The Worst Pop Lyrics of 2016
10. “Pop Style”
Drake
Worst Lyric: “Got so many chains they call me Chaining Tatum”
The man born Aubrey Drake Graham has long been on the cutting edge of pop music. He combined rap, pop, and R&B in ways we hadn’t seen before and popularized the persona of the lonely stoner. Here, he brings his latest innovation to hip-hop: dad jokes. And look, every rapper will eventually write a real groaner, but on this track, Drake has elevated the facepalm to an art form.
“Pop Style” is a Caribbean term that roughly means “ballin’,” and it’s a small blessing that Mr. Graham doesn’t trot out his awful bajan accent here like he does on other songs from Views, such as “Controlla”. Drake’s only claim to Caribbean heritage is that he once ****ed Rihanna. Someone close to him should mention that culture isn’t sexually transmittable.
They dragged him to the pits
