{"id":764169,"date":"2026-06-27T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:48:09","slug":"drake-apologizes-to-anyone-named-janice-for-hit-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764169\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake apologizes to anyone named Janice for hit song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>99.9 Virgin Radio host Sam East explains why Drake is set to host an apology party for the choice words he had towards people named Janice on his album Iceman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drake is sorry he victimized anyone named Janice by his song, Janice STFU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto-born rapper appears to be so apologetic, that he wants to make amends to everyone named Janice by throwing an exclusive party for them \u2013 after they can prove it by showing government-issued IDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAll my Janice\u2019s in NY, LA, MIA, TO, HOU, look out for my invitation for Sunday,\u201d he wrote on his Instagram story, referring to New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto and Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A box full of letters seemingly addressed to multiple Janices can be seen in the video on his social media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/BUKUZTOGARERDG2ZJ24Y2DSPMQ.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Drake instagram story Drake&#8217;s Instagram story. (Instagram\/@champagnepapi) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">So, how does it work?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/treyalston\/drake-janice-apology-party-toronto-new-york-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/drake-janice-party-toronto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outlets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaBEVRkFc1d\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are reporting<\/a> that anyone expecting to attend this exclusive event will have to first show their ID to prove that their first name \u2013 not nickname, middle name or last name \u2013 is Janice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drake\u2019s hit single Janice STFU from his newest album ICEMAN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/drake-janice-stfu-hot-100-number-one-debut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debuted at No. 1<\/a> on Billboard Global 200 and U.S. Billboard Hot 100, breaking the rapper\u2019s tie with legendary pop star Michael Jackson, to crown him the male solo artist with the most No. 1 hits on record. The track was Drake\u2019s 14th chart-topper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was also a part of a surprise triple-album drop \u2013 ICEMAN, Habibti, and Maid of Honour. More than 40 songs from the release scored a spot on the Hot 100 \u2013 including Maid of Honour and Habibti which debuted at the top of the Billboard Global 200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For the triple-album release, Drake \u201cfroze\u201d the CN Tower, a reference to ICEMAN. <\/p>\n<p>Watch as the CN Tower \u2018freezes\u2019 over The CN Tower has been &#8216;frozen&#8217; over during an event in downtown Toronto as Drake releases his &#8216;Iceman&#8217; album. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/treyalston\/drake-janice-apology-party-toronto-new-york-la\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nowtoronto.com\/culture\/drake-janice-apology-party-toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media outlets<\/a>, the party in Toronto is supposed to be slated for this Sunday at Cactus Club. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CTVNews.ca has reached out to Cactus Club for comment but did not hear back in time for publication. This story will be updated if there is additional information.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"99.9 Virgin Radio host Sam East explains why Drake is set to host an apology party for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[712,49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-764169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}