Backstreet Boys Call Out Drake on Twitter: Before There Was ‘Hotline Bling,’ There Was ‘The Call’

Drakemay be owning the charts with "Hotline Bling" right now, but theBackstreet Boyswant 2015's biggest rapper to remember that he didn't invent the telecommunications-oriented love song. Specifically, they took to Twitter to remind him about their 2001 hit "The Call," which remains a high point of the genre.

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Though the low-battery, bad-reception struggles that plagued Howie, A.J., Nick, Brian and Kevin are certainly still familiar, the forlorn "Hotline Bling" subject matter is a little different — that didn't stop BSB from updating the "Hotline Bling" album art to suit their own taste:

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