“Momma is a saint, yes she raised me real good”: Sandi Graham (née Sher) is an educator who divorced Drake’s father, Dennis Graham, when the boy was five years old. “Hall of fame, hall of fame / Like I’m shirt off, like I’m shirt off… Top 5 no debating”: Shirts-optional Toronto rapper Top 5 gave Drizzy a shout-out in his anthem “Hall of Fame”: “I called up Drake, let’s celebrate!” “OVO, we a gold mine”: Drake’s OVO comrades-including Toronto acts PartyNextDoor, Majid Jordan and dvsn-made appearances on the album and are all buzzed-about acts in their own right. “I need a one dance”: Despite a seven-year onslaught of smash radio singles, “One Dance” marks Drake’s first number-one song on Canadian charts, believe it or not. “Six-point star, Lion of the Judah”: A cryptic line from your favourite Rasta-tinged Israelite, raised in Forest Hill. “Whole lot of 6s but I’m still like / Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah”: Yes, he reps the 6, but not the sign of the devil. “Blew up and I’m in the city still”: Though Drake maintains a home in L.A., where he’s neighbours with Kanye West, he still owns property and spends plenty of time in his hometown-you know, working at Shoppers and such. the famed bottom from which Drake started. “How did I finesse all this shit from Jane and Weston?”: The intersection of one of Drake’s childhood homes in the northwest end of the city-a.k.a. “Ericka sued me and opened a business”: Drake’s ex-girlfriend, Ericka Lee, sued him in 2012 when he allegedly sampled her phone call in “Marvin’s Room.” Still Here “But money can’t buy happiness, Jellee talkin’ truthful”: Rexdale MC Jelleestone scored a top-40 hit in Canada with 2001’s “Money (Part 1).” Like the Hummer, Fluid Lounge-a Richmond Street nightclub-isn’t poppin’ anymore. He gave Drake advice as he was coming up. Swagg Boss, is a Toronto street mogul who has dipped in retail, clothing and media. “Big Apple had the white Hummer parked right in front of Fluid”: Man-about-town Big Apple, a.k.a. “Too busy face-screwin’ on waste movements”: Prior to the 6, one of T.O.’s nicknames was the Screwface Capital, so christened due to the crabs-in-the-bucket mentality among local artists. “Drinkin’ Hypnotiq with Glenn Lewis”: Lewis, a Toronto singer, scored a major hit with 2001’s “Don’t You Forget It.”
“Been flowin’ since Vince Carter was on some through-the-legs-and-hoop shit”: Search up the 2000 NBA dunk contest on YouTube and look for the guy in purple. The Raps were fined $25,000 because he broke tampering rules. “Shout out to KD, we relate, we get the same attention”: When Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin “KD” Durrant showed up at OVO Fest in 2014, ambassador Drake said he should join the Raptors as a free agent. “Creepin’ like Chilli without the tender, love and care”: A big TLC junkie, Drake brought the ’90s R&B group out during the 2013 OVO Fest at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre.
“You was ridin’ TTC metro, I had the place boomin’”: A shout-out to the Red Rocket melded with a thinly veiled nod to Metro Boomin, who was the executive producer of Drake and Future’s mixtape, What a Time to Be Alive. Drake gets nostalgic for his childhood friend Renny, an early producer. “Weston Road flows, I did this shit for my nigga Renny”: A throwback to Aubrey’s younger days, growing up on the sketchier west side of town. “Roy outta here like NASA”: Brampton’s Roy Woods, a 20-year-old OVO newbie, is building his buzz. “6 cold like Alaska”: Drake uses a chilly locale that Americans are familiar with in order to properly convey the bitterness of a Toronto winter. And Drizzy made a cameo onstage with Rihanna just two weeks ago. RiRi) filmed a steamy video for the latter’s single “Work” at legendary Jamaican joint The Real Jerk. “You cannot be right here next to me / Don’t you see RiRi right next to me?”: Among other collaborations, Drake and Rihanna (a.k.a. Fun note: The running time of “9” is 4:16. (Yes, we know there’s a 4 in both, too.) Drake flips the city he’d die for on its ass end with this lyric.
“I turn the 6 upside down, it’s a 9 now”: The 6 is Drake-speak for Toronto (duh), due to the common numeral in the city’s area codes, 416 and 647. “Kennedy Road taught me not to trust people like you”: The Scarborough roadway, which also got a shout-out on Drake’s 2015 hit “Energy,” is where some of his OVO crew members reside. We listened to Views from the 6to give you track-by-track footnotes on the 20-song opus’ references to our city. Drake climbed to the top of the CN Tower Friday, surveyed our fine metropolis free of EdgeWalk tethers and dropped a musical masterpiece on the world.
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