CBC’s newest podcast, aptly titled This Is Not A Drake Podcast, uses the star as a springboard into conversations about everything from autotune to gender roles; dedicating its episodes to the context and historical groundwork of The Boy’s meteoric rise and the moments that made it possible.
Host Ty Harper, alongside producers Anupa Mistry and Del Cowie, showrunner Josh Bloch and consulting producer Dalton Higgins offer a glimpse into a pre-Drake Toronto and a post-Drake world.
In one of the most poignant episodes of the series, Mistry takes over hosting duties to parse through Drake’s “nice guy” persona, with the help of hip hop feminist scholars Treva Lindsey, Janessa Williams and Toronto-based artist Sydanie.
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