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Drake Is Being Roasted After Showing Off His Ridiculously Huge Mansion

"Every room in Drake's house looks like he lives in the third best hotel in Qatar."

by Jules LeFevre  9 April 2020
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The old adage that money doesn’t buy taste is never more true than when you glimpse the inside of celebrity mansions.

They seem to be either examples of austere minimalism — in which you have to assume they sleep standing upright in a cupboard that folds into the wall — or garish opulence, like Louis XVIII just exploded all over the walls.

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And you’ll be happy to know that Drake’s home, which was just pored over and photographed in the latest issue of Architectural Digest, is very much the latter.

The 50,000 square-foot Toronto home is called The Embassy, and hosts features such as an NBA regulation-sized basketball court — “crowned by a 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight” — a light sculpture containing 20,000 hand cut pieces of Swarovski crystal, a master bed that weighs one tonne and has a whiskey and champagne bar built into the headboard, a recording studio, and a two-story closet.

“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,” Drake told Architectural Digest. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong.”

 

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Mega recording artist Drake (@champagnepapi) returned to his hometown of Toronto to once again plant roots there, building a 50,000-square-foot ultra-luxe pleasure dome. The stately manor, as envisioned by Canadian designer @ferrisrafauli, is a marvel of old-world craftsmanship, constructed of limestone, bronze, exotic woods, and other noble materials. “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,” Drake says of his passion project. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong,” he adds. Take a look inside our May issue cover story through the link in our profile. Photo by @jasonschmidtstudio; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @colinking; fashion styling by @mellanysanchez

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“It’s overwhelming high luxury,” says rapper Drake (@champagnepapi) of the Toronto home he has been crafting over the past six years alongside designer @ferrisrafauli. “That message is delivered through the size of the rooms and the materials and details of the floors and the ceilings. I wanted to make sure people can see the work I’ve put in over the years reflected from every vantage point.” Indeed, the scale of the rooms sets the tone for the home experience from the moment one enters the vast entry hall, above, which is clad in solid limestone with beveled inserts of Nero Marquina marble beneath a faceted ceiling of antique mirror framed in bronze, while two sculptures by @kaws flank the doorway. Discover more of the home through the link in our profile. Photo by @jasonschmidtstudio; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @colinking

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It’s just…rather a lot. It’s the greatest episode of MTV’s Cribs that never was.

“I think the house shows that I have true faith in myself to take on this task when I was just 27 and see it through,” Drake said. “I also think the house says that I will forever remain solid in the place I was born.”

Given everyone on the internet is in isolation with nothing better to do than comment on Drake’s house, the reactions have been top-shelf. Scroll down to see some of the best — and make sure you check out the full Digest feature, it’s definitely worth your time.