Drake booed at a music festival

TYLER the Creator recruited Drake to perform at his annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival in Los Angeles over the weekend. It did not go well.

As reported by Billboard, Drake was booed Sunday during a performance at the erstwhile Odd Future member’s festival, now in its sixth year.

In social media videos of the awkward exchange, Drake wraps up a verse from his 2013 track “Wu-Tang Forever.”

“Like I said, I’m here for you,” the visibly annoyed rapper tells the crowd.

“If you want to keep going, I will keep going tonight.”

A er being met with a chorus of applause and boos, he ends his set.

“It’s been love,” he tells the crowd.

“I love you. I go by the name of Drake.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, Drake was a surprise headliner at the festival, which featured billed performances by FKA Twigs, Solange, YG, GoldLink and Tyler himself.

Social media users pointed to rumors of a surprise set from Frank Ocean – the elusive R&B innovator who launched his music career as one-third of Odd Future – as one possible reason for Drake’s chilly reception.

Tyler appeared to confirm that theory in a tweet Monday:

“I thought bringing one of the biggest artist[s] on the ... planet to a music festival was fire,” he wrote.

“Some created a narrative in their head and acted out ... when it didn’t come true.”

Drake’s supporters have cast the incident as an unforgivable slight against one of the most successful entertainers of the decade.

YouTube personality DJ Akademiks tweeted that he had spoken to Drake following the rocky set and that the rapper was “taking it in stride.”

He said Drake characterized the performance as a “moment of humility which is always welcomed.”

Nine years a er releasing his debut album, “Thank Me Later,” Drake is an undeniable pop star, with four Grammys and 20 Billboard Hot 100 No 1 songs under his belt.

And that may have been part of the problem at a festival anchored by alternative rap and R&B acts.

(Even Tyler conceded that

Drake’s appearance may have been “a lil tone deaf knowing the specific crowd it drew.”) But it’s hard to ignore that public opinion on Drake has shi ed since he first courted fans with brooding bars about his childhood trauma, failed relationships and struggles with fame.

Authenticity, an unofficial tenet of hip-hop since its early days, has always been a question when it comes to Drake, who first rose to fame as an actor on the Canadian teen drama “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”

It’s hard to convince people you “started from the bo om” when they watched you on TV for the be er part of a decade, though in interviews Drake rejected the notion of a comfortable childhood.

“My mother was very sick. We were very poor, like broke,” he told Complex in 2011.

“The only money I had coming in was off Canadian TV, which isn’t that much money when you break it down.”

As Drake’s popularity grew, so too did questions about the rapper’s chart-topping tracks – specifically whether he penned them himself.

Drake’s rumored use of ghostwriters has been central to his numerous feuds with fellow rappers, most notably Meek Mill and Pusha T.

Drake and Meek publicly buried the hatchet last year; according to Setlist.fm, the rapper’s truncated festival set list even featured a song by his former foe.

But Pusha T reignited his years-long beef with Drake in last year’s ‘The Story of Adidon,’ a scathing diss track that seemed to call the rapper’s very essence into question.

The song referenced the rapper’s young son, whom he had not yet discussed in public, as Pusha implied that Drake had abandoned his child a er devoting years of verses to his reportedly absentee father.

Drake later acknowledged he had fathered the child on his massive double album ‘Scorpion.’ One track put the scandal in full focus: “Single father, I hate when I hear it / I used to challenge my parents on every album / Now I’m embarrassed to tell ‘em I ended up as a co-parent,” he raps on ‘March 14.’ — The Washington Post