A side of the city that perhaps few gave much thought to until last year’s Oscar winning Moonlight, and maybe haven’t thought about much sense. In other words, Drake ditches the South Beach clichés and gives representation to the Miami-Dade County that lies beyond that MTV sheen, where the poverty rate is 21.3 percent, where some neighborhoods are amongst the most dangerous in the country, and where income inequality is at near third-world levels.

He buys people cars, gives money to the fire department, and drops lump sums of cash into strangers’ laps. He donates money to the Overtown Youth Center and Lotus House, a local charity and shelter that helps homeless women and children, many of whom were victims of domestic and sexual abuse. He tells costumers at an inner city market that he’ll buy anything they can fit in their shopping cart. In the clip, Drake takes the near $1,000,000 budget his label gave him to spend on the typical expenses one expects comes with a 305-set video-like, say, renting out a mansion and securing an actual tiger-and instead goes around to the city’s less glamorous areas in order to play a charitable young Santa Claus in a University of Miami hoodie. So, if Drake‘s latest video for “God’s Plan” feels like a pointed retort to all of that, maybe it’s because it was designed to be. Whether it’s Beyoncé grinding up against Jay-Z’s surfboart on one of the county’s beaches in “Drunk in Love” or Jennifer Lopez partying with speedo-clad papis in Biscayne Bay, it’s all exactly, reassuringly what you’d expect.

After all, a large chunk of its economy relies on tourism, and that tourism in turns relies on the city’s pop culture image as a balmy seaside den of sin and luxury. It’s all pretty standard fare, and it’s not necessarily like Miami minds. Musicians of all kinds have used the city as a backdrop for party song clips for decades, so much so that you can probably play bingo with the stereotypes of a Miami-shot music video: a candy-colored Lamborghini, a yacht, stacks of $100 bills, champagne served in the bottle service area, gyrating booty shorts, speedboats or luxury yachts, stretches of pristine sand, luxury suites or downtown penthouses, a Scarface allusion here and there, and, for a recent dash of culture, perhaps some of the technicolored murals in the city’s artsy Wynwood district. It’s where Rihanna collected her “Wild Thoughts”, Nicki Minaj Raked It Up, and Taylor Swift recently downed several drinks on top of a mega-yacht.

You’ve seen Miami as a setting for many a music video before.

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