As Drake continues his Anita Max Win Tour through early next month, a key facet of this run has become clear: A slew of handmade signs can be seen in the crowd at any given stop, many of them from fans asking for money.
One image in particular, seemingly stemming from the same Sydney show during which Drake offered a pregnant fan in the mosh pit a VIP upgrade and tens of thousands of dollars, has been described as “dystopian” on social media.
In the photo, multiple handmade signs are visible, including (but not limited to) one that reads “Please help me buy my man a car!” Other requests range from mortgage-related to one seemingly suggesting that a fan was “hit by a car” but left the hospital to attend Drake’s show.
Tour footage and photos from across the Australia and New Zealand-focused run reveals additional signs, including more playful (or at least not as steeped in dystopia) messages like “Fund my boob job” and “She cheated, need $$$4ME.” The latter, of course, is a nod to PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake’s $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, which arrived on Valentine’s Day after months of teasing from the OVO camp.
Below, we’ve assembled a rundown of some of the other signs seen in recent Drake tour footage. Do note that these have been typed up in no particular order; furthermore, this is far (very far) from an exhaustive list, due in no small part to the fact that the tour doesn’t wrap until the middle of next month.
- “Fund Matteo’s first holiday”
- “Drizzy, coin flip?”
- “Papi, help pay off my mum’s mortgage”
- “Drizzy, help him buy my mum a Birkin”
- “Need $$$ 4 my bachelorette party in Ibiza”
- “Help pay our dog’s vet bill”
- “Help my BF buy me an engagement ring”
- “Drake, give my father a break”
- “Please help me buy my man a car!”
The practice of Drake giving out money to fans, in and of itself, is not a new development in the Drake-iverse. There were several examples of this playing out on his It’s All a Blur and Big as the What? Shows in 2023 and 2024, including his offer to pay off the mortgage on a fan's deceased mother's home.
In 2018, the Karena Evans-directed video for Scorpion single “God’s Plan” saw Drake in an especially charitable mode. A message shown at the beginning of the video reveals, “The budget for this video was $996,631.90. We gave it all away.”
With $ome $exy $ongs 4 U now out in the world, the attention returns to speculating on when, exactly, fans can expect a new solo album from Drake. His most recent, 2023’s For All the Dogs, was followed by his and Kendrick Lamar’s extensive feud, which itself spurred both artists to release a number of diss tracks aimed at each other in April and May of last year.
