8th May, 2024
By Taiwo Okanlawon
Multi-Grammy-winning Canadian rapper Aubrey ‘Drake’ Graham’s Toronto mansion is at the centre of an investigation following a reported overnight shooting.
The OVO boss’ mansion was cordoned off by police on Tuesday after a shooting near his property left one person seriously injured after getting shot in the chest.
The Police confirmed that the victim is not Drake and has been taken to the hospital for emergency surgery, according to Toronto’s City News.
On X, Toronto police said they received reports of a shooting at around 2:09 a.m. ET in the city’s upscale Bridle Path neighbourhood.
The suspect reportedly fled in a vehicle, but no descriptions of either the person or the car were provided as of now.
Investigation and further probe in underway, according to reports.
While the motive of the shooting is unclear, it comes amidst the ongoing feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, both of whom have been releasing new diss tracks on a daily basis.
Lamar sparked controversy in the American hip-hop scene after he dissed Drake and J.Cole on Future and Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That.’
On the record, Lamar asserted that contrary to assumptions that he, Drake and J.Cole are currently the “big 3” in the hip-hop industry, he is the world’s biggest rapper.
Since then, J.Cole and Drake have responded accordingly, releasing their own diss tracks targeted at Lamar; however, the former later apologised and deleted his diss track.
Drake, on the other hand, has continued to respond with bars to Lamar’s subsequent diss tracks, forcing the war to rage on.
The duo have continued to throw weighty allegations at each other.
Lamar on ‘Meet The Grahams’ alleged that Drake has an 11-year-old secret daughter, and also labelled him a “pedophile.”
However, the Canadian rapper debunked the allegations in his latest diss track, ‘The Heart Part 6.’
He claimed that he and his team deceived Lamar by misinforming him that he has a secret daughter when he was desperately looking for dirt on him.
“We plotted for a week & we fed you the information. A daughter that’s 11 years old, I bet he takes it,” the OVO boss raps.
Meanwhile, Drake earlier accused Kendrick Lamar of domestic violence and his fiancée, Whitney Alford of paternity fraud on ‘Family Matters.’
He claimed that Lamar is not the biological father of their son, adding that the boy belonged to the American rapper’s manager, Dave Free.
Kendrick Lamar is yet to address Drizzy’s latest allegations.