Rick Ross’ God Forgives, I Don’t LP dropped today and features an appearance from Drake on the hook of “Diced Pineapples.” The track also features Wale and was produced by Cardiak.
Drake recently announced the date for the 3rd annual OVO Fest, which will take place at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on August 5th. The show will feature performances by A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, 2 Chainz, as well as Drake himself. Tickets go on sale on June 9th.
OVO FEST 2012
Drake
w/ A$AP Rocky, The Weeknd, 2 Chainz and more
Sunday, August 5, 2012 @ 7:30 PM
Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Tickets: $49.50-$121 | Ticketmaster
Much Music recently announced the nominees for the 2012 MMVAs. The awards show will take place on June 17th.
MuchVibe Hip Hop Video of the Year
A-Game – Cool Boyz (directed by Cazhmere)
Classified ft. Kato & Jim Cuddy – The Hangover (directed by The Hansen-MacDonald Brothers)
Drake ft. Lil Wayne & Tyga – The Motto (directed by Lamar Taylor & Hyghly Alleyne)
Harvey Stripes ft. Lloyd – Come On (directed by Cazhmere)
K’Naan ft. Nelly Furtado – Is Anybody Out There? (directed by Chris Robinson)
Other hip-hop-related nominees are below.
Video of the Year
Drake – Headlines
Hedley ft. P. Reign – Invincible
Post Production of the Year
Shaun Boothe – Let Me Go
Cinematographer of the Year
Hedley ft. P. Reign – Invincible
Director of the Year
RT! (Aleesia ft. Big Sean – Kiss It Bye Bye)
Marc André Debruyne (Danny Fernandes ft. Josh Ramsay & Belly – Hit Me Up)
Pop Video of the Year
Hedley ft. P. Reign – Invincible
MuchFACT Indie Video of the Year
Danny Fernandes ft. Josh Ramsay & Belly – Hit Me Up
International Video of the Year – Artist
David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj – “Turn Me On”
Flo Rida – “Good Feeling”
Nicki Minaj – “Starships”
Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo , Afrojack & Nayer – “Give Me Everything”
International Video of the Year – Group
Bad Meets Evil ft. Bruno Mars – “Lighters”
International Video of the Year by a Canadian
Drake ft. Rihanna – Take Care
Most Streamed Video of the Year
Aleesia ft. Big Sean – “Kiss It Bye, Bye”
Cobra Starship ft. Mac Miller – “Middle Finger”
Danny Fernandes ft. Josh Ramsay & Belly – “Hit Me Up”
Hedley ft. P. Reign – “Invincible”
Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Otis”
UR Fave: Video
Drake – “Headlines”
Hedley ft. P. Reign – “Invincible”
UR Fave: Artist
Drake
The nominations for the 7th annual Stylus Awards presented by Pioneer DJ have been announced. The event will take place on May 26th and will be hosted by comedian TRIXX. Tickets for the event can be purchased at ticketmaster.ca beginning on Monday. A few of the award nominations are listed below. Click here for full listing.
Fan Choice Club DJ of the Year presented by Pioneer DJ
4 Korners (Toronto)
Charlie Brown (Toronto)
Hedspin (Vancouver)
Lissa Monet (Toronto)
Wristpect (Toronto)
Keith Dean (Montreal)
Fan Choice Artist of the Year presented by Pioneer DJ
Anjulie
Drake
Kardinal Offishall
Karl Wolf
Melanie Fiona
The Weeknd
Canadian Hip Hop Single of the Year
A-Game – Oh My!
Classified – That Ain’t Classy
Drake ft. Tyga, Lil’ Wayne – The Motto
JD Era ft. Lokz – Change
Kardinal Offishall – Ignorant
P Reign – I Need It All
Reema Major – I’m The One
Rock Da House – For My City Remix
Canadian Producer of the Year
Arthur McArthur (Tyga – “Kings & Queens”)
Boi-1da (Drake – “Headlines”)
Cirkut (Rihanna – “You The One”)
Illangelo (Drake – “Crew Love”)
Noah “40” Shebib (DJ Khaled ft. Drake, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne – “I’m The One”)
T-Minus (Lil Wayne ft. Drake – “She Will”)
Toronto DJ of the Year
4 Korners
Charlie Brown
Jester
Lissa Monet
Ritz
Wristpect
Artist Mixtape of the Year
Ayah & DJ Jazzy Jeff – Back For More
Belly – The Greatest Dream I Never Had
Magnum – I’m G.O.O.D
Raz Fresco – MCMXCV
Reema Major – I Am Legend
Rich Kidd – We On Some Rich Kidd Sh*t Vol 5: Born To Win
Shaun Boothe – Waiting Room
Son Real – Where’s Waldo?
The Airplane Boys – Where’ve You Been
The Weeknd – House of Balloons
Underground Hip Hop DJ of the Year
Big Jacks (Toronto)
Dames Nellas (Toronto)
DJ Fase (Toronto)
DJ Law (Toronto)
DJ Sage (Vancouver)
Marvel (Vancouver)
Hall of Fame Inductees
Michie Mee (Artist)
DJ Bunny (Calgary) (DJ)
This is the second of the two new videos from Drake to be released this week. The video for “HYFR” features Lil Wayne and is set as a re-Bar Mitzvah for Drake “as a re-commitment to the Jewish religion.”
A cover of Gil Scott-Heron’s “I’ll Take Care of You,” this is Drake’s fourth single from last year’s album, Take Care. Featuring Rihanna, “Take Care,” the video was directed by Yoanne Lemoine.
The Juno Award nominees for 2012 were announced today and, of course, there’s some Toronto hip hop artists up for awards, including Drake, who is up for 4 awards.
The nominees for Rap Recording of the Year are:
Drake is also nominated for Album of the Year, Artist of the Year and the Juno Fan Choice Award, while Kardinal Offishall finds himself nominated twice in the R&B/Soul Recording of the Year category for collaborations with Jully Black and Karl Wolf.
For the Juno Fan Choice Award, Drake is up against Arcade Fire, Avril Lavigne, City and Colour, Deadmau5, Ginette Reno, Hedley, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé and Nickelback.
Drake’s Take Care is up for Album of the Year against the new albums from Avril Lavigne and Nickelback and a couple of Christmas albums from Justin Bieber and Michael Bublé.
City and Colour, Deadmau5, Feist and Michael Bublé are Drake’s competition for Artist of the Year.
Noah “40” Shebib was nominated for Producer of the Year for the songs “Marvins Room” and “Take Care” from Drake’s album.
Drake released the video for “Practice” the other day. Just Kyra Chaos dancing in front of a mirror.
Drake will be performing this Sunday during the second intermission of the NHL All-Star Game in Ottawa. The game begins at 4 PM and, as always, can be seen on CBC. Also performing will be Outasight, while Javier Colon will sing the American anthem and the Senators’ long-time anthem singer Lyndon Slewidge will handle the Canadian anthem.