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Near the midway point of his set in Harlem on Saturday night, Drake<\/strong> paused to reminisce about an occasion he had come to New York earlier in his career. It was a different time, and the memory was a bit fuzzy: \u201cI think I was at, like, the Spotted Pig.\u201d The restaurant closed in 2020 and had its celebrity heyday a few years prior to that. A decade-plus into the Canadian rapper\u2019s run at the top of hip-hop and pop, there\u2019s a deep trove of moments, styles, recalibrations, and swerves to mine. Or, as he put it in a characteristically wistful aside, \u201cWe\u2019ve just been relating to each other for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n Drake has always been an especially deft narrator of his own trajectory, and the show at the 1,500-capacity Apollo Theater, with all its historical trappings, offered an opportunity for a hushed retelling of the tale. He emerged on stage in a Degrassi<\/em><\/a> basketball jersey, sitting on a bed representative of the room in his mother\u2019s Toronto basement where he wrote some of his earliest songs. The crowd included a mixture of SiriusXM contest winners\u2014Drake\u2019s radio channel put on the show\u2014and other interested parties: Ice Spice, Kevin Durant, Justin<\/strong> and Hailey Bieber, Odell Beckham Jr., Michael Rubin, Sarah Snyder<\/strong> peering over a balcony in a Chanel beanie and scarf.<\/p>\n