The rapper shared footage of the damage on Instagram, showing ankle-deep muddy water rushing into an area of his luxurious home.
The Toronto mansion of rap superstar Drake has been severely flooded following record-breaking storms that have hit the city.
The rapper shared footage of the damage on Instagram, showing ankle-deep muddy water rushing into an area of his luxurious home.
In a caption accompanying the video, Drake wittily remarked, "this better be espresso martini."
TheGuardian reports that Toronto experienced nearly 100mm (four inches) of rain on Tuesday, according to Environment Canada, surpassing a daily record that had stood since 1941. Some 167,000 customers were left without power according to the city’s electrical grid operator, Toronto Hydro.
Emergency services responded to numerous calls for assistance from people trapped in lifts during the power cuts, and others had to be rescued from flooded motorways.
David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, told broadcaster CBC there had been multiple storms “lined up like a parade, like jumbo jets on the airport tarmac … This is the new reality. It used to be river flooding, now it is urban flooding.”
Drake's expansive 50,000 sq ft mansion in Toronto's upscale Bridle Path area became the focus of a series of incidents following the rapper's well-publicized feud with Kendrick Lamar.
In early May, a security guard sustained serious injuries from a gunshot. The next day, a man was arrested for attempting to break into the mansion, with two additional trespassing incidents reported later that week.
No clear motive has been attributed to these incidents. However, they occurred shortly after Lamar used an aerial image of Drake's mansion as the artwork for his diss track "Not Like Us." The track subsequently topped the US charts, marking it as the most successful among a series of songs where both rappers exchanged serious allegations, including accusations of underage sex and adultery.
In a 2020 interview with Architectural Digest, Drake describes the mansion, known as The Embassy, as “overwhelming high luxury … Because I was building it in my hometown, I wanted the structure to stand firm for 100 years. I wanted it to have a monumental scale and feel. It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong.”