A person recognized as a safety guard for Drake was wounded in a taking pictures exterior of the rapper’s Toronto mansion round 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the police stated.
The person was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, Inspector Paul Krawczyk, a member of the gun and gang job power, stated at a information convention on the scene on Tuesday morning. The suspects fled in a automobile and stay at giant; an outline was not out there, however authorities stated the taking pictures was captured on video.
The taking pictures occurred in entrance of Drake’s 50,000-square-foot mansion on Park Circle Lane within the North York neighborhood often known as Bridle Path in Toronto, however didn’t contain the rapper, the authorities stated. Drake was beforehand permitted to construct fences twice as excessive as allowed by metropolis regulation, citing a necessity for elevated safety.
The taking pictures adopted a weekend of more and more private diss tracks traded between Drake and the Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, whose long-simmering musical rivalry resulted within the launch of six songs in 72 hours, together with detailed assaults involving relations and claims of abuse in opposition to ladies on each side.
The police stated they might not but converse to a motive within the taking pictures. They might not affirm whether or not Drake was house on the time.
Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which was launched on Saturday and taunts Drake and his associates as “licensed pedophiles,” options an aerial shot of Drake’s house on a map as its cowl artwork. The observe is at the moment topping the charts globally and in the US on streaming companies together with Spotify and Apple Music. The duvet is edited to painting the house as dotted with markers meant to symbolize the presence of registered intercourse offenders.
Drake has beforehand referred to the situation of his house, which he calls the Embassy, on tracks like “7AM on Bridle Path.”
Representatives for Drake and Lamar didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
