Drake shares video of his flooded Toronto mansion

Rapper Drake revealed on Tuesday night that his Canadian mansion had flooded after heavy rain within the Toronto area for the previous few days.

“This better be Espresso Martini,” he captioned a video on his Instagram story. The clip walked viewers by means of what seems to be a walk-in closet and dressing/vainness space with a number of inches of brown water on the ground.

The singer’s rep declined to remark to TODAY.com on the flooding.

Roughly 3.3 inches of rain fell inside a couple of hours within the downtown core of Toronto, in response to Environment Canada, the CBC studies. The rain flooded streets and houses, knocking out energy to hundreds. Others have been compelled to desert their vehicles on flooded roads; Toronto Fire advised the CBC that crews rescued not less than 12 individuals from Don Valley Parkway, which runs alongside the overflowing Don River within the metropolis’s east finish.

Drake‘s flooded Toronto house was beforehand featured in an April 2020 Architectural Digest story, which clocked the property at 50,000 sq. toes. Drake calls the mansion The Embassy, AD reported, and its model “overwhelming high luxury.”

“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 advised the journal outlet. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong.”

The Embassy was designed by Canadian architectural and inside designer Ferris Rafauli, who advised AD that the construction is “a proper 19th-century limestone mansion.”

“But the exterior profiles are more minimal and the lines are a bit cleaner,” he said, calling the interior rooms “trendy Art Deco.”

The lavish house was additionally featured within the rapper’s pandemic-era music video, “Tootsie Slide,” which he recorded in the mansion and on the estate grounds.