Aubrey “Drake” Graham took to Twitter today (March 16) to inform fans that he is not responsible for the Drake’s Homecoming: The Lost Footage film, which is yet to be released.
“The Drake Homecoming film is not something OVO or Drake have any part in,” Drake says on his Twitter account. ”I feel it is my responsibility to inform and protect my fans.”
The film in question consists of performance footage from Drake’s 2009 Toronto concert. The film is slated for 250 theaters on March 19.
“This live sold out concert filmed at Toronto’s Sound Academy in 2009 just prior to Drake signing with Lil Wayne‘s Young Money was believed lost and destroyed,” the film website says. “After its recent re-discovery, additional production footage was added to the concert film including interviews with James Prince and his son Jas Prince; the latter credited with the actual discovery of Drake. The much anticipated concert film includes the international smashes, ‘Best I Ever Had’ and ‘Successful.’”
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Young Empire Music Group CEO Jas Prince discovered Drake and explains the events in the film.
“When I first listened to Drake I had no idea he was on a hit show,” Prince says in a press release. “I just fell in love with his sound and talent. It was unique and like nothing I had ever heard before. I told him during our first conversation I would make him a star. This film documents the beginning of that journey.”
Prince is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Cash Money over unpaid Drake royalties.
Despite Drake’s hesitance to claim involvement, Fathom Events is defending the release of the film.
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“Drake is an incredibly talented and dynamic performer,” Fathom Events vice president of programming Kymberli Frueh-Owens says in a statement. “We are extremely pleased to bring this newly unearthed concert footage to movie theaters nationwide. The exciting part of this piece is that it features Drake at a breakthrough moment in his young career in the rarified air and company of his hometown fans in Toronto.”
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