One of Drake's bodyguards was injured by gunfire outside the rapper's home in Toronto early Tuesday morning, confirmed to Rolling Stone a source close to the protagonists. Drake was unharmed in the accident.
According to CBC, the victim would have been shot during a car attack, sustaining a wound to the upper part of his chest. He was found unconscious and taken to hospital for emergency surgery.
On The suspect reportedly fled in a vehicle, but no description of the person or the car was provided.
While the reason for the attack is unclear, it came amid the ongoing and increasingly hostile dissing between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. Drake's Toronto home was also featured on one of Lamar's most recent songs, Not Like Uswith the track's cover showing a satellite photograph of the Bridle Path mansion, dotted with markings used for registered sex offenders' homes.
Although Drake and Lamar have been in some sort of competition for years, the real feud erupted earlier this year when Lamar called him out on Like That by Future and Metro Boomin. Drake responded a few weeks later with Push Upsunleashing a deluge of diss tracks filled with increasingly nasty lyrics and disturbing accusations.
The beef took a heavier, seedier turn with the release of Family Matters, in which Drake repeatedly claims that Lamar was violent towards his girlfriend. Lamar responded immediately with Meet the Grahamsin which he said Drake has a secret 11-year-old daughter (which Drake denied on social media) while also accusing the rapper of being a sex criminal and gambling addict.
Not Like Us by Lamar followed the next day with lyrics relating to Drake's alleged affairs with underage girls (not to mention the final verse accusing Drake of being some kind of hip-hop colonizer). Drake fired what, at least for now, is the final shot with The Heart Part 6in which he rejected both his daughter's secret accusation and the accusation of being a “certified pedophile” launched by Not Like Us.
From Rolling Stone US