Canadian rapper, Aubrey Drake Graham, well known as Drake has taken to his social media to pay tribute to the late Miala-based label, Off-White CEO, Virgil Abloh.
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Yesterday, the 41-year-old Ghanaian-American designer and DJ was reported dead after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer, cardiac angiosarcoma for several years.
The news was broken on Luis Vuitton’s verified Twitter page as well as the Instagram page belonging to Virgil Abloh.
LVMH wrote;
LVMH, Louis Vuitton, and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years.
Paying tribute to the late trained architect, Drake who happens to have a good relationship with Virgil Abloh before his demise took his IG wall to pay his pay tribute to him as he mourns him.
He wrote;
My plan is to touch the sky 1000 more times for you…love you eternally brother 🕊thank you for everything
See the post below:
In other news, BET award-winning dancehall musician, Livingstone Etse Satekla, well known as Stonebwoy has thrown shots to the camp of the Reggae musician, Rocky Dawuni after he disproved his claims of being a Grammy nominee after three albums he featured on secured nominations at the Recording Academy.
Rocky Dawuni while speaking in an interview on Citi TV threw more light on the requirements for one to be tagged as a Grammy nominee. The two-time Grammy Awards nominee stated that there are differences between grabbing a nomination and also featuring on a song that has been nominated at the Grammy.