Profoundly wealthy rapper Drake gifted $7,000 gaming PC

pcgamer.com:

Drake, the world-famous recording artist who once solidified Fortnite's colossal popularity by playing live with Ninja(opens in new tab), is still PC gaming. Though he's not so much into battle royale these days—lately, the rapper has taken interest in Twitch's gambling boom(opens in new tab).

Four months ago, Drake started appearing in promotional videos and gambling livestreams for Stake, an online gambling platform that has also partnered with some of the biggest streamers on Twitch. One of those gambling streamers, Xposed, recently shelled out over $7,000 for a fancy custom-built PC of his own and decided to buy another one for Drake while he was at it.

Not only did @Xposed buy one Top of the line PC, he bought two!!! The other one he gifted to @Drake last night!!! WE FINALLY BUILT A PC FOR DRAKE!!! pic.twitter.com/JpbJqmWY1KJuly 12, 2022

The $7,400 custom PCs, assembled by Paradox Customs (which also built a PC for The Weeknd), are specced to the rafters:

Why such a generous gift? Other than the obvious promotional value of associating oneself with a famous rapper, Xposed says Drake's new PC is a make-good for the last time he was asked to help with Drake's streaming setup.

«It isn’t about the money or Drake already having money, [I'm seeing] a lot of hate,» Xposed tweeted(opens in new tab) yesterday. «I was in the market for a PC so I decided to get Drake a custom PC too with it because when I got asked to setup his stream the first time I got him a prebuilt from Best Buy because it was short notice.»

Xposed might be referring to Drake's recent sponsored gambling streams, of which I've only seen the highlights, but appear to feature Drake winning a lot of money(opens in new tab) and jumping for joy several times.

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