Rapper Drake is receiving praise for stopping mid-performance to reprimand a man in attendance at his show for allegedly inappropriately grabbing women in the audience.
The incident occurred at Marquee, a club in Sydney, Australia. Fans cheered the Canadian rapper after he threatened the man after noticing him touching different women during his show.
You can't turn on the TV these days without hearing something new about all the instances of sexual misconduct being revealed throughout the entertainment industry. Every day there is a new revelation that just floors people with how people could just turn a blind eye to it for so long.
Rapper Drake is not one of those people. It was recently revealed on Instagram that the star stopped one of his performances to call out an asshole who was touching women inappropriately in the crowd.
At a performance at Australian club, Marquee, Drake stopped mid-performance to call out the jerk. He yelled: "Yo, stop that shit. If you don't stop touching girls, I will come out there and fuck you up. I'm not playing, if you don't stop putting your hands on girls, I'm gonna come out there and fuck your ass up."
Drake repeated himself and the crowd went wild cheering and screaming for the Canadian MC. As he spoke, a member of club security probed the crowd trying to find the man in question.
A fan at the club filmed the incident and posted it on Instagram saying: "I got this close to Drake threatening to jump into the crowd to start a fight with a guy groping a woman in the audience. Violence against women, 6 God says no."
Once the video went viral the post started receiving tons of praise. Drake was called everything from a legend to a hero. Women and men alike took to social media to praise the rapper.
One woman wrote on Twitter: “the video.... of drake... poppin off on some dude at his concert for touching girls and then having him kicked out........ an ANGEL."
Another fan said: “I keep finding more and more reasons to love @Drake.”
Drake is just the latest in an increasing amount of musicians who are starting to call out sexual misconduct at their shows. In October, Loyle Carner, a UK rapper, made an audience member exit his show when he was overheard making a sexist comment. Sam Carter of metalcore band Architects, let a man have it for groping a woman while she was crowd surfing during a performance at a music festival in August.
Everyone has heard of Harvey Weinstein and what he's accused of by this point. What most people don't know is that Drake actually refused to work with the embattled executive once his manager shared feedback he received from others close to Weinstein. He didn't want to work with someone like that.
So the nice guy act isn't just a show that Drake puts on. He really is one of the good guys. I think that just makes us all like him even more. What do you think?
You can see the video of the Marquee club incident below.
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