Drake Just Played "Wife, Pipe, Bestie" With 20 Women

It started as a birthday gift. Drake's friend Ben surprised him with 20 rockets and a new spin on an old party game. Instead [music] of marry, explicit kill, the rules for the night were wife, pipe, bestie. 20 women walked out one at a time to meet him, and for the next half hour, Drake did what Drake does best. Turned a simple dating show setup into a full performance, complete with callbacks to his own lyrics [music] and magic. The gathering pack cracked open mid flirtation >> Wow, magic flirting. [music] >> and a running bit about Coney dogs versus Detroit's own version of the hot dog. >> I look like I know this might sound crazy, but I do love a glizzy, like I really do love a hot dog. [music] >> Today, we're covering that appearance in full. Who showed up, how Drake worked the room, and which three women made it to the final round. Before we go where this channel always goes, >> [music] >> inside the real estate. Because after 20 introductions, three gifts, and one offer to buy somebody's mother a house, >> Buy my mom a house? >> Oh, yeah. I'd love to. >> We're [music] taking you through the home all of that generosity is funded by Drake's 50,000 square-foot Toronto mansion, The Embassy, reportedly worth $100 million. The game show, 20 women, one night, [music] and a lot of Toronto references. The premise was simple on paper. 20 [music] contestants, one at a time, given roughly 90 seconds to make an impression before Drake moved on to the next introduction. In practice, it played out like a highlight reel of Drake being exactly the version of himself his fans already know. Quick with a compliment, quicker [music] with a joke, and never more than one sentence away from a reference to his own catalog or his hometown. He asked contestants where they were from and built a bit out of nearly every answer. A woman from Detroit got a runner about Coney dogs. A contestant from Austin, Texas [music] was rebranded on the spot as Pink and became a recurring callback for the rest of the night. Multiple women, coincidentally, turned out to also be from Detroit, which Drake [music] noted with visible amusement. >> Where are you from? >> Detroit. >> Detroit? >> Yeah. >> Uh where are you from? >> I'm from Detroit, Michigan, but I'm currently residing >> How are there so many Detroit girls here? >> The contestants themselves were a genuine cross-section. [music] Some recognizable from music and entertainment, some from the content creator and streaming world, [music] others simply introduced by first name with no further explanation needed. The format leaned hard into bit-based flirting rather than anything resembling a serious vetting process. [music] One contestant brought up Magic: The Gathering, and Drake, apparently a fan, opened a booster pack with her on the spot. Another walked him through what she'd order at a bar to impress someone. A recurring joke throughout the night involved Drake's own AIM and MSN Messenger screen names from childhood. >> What was your AIM screen name? Your first like Cuz they're all so embarrassing. >> We're we're Canadian, so it would be it would be like [music] we had like ICQ or like MSN Messenger. >> Which he revealed with mock reluctance, Father Duck, a reference to his legal first name, Aubrey. >> [music] >> By the midpoint, Drake was openly narrating his own process, telling one contestant he was looking for someone gifted, accomplished, and easy to be around rather than someone simply happy to be here. He fielded questions about being cheated on, about his ideal honeymoon destination. [music] He floated Turkey, she countered with Belgium, and repeatedly about what he'd do for the right person. A [music] running theme that set up the show's actual conclusion. Throughout the night, Drake kept circling back [music] to the same idea in different words, that he was less interested in a curated first impression than in whether a conversation actually held up once the cameras kept [music] rolling. He talked about judging a book by its cover, and then immediately walking the metaphor back, saying what actually mattered was what happened once you got past the cover, whether the chapters, as he put it, evolved into something worth sticking around for. >> [music] >> It's a small moment, but it's consistent with how he's talked about relationships in interviews for years, performative on the surface, more deliberate underneath. The energy of the room also leaned heavily on hometown pride. [music] Several contestants [snorts] brought up specific Toronto and Mississauga references, neighborhood names, local slang, artists from the city's music scene, and Drake rewarded almost every one of them with a genuine [music] reaction. The kind of recognition that only lands with someone who actually grew up there. It's the same instinct that shows [music] up constantly in his music. Toronto as a character in its own right, not just a backdrop. The final three, wife, [music] pipe, bestie. After all 20 introductions, Drake was asked to narrow the field to three, and he landed on [music] Pink from Austin, Lena, and Jordan, a Toronto native currently based in Miami who told him plainly that she'd worn his favorite color to meet him. The reveal, when it came, wasn't really about ranking the women against each other. Drake made a point of framing it as [music] three different kinds of gifts, rather than three tiers of a competition. To his bestie, he gave a Birkin bag and $25,000, calling their connection the foundation every great relationship should start with. To his pipe, he offered $25,000 and an all-expenses-paid [music] trip anywhere in the world with an open invitation for him to come along. And to his [music] wife, Jordan, he offered anything she wanted, no limit specified. [music] When she asked, half joking, whether he'd buy her mother a house, he said yes without hesitation, adding that he'd be happy to do it. For my mother-in-law, it was a bit Obviously, a live-streamed party game with a punchline built in from the start, but it was also, in its own exaggerated way, a pretty accurate preview of how Drake has always operated in public. Generosity as [music] entertainment, gestures as content, and an instinct for turning even a game show into something that sounds a lot like his own music. Buying someone's mother a house, as it happens, is not a new move for him. It is, in fact, the exact kind of gesture that built the home we're about to walk through. From the game show to the embassy, because if Drake can offer to buy a stranger's mother a house on a live stream without blinking, it's worth remembering what his own home looks like. Tucked into Toronto's most exclusive enclave, the Bridal Path, sits the property known simply as The Embassy, [music] a 50,000 square foot compound that took years to build and is now estimated to be worth roughly $100 million. Drake bought the land back in 2016 for $6.7 million, picking up two acres in what is widely considered Toronto's wealthiest neighborhood. From there, he brought in Canadian architect and designer Ferris Rafauli to turn the lot into what has become one of the most talked about private residences in North America. The design brief was maximalist by intention, modern Art Deco, built from limestone, bronze, black marble, exotic hardwoods, and custom-cut crystal. Drake has said he wanted the house to stand for 100 years, and from the scale of the materials alone, it's easy to believe him. Walk through the front door, and the entry hall is solid limestone with custom marble inlays and bronze-framed antique [music] mirrors that give the space the feel of a private museum rather than a foyer. That's before you even reach the house's signature room, a great room with 44-foot ceilings [music] anchored by a concert grand piano custom-designed in collaboration with Rafauli and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. Above it hangs a chandelier modeled after the one inside New York's Metropolitan Opera House, built from roughly 20,000 hand-cut Swarovski crystals, reportedly the second largest light sculpture of its kind in the world. The primary suite alone runs 3,200 square feet, larger than most freestanding homes with 1,100 square feet of private terrace [music] attached. Inside, there's a whiskey and champagne bar built into the room itself, and an en suite bathroom built around a 4,000-lb black marble soaking tub carved from a single block of stone. The dressing room is a two-story closet finished with amethyst hardware, raw crystal detailing, and diamond upholstered seating. [music] The kind of room that turns getting dressed into an event. The rest of the property functions less like a house and more like a private resort. There's an indoor pool clad in black granite, a full gym, a recording studio built to commercial specifications, and a home theater. An entire room [music] is dedicated to memorabilia tracing Drake's career from his Degrassi years through his run of number one albums filled with platinum plaques and personal artifacts. And for a lifelong basketball fan, there's a regulation NBA court inside the house itself, centered on Drake's own OVO owl logo and lit from above by a 21 square foot pearl skylight. The same court where he's filmed himself both celebrating six-figure bets and on one memorably chaotic afternoon in July 2024, wading through ankle-deep floodwater after a torrential Toronto storm overwhelmed the property. He posted the video himself, [music] joking that the flooding had better be espresso martinis by the time he got to the bottom of the stairs. The Embassy isn't Drake's only address these days, either. In 2024, he reportedly added a resort-style ranch property in Texas to his holdings, continuing to expand a real estate footprint that now spans two countries. [music] With his net worth estimated north of $250 million, the acquisitions show no sign of slowing down. What makes the Embassy stand apart from most celebrity mansions this channel has covered isn't just the price tag, [music] it's the sheer specificity of the commissioning. Very few homeowners, celebrity or otherwise, sit down with an architect and a visual artist and design a piano as a piece of sculpture first and an instrument second. [music] Very few build a chandelier as a direct homage to a specific opera house on another continent. [music] Every room in the Embassy reads less like a purchase and more like a statement of [music] intent. Proof, on a 50,000 square foot scale, that the kid from Forest Hill Collegiate who used to write his own name in liner notes now gets to write it into architecture. The through [music] line. Watch the game show and the house tour back-to-back and the same instinct shows up in both. A man who, handed a party game as a birthday gift, turns it into a spectacle of generosity. Gifts, trips, and offered to house someone's mother is the same [music] man who built a 50,000 square foot compound with a piano co-designed by a museum-level artist and a chandelier modeled after one of the world's great opera houses. Scale is the point. It always has been. So, here's the question. Does an over-the-top live stream game like Wife Pipe Bestie actually tell you something real about how Drake operates when the cameras are rolling and the stakes are low? [music] Or is the Embassy, with its 44-foot ceilings and its $100 million price tag, [music] the only home tour that tells the real story? Drop your answer in the comments below. >> [music]