Drake name drops 'neighborhood where Ashton Kutcher live' on new album. Is it about Iowa?
Iowa native Ashton Kutcher's name has been in everyone's mouth lately, including Drake.
After the "That '70s Show" star and his wife Mila Kunis landed in hot water for their support of former co-star Danny Masterson, who was sentenced to 30 years to life for rape, Kutcher landed on the Canadian rapper's newest album.
Drake's eighth record "For All The Dogs" was released on Oct. 6. Kutcher's name was dropped during the second track, "Amen" featuring Texas rapper Teezo Touchdown.
"Same neighborhood where Ashton Kutcher live, I'm just doin' what that punk should have did," Drake raps on the two-minute, 21-second song.
The bars feature an apparent play on words in reference to the former "Punk'd" host. Kutcher created the MTV hidden-camera reality program and hosted "Punk'd" from 2003 to 2007.
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Today, the A-lister is one-half of a Hollywood power couple with Kunis. According to Architectural Digest, they live in a modern sustainable farmhouse in Los Angeles. The home is a long way from the Iowa neighborhood where he grew up.
Where is the 'same neighborhood where Ashton Kutcher live' in Iowa?
The "The Ranch" star was born in Cedar Rapids, but the actor moved outside the city limits with his mom Diane to nearby Homestead later in his childhood when his parents divorced.
Unlike Drake, Kutcher didn't attend Degrassi High. Kutcher graduated from Clear Creek Amana High School in Tiffin about 25 minutes outside Cedar Rapids. In high school, he discovered a love for acting.
In 2015, he enlisted the help of Des Moines-based company Catherine Renae Thomas Design Co. to help renovate his mom Diane's basement in conjunction with Houzz, a home renovation website. He gifted her the renovation for Mother's Day. The process was filmed for the premiere episode of "My Houzz," a reality show on the site.
"No matter where you go in the world and what you see and what you do, when you think of the word home, you're drawn to a specific place in your mind," he said in a clip. "And the renovation that we're going to be doing is on the place that I call home, it's a house that I helped build with my stepfather in a little town called Homestead, Iowa."
Kutcher also said he helped build the house at 13 years old with his stepfather, Mark Portwood.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis return to Iowa often, most recently this summer
Kutcher and Kunis frequently return to Iowa. In late July this year, the power couple made a pit stop at Cedar Rapids pitmaster Willie Ray's barbecue restaurant, Willie Ray’s Q Shack, where the parents of two posed for photos.
The A-listers were spotted on a summer road trip at the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame earlier that week and stopped for a selfie with baristas in the drive-thru of a Caribou Coffee location in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
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"I left Iowa wanting to get out of Iowa, and the older I get the more I want to come home," he told the Register in 2017. That same year, he surprised 700 small-town Iowa students at an Oskaloosa high school and helped bring heavy metal band Metallica to perform at Iowa Speedway in Newton.
In recent months, the humanitarian has made headlines for other reasons. He recently resigned from Thorn, a non-profit he co-founded with ex-wife Demi Moore, which works to prevent child sexual abuse. The resignation came after Kutcher and Kunis' character reference letters, written in support of former co-star Masterson, were made public.
Jay Stahl is an entertainment reporter at The Des Moines Register. Follow him on Instagram or reach out at jstahl@gannett.com.
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