Drake worth the wait
The musical soap opera — postponements galore, a towed tour bus, some Kanye shade — that has been Drake’s Aubrey & The Three Migos Tour finally had its Canadian debut on Tuesday night at Scotiabank Arena.
And given the rousing welcome afforded both hometown boy Drizzy and Atlanta hip-hop outfit Migos (minus member Offset due to recent felony gun charges in the U.S. after he and his bodyguard were pulled over), there appeared to be no hard feelings — at least inside the venue — about Monday’s previously scheduled opening night in T.O. being postponed at the last minute.
Certainly neither Drake — wearing an OVO-branded bulletproof vest, as he’s done earlier in the tour — nor Migos mentioned the postponement in their respective sets, with Brampton native Roy Woods kicking the entire night off.
All of the performers were bolstered by a massive state-of-the-art stage that took up about two-thirds of the floor and resembled something out of a summer blockbuster.
It was essentially one cool-looking LED screen, with multiple projections ranging from women swimming underneath a blue pool to a giant cellphone, while various changing coloured lights, fire bursts, fireworks, laser lights, steam, and confetti danced around it, and large video screens above it showed various closeups on split screens.
There was also a flying yellow Ferrari, an army of drone-operated lights, and a Tron-like basketball court.
Drizzy made his way through parts of more than 40 songs over the course of 100 minutes, with old and new highlights like Both, Know Yourself, Emotionless, Elevate, Over, Headlines, HYFR, All Me, Work, One Dance, Fake Love, Hotline Bling, Nice for What,
In My Feelings, I’m Upset and
God’s Plan.