An NYPD officer filmed the viewers leaving Drake’s January twenty first live performance on the Apollo Theater in New York.

Cellphone footage shared on Twitter by the New York Occasions’s Jon Caramanica captured a uniformed officer holding a digicam as the group filed out of the principle entrance of the Apollo.

In a press release to Consequence, a spokesperson for the Workplace of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Data wrote, “The officer depicted within the video is a Group Affairs officer concerned with the twenty eighth Precinct’s social media group. The officer was taking video for an upcoming Twitter publish that may spotlight area people occasions. The video is not going to be utilized for every other purpose.”

The video stoked issues on social media concerning the NYPD partaking in surveillance of hip-hop followers. New York legislation enforcement has at instances maintained a pugnacious relationship in direction of the hip-hop group, relaunching the controversial “rap unit” in 2019 to watch crime at hip-hop exhibits, and pressuring Rolling Loud in 2022 to drop three drill rappers from the lineup.

Drake launched two albums in 2022, the dance album dance album Actually, Nevermind and the collaboration with 21 Savage, Her Loss. He lately revealed a customized diamond necklace comprised of 42 engagement rings to have fun all of the instances he considered proposing.

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— Jon Caramanica (@joncaramanica) January 22, 2023