The video for Energy should be out any day now - earlier this week, Drake posted a snippet of it on his Instagram account - so it shouldn’t be long before we see Mayor Drake Ford in action.
He was the only councillor to vote against receiving a public petition to stop police carding, and he revealed he illegally uses the high occupancy vehicle lanes in place for the Pan Am Games when he’s in a hurry. But the main sentiment, about having a lot of enemies trying to drain your energy, could be one that resonates with the city councillor.įord, who is recovering from cancer surgery, has made plenty of headlines this week. The song, about how hard it is to be Drake and have everyone wanting a piece of you - our hearts bleed for him - doesn’t specifically refer to Ford. When he hosted Saturday Night Live last year, Drake referred to Toronto as the city where “the rappers are polite and the mayor smokes crack.” So for a couple of years Drake versus Meek Mill was the top rivalry in hip-hop. Drake then dissed Meek in a song called Summer Sixteen, to which Mill responded with a tune entitled War Pain. Then Meek retaliated with the track Wanna Know. However, that doesn’t seem to be entirely accurate. The first two, Charged Up and Back to Back, were by Drake.
The pair was seen sharing a laugh at the 2013 announcement for Toronto’s 2016 NBA All-Star Game, but Drake, like most everyone else in this city, has taken pokes at Ford as well. There was a brief moment in the past month where we were left to believe that Drake and Kanye West had finally buried the hatchet after Karen Civil said that the two were back to being friends. The casting call message, posted by Ashley Hallihan of Hallihan Casting, says “we spot Mayor Drake Ford in a parking garage with a drug dealer.” A Ford body double was being sought for the video shoot, which took place in May.Īs two of Toronto’s most visible public figures, Drake and Ford have crossed paths before. I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. Toronto rapper Drake might soon be playing a fictionalized version of former mayor Rob Ford in his video for Energy, a track from his recent album If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.Īccording to a Facebook casting call that was recently unearthed on the user forums, the soon-to-be-released video could have Drake portraying a rotund “Mayor Drake Ford,” with the actor-turned-rapper’s face digitally superimposed on a chunky body. Kanye briefly talked about Beck’s win after the Grammy Awards.