What is the meaning behind “And I know when that hotline bling That can only mean one thing I know when that hotline bling That can only mean one thing”? Hotline Bling by Drake
- by imrk
- April 14, 2023
Drake knows that at this time of night, there’s only one person who’ll call him. He also knows that the only thing she’ll want is to come over and have sex. By describing his cell phone as a hotline, he’s referencing phone sex hotlines that people call “for a good time.” Notably, Drake is using “bling” as the sound of his phone ringing. Drake’s mentor Lil Wayne originally coined the ideophone “bling bling” as a sound that could adequately express the flash of jewelry. Also worth noting that rings are jewelry, cellphone strong ring = bling. Wow! Slate wrote about Drake’s love-hate relationship with communications technology and even said “he’s claimed the laurels of the 21st-century bard of telephony.”