Watch Drake sing new verse about fame and friendship in Detroit last night

By Mike McGonigal

May 28, 2015 at 10:41 am

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Were you at the Drake show last night? We wanted to go, but there were no press passes (boo hoo). Anyway, Drake brought his Jungle Tour to Detroit last night, and the young, popular, and frequently AutoTuned rapper-singer busted out a new section that might have come across like a freestyle but sounds like perhaps it's just a new verse, about how it's hard to have many friends and be super famous at the same time. Here it is, which we found out about courtesy our vigilant friends at Spin, which still exists.

Oh, and for the sake of old times, below this you will find Drake freestyling to Kanye's "Say You Will" in Detroit six years ago, at the Majestic.

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Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...