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Drake Declares ‘Drizzy Drake Is Very Much Still Alive’ While Closing Out First Australia Tour Show

The Anita Max Wynn Tour kicked off in Perth on Feb. 4.

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Norman Wong

Drake launched the Anita Max Wynn Tour in Australia on Tuesday (Feb. 4), kicking off in Perth, and he left the audience with some choice words to close out the first show.

The 6 God is always one to end a set with some inspiration for fans, and he’s typically very intentional with what he says. Drake made sure to let the OVO faithful know he’s still “very much alive” as he continues to trek across Australia.


“My name is Drake. I started in 2008, I came all the way from Toronto, Canada,” he said in video captured by fans. “The year is now 2025, and Drizzy Drake is very much still alive.”

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It appears Drake’s closing remarks could be his response to coming off a rocky 2024 and his feud with Kendrick Lamar, who won five Grammy Awards for the Drizzy diss track “Not Like Us” over the weekend.

Drake continued his tour tradition of walking through the crowd to get to the stage. Fan footage emerged of Drizzy heading in with Chubbs as the instrumental to “Over My Dead Body” rang off in the background.

Some fans took Drake’s fashion choices as symbolic, with the OVO honcho rocking a hoodie riddled with holes across it. “Hoodie is symbolic,” one person commented on IG. “They emptied the clip but he still standing.”

The Anita Max Wynn Tour continues on Wednesday (Feb. 5) with another showing in Perth before heading to Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand. It’s Drake’s first show run back in Australia since 2017.

This article first appeared on Billboard U.S.

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SANTA MARIA, CA - JUNE 13: Michael Jackson prepares to enter the Santa Barbara County Superior Court to hear the verdict read in his child molestation case June 13, 2005 in Santa Maria, California. After seven days of deliberation the jury has reached a not guilty verdict on all 10 counts in the trial against Michael Jackson. Jackson was charged in a 10-count indictment with molesting a boy, plying him with liquor and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. He pleaded innocent.
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SANTA MARIA, CA - JUNE 13: Michael Jackson prepares to enter the Santa Barbara County Superior Court to hear the verdict read in his child molestation case June 13, 2005 in Santa Maria, California. After seven days of deliberation the jury has reached a not guilty verdict on all 10 counts in the trial against Michael Jackson. Jackson was charged in a 10-count indictment with molesting a boy, plying him with liquor and conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion. He pleaded innocent.

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Netflix Announces Three-Part ‘Michael Jackson: The Verdict’ Docuseries Chronicling Pop Star’s 2005 Child Molestation Trial

The series will look at the arguments that led to Jackson's acquittal on all charges.

With the sanctioned Michael biopic racking up more than $600 million in global box office and sending the late King of Pop’s catalog surging up the charts, Netflix announced its own Michael Jackson project on Wednesday (May 20), the three-part documentary series Michael Jackson: The Verdict.

The series, which will premiere on June 3, looks at Jackson’s 2005 criminal trial on child molestation charges involving a teenage boy. “In 2003, Michael Jackson — arguably the most famous and beloved figure in pop culture of all time — was charged with multiple counts of child molestation, setting off a media firestorm and courtroom proceedings that captivated millions,” reads a description from the streamer. “His acquittal on all counts only further stoked public interest in the larger-than-life celebrity at the center of the trial, interest that continues to persist long after Jackson’s death in 2009.”

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.
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