Went to the gym daily to bulk up in order to become strong and worthy of her, using "for Serena" as his concentration mantra in between reps Played Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" on repeat during Tabata workouts to keep his focus pure Casually looked up tennis scoring names on his phone just before starting conversation with her, clenching his fist and muttering to himself, "It's love, fifteen, thirty, forty, game, you can do this,…

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“What people remembered her for were the pubic hair portraits.” Death, family, feminism, something like art.

Mensah on changing jobs, Dre’s latest, Meek vs Drake, and La Femme, a wild French band.

Infectious flash: “Still, maybe you should

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mensah demary's previous Liner Notes columns for The Butter can be found here. This past week, I started a new job. And with new jobs come new responsibilities, new people to meet, new expectations, new office politics. Combined, a culture shock occurs, so perhaps I’m reeling from the novelty of my new employment, the drastic, yet thankful (oh so thankful) changes that have come my way. This, I assume, is an explanation for what…

Welcome back to Crush Cakes. When you sit around breathlessly swooning over your crushes nonstop like me, well…we are worldly people here, you know what happens next. I make cakes expressing my feelings for them, and then sit back and wait for destiny to be fulfilled. It all makes perfect sense.

mensah demary's previous Liner Notes columns for The Butter can be found here. Things change within a week. Valentine's Eve, with broken hearts prepped for the weekend, or new relationships re-fortified through gifts Instagrammed, was the perfect day for Drake to drop, without warning, a new album. If it can be called an album. More like the nebulous “tape” label he assigned to it. Regardless, it arrived. I've followed his career closely since the…

It was another lonely night on the tour bus for Aubrey—known to almost everyone in the world as the Grammy-winning, platinum recording artist, Drake—but still Aubrey to his mom back home in Toronto.

Feeling listless, he opened up the book he’d been reading during this leg of his tour, The Ten Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer. It was hard for Drake to shop for books these days. He’s so

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