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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:21 am    Post subject: Rapper Drake is now a Toronto Raptors executive

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/drake-is-now-a-toronto-raptors-executive/

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Drake is now a Toronto Raptors executive
Is he the next Jay-Z?

Drake has been spotted often at Toronto Raptors games for the past few years, but now the hip-hop star and the team are taking things to a new level. The Canadian-born star will sign on with the franchise to help with a variety of initiatives from the 2016 All-Star game to helping with the planned team’s image makeover heading into the 2014-15 season, the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star reported.

The Raptors averaged a mid-league rank of 91.6% capacity at home games last year, but attracted a near-league low 84.8% attendance when they were on the road.

More on his new role and Toronto’s plan for an image change from the Toronto Star:

The hip-hop star will also launch a clothing line in conjunction with the team. Most intriguingly, he is being asked to consult on a complete redesign of the club’s image to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the franchise in the 2014-15 season.

According to sources at MLSE, everything about the team is on the table . . . aside from the name. Give up your Huskies dreams. MLSE and Drake are sticking with dinosaurs.

Going forward, this will be more than a business arrangement.

It would be wrong to call what comes next a renaissance. That would imply that the Raptors have a legacy to build on. After 18 years, all they have is one playoff series win and Vinsanity to draw from. That’s it.

It’s within Drake’s power to change that.

While the partnership is already garnering a lot of comparisons to what Jay-Z did for the Brooklyn Nets over the past few years, the idea of celebrities working to help a brand revamp its image is nothing new. And many haven’t been nearly as successful as Jay-Z and Brooklyn were — take, for example, Alicia Keys and BlackBerry (though the Raptors, to be fair, probably won’t end up laying off a large amount of its workforce anytime soon). But at the very least, a partnership with Drake can at least help some of the Raptors’ players save some money on his new album.

Or, if he lives up to the expectations of his rap-turned-NBA guru predecessors, be a wild success that sends thousands of more people buying up Raptors jerseys or actually going to see them when they come into town.

More from the Toronto Star:

The potential is so exciting, they’re already starting to worry about it in the tower over the ACC.

“We just hope he doesn’t want to be an agent,” one key MLSE figure said, joking.

And also not joking at all.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:24 am    Post subject:

started from the bottom now they're still there
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:46 am    Post subject:

i like drake
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:35 pm    Post subject:

Raptor's version of Jay-Z I guess, glorified mascot prentending to be an owner/exec
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 7:58 pm    Post subject:

marga86 wrote:
i like drake


I don't.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:49 pm    Post subject:

He's a less talented version of the talentless Jay-Z.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:01 pm    Post subject:

The guy from DeGrassi?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:59 am    Post subject:

I like drake too.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:16 am    Post subject:

Chronicle wrote:
started from the bottom now they're still there


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:56 am    Post subject:

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Spinner Mason is his right hand man.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:23 am    Post subject:

Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:34 am    Post subject:

F Drake. A good friend of mine met him and told me that he has no class whatsoever. He talks a lot of smack but is surrounded by bodyguards. He's a punk beeeeotch!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:44 am    Post subject:

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Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 12:55 pm    Post subject:

Wilt wrote:
He's a less talented version of the talentless Jay-Z.


Both are actually pretty talented
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Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?



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Wilt wrote:
He's a less talented version of the talentless Jay-Z.
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Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:49 pm    Post subject:

C M B wrote:
Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?


Drake is a musical genius.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:45 pm    Post subject:

Nnamdi21 wrote:
Wilt wrote:
He's a less talented version of the talentless Jay-Z.

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Chronicle wrote:
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 10:41 pm    Post subject:

People are having mixed reactions about this move...
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 11:32 pm    Post subject:

@ executive. Didn't he just get his HS diploma a few weeks ago? The guy is a bandwagon Heat fan who was claiming Miami.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:17 am    Post subject: Re: Rapper Drake is now a Toronto Raptors executive

Hope he's a better executive than he is a rapper.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 6:43 am    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
C M B wrote:
Who do we have to blame for making these dumb rappers so powerful?


Drake is a musical genius.


I think that every time a musician (or a rapper) is mentioned here we should call that person a musical genius of the highest degree, because that's the level of discernment used when that praise is thrown around.
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