Megastar Drake performs in tiny Sydney bar during Aussie tour

This visiting music star is performing to thousands in arenas around the country – but scaled down for a tiny gig in a Sydney bar.

Rapper Drake is midway through his 14-date Australian tour, performing to hundreds of thousands of people across the country – but on Friday night, the star scaled down for a tiny bar gig in Sydney.

The same day he released a new album, Some Sexy Songs 4 U with fellow rapper PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake performed a private album release party for the new record in a small venue in the Sydney CBD.

Fan videos from the event shows the musical A-lister performing on a tiny stage at Pitt Street’s Caterpillar Club, with fans just feet away. An “underground music bar” that boasts “one of the world’s largest private record collections,” the venue has a capacity of just 200 people.

According to Setlist.fm, Drake performed at least five songs during the secret show.

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The secret show marked the release of a new album with fellow rapper PARTYNEXTDOOR.

Earlier this week, Drake was spotted making a grand entrance to Sydney, touching down at Sydney Airport in his giant Boeing 757-23A private jet.

Amid his two-week stint in Australia, the God’s Plan singer gave his 143 million Instagram followers a glimpse into his luxurious $25,000 per night Crown Melbourne presidential villa.

Also during his stay, he appeared to claim he won $700,000 at the casino in a post on his Instagram stories. A Crown spokesperson declined to comment when approached by news.com.au.

And at his concert at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Wednesday night, Drake gave $50,000 to a pregnant concertgoer who had asked the rapper via a sign to reveal the gender of her unborn child onstage.

Drake’s Australian tour comes as his ongoing beef with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar escalated in recent weeks. Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show on Monday saw the rapper perform his savage Grammy-winning Drake diss track, Not Like Us, in a performance that even featured a cameo from Drake’s ex Serena Williams.

The event was a chance for a handful of fans to see Drake outside of an arena setting.

While he’s yet to address what was dubbed a global “humiliation”, with millions around the world tuning into the NFL final, Drake did subtly change the lyrics to his song Knife Talk during his show in Melbourne following the Super Bowl.

The original lyrics, “Beef is live, spoiler alert, this n**** a dies” were altered to “Beef is live, spoiler alert — I never died.”

Drake is set to perform four back-to-back shows at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena from Sunday night, before heading to Brisbane for three shows from February 24.

He’ll then return to Sydney for one more concert at Qudos Bank Arena on March 7 before flying to New Zealand.

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