DJ Hesta Prynn's Music is Therapy
May 22, 2026 · 18 min · 19 segments
In today's episode, DJ Hesta Prynn is Drake's hot therapist. We get into Drake as an emotional universe — why his music, and his latest album ICEMAN, lives in the space of wanting connection while…
Hesta PrynnHost
I may be a little biased because I spent a lot of years loving Drake, like, in a very deep way.
But you must remember, I am talking about the Drake of 2014, the golden era of Drake.
In 2014 I was pregnant and I had a Smart car that I used to drive around New York City, and I used to park it sideways everywhere.
And one day my husband and I went to get, like, a scan or a sonogram or whatever at the midwife, and she said...
She was like, "Did you know when the baby's born she will recognize the father's voice from hearing it when she was in the womb?" And my husband, like, without missing a beat was like, "Well, the baby is going to think Drake is her father." And we laughed and laughed and thought Drake would be on top forever, and no one saw Kendrick coming.
It's not the absence of feeling, it's how someone manages having way too much feeling.
Someone with avoidant attachment often learned early, like when they were a child or even a baby, that needing people was unsafe-Or pointless.
Isn't that so sad? And so the nervous system adapted and taught them, "Don't need too much.
I may be a little biased because I spent a lot of years loving Drake, like, in a very deep way.
But you must remember, I am talking about the Drake of 2014, the golden era of Drake.
In 2014 I was pregnant and I had a Smart car that I used to drive around New York City, and I used to park it sideways everywhere.
And one day my husband and I went to get, like, a scan or a sonogram or whatever at the midwife, and she said...
She was like, "Did you know when the baby's born she will recognize the father's voice from hearing it when she was in the womb?" And my husband, like, without missing a beat was like, "Well, the baby is going to think Drake is her father." And we laughed and laughed and thought Drake would be on top forever, and no one saw Kendrick coming.
It's not the absence of feeling, it's how someone manages having way too much feeling.
Someone with avoidant attachment often learned early, like when they were a child or even a baby, that needing people was unsafe-Or pointless.
Isn't that so sad? And so the nervous system adapted and taught them, "Don't need too much.
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