Watch Drake and his dad crash a jazz performance in Toronto to sing a duet
Drake and his dad crashed a jazz show in Toronto last weekend to perform a duet with the backing band. Check out the footage below.
The two were visiting Reservoir Lounge, a jazz club in their native Toronto on Saturday (October 12) when they decided to hop on the mic during musician Shane Philips’ set.
Footage shared by Phillips on Instagram shows Drake and his father – who’s name is Dennis Graham – taking turns to sing with the backing band. The song of choice was T-Bone Walker’s 1947 hit ‘Stormy Monday’.
“They call it stormy Monday / But Tuesday’s just as bad,” Drake sings in the clip, before Phillips turns the camera around on himself and tells his followers: “These guys are on my mic but it’s fine.”
The camera then pans back to Drake, who hands the mic to his dad in time for the line: “Wednesday’s worse / And Thursday’s also bad.”
Making up for the interruption, Drake posed for a selfie with Phillips, which the latter shared alongside the caption: “It’s not often that i let people up on my stage but #drake showed up to my show with his dad and guess what… his dad could sing so i got them both up. If my dad was alive I would have wanted the same.”
Check out the clips below.
The father-son duo have publicly shared their close relationship many times in recent years. Back in 2018, the artist gave Graham a Bentley for his birthday, costing $150,000 (£117,300), and in 2022 Graham revealed that he had gotten a portrait of his son’s face tattooed on his arm (via Metro).
Last year, Graham pulled a prank on Drake by having someone hurl a giant pink bra at him while he performed on stage.
In other Drake news, earlier this week J. Cole weighed in on the high-profile feud between the rapper and Kendrick Lamar on a surprise new single, ‘Port Antonio’.
Back in April, Lamar and Drake went head to head in a scathing rap battle after the former called out the Canadian rapper and Cole on Future and Metro Boomin’ ‘Like That’. The ‘No Role Modelz’ star did originally reply with ‘7 Minute Drill’ on the mixtape ‘Might Delete Later’, but retracted the diss track and apologised swiftly after.
The Drake-Lamar conflict came to a halt this May after the Toronto star dropped ‘The Heart Part 6’, on which he said his team fed Lamar false information and denied allegations of paedophilia lobbied against him on ‘Meet The Grahams’ and ‘Not Like Us’.
‘Not Like Us’ has since become one of Lamar’s most successful songs, landing as his fourth Billboard Number One and breaking the Spotify record for the most streams in one day for a hip-hop song. At his sold-out Juneteenth ‘Pop Out’ concert, Lamar played the song six times – Dr. Dre introduced the song the first time, whispering the opening lyrics, “I see dead people.”
The entire feud is set to be explored in a new documentary called Public Enemies: Kendrick vs Drake. The project has reportedly been green-lit by Channel 4, but no release date has been announced.
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