Drake gifted a pregnant fan $25,000 during one of his recent concerts.
The Canadian rapper was performing in his It’s All a Blur tour, when he spotted a fan holding up a unique sign.
“She’s got a sign that says, ‘I’m five months pregnant, can you be my rich baby daddy?'” Drake told the crowd in a video shared to X, formerly Twitter. “I don’t want to offend your real baby daddy, but I would love to.”
Drake then voice concerned for the expectant mom’s safety and suggested they move her to the VIP section of the concert.
“First of all, get you out of the pit so we can put you somewhere safe like the V.I.P. or some s***, because you can’t be pregnant and bouncing around,” Drake told her. “When I start playing some of these slappers, we can’t have you getting pushed around. Second of all, I’d love to give you $25,000 so you can be a rich baby mama.”
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The woman’s sign was a reference to the song Rich Baby Mama off Drake’s eighth studio album, For All the Dogs.
The song, a collaboration with SZA and Sexyy Red, is about Drake trying to convince a girl he likes to dump her current boyfriend to be with him.
Drake has made a habit of gifting his fans large sums of cash on his tour, including giving $100,000 to cancer survivor Lauren Schwallier at his show in Nashville in February. He noticed her sign that read “no mo chemo,” and “just finished chemo.”
“I see everybody pointing to this sign and I can’t miss it,” Drake said during the show, per The Tennessean. “So, bring her to the front real quick. ‘Cause this is an important moment.”
When he saw the sign he said, “Listen, forget Drake, forget anybody else in the building right now. That’s a true soldier right there.”
“I hope my manager doesn’t kill me because I’ve never really done this much, but, listen, I want you to cash this in at the end of the night,” he said, handing her a receipt.
“We’re gonna give you $100,000.”
Drake added: “I love you and I wish you the best. Nashville, make some noise for her one more time.”
Schwallier, who had breast cancer, opened up on the experience.
“One thing led to another and I was at the front of the stage and Drake blew me a kiss and told me that he loved me. That’s all I was focused on… and then just like the money on top of it is just insane,” she told The Tennessean.
In August, he gave a woman a Hermes Birkin bag at his show in Inglewood, Los Angeles, and another woman a Chanel bag just days later in the same city.
Then in September, he gave one fan $50,000 after the man admitted to spending all his money on Drake concert tickets, leaving him nothing with which to furnish his home.
“Listen, this is what life is about,” Drake said, per Billboard. “I’m trying to teach you something tonight. I want you to understand something tonight. You never know what the next person is going through. You never know what the person in front of you, to the left of you, to the right of you, behind you, is going through.”
A woman in Houston received a first-class plane ticket, $10,000 and tickets in the VIP section at Drake’s following concert in Atlanta in September and one newlywed couple were gifted a trip to Turks and Caicos courtesy of the rapper.
They are just some examples of money that Drake has given away at his concerts as part of the 70-plus city tour.
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