Drake was born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Canada. He was the world’s only black jewish-Canadian rapper. His father was a drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis. His parents divorced when he was 5 years old, he was raised by his mother. He was on Canadian teen drama tv show called Degrassi. HIs first mixtape was released 2006 and sold 6,000 copies. In 2007 he released another mixtape that he made was featured as the “New Joint of the Day” on a popular hip hop tv show. In 2008, the producers of Degrassi eliminated Drake's character. Since he didn’t have a job and he didn’t make a lot of money as a rapper, Drake was on the verge of looking for a day job. He said, "I might have to work at a restaurant or something just to keep things going," since he …show more content…
Ever since that phone call, Drake had a rapid ascent to the top of the music world. After tour with Lil Wayne, Drake released his third mixtape, So Far Gone, in 2009. It featured the catchy single "Best I Ever Had," which reached at Number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Since then most of Drake's hip-hop songs have been radio airwaves. In 2009, he finally spoke with MuchMusic about one of his songs “Deceiving”, he talked about his ex girlfriend Chante. During the interview he said “Would I call Keshia Chante an ex? I’d be proud to say she is an ex. She’s great. She’s one of the first people in the industry that I met and we just connected.” In June 2009, he did two remixes to Chante’s song “Fallen” where he sings his love for her, on his first version he raps “Keshia, Keshia, do you remember the old us? They said we’d never be together that’s what they told us”. then on Version 2, he raps “you just hold it down for your boy until the plaques arrive, that’s why I love you.” Drake has reached great heights in his rap career and he continues to create and dominate the world of hip
Drake's highly anticipated and unnecessarily hyped album has dropped, and it is disappointing when comparing it to his previous work. This follow up to his mixtape, if you’re reading this it's too late, is an emotional and spacey project, with drake seemingly riding the horse of fame to make his music.
During his early years he dropped out of high school and was a drug dealer for some years. He was good friends with Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. They started making songs for their new album that was called “Boyz-N-The Hood”. In 1987 they made another album that was called “Straight Outta Compton” that album
The song quickly grew popularity on the mixtape “So Far Gone”, which was Drakes third mixtape released February 13th, 2009. Being the top mixtape of all modern music, hit the charts with significant success on billboards top-100. Following the release of the mixtape, a notorious bid war started between two record labels for the artist to contract with. Young money record label, had won the upcoming artist.
Ontario on October 24th, 1986 know around the world as "Drake". Son of Dennis Graham and mother name Sandi Grahm. Drake is Canadian, Ethnicity African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish. Aubrey was a Canadian actor at the start of his famous career. He is referred to for his part as Jimmy Brooks on the well-known Canadian show Degrassi: The Next Generation. He later discharged a famous mixtape with tunes like "Each Girl" and "Best I Ever Had", and proceeded onward to an effective melodic vocation. . Then wanted to move on to bigger things. Drake also known as "Dizzy Drake". Became a rapper, starting his rap career on Myspace at the time when Myspace was active and popular for its Music playlist. Aubrey Drake took advantage of it as he promoted his
Drake became the first Canadian rapper to have his music video featured BET when his first single called “Replacement Girl”. Also, Drake did a freestyle on a song with Lil Wayne called “Man of the
Rapper Shawn Corey Carter ( stage name Jay-Z ) was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 4 1969. He went through a harsh time while growing up. “His father, Adnes Reeves left the family when Jay-Z was only eleven years old.The young rapper was raised by his mother in Brooklyn’s drug-infested Marcy Projects.” He struggled through the years as he had to work very hard for what he wanted. Over time he began to grow a love,
On February 13, 2009 Drake released his third mixtape called So Far Gone that is said to be his introduction into the music industry. His two most famous songs on the mixtape were Best I Ever Had and Successful. On June 29, 2009 it was confirmed that Drake had signed a record deal with Young Money Entertainment. While preforming the song Best I Ever Had in Camden, New Jersey alongside Lil Wayne, Drake with a prior injured knee took a nasty spill on stage. He tore a ligament in his knee and went on the surgery table on September 8, 2009. A year later, on June 15, 2010 his album, Thank Me Later was released. The song Over on Thank Me Later hit number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100. Also, the song received a nomination for the Best Rap Solo Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards. The final track to the album was
“…Being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger…” were words spoken by Aubrey Drake Graham, known to the world as rapper Drake. He was born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Canada. His mother is a white Canadian Jew and father is an African-American Catholic. Drake’s heritage makes him unique.
Born November 4, 1969 in Harlem, New York, Sean Combs was raised by his single mother, a model, due to his father being murdered in 1974 because he was an associate of drug dealer, Frank Lucas. Raised in Mt. Vernon, New York, Combs attended a Catholic boy’s school in Bronx called Mount Saint
“Pip pip da doodley doo” (Drake Parker). In Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, two teenagers with opposite personalities must learn to live under the same roof. Drake is a cool, good looking, slightly daft, guitar playing, ladies man who plays by his own rules while Josh is the dorky, clumsy, responsible one. The two must learn how to get along when Drake’s mom falls in love with and marries Josh’s dad in the first episode. The rest of the series consists of the duo’s wacky misadventures. Meanwhile, Drake’s mischievous little sister, Maegan, plays pranks on the two in a constant attempt to make their lives miserable. The genre of the show is situational comedy (sitcom) and its target audiences are preteens and younger
Originally from Marcy Houses housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City,[9] Jay-Z was abandoned by his father Adnes Reeves and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry[10] when he was twelve years old.[11] Jay-Z attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with rapper AZ, until it was closed down. After that he attended George Westinghouse Information Technology High School in Downtown Brooklyn, with fellow rappers The Notorious B.I.G. and Busta Rhymes, and Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey, but did not graduate.[12] He claims to have been caught up in selling drugs, to which he refers in his music.[11]
He moved to the United States to start his rapping career. In 2006 he launched his first mixtape " Room for Improvement". In 2009 he released " So Far Gone " being his third mixtape what garnered him critical and commercial success.In 2010, he dropped his deput album "Thank Me Later" to generally positive reviews. Aubrey Drake Graham makes music for people to listen too. Each song or mixtape that he drops opens up people minds and makes them start thinking. Drake is known as the type to make you get into your " feelings". Whether it's good or bad, you'll
Nate Parker was born on November 18, 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Birth of a Nation (2016),
Mr. West was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised by his mother in Chicago, Illinois. From a young age Kanye was involved in art, such as drawing and writing. After coming
Drake’s song “Too Good” is, in many ways an amazing work of art. Two amazing artists- Drake and Rhianna- sing this song. While listening to a song there are a few criteria’s that should be followed and those are: rhythm, meaning, and voice, in which all are met in this song.