Looking for “Drake You Ho”

As Mondoville put it once, it might be “the most infamous scrawl in local history”: the “DRAKE YOU HO THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT” plopped on the side of the then-new Starbucks at Queen and Dovercourt all the way back in 2005. (The Drake Hotel, two blocks west, had re-opened after a massive retooling at the beginning of 2004.)

In what will surely be a wild goose chase, I’m trying to trace the graffiti’s origins, and am looking to track down whoever painted it on the wall—or someone who knows someone who did. Know something? Email me.

Photo by Dan Bergeron/Fauxreel. Used with permission.