On the surface, Drake and Black Coffee don't share much in common. One is a Canadian rap star who grew up as a mixed-race child in a white neighbourhood, the other is a South African house DJ from the poor township of Ngangelizwe in Mthatha.
But over the years, the two have established an unlikely friendship that's grown into a full-blown bromance.
Last week Saturday, while Black Coffee was performing at Hi' Ibiza, a club in Playa d'en Bossa, the most popular resort on Ibiza, Drake appeared in the crowd with a small entourage.
Like everyone else there, he seemed eager to have a good time and enjoy a night out dancing to some house music with his friends. Meanwhile, behind the decks, the veteran house DJ appeared to spot him and wave him over.
Drake duly obliged and went over to the DJ booth, cameras flashing all around him. With his arms stretched out wide and a childlike smile planted on his face, Drake went on to give Black Coffee the warmest of hugs.
With Massive, the lead single on Drake's new album Honestly, Nevermind (which Black Coffee executive produced), appropriately blaring from the speakers, they danced to the up-tempo house bop as the crowd cheered them on.
The next day, after Black Coffee posted a video on Instagram of this interaction, Drake commented: "Thank you for one of the best moments of my life and for allowing me to see lbiza for the first time in a room standing next to you. Eternal love for you."
There are tweets that have been circulating these past few weeks about how happy male friends are when they're together. One particular tweet comes to mind: "I'm convinced men get butterflies when their homeboys pull up."
When exactly Drake and Black Coffee became such close buddies is unclear.
But Drake's first public show of admiration came in 2017 when he enlisted Black Coffee to contribute on his More Life project.
Released a year after Views, a stale album which saw Drake at his least creative, More Life was bursting with life,
thanks in large part to Black Coffee's house influence.
On the project, the pair teamed up for a remake of Black Coffee's classic house anthem, Superman, alongside British singer Jorja Smith. Drake was so heavily influenced by Black Coffee and
his South African roots that he even titled one of the songs Madiba Riddim.
