By Jon Blistein Drake inducted his “dear friend” Nelly Furtado into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame at last night’s Juno Awards (March 29), delivering a kind, thoughtful, and poignant tribute that, nevertheless, in classic Drake fashion, still contained a few of the rapper’s own age-old grievances (and a plug for his next album). In a video message, Drake spoke sincerely about how much Furtado had inspired him. At one point, he said to the singer-songwriter: “You were our North Star. The proof that it was possible. The Portuguese princess who could go from spitting 16s with Swollen Members to dropping ‘Maneater’ and ‘Promiscuous’ with Timbaland. There were no ceilings, there were no walls, there were no boundaries.” To his credit, the vast majority of Drake’s speech struck this tone. He spoke about looking in awe at Furtado’s myriad plaques on the wall of her manager’s office as he was plotting how to make the jump from teen soap actor to rap star. He referenced their performance together at a 2022 OVO show.…