Sexyy Red: 5 Things to Know About Female Rapper Getting Cozy With ‘Her Man’ Drake

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Image Credit: Stewart Cook/Shutterstock Sexyy Red (b. Janae Wherry) is an American rapper. Her breakthrough opus is 2023’s “Pound Town,” which featured Nicki Minaj connected the remix. In July 2023, Drake posted photos of him cuddling Red, who helium called his “Rightful Wife.” Sexyy Red posted a selfie of herself cozying up to Drake and referred to him arsenic her “man” successful August 2023.

Drake and Sexyy Red person intelligibly gotten precise close! The “Pound Town” rapper posted a photograph of herself cozying up to Champagne Papi himself connected Twitter and Instagram connected Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. In the archetypal photo, the 2 rappers were hugging tight, and successful the 2nd changeable reddish was inactive cozying up to Drake, but flipping disconnected the camera. In the caption, she implied her Drake whitethorn beryllium person than friends. “I’m wit my man, but it’s inactive escaped my udder man,” she wrote, with a kissing emoji.

I'm wit my antheral but it's inactive escaped my udder antheral 💋 pic.twitter.com/9WWc3INbAB

— Sexyy Red (@SexyyRed314_) August 16, 2023

The caller photos of Drake and Red travel soon aft she announced that she’d beryllium opening up his It’s All A Blur tour with 21 Savage. She tweeted a video announcing that she’d beryllium performing connected “all remaining dates,” and thanked Drake for the opportunity.

Drake seemed acceptable to locomotion down the aisle with Sexyy Red pursuing his and 21 Savage’s amusement connected July 18. Following the 2nd of 4 nights astatine Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Drake, 36, posted a changeable of him kissing Red’s feature portion cozying up beside her. “Just met my rightful wife,” Drake captioned the representation of him and the 25-year-old. Drake besides shared a photograph taken of him getting adjacent to Red during Tuesday’s show.

Drake x Sexyy Red nexus up 👀 https://t.co/52WCdDsvQr pic.twitter.com/AtZPr3vLCY

— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) July 19, 2023

What is it astir Red – who secured her archetypal Billboard charting opus with 2023’s “Pound Town” – that near Drake to hide astir Rihanna, Sophie Brussaux, and every different pistillate he’s dated? “I beryllium myself,” Red told Complex in an in-depth interview. “I deliberation that’s what it is. Because there’s not cipher similar yourself. So if you beryllium yourself, you’re going to basal retired anyhow due to the fact that you’re conscionable being existent to who you is. I’ve ever been myself. I ne'er cared. When radical bash regular sh-t, I don’t privation to beryllium regular. I privation to basal out. I privation to bash thing that you each wouldn’t do.”

Get to cognize much astir Red.

Sexyy Red Is A Rapper.

“The crushed I started rapping is due to the fact that my fellow was cheating connected maine with a lame-ass bitch, truthful I made a opus astir it. And I made a diss opus astir him and the miss and her friends,” she told Complex in May 2023. “And past I showed my fellow the song, and helium was like, “Dang, you consecutive cognize however to rap. You consecutive snap.” And I’m sitting present talking worldly astir him, but helium was liking it.”

Red’s fellow astatine the clip brought each his friends astir to perceive to her rap, which encouraged her to grounds the song. From there, each her friends asked for a copy, and it started to circulate astir St. Louis. People proceeding her euphony booked her to play location parties, further encouraging her to prosecute her music. In 2021, she released her archetypal mixtape, Ghetto Superstar. In 2023, she released Hood Hottest Princess, which contained “Pound Town.” (Nicki Minaj would aboriginal leap connected the remix.)

Some of her aboriginal occurrence besides included a reimagination of Three 6 Mafia’s “Slob connected My Nob,” a opus astir oral sex. Sexyy’s “Slob On My Ckat” puts the absorption connected women, saying that she wanted equality erstwhile it comes to the bedroom.

“I’ll beryllium like, ‘It’s bad. It’s ratchet.’ That’s however I picture [my music],” she told Complex. “I beryllium like, ‘It’s bad. Don’t perceive to it astir nary kids.’ But the kids f–king with me, too. They f–k with maine hard.”

Where Is Sexyy Red From?

Sexyy Redd was calved and raised successful St. Louis, Missouri. “I’m truly a merchandise of my environment,” she told Complex in aboriginal 2023. “They beryllium saying, ‘Oh, she’s ghetto. She dusty.’ But I’m truly a merchandise of my environment. If they spell wherever I’m from, I’m cleanable retired there. They deliberation I’m dusty? Oh, this is clean. So it’s conscionable real.”

“I similar St. Louis rappers,” she added. “I perceive to the rappers. In my city, erstwhile you spell to the parties, they playing each the St. Louis rappers. Everybody from St. Louis perceive to St. Louis people. The satellite hasn’t heard it, but I beryllium like, “Dang, they’re really tight.” But I’m the 1 that everybody is seeing from the city. But we got a batch of rappers that I similar their music.”

Red besides told Complex her sanction comes from however she utilized to deterioration reddish hairsbreadth and reddish covering each the clip successful mediate school. Her cameraman suggested she follow the “Sexyy” moniker.

She’s A Mom.

Red walks the reddish carpet astatine the 2023 BET Awards. (Stewart Cook/Shutterstock)

While speaking with The Face, Sexyy Red revealed that she has a son.

Also during the chat, Red revealed that she’s ever been 1 to unrecorded her ain life. By property 15, she was hitting up section portion clubs. “My older sister gave maine her ID and we conscionable utilized to beryllium extracurricular each nighttime for nary reason,” she said. ​”It’d beryllium comic due to the fact that I’d travel backmost to schoolhouse and everybody conscionable was connected immoderate lame stuff. But me, I was already going to the club, going retired of municipality for the weekend. Even connected schoolhouse nights, my ma couldn’t support maine successful the house. I utilized to beryllium coming successful astatine three, 4 o’clock successful the greeting connected a schoolhouse night, and aftermath up and spell close to school.”

She Isn’t Afraid To Get Funny.

Many of the publications that interviewed Red aft “Pound Town” blew up made notation to the rapper’s consciousness of humor. “Yeah, I’m funny,” Red told Complex. “And I’m not doing it conscionable to marque them laugh. I’m truly conscionable being me, and past they’re laughing. I’m not ever trying to beryllium funny, but they beryllium laughing erstwhile I speech and stuff. I’ll beryllium saying, “Y’all reacted disconnected that?” Even erstwhile I said, “My coochie’s pink, my booty-hole brown.” I conscionable was rapping, and past they started laughing erstwhile I said it. I adjacent kept the laughter successful the song.”

“I accidental immoderate sh-t, and I won’t adjacent deliberation I’m being funny. I was being for real,” she told The Face. “I beryllium making myself laugh, I ain’t gonna lie.”

Red is besides funny successful astrological beingness paths, researching cryptids (“Mermaids, bigfoots, I look up everything connected YouTube,” she told Complex), and ghosts.

She’s Friends With Summer Walker.

“Me and her met connected Instagram first, and she was f–king with my music,” Red said to Complex about her relationship with Summer Walker. “I utilized to spot her posting my songs each the clip and she thought I was funny, too. … So she started pursuing me. Then she invited maine to her slumber enactment that she had with each her friends and stuff. And past we conscionable kept hanging retired aft then. Then we did a opus aboriginal down the line. Now if 1 of our kids person a day party, we’d beryllium like, okay, travel to the enactment oregon sh-t similar that. Now we’re cool.”