Somehow, ‘Not Like Us’ Will Be Played at Another Awards Show

If you don’t count the music he’s released, the two most notable things Drake has done since losing his historic rap battle with Kendrick Lamar are file shortsighted lawsuits and retreat online. Shunned by his A-list peers in entertainment who have sung, dance, and laughed to his death knell, “Not Like Us,” at awards shows like the Grammys, the BET Hip-Hop Awards, and the Oscars, the Canadian rapper has strengthened his alliance with livestreamers like xQc and Adin Ross, with whom he routinely promotes sports gambling to audiences of children. And yet even in the bubble of his new online sanctuary, it seems, Drake is not safe from ridicule. At the internet-focused Webby Awards on May 12 Lamar’s diss is once again going to be fêted, this time with the prize for Music Video, Creator Excellence (Video & Film). Somehow, “Not Like Us” is going to be played at yet another awards show. That this particular ceremony will also apparently hand out a trophy to “the skibidi toilet fan multiverse” hardly even matters.

The Webby Award winners were announced April 22, featuring a list of names including Amelia Dimoldenberg, Marcello Hernandez, Walton Goggins, and Snoop Dogg. Ilana Glazer will host. If the show wants to go as viral as the honorees it awards, it will put a call in to Serena Williams posthaste to see if she is available to C-walk onstage to “Not Like Us” like she did at the Super Bowl.

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