Drake‘s security guard was injured in a shooting outside the rapper’s home in Toronto early Tuesday morning, police confirmed to Rolling Stone. Drake, however, was uninjured in the incident.
Toronto police received a call about a shooting at around 2 a.m. in the city’s upscale Bridle Path neighborhood. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. That man was taken to the hospital with “very serious injuries” and remains there, according to Inspector Paul Krawczyk.
Authorities also confirmed that the individual shot was a security guard standing outside of the gates in front of the home. They could not, however, confirm if the “owner of the residence was home at the time of the shooting.”
After the shooting, the suspect reportedly fled in a vehicle, but no descriptions of either the person or the car have been provided. The investigation is still ongoing.
The motive of the shooting is unclear, but it comes in the midst of Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s ongoing and increasingly hostile feud. Drake’s Toronto home even figured into one of Lamar’s most recent tracks, “Not Like Us,” with the cover art featuring a satellite photograph of the Bridle Path mansion, dotted with markers used for the homes of registered sex offenders.
While Drake and Lamar have been in not-so-quiet competition with each other for years, their simmering feud erupted earlier this year when Lamar called him out on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” Drake responded a few weeks later with “Push Ups,” setting off a deluge of diss tracks filled with increasingly vicious bars and some unsettling allegations.
The feud arguably took a turn toward the harrowing and bleak with the release of “Family Matters,” in which Drake repeatedly claims Lamar has been violent toward his fiancée. Lamar quickly responded with “Meet the Grahams,” in which he claimed Drake has a secret 11-year-old daughter (which Drake denied on social media) while also accusing the rapper of being a sex criminal and a gambling addict.
Lamar’s “Not Like Us” followed the next day with lyrics pertaining to Drake’s alleged relationships with underage girls (to say nothing of the final verse that accuses Drake of being a hip-hop colonizer). Drake fired what is, at least as of now, the final salvo with “The Heart Part 6,” in which he rebuffed both the secret-daughter allegation and the “certified pedophile” line in “Not Like Us.”
From Rolling Stone US
