Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller is garnering wide appeal with songs named for Donald Trump and Nike, but Torontonians may have noted his attempts to steal some shine from our Drake.

“It was all in good fun,” said Miller of telling an interviewer that he, not Drizzy, whom he hasn’t met, was “the coolest Jewish rapper.”

However, the 19-year-old upstart was also quick to embrace the idea of collaborating with Drake suggesting “maybe we could make a Hanukah song.”

Responding on Twitter, Drake said “Haaaaaa . . . s–t like this can only be settled in Tel Aviv. Birthright sound clash.”

Maybe it should be settled here in Drake’s home town; Mac Miller clearly has a growing throng of fans here. His first headlining show here, in March, was moved from the Mod Club to the larger Opera House to meet demand; it sold out. His Saturday show at Kool Haus — with a capacity of 2,500 people, three times that of the Opera House — is sold out, too.

Tickets are still available for Sunday’s show, but it’s still a remarkable trajectory for an artist still working on his debut full-length album. (Just last week he announced the title of the forthcoming debut Blue Slide Park in a hilarious online video.) In the meantime Miller has six mixtapes to his name, and the endorsement from fellow Pittsburgh rapper and labelmate Wiz Khalifa, and even scored a spot in the XXL magazine’s authoritative Freshman Class of 2011.

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