Drake’s Close Rapper Friend Shot Dead in Toronto

After reports that Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg died, Drake posted a message responding to the news. “So much talent and so many stories we never get to see play out,” he wrote.



Canadian rapper and close friend to Drake was reportedly shot dead in Toronto Saturday, June 30. A rep for the “Count It Up” rapper announced the news to media and his fans. After which, Drake posted a shot goodbye message to him.

The 21-year-old rapper was around just long enough to hear about Drake’s first son. On Drake’s latest album Scorpion, he talks a lot about becoming a father alongside his and his friends’ reaction to the news.
Smoke Dawg was also around to watch Pusha T spoil Drake’s baby news.
With the release of Push’s DAYTONA came some heavy hits towards Young Money’s Drake, Wayne and Birdman. “Infrared” accused Drake of having a ghost writer after it equated the “I’m Upset” rapper’s success with Trump’s presidential win. In the track, Pusha also head nodded Rick Ross’s “Idols Become Rivals” from 2017:

“Oh, now it’s okay to kill Baby
Niggas looked at me crazy like I really killed a baby
Salute Ross ’cause the message was pure
He see what I see when you see Wayne on tour”

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“Idols Become Rivals” acted as a personal letter from Ross to the Cash Money Records co-founder. Ross called Birdman out for not paying his debts and expressed his feelings of disappointment in the rapper for pushing a narrative about his life that wasn’t true.
“And then I met you out on LiveNation dates/ Came to the realization that your watch was fake,” Ross rapped. “Damn… you nearly broke my heart/ I really thought you n***as really owned them cars.”
He ended the track with: “Damn, Stunna, I loved you, n***a/
Hate it came to this.”
A few hours later, Drake responded to Pusha with “Duppy Freestyle.” The three-minute-long track — the title of which is a Jamaican term for “evil spirit” and UK slang for “destroy — blasted Push himself and Kayne West.