Police called to Drake’s Toronto mansion for third time in week
Drake’s home was the subject of a trespassing incident Thursday.
Police were called about a trespasser at the superstar rapper’s Canada home around 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to Toronto Police spokesperson Shannon Eames. The trespasser was involved in an “altercation” with security guards before the police arrived and was later taken to the hospital.
The “Rich Baby Daddy” hitmaker has been the subject of three police-involved incidents at his Toronto home in a week, including an early morning shooting of a security guard outside of his mansion’s gates Tuesday. Then, Toronto Police Service officers were called to Drake’s home around 2 p.m. Wednesday after an individual “attempted to gain access to the property.”
Police could not disclose the individual’s identity in the Wednesday break-in because the person was apprehended under the Ontario Mental Health Act, meaning the incident is not being treated as a criminal matter. But Eames said that the person involved in the Thursday incident was not apprehended under the Ontario Mental Health Act.
The trio of police-involved incidents come amid the rapper’s highly contentious feud with Compton emcee Kendrick Lamar, which includes diss tracks featuring numerous accusations between the two ranging from secret children to sexual assault.
Adam Lambert changes pronoun in 15-year-old song
Adam Lambert is reclaiming one of his hit songs, almost 15 years after its release.
The singer/songwriter rerecorded “Whataya Want From Me,” the Grammy-nominated track from his debut studio album, “For Your Entertainment,” and enlisted DJ White Shadow for the remix ... or as Lambert is calling it, the “HeMix.”
In addition to new vocals and an up-tempo dance beat, Lambert changed the lyric from “it messed me up” to “he messed me up,” which was how it was originally written. “Whataya Want From Me” was supposed to be a track for a Pink album she wrote with Max Martin and Shellback. After she declined
to use it, the song went to Lambert. Under the pressure of the music industry at the time, he opted to change the pronoun from “he” to “it.”
“It’s one word, but in a very subtle way signals that times have changed,” Lambert, 42, tells USA TODAY. “We’re in a different era. And in a lot of ways, it kind of illustrates all of the growth that I’ve been able to do as an artist and as a creative person.”
Lambert, who first spoke with USA TODAY about the lyric change in 2023, recalls that the “gatekeepers” of the music industry in 2009 were those in charge of radio playlists. Despite the support of his management and record label, Lambert was advised that if he sang about a man breaking his heart, radio would be reluctant to play the song. Lambert made the change hoping that he could continue his career trajectory and that his chart success would pave the way for other queer artists.