{"id":218828,"date":"2019-06-15T00:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218828"},"modified":"2019-06-15T00:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:17:34","slug":"drake-plans-two-new-songs-to-mark-toronto-raptors-nba-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/15\/drake-plans-two-new-songs-to-mark-toronto-raptors-nba-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake plans two new songs to mark Toronto Raptors&#8217; NBA championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217162\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60857172_428736667905063_1463788535965747023_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217162\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/60857172_428736667905063_1463788535965747023_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1079\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drake, who is the basketball team&#8217;s global ambassador, says the songs will be called \u201cOmerta\u201d and \u201cMoney In the Grave,\u201d featuring Mississippi rapper Rick Ross. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxyJj4cg7On\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/champagnepapi\/\">@champagnepapi\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Toronto Raptors superfan Drake says he&#8217;s releasing two new songs today to mark the NBA team&#8217;s historic championship win.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper took to his Instagram account shortly after the Raptors&#8217; Game 6 victory over the Golden State Warriors to reveal new album art, which features the Larry O&#8217;Brien Championship Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Drake, who is the basketball team&#8217;s global ambassador, says the songs will be called \u201cOmerta\u201d and \u201cMoney In the Grave,\u201d featuring Mississippi rapper Rick Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Drake was in Toronto&#8217;s Jurassic Park, the fan zone outside the team&#8217;s downtown arena, to watch a live feed of Game 6 from Oakland, Calif., with his friends, Toronto Mayor John Tory and a crowd of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, he jumped on Instagram Live, wearing a Toronto Raptors championship hat, to explain why he hasn&#8217;t gone to Oakland to cheer on the team at the games there.<\/p>\n<p>He said NBA organizers asked him \u201ckindly not to attend for safety reasons and I obliged because I have respect for the league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo songs dropping tomorrow, a championship to the city of Toronto for the first time ever \u2014 congrats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Other Toronto performers marked the Raptors&#8217; win on the streets with fans, including singer Jessie Reyez, who live streamed a march through the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>Kardinal Offishall, who proposed throwing a Toronto concert celebration if the Raptors became NBA champs, mingled with friends in Dundas Square as the party stretched into the late-night hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors superfan Drake says he&#8217;s releasing two new songs today to mark the NBA team&#8217;s historic championship win. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-david-friend","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218829,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218828\/revisions\/218829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}