Drake shares video of his flooded mansion as torrential rain hits Toronto
Drake has shared footage of his flooded mansion, following torrential rain hitting Toronto in current days.
The Grammy-winning rapper shared footage to his Instagram stories final night time (July 16), displaying brown rainwater flooding into his house – which he has dubbed ‘The Embassy’ – and damaging his possessions.
“This higher be Espresso Martini,” he joked within the caption.
The flooding comes after heavy rains have hit the Canadian metropolis in current days, and flooded houses, highways and transport hubs, in addition to inflicting energy outages throughout Toronto.
As per Evening Standard, police and firefighters within the space had been referred to as out to assist numerous locals who had been stranded as a result of extreme climate, together with 14 individuals who had been left trapped on a freeway.
The Toronto and Area Conservation Authority additionally confirmed that over 4 inches of rain had fallen in pockets throughout the town, and rivers and streams ought to be thought-about harmful. Mayor Olivia Chow additionally introduced that round 109,000 residents had been left with out energy due to the intense climate situations.
Drake’s mansion appears to have been flooded through his IG Story 😲 pic.twitter.com/uzHnExgToB
— Wost🐰 (@mosthiphop) July 16, 2024
Information that Drake’s mansion had flooded arrived simply days after it was revealed that the rapper had allowed followers to take a digital tour of the residence due to a brand new function on his merch web site.
Since his ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour with 21 Savage kicked off, drakerelated.com revamped its format to include an interactive digital tour of ‘The Embassy’. Among the many graphics depicting the Toronto star’s home, Easter eggs and hyperlinks to purchase Drake’s merch, together with his new poetry ebook Titles Smash Every thing: A Stream of Consciousness, are hidden.
Followers had been in a position to purchase gadgets mendacity across the mansion, corresponding to a Lollapalooza Chile shirt, Drake’s Nike collaborative sneakers NOCTA, and his ebook.
His house additionally made headlines earlier this yr, when a person was arrested for making an attempt to interrupt into the constructing, only a day after a taking pictures passed off outdoors the residence.
Based on quite a few studies, an intruder was arrested and detained in Toronto on Could 8 for allegedly making an attempt to achieve entry to Drake’s house within the space.
Lower than every week afterwards, two extra males had been arrested for the tried break-in. The second intruder was then taken to hospital after clashing with safety guards, with accidents that had been described as “severe however not life threatening”, and the third tried to enter the Bridle Path property, with safety managing to detain the person and escort him off the positioning (through TMZ).
Since then, DJ Akademiks has claimed that Drake has new music “on the way in which” amid his feud with rapper Kendrick Lamar.
His final full-length launch was 2023 ‘For All The Canines’, which was given a two-star overview by NME. “Within the hours shortly earlier than the album dropped, Drake introduced that he would take a break from music to concentrate on his well being,” it learn. “‘I in all probability gained’t make music for just a little bit,’ he informed followers. ‘I’m going to lock the door on the studio for just a little bit.’ Hopefully he returns revitalised and renewed, as a result of ‘For All The Canines’ – his third solo LP in as a few years – not solely feels tiring, however sounds drained too.”