As goofy as this is (and I know lots on this forum will laugh at this and think it's not true) Drake has actually done incredible things for the legitimacy of Toronto in the music/sports world. I've read a few times about how having one of the bigger mainstream hip hop artists break out in the States but totally rep Toronto has really changed perception down there amongst athletes/the hip hop community.
Before Drake it was generally accepted that if you were Canadian and into hip hop, you would try to downplay your origins as much as possible and try to just sneak into the scene as "American". Drake came along, started selling hugely down there, but kind of stunned everyone in the industry when he started not only mentioning that he was Canadian, but unabashedly boasting about Toronto and Canada. Specifically he started to going to Raptors games and becoming hugely involved with the organization.
Players around the league started to take notice and be like "What the hell? Maybe there's something to this".
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