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Drake Salutes Chingy for ‘One Call Away’ Lyric: ‘You Really Struck a Chord With This’

The 2004 hit reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Drake performs onstage during "Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert" at State Farm Arena on Dec. 9, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Drake performs onstage during "Lil Baby & Friends Birthday Celebration Concert" at State Farm Arena on Dec. 9, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Drake took it back to 2003, and while listening to a Chingy classic, something about the St. Louis rapper’s “One Call Away” anthem stuck out to him.

The 6 God took to his Instagram Story on Sunday (Aug. 18) to quote verses from the Jackpot hit, which Drake felt he related to, especially when it came to trying to go harder if certain ladies were in attendance watching him play basketball, but negatively impacting his game.


“Nah Chingy I felt this like why do I play better when the tings aren’t watching you really struck a chord with this one goated lyric,” he wrote.

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Drizzy continued to salute Chingy. “Also, the face you said tryna dribble like off that bar we know you were ass at ball but your ting showed up and you started doing too much like this real af you are a guy for that bar,” he wrote.

Chingy has yet to respond to Drake’s praise on social media. However, there was much debate and confusion about what the OVO boss had to say, as some interpreted the flowers as a backhanded compliment or even dissing Chingy. “Did Drake just diss Chingy or is he just joking around?” one person asked, adding a shrug emoji.

“One Call Away” landed on Chingy’s Jackpot album in 2003 and was released as a single in January 2004.

The Track Starz-produced banger went on to reach No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ended up spending 20 weeks on the chart.

Watch the “One Call Away” video featuring Chingy in action on the basketball court below.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.
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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.

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Former drummer and now head of Round One Sports & Entertainment Liam Killeen pens this tribute to his former bandmate, with words from The Feldman Agency's Jeff Craib, Sum 41's Dave Baksh, Simple Plan's Chuck Comeau and more.

Mike Bilcox, lead singer and guitarist of Ajax, Ontario’s second most famous pop-punk band, Not By Choice, passed away on June 21, at age 48.

Mike started Not By Choice with his Ajax High School friend Glenn ‘Chico’ Dunning back in 1997. They had initially played a few shows under different names that may or may not be suitable for print, but our moniker came from Mike bothering his younger sister Chrissy at the dinner table. When she couldn’t take any more of his taunting, she promptly told her Mom, Pat, that he was annoying her – Pat yelled ‘Well, he’s your brother!’ to which Chrissy quickly replied ‘Yeah, not by choice!’. With that, a real band was born.

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