{"id":353711,"date":"2026-06-28T19:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353711\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:19:13","slug":"drake-tried-a-lost-in-da-sauce-smoke-box-and-made-a-viral-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/353711\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake tried a Lost in Da Sauce &#8216;smoke box&#8217; and made a viral clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With three bites of a meal captured on video through a car window, Drake lauded a Houston area kitchen and created an instant viral hit for a chef this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The rap and hip-hop star who lives in the\u00a0Brenham area visited the Lost in Da Sauce, a viral popup joint in northwest Houston that takes orders for chicken wings, sliders and fries via\u00a0Instagram and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lostindasaucekitchen\/reels\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shares its customers&#8217; live reactions<\/a> with more than 190,000 followers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the videos, patrons show off their mouth-watering meals from their foam to-go boxes and say where they&#8217;re coming from \u2014 hailing from Houston neighborhoods, local suburbs, states across the country and fictional lands.<\/p>\n<p>Drake&#8217;s clip went accordingly. Sitting inside his vehicle, he held an unwrapped &#8220;smoke box&#8221; in his lap with wings, loaded fries and three sliders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Came all the way from Toronto, Canada \u2014 &#8216;the 6&#8217; \u2014 but I also live in Brenham, Texas,&#8221; Drake, who was born in Toronto, said in the video. &#8220;So you know I&#8217;m repping both at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He repeated the kitchen&#8217;s trademark slogan &#8220;tap in&#8221;\u00a0before digging in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fire, this is fire,&#8221; he said as he chewed his fries and grabbed a slider. &#8220;Fire, Hawaiian bun, great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The clip blew up on Instagram in the hours that followed. By early Sunday afternoon, it surpassed 30 million\u00a0views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanna see Drake food reviews now,&#8221; comedian Tony Baker wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drake don&#8217;t even look like Drake,&#8221; another comment read with more than 115,000 likes.<\/p>\n<p>A five-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Drake is also a former actor with a knack for the viral social media moment.<\/p>\n<p>A controversial interview filmed on a bed with influencer\u00a0Bobbi Althoff garnered millions of\u00a0views in 2023. Millions more came from a Twitch stream clip later that year.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Drake&#8217;s social media starpower has put Lost in\u00a0Da Sauce in the limelight. Within a few hours of posting the Drake video, Lost in Da Sauce&#8217;s chef said she would be exploring a food truck expansion amid an influx in\u00a0Instagram messages, where orders are placed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank y&#8217;all for those who stayed down and continue to support me along the way,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With three bites of a meal captured on video through a car window, Drake lauded a Houston area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-353711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}