Yesterday I watched my high school's last theatrical production of the season, and with that, several seniors' final onstage high school production. I really didn't want to come watch it, because I knew that the show wasn't going to be good, and I don't care much for my high school. Theatre there is quite literally the only aspect of high school which I liked, respect and miss. That, my junior year English teacher, senior year science teacher, and I guess I'd put choir in there as well.
Nonetheless, I had to show out for the seniors, because I care about a lot of them and they're important people in my eyes. Plus, I'd like to think that some of them would be happy/excited/blessed/honored to be in my presence, but who am I to be cocky? I don't wanna be on my cocky sh*t til I do/make something that I'm proud of. Roland obviously played a big role in me coming, because he wanted me to come more than anything, and that's BRNSQD right there, so I gotta support the boy. Same way I'd support Stephanie, Kenan or Adrian. Me coming was important though, because Reezy introduced me to who's expected to be the next member of BRNSQD, the next person to hold it down and keep the vision alive. And it's really exciting because this person is only a freshman, but I'll get into that later.
I came to the show mainly for like 6-7 seniors, but I'm not gonna namedrop them because I'm not entirely acquainted to them, meaning I can't just namedrop them and expect them to be okay with it because I wouldn't know. Like for example, 9's okay with me talking about him right now and he doesn't even know. But that's fam so I know he's chill with it.
The person I'm bouta talk about I respect too much to namedrop without his permission, so let's call him Drake. I call him Drake because I always saw him as the "Drake" of our theatre program. Anyone who knows, knows. (I put on God's Plan to get into the mindset lolll)
I'm copying and pasting this straight out the text I sent him (sorry Bro), it's really too hot of a line to
not include:
"once again wanted to say congrats on finishing your ********* career, it was a crazy ride I bet, and it was really cool to see u grow along the way. Like it was cool to see because it was initially an accident, but that accident turned into destiny, and like I said earlier, you just continued to run ********* your entire career, quite literally from day 1 too"
For some context, Drake was never planning to join the hs theatre program. We were doing "Shrek: The Musical", and (if my facts are right) after auditions/callbacks, our director was still unable to find someone to play the role of Shrek. Our all-male a capella group had rehearsal that evening, so in an act of desperation, our director just walked into the rehearsal and asked if anyone wanted to audition for the role of Shrek. Drake was a freshman at the time, so like any shooter, the boy shot his shot, and the rest is history. Man's dropped a lead of a musical as his high school theatre debut, as a freshman. Say what you want, give any excuse you have, but you can't deny the scoreboards, and you gotta admit that's a remarkable feat.
An accident ended up being destiny, theatre took over Drake's life, and that (alongside music) became his number 1 passion. Drake continued to get multiple, often consecutive, leads throughout the various theatrical productions we did. It didn't matter what genre, Drake was always able to secure his bag, and I have hella respect for that.
Of course when you get your bag you're gonna have hella haters, and so people tried to bring Drake down, whether it was rumors, someone acknowledging that he dickrode some of his superiors, claiming that casting was rigged from the start because the director favors Drake, and anything else you can think of.
I'm gonna say which of those I think is true, which I know are true, or if any are true. That's not for me to speak on. I will say that I think he looks up to the wrong people. I'm not saying they're bad influences, but they're not the right influences. I won't discuss that with anyone unless we're talking in person, because once it's on the internet it's there forever. This is private stuff that deserves to be off the grid. I just don't like to see people used, that is all.
tbc
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