A Drake Cover Story, Deconstructed
With rapper Drake adorning the April 2012 cover of GQ, LA Times media critic James Rainey pegs it as the latest example of the glossy monthly magazine staple known as the date-as-interview. In these cases, the reporter acts as a surrogate for the respective gender side of a publication’s celebrity-adoring readership.
The author of the GQ cover story is Claire Hoffman, a one-time LA Times staffer. Here’s what she told Rainey about her latest, impressive celebrity “get:”
“It’s not brain-surgery hard, but it’s hard,” said Hoffman.
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