Drake Spent $2 Million Dollars on New Sneakers



Solid-gold Jordans don’t come cheap.

Drake, once just a sensitive rapper with a mini-fro, is now a full-on business. His most recent album, Views, cemented his status as a king of commercially viable rap, his brand OVO has legitimate cred in the streetwear scene, and his Air Jordan collaboration is one of the brand's most coveted capsules. Buying a pair of OVO x Air Jordan 10s on eBay could run you $600, but the versions Drake just unveiled on Instagram are, sadly, a one-of-one custom. They're also made of solid gold.


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We did the math, and if he is in fact telling the truth about their weight, that means he would have had to drop $1.9 million dollars on these sneakers. (Based on current gold values.) That doesn't begin to take into account how much Drake had to pay artist Matthew Senna to craft these Goldmember-ish Js. To be fair, though, these are unwearable and thus are more sculpture than sneaker. Thing is, being an A-list rapper means being the best at one-upmanship. What better way to do that than to spend an amount of money that could buy a person a mansion on a single pair of kicks?


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Earlier in the week, Drake posted a handwritten note from 2006 in which he thanked his mom for giving him money. He's right to say he's come a long way since then. And though in the rap game platinum records are the ultimate prize, make no mistake: Gold is still the precious metal of choice for a king's crown.



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