"I realized how powerful it would be to have the name associated with us," says Pottinger. They come from far away, so when they come and see a closed restaurant, it's not really nice for them."īut the "Work" team assured him they would feature the restaurant's trademark sign, with its backsplash of Pan-African colours and a smiling sun. "I value my customers, who come from all over. "They had to convince me to do it, because I don't really give up a regular restaurant night to shoot movies or video clips," says Pottinger.
Drake, Rihanna spotted in Toronto shooting new videoįriday is one of the busiest days for the Real Jerk and Pottinger, who was in his native Jamaica at the time, wanted to make sure his customers came first.Open audition in Toronto for Drake and Rihanna music video.Riverdale's The Real Jerk front and centre in Rihanna and Drake's Work video.Listen via Apple Music or Tidal.A Toronto restaurant is getting international attention after being prominently featured in one of Rihanna's two new music videos for "Work" with Drake - a film shoot the co-owner admits he was initially reluctant to agree to.Įdward Pottinger, who co-owns the Caribbean eatery the Real Jerk with wife Lilly, says the video's creators called him about two weeks ago on a Monday asking if they could shoot there for about 24 hours on the Friday of that same week. In 2012, Rihanna created the Clara Lionel Foundation, and two years after, a. Yet, aside from developing these worldwide brands, she also has developed an organization to help those in need.
It shows she knows her considerable worth. NEW YORK CITY People throughout the world know Rihanna for her music, makeup and lingerie brands and fashion icon looks. Simple as it is, Ri's "Work work work work #work!" hook is wise. Rihanna has shared a teaser for the video to her dancehall -inspired ANTI standout Work, featuring herself and Drake at a cool-looking party. Emotionally unmoored as ever, Drake's first verse of 2016 finds him in motivational speaker mode: "When I see potential/ I just gotta see it through," he sings, "If you had a twin/ I would still choose you" (as if anyone could compare). Her voice has a glossy wordlessness to it, but this is for sure some of her most subtle, expressive, and coolly thrilling shout-singing. You could imagine Boi-1da traveling to Rihanna's sunstruck Caribbean home to make this beat. "Work," the new Drizzy-RiRi single, is no doubt the best bit of ANTI since "Bitch Better Have My Money" became one of 2015's toughest vessels of self-empowerment. A lot can change in six years, and to be a fan has been to watch Drake and Rihanna grow into pop protagonists more self-possessed, both meaner, more acutely themselves. It was a young song with an old, knowing soul. At the center of Drake's masterpiece, that minimal four-four club track held onto the scars of the 1959 Bobby Bland blues ballad at its core (as reinterpreted by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx). A year later, "Take Care" glistened with something very different-real pain. The spectrum of their mind-meeting reaches back to 2010's "What's My Name?"-that Thank Me Later-era radio candy whose literal "square root of 69" joke belied its total high school innocence. Consider the collaborative singles of Drake and Rihanna as the trilogy of desire, hurt, and self-actualization that they are.