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The Drake Curse was (still is?) a very real thing. The Canadian rapper has put hexes on sports teams and players for a while now, with every sports fan worried when the guy shows up wearing their favorite squad’s colors. But with Drake’s hometown Toronto Raptors winning last season’s NBA championship, could the Drake Curse finally be over with? Quite possibly, but we’ll have to wait and see.
For fans of the rapper, Drake dropped some new music this morning in a release called Care Package, which is a collection of songs that were floating around on SoundCloud or online over the years. One of the songs included on the compilation album — which consists of songs released between 2010 and 2016 that weren’t available before today — is a tune called “Draft Day,” which he put together in 2014, where he directly drops the names of Johnny Manziel and Andrew Wiggins.
Literally, the opening lines of “Draft Day” go like this:
Draft day, Johnny Manziel
Five years later how am I the man still
Draft day, A. Wiggins
Fuck that other side bitch we stay winnin’
While both Manziel and Wiggins are probably stoked to be mentioned in a Drake song, considering their careers haven’t quite gone as they hoped, which both perceived as busts, people on Twitter couldn’t help but think that this, right here, was the beginning of the Drake Curse. Take a look at what some people had to say after hearing the tune, and relating it back to the Toronto rapper.
Draft Day might have been the first Drake curse
— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) August 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/oldirtyginger/status/1157276715347042304?s=20
Listening to Draft Day has made me realize the Drake curse was real. He shouted out Johnny Manziel & Andrew Wiggins and now look where they careers are #CarePackage
— Lost Flyer (@lost_flyer) August 2, 2019
I just realized the drake curse applied to Manziel and Wiggins through draft day pic.twitter.com/mGCa1JA0wZ
— _ (@__JayFlores) August 2, 2019
I know the Drake sports curse is played out now, but Drake making a song called Draft Day talking about Johnny Manziel and Andrew Wiggins didn’t get mentioned enough.
— Austin Moore (@RealAustinMoore) August 2, 2019
Shame what happened to Manziel & Wiggins but they’ll always have “Draft Day”
— Alphet Pujols (@antenehgeb) August 2, 2019
In the song "Draft Day" Drake references both Johnny Manziel and Andrew Wiggins who both turned out to be huge BUST….. Just a little history of the infamous "Drake Curse"
— NOT Smokey from “Friday” Mannnnn 💨🫴🏾🌴 (@Jalapenopapii) August 2, 2019
Crazy how Drake dropped Draft Day and mentioned Jhonny Manziel, and Andrew Wiggins….
Both of them turned out to be a bust.
The drake curse started before we knew. #Drake
— Laura Freeman (@F11Laura) August 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/DPRINCE_10/status/1157141285922148353?s=20
Draft Day is proof of how strong that Drake curse really was before Kawhi ended it
— Space Trooper 🐝☜(˚▽˚)☞🇩🇴 (@SgtLantigua) August 2, 2019
It might be all fun and games to laugh at the Drake Curse nowadays after Kawhi Leonard’s superhuman performance in the NBA Playoffs helped (possibly) kill it, but, for Johnny Manziel and Andrew Wiggins, it might have impacted their respective pro sports careers. Who knew that Drake had such power over real life with his lyrics, right?