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Drake raps about last summer's tragic Toronto shooting on Snoop Lion's new song, "No Guns Allowed"

by Tyler Munro

The tragic Danzig BBQ shootings happened just weeks before Toronto’s Caribana festival and Drake’s OVO Fest, prompting the latter to bring in outside help with dozens of paid duty police officers and outsourced metal detectors. But even then, Drizzy was mum on the shootings.

Until now.

On Snoop Lion’s new track, the Major Lazer produced “No Guns Allowed,” Drake references the victims by name.

“Bullets do not chose the victim, it’s the shooter that picks ’em,” he raps. “Dedicate this to Shyanne and Josh and pour something out for the lives that they stole”

Check out the song below. Even if Snoop’s Jamaican accent is a little off putting, having his daughter Cori B. sing the hook, Drake on the guest verse and the Police’s Stewart Copeland on percussion gives it a real chilled, summertime communal vibe, even if it’s likely snowing as you read this. [via NOW]