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I’ll be honest, I’m not really familiar with Drake’s music.

I have seen pictures of his house in Toronto, in various stages of construction doing the rounds for the past while, though.

Apparently it’s now complete and open for viewing, provided you’re a journalist for Architectural Digest, or just follow him on Instagram.

The mansion is a far cry from the monstrosities that rappers used to show off on MTV Cribs.

Instead, it’s described as “something else altogether”.

Measuring 50,000 square feet, with amenities such as an NBA regulation-size indoor basketball court crowned by a 21-square-foot pyramidal skylight, Drake’s astonishing domicile certainly qualifies as extravagant.

But instead of vast expanses of cheap drywall and mountains of ungainly furniture upholstered with a hot glue gun, stately Drake Manor, as envisioned by Canadian architectural and interior designer Ferris Rafauli, is a marvel of old-world craftsmanship, constructed of limestone, bronze, exotic woods, and other noble materials.

Every detail of the sprawling property has been meticulously conceived and executed. And there isn’t a Scarface poster in sight.

Here’s Drake on the inspiration behind the sprawling mansion:

“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 says of his passion project.

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

He’s called the mansion ‘The Embassy” – you were doing so well, dude.

The architect behind the design breaks it down:

The house takes its cues from traditional Beaux Arts architecture, distilled and slightly abstracted to imbue the classic idiom with a more contemporary spirit.

“In form, materials, and execution, the structure is a proper 19th-century limestone mansion. But the exterior profiles are more minimal and the lines are a bit cleaner,” says Rafauli, who heads his own namesake luxury design/build firm based in Ontario.

“This isn’t stucco, paint, and fake gold. That’s not what Drake wanted, and that’s not what I do.”

Take in this video of Drake playing basketball in that insane NBA regulation-size basketball court, complete with special effects:

 

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Must be nice.

Moving on…

[source:architecturaldigest]