After announcing the dates for the 2012 segment of his Club Paradise Tour, Drake caught some slight heat for not touching ground on Canada and the Northeast. In an interview with MTV, the Toronto native opens up on the demographics he wanted to reach out to while performing on stage.

The Toronto rapper will play for about 6,000 to 9,000 people every night, mostly college students, a demographic he said he feels most loyal to. “I chose to do that because I just feel like those are the kids that downloaded So Far Gone off of October’s Very Own that night and have been riding with me ever since,” he shared. “I don’t want them to ever feel like I left them or like we’re disconnected, so I’m just gonna go back and I’m gonna bring them a real tour into those college spaces.”