Why Sasha Obama is the coolest in her family: Drake called her a ‘style popper’, Prince pulled her on stage to dance, and she beat dad Barack to the best room in their Washington house

May 2 , 2021

Sasha Obama (front left) with her famous family – so is she the coolest of them all? Photo: @barackobama/Instagram

It seems like being reposted by Drake and dancing with Prince are all in a day’s work for Sasha Obama. Here’s why the former president’s daughter might be the coolest 19-year-old on the planet.

Drake praised her fashion sense

Her elder sister is believed to have had a crush on the rapper, and her dad has even given the nod for the hip-hop star to play him in a movie, so it must have been the ultimate compliment to get praise for her fashion sense from Drake. The singer posted a picture of Sasha on his Instagram page in which he called her a “style popper”. Granted, Sasha was wearing a cap from his OvO range, but it puts her a few street cred points ahead of the rest of the Obamas.

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She has famous best friends

Sasha Obama (second right) in a group selfie with pal Maisy Biden (second from left). Photo: @NaomiBiden/Twitter

Not only does Sasha count Real Housewives of Potomac star Charrisse Jackson Jordan’s daughter Skylar as one of her friends (the pair have lunch together and Skylar attended Sasha’s 16th birthday), but there’s another well-known name in her clan. Sasha and President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Maisy go way back to when Biden was Barack Obama’s vice-president.

After being thrust into the spotlight at the respective ages of five and six years old, the pair attended Sidwell Friends, the local school for presidential kids, together. The duo also love basketball, have played soccer together and even vacationed in Miami. The girls even stayed at the luxury Setai Hotel and dined at high end steakhouse STK, according to US Weekly.

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She took a normal summer job

Sasha Obama took a summer job at a local seafood restaurant. Photo: @bostonherald/Twitter

In 2016, while her family was finishing up their final few months in the White House, Sasha proved she’s just like the rest of us … well kind of. The teen took a summer job at a local seafood restaurant while her family vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard. Although she was accompanied by Secret Service agents as she worked the takeaway window of Nancy’s, then 15- year-old Sasha generally didn’t get any special treatment, according to the Boston Herald.

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Prince invited her on stage to dance

Sasha Obama dancing in a screenshot from a TikTok video. The former first daughter even got to dance on stage with Prince before he died. Photo: @pixiestick222/TikTok

Barack Obama told David Letterman that his youngest daughter was invited to boogie on a platform with the late star a few months before he died. “Prince asked Sasha to come up and dance – and she’s an excellent dancer. Then Sasha pulls me up, which surprises me because she always mocks my dancing … I have dad moves,” he joked.

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She’s even got the best bedroom in the Obama household

The Obamas now live in Washington, and Sasha reportedly has the best room in the house. Photo: @michelleobama/Instagram

It turns out her cool status is reflected in the bedroom ranking of the family’s Washington digs too. Michelle Obama admitted on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018 that Sasha has a two-room suite that’s “all decked out” with a living room area and a bedroom.

The former first lady joked that Barack was “really hating on her” for bagging the best room in the US$8.1 million house, situated in the Kalorama neighbourhood, and felt like he had been “short-changed” when it came to his home office.

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She’s pals with Maisy Biden and Charrisse Jackson-Jordan’s daughter Skylar, is an ‘excellent dancer’ (according to her dad), and likes to party in Miami
Drake posted a photo of her on Instagram and Prince dragged her on stage at a concert, but she’s also worked a normal job at a seafood restaurant in the past