Drake begs CP24 helicopter to stop flying over Toronto mansion

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Amid his beef with Kendrick Lamar, several security breaches and a shooting outside his Bridle Path mansion, Drake needs some sleep.

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In a post to his Instagram Stories page over the weekend, the Toronto rapper wrote: “@cp24breakingnews can we discuss chopper flight times over the house cause I won’t lie I’m trying to sleep.” Adding a heart with arrow emoji, he added: “Anytime after 3pm works great for me.”

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The comments come following a high-profile lyrical clash between Drake and Lamar, which has seen both artists trade insults and unsubstantiated allegations of secret children, domestic abuse and pedophilia on dueling musical tracks.

Lamar’s Not Like Us included a dig at his rival’s Certified Lover Boy album title (“Certified Lover Boy? Certified pedophiles”), claims that he slept with Lil Wayne’s ex and used an aerial image of Drake’s residence marked with red pedophile markers as the track’s cover art.

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Not Like Us dropped less than 24 hours after Lamar released his brutal Meet the Grahams, in which he hit out at members of five-time Grammy winner’s family, including his 6-year-old son, Adonis, and his mother and father, blaming them “for all his gamblin’ addictions.” 

But on The Heart Part 6, Drake steadfastly denied allegations that he has a penchant for underage girls.

“Just for clarity, I feel disgusted / I’m too respected / If I was f—in’ young girls, I promise I done been  arrested / I’m way too famous for the s— you just suggested,” he spat back.

In the wake of squabble, a security guard was shot outside the gates of Drake’s Toronto home shortly after 2 a.m. last Tuesday. As police continue to investigate the shooting, two alleged trespassers have also been arrested outside the Grammy winner’s mansion, which is located in the city’s most affluent neighbourhood.

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Toronto Police Insp. Paul Krawczyk, of the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force, told the Sun the victim is in “serious condition.”

Police would not confirm if Drake was home at the time but said they are in contact with his team who are cooperating with the investigation. 

Drake, who was born Aubrey D. Graham, hired his own private security firm in early 2020 after becoming “freaked out” by the number of unwanted visitors showing up outside his pad in recent years.

According to records reviewed by CBC News, Drake was given a special exemption by the City of Toronto to build extra tall fences around his property.

“Everyone knows where he sleeps, where he eats and that has really freaked him out, us out, and we need heavy security outside …  security is really left in his hands,” Brad Rafauli, vice-president of Ferris Rafauli Architectural Design Build Group, said in a meeting with North York Community Council on Sept. 16, 2019.

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After Drake was allegedly robbed at gunpoint following a night out in Toronto’s Little Italy neighbourhood in 2009, he told the New York Times that he felt “unsafe” in his hometown “at all times.”

But even if the war of words between Drake and Lamar is not over, one Toronto restaurant has become an unlikely winner in the rap beef.

On another one of his diss tracks, Euphoria, Lamar mentions New Ho King (“I be at New Ho King eatin’ fried rice with a dip sauce,” he raps), which has been open in the city’s Chinatown for nearly five decades. 

Drake continued to shine a light on the restaurant when he showcased the eatery in his music video for Family Matters.

One diner told The Guardian that despite living nearby, they had never been interested in trying the establishment until the rap battle put the joint in the spotlight.

“I’ll admit it,” said Jenny Min. “The song that made us come here and try the fried rice.”

And her review?

“It’s a bit overhyped, if I’m going to be honest” Min told the publication. “It needs a bit more salt and a bit more char.”

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