ESPN appear Wednesday that Drake will host the 2014 ESPYs reside on July 16th in Los Angeles.
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The rapper appear his new gig via Twitter with an adapted photo of endure year's Nothing Was the Same cover replacing himself as a adolescent with a cartoon of the award.
The Grammy-winning rapper is no drifter to sports. Endure year, he active on with NBA aggregation Toronto Raptors to be a "Global Ambassador," helping to barrage a Raptors accouterment line, consulting on a redesign of the team's actualization and appearing in a commercial for the team. Added recently, the rapper threw his (ill-fated) support abaft Kentucky in their accident to UConn in the championship bold of the NCAA clash and has been spotted hobnobbing with assorted NBA players.
"This is an absurd befalling for me to amalgamate two of my better passions-sports and performing," said the rapper in a statement.
"Drake is an awfully accomplished amateur who absolutely has a affection for sports. We are captivated to accept him to host this year's show," said Connor Schell, carnality president, ESPN Films and Original Entertainment, in a statement.
According to TMZ, the rapper was "extremely passionate" about hosting the awards appearance and acclimated his Saturday Night Live hosting gig beforehand this year as armament to get the ESPYs job. The rapper had ahead hosted the 2011 Juno Awards.
The ESPYs, launched in 1993, will yield abode at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre at 9 p.m. EST on ESPN, with the accolade appearance adopting added than $1 actor a year for blight research.
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