Who needs a board of tourism when we have Drake?
The Toronto rapper is a vocal advocate of his hometown (lovingly nicknamed "The 6" for its 416 and 647 area codes), and the popular online music magazine
Pitchfork has taken note. The publication went ahead and mapped the Toronto locales named the artist's many, many songs, and contextualized them for a non-Toronto audience.
The article writes:
When he celebrates the power of the 6, he’s talking about more than a specific neighborhood: From Rexdale to the Bluffs, from the Zoo to Long Branch, that one number encompasses nearly every inch of Toronto. The purity of his affection for the city can touch anyone who’s ever known what it’s meant to call somewhere home.
Talk about public relations.
Read the full story
here.
Source: Pitchfork