Jagmeet Singh probably thought he was just going out for a chill night of live music. Instead, he walked straight into the middle of rap’s coldest civil war. The former New Democratic Party leader and current political main character was spotted vibing at one of Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Toronto shows — and let’s just say Drizzy did not take kindly to the cameo.
Footage of Singh enjoying the Grand National Tour quickly hit the timeline, and while most people laughed it off, Drake was clearly not amused. After all, his own city asking for an encore of “Not Like Us” was already painful. But even the city’s politicians are showing no loyalty? That was salt in the wound and apparently, reason enough for a virtual town square shaming.
Singh only went for SZA (allegedly)
Sure, Drizzy tried to do what he could to look unbothered as the Grand National Tour lit up his city. He dropped a new feature with Toronto rapper Smiley, “2 Mazza,” in between the shows on June 13th. He originally was going to stream with Kai Cenat on the night of Kendrick’s first show, to review director submissions for his upcoming “SOMEBODY LOVES ME” music video, but then delayed it last-minute. Allegedly, this was because the submissions were so good that they needed more time to review (which I’m sure everyone believes).
However, once the footage started coming out of everyone, including Singh, having a blast at K. Dot and SZA’s show, he decided to crash out on the politician and not his real enemies.
Drake posted a screenshot of his past DMs with Singh, where he can also be seen tagging the rapper in stories and saying that he was honored the 6 God gave him a follow—back in 2019. However, any potential friendship is probably out the window now since Drizzy called him a “goof.”
Singh immediately responded to the viral post and put on his best Drake fanboy act, stating that he went “for SZA, not Kendrick…Real talk, I get it. I shouldn’t have gone at all. OVO and Drake have lifted up this city and [Canadian flag emoji]. For me it’ll always be Drake over Kendrick.”
Yet, there’s a clip of him dancing to “tv off” like he helped write the setlist.
Fans dragged Drake for beefing with a lawmaker instead of his actual rivals (so much for being unbothered), and clowned Singh for folding like a lawn chair. Still, the Kendrick and SZA tour stop managed to make waves long after the two artists left the city. Timelines in Toronto were full of think pieces from Drake loyalists about the audacity of everyone who attended the shows.
Given the size of the 100K+ crowd that showed up for Kendrick and SZA across both nights, Singh might have secured more votes by standing on business with his decision…
