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Drake gets new Toronto-themed tattoo (Photo)

By Phil Watson

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Drake loves his hometown of Toronto, enough so that he has some city-themed tattoos. He’s now added another.

That Aubrey Graham has a thing for Toronto.

The singer/rapper/songwriter/actor better known as Drake has a long-standing love affair with his hometown, even adding some body art to show it.

He’s got a “416” tattoo down the right side of his torso—the TO area code, of course—and had the CN Tower on the inside of his right bicep.

But he’s upped the ante on CN Tower tatts with this new piece of body artwork, shown on Drake’s Twitter fan page, Word On Rd:

The old, smaller CN Tower has been removed and replaced with an eye, because who doesn’t need a third eye glaring at them from their upper arm, right?

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For the record, the CN Tower is a 147-story, 1,815-foot high tower that defines the Toronto skyline as it is the tallest building in North America and the fourth-largest in the world, trailing only the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Shanghai Tower located in—oddly enough—Shanghai and the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The tower once known as the Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States and ranks 12th in the world. It is now called Willis Tower.

As someone without a tattoo, I will admit to not quite understanding all the fuss—I’m going to pay an artist hundreds of dollars to jab me repeatedly with a needle? None for me, thanks.

The annual flu shot is the only needle-related trauma I want to deal with.

That’s not a knock on those who embrace body art, rather just a personal preference. There is a huge difference, after all, between being anti-tattoo and anti-tattoo-on-me.

Y’all want to lay there and get poked with inky sharp thingies, that’s your thing.

As it appears to be Drake’s thing.

Having visited Toronto a few times, I can understand the sense of civic pride—it’s a beautiful city, clean and easy to get around (at least at the time of my last visit there for a vacation … wow, 13 years ago already?

Drake teased the planned release this year of his fourth studio album, to be called “Views From the 6.” His third studio release, “Nothing Was the Same,” dropped in September 2013 and reached No. 1 on the charts in both Canada and the U.S.

I will go out on a limb and predict there will be something on the new album that references Toronto.

Call it a hunch.

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