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How One University Enticed a World-Famous Rapper to Stop by Campus at 2 a.m.

Drake, the chart-topping rapper, visited the campus. Students and the university’s public-relations arm had been asking him for months to stop by when his Summer Sixteen tour came to Des Moines.  During his concert Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Arena, in Des Moines, Drake the rapper donned a Drake University basketball jersey and a custom-made letter jacket, and gave shout-outs to the college in between songs. And after the show, Drake headed out of the arena, wearing college gear, to finally pay the college visit.
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