Inside Drake's $8 million mansion with a pool that puts Hugh Hefner to shame

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March 23, 2017 4:17 PM

Drake, No. 1 man in the rap game, has a luxurious house in California's Hidden Hills near LA that he dreamed about for years before he bought it.

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What does it mean to live like Drake, the No. 1 man in the rap game?

The hip-hop superstar reveals himself in all his new music, including his latest project, "More Life," which is touted as a "playlist" and includes some of the rapper and singer's best tracks to date.

He may not talk about the insane pool surrounded by caves in his California mansion on "More Life," but he admits to his love of material things: "I don't take naps / Me and the money are way too attached to go and do that," he raps on "Gyalchester."

The Toronto native certainly lives like he's rolling in it in his home in Hidden Hills, California, a gated neighborhood next to

Check out Drake's luxurious $8 million mansion with an insane pool:

Note: The real-estate listing photos were taken before Drake moved in.

This aerial shot gives you a sense of the enormous size of the house ... and especially of that pool.

But the front is friendly and not ostentatious.

There are beautiful wooden beams running throughout the house.

And there are endless games.

A library.

A cavernous wine cellar.

A screening room to fit plenty of friends.

A gym, likely where Drake has been getting noticeably bulkier.

But the centerpiece, as Drake himself has made clear, is that pool.

Check out the manmade grottos to the side.

Drake reportedly fell in love with the pool before anything else. He found the home online and set it as his desktop background in 2007, years before he bought it.

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There's also a tennis court if you get bored of the water and caves.

And more games.

The house was originally listed for $27 million, but the owner was at a "low moment," Drake said, and "I stole it from him!"

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The view of the surrounding California hills is almost as amazing as that pool.

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