

Drake Talks LeBron James, Plans For ESPYs: ‘I’ll Be Lint-Free That Night’.PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake Commit on ‘Recognize’: Listen.Cole are among the bold-faced names who showed up last year. Over 35,000 tickets to this year’s festival sold out in record time, with a long list of surprise guests expected to appear as they have in years past - Kanye West, Lil Wayne, TLC and J. 3 and 4 with headlining sets from Outkast and Drake himself. Up next is OVOFest, Drake and October’s Very Own’s fifth annual hip-hop festival in Toronto, which returns to the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on Aug. PARTYNEXTDOOR premiered a new song with Drake, “Recognize,” earlier this week as one of two songs available on the album’s pre-order. Then his record label OVO Sound, distributed by Warner Bros., will release its first two projects – Majid Jordan’s EP “Place Like This” and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s second full-length release, “PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO” on July 29. The first arrives tomorrow (July 16), when the 27-year-old rapper hosts The ESPYs on ESPN. Later that night he released the album art on Twitter.įans are already selling the swag online, with t-shirts “given by Drake” going for $100 on Kijiji.Drake hasn’t even begun recording his fourth album in earnest, but it already has a title: “Views From The 6.”ĭrake was set to confirm the album title Tuesday morning (July 15) as part of an exhaustive roster of upcoming projects.

To promote his album and pump up fans, Drake handed out shirts with the “Views” logo at a popup shop on Queen Street West on Sunday. The album will be released Friday, and Drake already tweeted his tour dates with two Toronto shows this summer - July 31 and August 1 - at the Air Canada Centre. Views From The Sein /IjllIc2K73ĭrake is a meme master, he knew what we were going to do /9Axt4qQP90Įven city councillor Norm Kelly tweeted his support after a fan photoshopped Drake and Kelly on the CN Tower together. Proud Torontonian at the top of CN Tower with the help of some photoshop magic! #photshopped #notreallythere Īnd then the memes began, from Drake sitting on the restaurant from the Seinfeld television show to Drake sitting with Donald Trump on top of a Trump hotel. The CN Tower tweeted Monday that Toronto’s favourite rapper was photoshopped. But if you’re thinking of doing the EdgeWalk to snap a selfie where Drake once sat, think again. Drake released the cover art for his new album “Views From the 6” on Sunday: a picture of him sitting atop the CN Tower.
