Last night, Drake’s son Adonis made a public appearance at the Billboard Music Awards, where he stood tucked behind his dad’s legs during his acceptance speech for Artist of the Decade. Drake actually took the stage flanked by the entirety of his OVO crew (plus his mom and dad), an entourage big enough to play a pickup game of basketball against each other. It feels like we haven’t seen a rapper and his full team haven’t taken a stage en masse like this since the Source Awards days. And while OVO technically presented him with the award—with a speech from Drake’s manager Future—to make the event a genuine family affair, that didn’t stop Drake from calling in the big guns and enlisting his bestie LeBron to narrate a dramatic clip summarizing his decade fo dominance. And yet, Adonis stole the show.
For a three-year-old facing down a large crowd of masked, cheering strangers, the guy held himself together pretty adeptly, clutching his dad’s Artist of the Year statuette and gazing open-mouthed at the audience while Drake talked about feeling self-conscious about his music and learning how to take compliments.
Things started going south, however, during the dedications towards the end of the speech, when Adonis burst into tears and tried to toddle offstage before Drake grabbed him and held him up to the mic, ending with “I want to dedicate this award to you.” The guy knows how to make a good exit.