At the famed Harlem theater, Drake distilled a decade-worth of hits into an exploration of his history—complete with a ‘Degrassi’ basketball jersey.
paused to reminisce about an occasion he had come to New York earlier in his career. It was a different time, and the memory was a bit fuzzy: “I think I was at, like, the Spotted Pig.” The restaurant closed in 2020 and had its celebrity heyday a few years prior to that. A decade-plus into the Canadian rapper’s run at the top of hip-hop and pop, there’s a deep trove of moments, styles, recalibrations, and swerves to mine.
Drake has always been an especially deft narrator of his own trajectory, and the show at the 1,500-capacity Apollo Theater, with all its historical trappings, offered an opportunity for a hushed retelling of the tale. He emerged on stage in abasketball jersey, sitting on a bed representative of the room in his mother’s Toronto basement where he wrote some of his earliest songs.
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