TV news anchorman accidentally calls Drake a “raper” instead of “rapper”

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ABC7‘s Eyewitness News.During the segment, the channel was reporting on the recent news that a man had been left seriously injured after a shooting outside the musician’s home in Toronto.

However, when describing the incident, one of the hosts fumbled his words and labelled the artist as a “raper”, before quickly correcting himself.“Lots of questions tonight about a security guard who was shot outside the mansion of the raper… rapper, I should say, Drake,” he said in the clip, which has now been posted to the network’s YouTube channel.Not only is the moment hard to watch, it also comes at a particularly bad time for the rapper, as it happened to have taken place amid accusations thrown at Drake by rap rival Kendrick Lamar in recent weeks.

Check out the blunder below.The two have been feuding for years, but the beef seems to have gained momentum in recent days as they have been dropping some heavy diss tracks at one another – some of which by Lamar accuse the Canadian rapper of being a paedophile who targets young women.In the recent track ‘Meet the Grahams’, for instance, Lamar alleged that Drake is a sexual predator. “A child should never be compromised and/ He keepin’ his child around them/ And we gotta raise our daughters knowin’ there’s predators like him lurkin’,” he raps on the track.Elsewhere on the song, released on May 3, he accused Drake of keeping “sex offenders” on a “monthly allowance” at his label and called him a “pervert“.