In honor of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Toronto Raptors, Canadian singer/rapper Drake has been recruited by the Eastern Conference team to serve as host, business partner, and consultant for his home team beginning with the 2014-15 season.
According to Toronto-based The Star, the Young Money artist’s involvement with the team was solidified during a press conference this week.
As part of his duties, the Nothing Was The Same rapper will help the team completely redesign their franchise (logos, colors, uniforms, etc.) and image, will launch a clothing line with the Raptors, and will likely play a vital role during the 2016 NBA All-Star Game, which will take place in Toronto.
“I truly feel that—I mean everywhere I go I realize how culturally diverse it is here. What a melting pot it is…There’s something genuine about this city. There’s something great,” said Drake during this week’s press conference. “I think aside from that with All-Star coming here there’s an untapped nightlife, restaurants, culture. There’s so much to soak in and I think that our goal is in 2016 to truly showcase that, not only for the players, but also for everybody.”
In addition to his newfound involvement with the Raptors, Drake is also founder of OVO Sound along with Noah “40” Shebib, and recently partnered with New Era for another sports-related venture. With help from New Era, Drake released two special edition Toronto Blue Jays caps during this year’s OVO Fest. The special edition caps retailed for $75.
The Toronto Raptors are currently the NBA’s only Canada-based franchise. Although Drake was tapped to help the team redesign their franchise, the team name will remain the same.
ZOMG! more Drake news, my weiner is hard, so hard.
This is so fucking anooying everytime Drake farts DX is posting an article. Are you guys in love with Drake?
I sure am, if him & Manziel every break up I will so be trying to hook up with him. He’s too cute #goAggies
Dem niggaz ain’t never gon break up, that shit is gross, they kissin all sloppy, tounge hangin out & shit, dudes are gay fuck the Aggies…ROLL TIDE nigga
I respect dude for putting on for his city. Looking forward to these redesigns as well.
Putting on?? Make up? Womens clothes? Strap-on peen extender?
Jay-Z had to pay to represent the Nets. Drake is getting paid to represent the Raptors. YMCMB stays winning.
Jay-Z is phony but at least he enjoys the company of women.
it’s news – why did you read it AND comment on it if it’s annoying? if the guy’s in the news constantly, obviously there will be more articles about him –
Because I like to laugh at all you fagy homo queers who actually listen to this dickhead, just look at his stupid duck face he makes in every pic, the guy is the most queery thing I have ever seen.
Actually they just slurp his dick & post everything he comments on, there is usually nothing news worthy about any of it. Truth is DX gets a shitload of hits from people who absolutely hate Drake, more so then people who actually like Drake & they love to get that traffic. Why else do you think they let all the trolling that goes on around here? It really is a fucking joke.
God help the raptors…….. The softer rapper you will ever meet is redesigning the team.
what does being soft or hard have to do with basketball though?
do you think a thug from the streets could do a better job
Do you think a gay Pop star is a good idea for handling design decisions for a professional basketball team?
stop lying. you just wish drake to be gay so you have someone that represents your secret fantasies.
atleast its not lil wayne now that would be a tragedy.
Lil Wayne is my 2nd cousin
Now every jealous nigga gonna hate. see below
but Drake doing his thing right now doing big things for his city. You would do the same. I won’t even hate nobody hated Hov when he did this. Everybody chill let’s see what he does
I fucked Drake once, he has a smooth Bhole & a solid white penis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zcDr4DbKEg
There’s the Manzeil/Drake kissing video again, Please stop posting that, we have all seen it by now. So what they are gay, doesn’t mean we have to keep watching that shit.
Gross!
“Pop star is a good idea for handling design decisions for a professional basketball team?”
Better than a female opera star (Kendrick).
Wow dude!!! QUoteman really hates kendrick. Probably cause he went plat in 9 months when his fav rapper Officer Ricky couldnt do it in 9 years!
Dear Quoteman, I hate you but I do admire your work ethic, you juet keep right on. Yours Truly, Drake Troll One
“Better than a female opera star”
You just described Drake.
wrong, bitch.
Drake is definitely more feminine and has taken way more gay looking suspect pics than kendrick ever has or ever will
Don’t you think it’s way more suspect to care so much about a man’s sexuality that you will never know personally?
why are people hating on Drake for this? you all are just mad your home team doesn’t care enough about your input for you to have a say in the rebranding of their franchise. He’s like 26 years old, of course he’s going to jump at this opportunity. As far as the team itself, they need it. They need something new and something people will watch their games for. We already know everyone is going to at least peep the new jerseys once the pictures leak online because Drake made them. They need the publicity.
I agree with most of that, just not the part about hiring a homosexual to change the “image” of the team, are they going to just be targeting the gay audience?
you should see a psychiatrist that cures your steady homosexual fantasies.
Not sure what your getting at, pal, Bryce doesn’t even mention anything like that & he’s on point with everything he said, as is Anon, the Raptors just have a good idea, it’s a gay world, gays are taking over so it’s brilliant that they would hire a gay person to redesign their team, there is no fantasy involved in that, padre, only facts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsnAk6tjsts
What in the fuck? Gay people dancing to Drake? Fuck your video pal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QNb_pmed_0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6zP7nnp-5I
“There’s the Manzeil/Drake kissing video again”
No it isn’t idiot. Drake and Manzeil have never kissed. Show me proof.
Google that shit man, it pops up everywhere, ESPN even ran a heavily edited version of it. Shit is sickening
LMAO @ “Kissed” dude they basically suck each other off I the pool.
Drake keepin’ it 100. T-Dot bitches!
This seemed long overdue. Good for Drake making power moves.
Hell yeah, dating the star Heisman favorite is only going to make him that much more powerful, I love it, fuck the haters #drizzy&johnny #goAggies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1tG-m4NSU
So I guess the Raptors will be a WNBA team now with Drake’s help, nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyWVf-mVVSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckER5Ijn0-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8E09aAOIc
“Probably cause he went plat in 9 months when his fav rapper Officer Ricky couldnt do it in 9 years!”
Only after he released a verse dissing rappers. Macklemore totally stole his thunder, and now with Drake about to post huge numbers again, Kendrick is shook.
he was 2 weeks away from plat with or without control. that verse didnt boost his sales that much, hes been on the hhdx weekly charts every week but 1 since october
Wrong, quote-bitch. Kendrick didn’t diss anyone. LISTEN TO THE TRACK. No one stole his thunder and he ain’t shook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8AJ5ZTCPQ
That’s hot, I wish you could see them better , it’s all grainy, Johnny Football is ribbed with his shirt off.
He’s a Miami Heat fanboy and they give him a job to “help” the Raptors?? GTFO.
Dude would be the best basketball player since Jordan. I’ve seen him killing Kobe in training.
drake is the king of this rap shit first week sales gonna be 700k for the album of the year. The camel didnt even sell that much first week drake runs this rap shit learn to accept facts you nerds
Only in your wet dreams, stanley.
^ just for personal reference , a good troll does not use the phrase stan or any recurrence of it. Please refrain from using this term in the near future. It is strictly for use by lameos.
That happen because he lined himself with Jay and Diddy on how to get money. If he keep fing around with Wayne like that he would be on something and trying to be a skateboarder at 35. Corporate hustle its nothing like it. Pleas know that the game is no different from the Streets….If you got street hustle you will flurish in this corporote hustle.
Don’t miss common sense on HipHopDX.
Drake up there in a tight ass suite with his eyebrows freshly plucked.
He can’t even dress himself, now he is going to tell the team what would look good? lmfao, even Wayne said Drake has no swag.
Wayne said Drake has no swag?
fuck does wayne know about swag. leopard print jeggins? pink t-shirt and fuzzy green moon boots? if thats swag he can keep it
Wayne’s style is swag. It’s the new trend. I’ve seen people go to work wearing jeggings and t shirts.
Wayne’s style is gay. Only gay people wear that shit.
I’ve seen men wearing jeggings kiss their girlfriends and wives.
you mean kissing 40 year old dudes while they wear their 12 year old daughters pants
Wayne’s not gay & anyone who says he is just because him & Baby kiss on the lips all the time is wrong. There is nothing wrong with two straight me kissing on the lips, I see it all the time with my fiends.
You got issues. If two “straight” men kiss on the lips, they’re not straight; they’re gay. Two men kissing is gay, period. So Wayne is gay for kissing another man.
Birdman is Wayne’s foster father so they can kiss without being gay.
Also, I never saw Drake and Manziel kissing. That’s pure rumor right there. Where’s your proof? And even if they did kiss, they are brothers so they are straight.
pretty sure drake has been on the cover of GQ…three times, lol. he knows fashion, when it comes to dressing in suits and having grown men styles. that suit is tight and fitted for a reason….its tailored…ya dummy lol.
Really? Dude just became the embassador for an NBA team and all you can focus on is his eyebrows??…Our culture can be so sad sometimes. Crabs in a bucket….
I agree with dental, Baby & Wayne are related, nt legally or anything but they just believe they are so it counts. So, they can kiss all they want & it’s not gay, you guys need to get over it, also the stuff with Manziel is just being blown out of proportion, they were just friends having a good time & they kissed a little & held hands. That is not gay y’all, 2 straight friends can kiss & hold hands, I see my friends do it all the time.
its true. sometimes me and the homies jerk each other off in the hot tub but that doesnt make it gay cause he all have girlfriends and we didnt swallow any cum
HOMOS!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6va5DyX4Y
This is why I hate clicking on Drake pages, there is constantly gay comments & now videos.
LeBron and Durant should be happy that Drake didn’t decide to pursue a career in basketball, he would’ve collected 5 MVP’s in a row by now.
It’s funny reading all these posts about Drake being gay. We all now it’s not true, just a bunch of jealous b*tches upset at the fact that he gets more p*ssy than all you nerds put together
LMAO, no I believe it’s weiner that he’s interested in.
Lol it is pretty juvenile. I always find it funny when someone who’s clearly into women is called gay for being into women too much. Its just obvious jealousy.
Pretty sure Drake is strictly dickly, just search for the pics of him & Manziel.
It amazes me that so many people still don’t know that Drake is a homosexual, he has made that very clear in several “videos”.
who cares ?
I know right, who cares if he’s gay? He is still a person, gays gotta have a spokesman too
I want to know what the quotations around “videos” means.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLJr49Ewomk
Ahahaha, there’s another, HipHopDX Drake pages home of the homosexual video.
http://kingdomofstyle.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c2f0953ef012876b3315b970c-500wi
Stop posting fake Drake nudes, no one wants to see that shit
Drake is a fucking faggot, I hate this gay ass bitch wearing tailored ass suits, fuck this bitch ass singing ass R’N’B singer. Faggots will never be real Hip Hop.
If Drake and Manziel did kiss, they were just brothers so thats ok.
Exactly what I have been saying, so what if they kissed & were groping a little, lol, they aren’t brothers though but it’s really not gay to hug & kiss on your friend a bit, it just makes them closer.
No. That’s gay, period. If you kiss another man, it’s gay, period.
I don’t think it’s gay either, me & one of my friends kiss a lot, we don’t touch each other or shit like that but sometimes we will kiss each other on the mouth & relax on the couch together, no gay stuff though.
Like I said before, I never saw them kiss. Drake and Manziel are brothers so them kissing is not gay.
who cares?
The commentors here obviously do.
hello redman this is dr trives it seems u killed a man by the name of crazy eller
crazy eller
I wonder what great Drake news DX will give us today, I can’t wait.
they will continue to as long as dumb bitches like you will continue to click on it to complain.
Uh, ok, I actually really like Drake so I am excited for todays Drake segment. Why are some of you guys so mad on here?
“Uh, ok, I actually really like Drake so I am excited for todays Drake segment. Why are some of you guys so mad on here?” – old people get angry because Drake doesn’t fit into their nice small minded ideas of what Hip Hop should sound like (usually 90s sounding). This emo/anger usually translates to other areas of their lives.
AHahaha Drake Segment & it just popped up on the main page. DX is fucking homo
any person can read and see it’s a whole bunch of teenagers who comment here, like you
Ladies please… Let’s be logical about this and put the emotions to the side for a bit. Drake just dropped an album, he’s a topic of discussion right now so naturally it would be advantageous of HHDX to cover some Drake stuff. Oh, and one plus one equals two. Have a good day.
drake 700k first week sales the camel gay z flop first week kendrick lame arr took an year to go platinum nuff said drake runs this rap shit. Sales prove everyone wants to hear drake and dont give a fuck about the camel or kendrick lame arr.
Wrong, Drake stan.
There’s so much to criticize here. Please crawl back into Drake’s ass for another 2 years.
lol drake tries too hard
Bruh….Tries too hard?? Look I’m no Drake-Stan first and foremost, but I can definitely tell you don’t try at all. For example, your post preceding this post, “kendrick would this guy any rapper fuck numbers” -ron…
kendrick would this guy any rapper fuck numbers
did that even make sence… to anyone??? talk about speach impetiment.
*body ….. the raptors are doomed lol
DRAKE>HOV
You wished.
I think you meant, “Drake (hearts) HOV”