of intimacy are a different frequency.”
Ok for the wordplay at the end, Drake!
However, Victoria pulled a quick “not so fast,” pointing to the fact that Drake’s thoughts on tricking were old and not in response to her interview. She quickly shut down the idea that she’d been responsible for bringing up his spending habits.
“False news btw. The interviewer mentioned his name. I did not,” she said. “He also didn’t respond. This is a comment from August that media is trying to run with.”
