

(Don't watch that last one if you enjoy digesting your food.) Drake added, "Hope all of you are healing up well." It stands to reason that Drizzy's ligaments are on their worst behavior again, and that the rapper won't be doing the "Tootsie Slide" anytime soon. Meanwhile, Drake posted another somewhat cryptic video of his recovery in December 2020 (via Revolt), captioned with, "CONFIDENT STEPS at 5 WEEKS." He tagged several athletes all recovering from similar high-profile recent ACL injuries, Odell Beckham Jr., Saquon Barkley, and - most horrifyingly of all - Joe Burrow. A spokesperson for Drake did confirm that he underwent surgery, but didn't specify why, per Billboard. The second time around, it sounded like the same story - but weirdly, he wasn't sharing the deets. He fell on stage in 2009, MTV Newsreports, and absolutely wrecked himself, tearing his ACL, MCL and LCL, according to his own blog (which is every ligament in the knee). This unfortunately wasn't Drake's first issue with faulty knees. Drake's got lots going on, but here are a few things we might overlook.

But if Drake wasn't enjoying the crown, would we want him to have it? Surely nobody with the energy to scale hip-hop mountain would just lay down on the summit - and he's not. "Can we finally admit Drake isn't the 'good guy' we thought?" read a Refinery 29 headline in 2018, chronicling the rapper's messy relationship with his baby mamma. While Drake's Canadian roots and Degrassi past have long earned him a pass on some of his alleged controversial behavior, that eventually started to change. That's because Drake's name is often linked to the title of King of Hip-Hop: those other rappers were "bodied" by a singer, as he'd say, but " heavy is the head that wears the crown." His sixth studio album, Certified Lover Boy, was so hotly anticipated that a tiny glimpse of the musician's silly new haircut in January 2021 was the stuff of headline news and a thousand memes. Hopefully, any side-effects will be minor and Drake will be back on the private OVO courts in no time.Ĭheck out Drake's inspiring bounce-back on his Instagram story below, and we'd like to extend our own wishes that Drizzy makes a full-recovery.Drake has been deemed bigger than ever, as of this writing. Though some will likely find themselves surprised at the severity of Drake's condition, it bodes well to see him once again walking unassisted and getting his gait back to what it once was. "Hope all of you are healing well," he writes, a reminder of the times we're all living in. On his Instagram story, Drake shared footage of his first "confident steps" alone, five weeks removed from the initial surgery. Following a successful operation, Drake mused to Sway that a second torn ACL would jeopardize his ability to "ever walk again." Whether he actually suffered the same injury this time around remains uncertain, but it does appear as if Drizzy's mobility is slowly - but surely - recovering. It should be noted that many have feared a torn ACL, as Drake had previously experienced during a concert in 2009.
