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In the song, the rapper phones one of the bar\u2019s staff members for a service request: \u201cMaya, Maya, you workin\u2019 at GRETA tonight or nah? \/ Pick up, I need a whole section for the mob.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taylor Iwaasa, the managing partner of GRETA\u2019s Toronto location says hearing the bar get mentioned by the 6ix God himself had the entire team hyped, especially as the rapper has become what he describes as a \u201cborderline regular.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had [Drake] here a handful of times,\u201d Iwaasa explained to Now Toronto. \u201cI\u2019d say once a month or every other month, for a while, we were having him, and he was pretty good friends with a lot of the staff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Who is Maya in Drake\u2019s \u2018High Fives\u2019?<\/p>\n
Iwaasa said there were theories and \u2018what-ifs\u2019 within the team on whether or not GRETA would get highlighted, given Drake\u2019s close connection and love for the city. But he says the line ultimately came as a wonderful surprise to everyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was stoked. We had just joked that it would have been kind of cool if we got on there\u2026 it\u2019s not something that you ever think is gonna happen,\u201d he said, adding that the achievement is one felt company-wide. The bar has four locations across the country in total: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and of course, Toronto. \u201cWe\u2019re across Canada. You have every friend, manager, and staff across the board all repping it and wearing it. It\u2019s not just Toronto, it\u2019s the company as a whole. Everyone\u2019s very excited.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Drake\u2019s GRETA Bar shoutout sparks huge Toronto turnout<\/p>\n
The recognition came amid GRETA recording one of its busiest weekends to date. On Friday and Sunday, the bar hosted Drake-themed nights to celebrate the rapper\u2019s ninth, and additional bombshell tenth and eleventh, albums.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were hundreds in line. The room was full the entire night, the turnout, the guest list \u2014 you could see everybody was here for it,\u201d Iwaasa said. \u201cIt\u2019s just the overall vibe, like everyone\u2019s here to have a good time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Is \u2018Maya\u2019 from \u2018High Fives\u2019 a real person?<\/p>\n
And as for the spotlight of the entire line, Maya, Iwaasa assures that she is a very real person. And though she\u2019s no longer employed at GRETA, she remains a trusted friend who even came by over the past weekend to party OVO-style.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[Maya\u2019s] still a really good friend of the staff,\u201d he shared, also adding that she\u2019s also become close with the rapper outside of the establishment. \u201cMaya was a pretty close friend of [Drake] in that regard, at least in our eyes\u2026 they text, they talk, you know, they\u2019re close enough to be on that level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drake\u2019s connection to Toronto arcade bar GRETA<\/p>\n
As for what it means for GRETA to be featured in that way, Iwaasa says it speaks to the importance of building genuine relationships with guests, celebrity or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecognizing the influence that Drake is in hip-hop and in that world\u2026 it\u2019s a really cool thing to be able to say that not only did we have him in our business, but we knew him, we fostered a relationship, and he had a good enough experience in what we built that it was something that he put on an album,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t think small things like that would come full circle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n