The rapper Smoke Dawg was killed Saturday night in Toronto

The 21-year-old musician (whose real name is Jahvante Smart), who opened for Drake during his European Boy Meets World 2017 tour, CP24, a local 24-hour news channel, claims that three people (two men and one woman) were killed outside Cube Nightclub in the entertainment district, shortly before. 8:00 pm

Toronto police confirmed Sunday in a statement that the two men – Smart and Ernest Modekwe, 28, also from Toronto – died of their injuries. Post-mortem examinations are scheduled for Tuesday, the police said. The woman, who has not been identified, should recover from her injuries

USA TODAY reached out to the rapper's representative.

Drake paid tribute to the Canadian musician in an Instagram story ] Saturday: "All these gifts and blessed souls and inner lights being extinguished recently are devastating," he writes, in a photo of himself playing with Smoke Dawg. "I wish peace pervades our city, so much talent and so much history that we will never see, rest until Smoke."

Director Nathan Miller, who made a film about the rap scene in Canada with Smoke Dawg, " RIP Smoke Dawg Toronto legend," he wrote in a tweet with a video of Smoke Dawg speaking of coming from "nothing" to make his mother happy.

Promising rapper recently tweeted about news music, " Fountain Freestyle ," and is known for his remix 2015 "Trap House", which features French Montana. He was part of the Halal Gang, a rap collective that brings together his Safe colleagues, Puffy L & # 39; z and Mo-G.

The news of his death comes less than two weeks after rapper XXXTentacion was shot in South Florida. 19659007] Contributor: Kim Willis

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