The now-defunct Fluid, which Drizzy references in Weston Road Flows, has occasionally been referred to as a “YYZ legacy”. “Big Apple had the white Hummer parked right in front of Fluid”ĭrake, like so many Toronto kids that came of age in the early 2000s, was no stranger to Fluid Lounge, a long-running, “urban music”-heavy, and occasionally ratchet club on the bar-lined Richmond Street West in the city’s entertainment district. If you Google “Jane + Weston,” the first entry that pops up is the question “Which areas should I avoid in Toronto?” (The entirety of Weston Road Flows is about Drake’s experiences in this neighborhood.) 3.
The 6 God’s rags-to-riches narrative is central to his appeal, and he takes every chance he can get to emphasize just how raggedy his past was on Still Here, he refers to the low-income neighborhood at Jane Street and Weston Road, where he grew up and casual stabbings still occasionally occur. “How did I finesse all this shit from Jane and Weston?” The view of Toronto from London on the Esplanade. This year, Drake’s OVO Fest takes place during Caribana weekend. The extravagant festivities surrounding the parade have become a linchpin of Toronto’s cultural calendar, but it’s also been known to attract violence and create stray bullets. “ Caribana and trying not to catch a stray.ĭrake makes a (slightly unintelligible) reference to Caribana, the raucous parade held in Toronto each year to celebrate its proud Caribbean community, in Views. The rapper hails from Toronto’s Lawrence Heights neighborhood, which has been alternately referred to as the “Jungle” by locals and “ Toronto’s new murder capital” by The Globe and Mail. In Grammys, Drake makes several surprising shout-outs to the teenage Somali-Canadian rapper Hassan Ali, who goes by the name “ Top 5” but has also been nicknamed “Shirt Off Shawty” because, well, he always has his shirt off. It probably helps that his winter attire consistently involves his dope and incredibly expensive OVO x Canada Goose parka.ĭrake's been known to hang at the Kennedy Road restaurant Habibiz in Toronto's notorious Scarborough neighborhood.
In Hype, Drizzy makes another reference to the 6 and its notoriously frigid temperatures, which, as a native of the Great White North, never faze him. In 9, Drake boasts about turning the city on its head, making, in the meantime, a savage sexual pun. The nickname “The 6” (also: Six and 6ix) - a reference to Toronto’s area codes, 416 and 647 - had been circulating in the city well before Drake became the 6 God, but he’s largely credited with putting it on the world map. “And I turn the 6 upside down, it’s a 9 now” Here, a Torontonian ranks and explains them, from least to most obscure. The full-length title, referencing the nickname for his beloved hometown of Toronto, would have been redundant anyway everything about Views, from its musical structure to its cover art to its sly lyrics, is a paean to the Ontario capital. Drake graced the world with his long-awaited Views album on Thursday night, after dropping “ From the 6” from the album’s title.
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