Drake and His Dad Surprise a Toronto Jazz Performance with a Duet Appearance

Drake and his dad surprised a jazz show in Toronto last weekend by performing a duet with the backing band. The duo visited Reservoir Lounge, a jazz club in their hometown, on Saturday (October 12) when they decided to grab the mic during musician Shane Philips' set.

Video shared by Philips on Instagram features Drake and his father, Dennis Graham, taking turns singing with the band. They chose to perform T-Bone Walker's 1947 hit ‘Stormy Monday’.

“They call it stormy Monday / But Tuesday’s just as bad,” Drake sings in the clip, before Phillips turns the camera around on himself and tells his followers: “These guys are on my mic but it’s fine.”

The camera then shifts back to Drake, who passes the mic to his dad just in time for the line:

“Wednesday’s worse / And Thursday’s also bad.”

To make up for the interruption, Drake took a selfie with Phillips, who later shared it with the caption:

“It’s not often that i let people up on my stage but #drake showed up to my show with his dad and guess what… his dad could sing so i got them both up. If my dad was alive I would have wanted the same.”

The father-son duo has publicly celebrated their close relationship multiple times in recent years. In 2018, the artist gifted Graham a Bentley for his birthday, which cost $150,000 (£117,300). In 2022, Graham revealed he had a portrait of his son tattooed on his arm .

Last year, Graham played a prank on Drake by having someone throw a giant pink bra at him during a performance.

In other news about Drake, earlier this week, J. Cole addressed the ongoing feud between him and Kendrick Lamar in a surprise new single titled ‘Port Antonio’. The conflict escalated in April when Lamar called out both the Canadian rapper and Cole on Future and Metro Boomin's ‘Like That.’ Drake initially responded with ‘7 Minute Drill’ on the mixtape Might Delete Later, but he quickly retracted the diss track and issued an apology.

The Drake-Lamar feud came to a pause this past May when the Toronto artist released ‘The Heart Part 6,’ in which he claimed that his team had fed Lamar false information and denied the allegations of pe**philia directed at him in ‘Meet The Grahams’ and ‘Not Like Us.’

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‘Not Like Us’ has since become one of Lamar’s most successful tracks, reaching his fourth Billboard Number One and breaking the Spotify record for most streams in a single day for a hip-hop song. During his sold-out Juneteenth ‘Pop Out’ concert, Lamar performed the song six times, with Dr. Dre introducing it for the first performance by whispering the opening lyrics, “I see dead people.”

The entire feud is set to be explored in a new documentary titled ‘Public Enemies: Kendrick vs. Drake’. The project has reportedly been approved by Channel 4, but no release date has been announced yet.

---Silviya.Y