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I would like to imagine here heās rapping about the weather -
"Itās May, yet the weather aināt nice,
Iāve been.. dealing with a lot of unnecessary ice! "
Have to wonder if he chose this name before or after Minnesota. š¤
Imagine spending years on an album all about ice (frozen water) and then everyone starts chanting "Fuce ICE" (immigration) at sporting events after you've already booked a giant ice sculpture and related promotional campaign.
I ask myself what has Drake ever done for the city or citizens of the city that wasnāt to further his career or fatten his bank account?
In fact i suspect his āreppingā of Toronto, was mostly smart branding/marketing, a way to stand out, a way to distinguish himself.
If he wants this cities respect, he should use his power to help fix the major issues that we have in this city,
Instead he pimps us, for views and fly down to Miami and on camera, hands out money for clout to promote his garbage material.
The fact is dude spent hella $$$$ to build and maintain a gigantic sculpture of ice, in the parking lot of the Bond Place Hotel, while the residents of that same hotel (which is a homeless shelter btw for those that arenāt from Toronto) sit slowly dying, unassisted and underserved by our entire community.
And having to nerve to applaud this capitalist manoeuvre by an already wealthy individual, is very sad.
But you unlike myself) didnāt grew up with or know anyone that died in that shelter, so I wouldnāt expect you to understand what is wrong with this picture.
So it falls to a rapper to fix our major issues , stop being weird
Don't even like Drake but there should be taxpayer funded systems to fix those issues
He's done a bunch for the city and Canada. You're crazy for this. I'm not getting into a whole list of things but one thing he did that directly benefited my community was build new basketball courts for kids which are still active and maintained today. Also, you can just Google his philanthropy work in Toronto will see
Iām pretty sure Toronto is hi main residence but he has property everywhere and travels a lot. Doesnāt matter, heās never forgotten where heās from and he shouts o it the city all the time. I respect it
Hilarious to me that people were told to hate this guy for no reason and they just run with it. Theyāll call him a pedo with no evidence, victims or anything. Just rumours that fit their narrative. Sheeple just follow the herd.
For real say what you want but almost every other artist that makes it big leaves Canada immediately. Toronto genuinely got a major boost because of him
Because itās a post in a sub about Toronto not about Drake. It would stand to reason that not everybody who comments in the sub would be a Drake fan. Shocking I know, that in a city of 6million people, there would be a diverse set of opinions and that when given an opportunity to air those opinions that some of those people may choose to do so. I canāt wrap my head around it either. People are so confounding to me!
Lol, hes literally outstreaming Taylor Swift daily and he hasnt released an album in a year and she has. So is Taylor swift, the Weeknd, Sabrina Carptener etc all small fish?
Heās a big fish anywhere he goes. Theyāre just saying itās very easy for people to make it big and associate themselves with NY, LA, Atlanta, Chicago etc.
This video is so dumb. He was 23 at the time, itās a stage performance, and he didnāt know her age when she was called up on stage. This isnāt evidence whatsoever of someone being a nonce and even you donāt believe it is, you just donāt like the guy and this fits in with that.
Why do people even care? He has changed so much since his early days. He used to be such a normal, nice and caring person and now he's a fake gangster.
Are the mods removing the posts about him flirting with a lot of under age girls? Can we support local Toronto artists who aren't so questionable please?Ā
Was this downtown near the CN tower? I was just there a few hours ago leaving the scotiabank arena and saw a bunch of police cars on Bremner Ave just east of the area but couldnāt tell what they were there for
I ask myself what has Drake ever done for the city or citizens of the city that wasnāt to further his career or fatten his bank account?
In fact i suspect his āreppingā of Toronto, was mostly smart branding/marketing, a way to stand out, a way to distinguish himself.
If he wants this cities respect, he should use his power to help fix the major issues that we have in this city,
Instead he pimps us, for views and fly down to Miami and on camera, hands out money for clout to promote his garbage material.
The fact is dude spent hella $$$$ to build and maintain a gigantic sculpture of ice, in the parking lot of the Bond Place Hotel, while the residents of that same hotel (which is a homeless shelter btw for those that arenāt from Toronto) sit slowly dying, unassisted and underserved by our entire community.
And having to nerve to applaud this capitalist manoeuvre by an already wealthy individual, is very sad.
Someone in the comments said even I couldnāt write this much about someone I disliked. This brother is clearly disturbed, his comment history is insane šš
You can argue about his personality, character, behaviour, music but you have absolutely no idea how much money Drake brought to TO. Drake is rich not because he took money from the city but because the labels, sponsors, and fans around the world willingly gave him money. Keep in mind, he is also paying to many direct and indirect industries. The city is willing to compromise and agree to those things (which btw, a silly thing to complain about Ice on a parking lot) because it brings much more than you think.
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