Drake – "Child's Play" (2016)

Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake?

You know I love to go there!

Monique Santos is not a fan of Cheesecake Factory restaurants.

“Who the hell is Monique Santos?” I hear you saying to your significant other – or perhaps to your dog – as you read this post. “Why should I give a sh*t that she’s not a fan of Cheesecake Factory?”

To answer your first question, Monique Santos is some random woman who is seen in a recent TikTok video refusing to get out of the car when a prospective beau takes her to Cheesecake Factory for their first date.  Apparently that restaurant doesn’t meet Monique’s very high standards. 

Monique Santos

To answer your second question, you should you give a sh*t about Monique Santos’s opinion of Cheesecake Factory because she is a yuuuuge star as a result of this video (which has been viewed about ten zillion times).  All the cool kids are talking about her, dontcha know.

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I’m guessing my late father had very little in common with Monique Santos, but he did share her distaste for the Cheesecake Factory.

That distaste was manifested about 20 years ago, when my wife and kids and I travelled to Kansas City for our annual holiday get-together with my parents and sister.  

One night, we decided to go to a Cheesecake Factory restaurant for dinner.  For some reason, my father was in a foul mood that evening.  (The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.). He flipped through the menu with a disdainful expression on his face, then announced, “There’s nothin’ here I want to eat.”

A Cheesecake Factory restaurant

The Cheesecake Factory menu is 20-plus pages long, and has over 250 items.  It has salads, sandwiches, hamburgers, steaks, seafood, pastas, pizzas, omelets . . . in other words, it has EVERYTHING.  

My father was a somewhat picky eater, but his pronouncement had everything to do with his p*ssy mood and nothing to do with the items listed on the Cheesecake Factory menu.

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Drake is a really big deal.

He has sold more digital singles in the United States than any other recording artist.  

He has won five Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, a record 34 Billboard Music Awards.  

Drake

Drake has 13 number-one hits on the Billboard “Hot 100,” and has had the most “Hot 100” top ten singles (76) and the highest total number of records to chart on the “Hot 100” (321).  He is also the artist who has had the most number-one singles on the “Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs” and “Hot Rap Songs” charts.

As today’s featured song notes, Drake likes the Cheesecake Factory.  You’d best believe that if Drake took Monique Santos to the Cheesecake Factory, she wouldn’t refuse to get out of the car because it wasn’t good enough for her. 

Click here to listen to “Child’s Play,” which was released in 2016 on Drake’s fourth studio album, Views.

Click here to buy the record from Amazon.