Some cited the lyrics in his song 'No Tellin' as a possible explanation. “Yeah, police comin’ round lookin’ for some help on a case they gotta solve, we never help ’em.”Who, exactly, are Drake's gangbanger pals?
Soares, who was 33, had a rap sheet with three gun possession convictions.
This year, a senior Toronto police officer, now retired, questioned why Drake had invited a young rapper who is facing firearms, assault and kidnapping charges along as his opening act on the European leg of his Boy Meets World tour.Street-cred by proxy? Seems a little cowardly to me.
Kudos to Torstar (something I never imagined saying) for violating one of Toronto's unwritten taboos.
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...gotta rub up against some actual thugz to get that gangsta credibility...
His new persona as the cocksure prince of hip-hop ("Last name ever, first name greatest," he brags on "Forever") seemed to clash with his middle-class Jewish upbringing and former career as a teenage soap star.Yessirree, he came up hard.... the mean streets of Forest Hill.
He was raised by his mother in Forest Hill, an affluent and predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. He attended Jewish day school, had a Bar Mitzvah at age 13 and observed the Jewish High Holy Days with his mother.