Sexyy Red Felt Went Through Great Lengths To Hide Her Pregnancy While On Drake's Tour

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on January 11, 20242.3K Views

Sexyy Red Performs At Fillmore Silver Spring in Maryland

SILVER SPRING, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 17: DJ Farrah Flosscett performs in Silver Spring, United States on November 17, 2023. Why. (Photo by Shedrick Pelt for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Red did the most she could to keep her pregnancy under wraps for as long as possible.

In 2023, Sexyy Red was one of the biggest breakout stars not just in rap but in all of music. One of her biggest points of exposure was her connection to the biggest rapper in the world, Drake. She teamed up with him and SZA on the song "Rich Baby Daddy" from his album For All The Dogs. She also developed a pretty good friendship with SZA. In fact, the R&B singer was alongside her in an Instagram post that served as Red's official pregnancy announcement. But now, she's sharing some news about how she treated her pregnancy while opening for Drake on his It's All A Blur Tour.

In a recent interview with Billboard she opened up on the extent she went to in order to hide the pregnancy for as long as possible. “When nobody knew I was pregnant, I’d be in the back room like trying to suck my stomach in, or wear clothes to show that I wasn’t pregnant, and I had to practice my breathing. Like, before I’d go on stage, I had to hold my stomach in and look at myself and be like, ‘Can they tell?’ Once I just was like, ‘OK, I can’t keep hiding it,’ ’cause it hurt to just be on stage all day holding your stomach in, so I’m like, just forget about it," she explains. "Because I was pregnant on the Drake tour and the Moneybagg [Yo] tour, but nobody knew. People started suspecting it on the Drake tour because there was videos and pictures of me coming out. […] That’s the only reason I was hiding it, because I just wanted me and my family and friends to know," Red reveals.

Sexyy Red On Hiding Her Pregnancy On Tour

Red's massive 2023 concluded with some substantial critical praise. Rolling Stone called her essential summer banger "SkeeYee" the very best song of the year. While Red herself was pretty happy about the recognition, many of her haters online took issue with the choice.

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Lavender Alexandria

Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.