Drake | EPIC Before They Were Famous | Biography From 0 to Now

When he first came into the game, I knew he was going to be the next big thing, the only person who helped me when I didn't have any tricks. Drake will always be in my big races because he did something I will never forget. how everything that covers tracking down that radio single real quick in Drake's mind, yeah, about my son, the fact that people think that you and my wife don't say anything and you worry like that. I don't feel good with my spirit, check out the Genie despite me, disrespecting them as a man. I spent my career the further we go, the more you forget the early stages.

If that intro gave you goosebumps, let me know by hitting the like button. Aubrey Drake Graham, he lived two lives during the school year. He would be living with his mother in an exclusive neighborhood of Toronto and during the summer he lived with his father on the rough and tough streets of Memphis Tennessee, now it is this type of diversity that gave the shy Canadian boy a unique perspective on the life he can't share. This vision through music simply needed to find the right push from someone who experienced that it was during his father's imprisonment that Drake would meet a cellmate named Poverty and this would be a man who would help push Drake through the door, yes, me.

You had a feeling in this part of the story that you hadn't heard before and with the 2010s coming to a close, literally the end of an era, well, arguably one of the biggest stars of this generation has to be Drizzy Drake. the mainstream music scene circa 2009, well no celebrity has had as prolific a rise to fame as the Toronto rapper whose t-shirt I'm wearing now if man ever said

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were just bad cause now I have the Midas touch on many senses, this is true, almost everything you touch turns to gold or should I say platinum with five albums, six big stages, 35 Grammy nominations and about your record label, your own music festival restaurants are a line of whiskey and some cool merch, well it pretty much has it.

I even have some key phrases 6 if Toronto, yeah, it's derived from our area codes for one six, we were debating about the, you know, so I just went to the end of them, I went six, one can only guess what's in store for us. next decade. Shop for Aubrey Grant no today we're going to look at the man behind the fame and I have to thank Drake because our previous videos about him really helped launch this channel and this time as we roll out the red carpet. because I want to give you a good review. I don't need any trees or forests.

You know, I'm saying three out of ten, for sure. You know, Siskel and Ebert ting doc, trust me, you can't just lose with that 10, bro, what is it? Come on guys, boy, Michael Cretin, documenting drag's life and career before fame, here for you of course, some before

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. Now you guys seem to enjoy these updates and we always want to take things to the next level and we've done ethics on people like Cardi B, Eminem and Billie Eilish, that just named a few, we need you to tell us who to do next in the comments then whoa, Toronto in the 80's was not known.

For a long time, while this Canadian city had an oppressive hockey team and was supposed to be an amazing baseball team, it wasn't exactly a tourist center; in fact,

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artists such as Jim Carrey, Avril Lavigne, Mike Myers and, finally, Justin Bieber, had to move south. from the border to turn it into entertainment before drinking seemed like a relatively unknown city on the global scene is known for its Ian Tower sure are harsh winters the area code four one six and some TV shows and if you think I'm I'm going to say Degrassi, we haven't gotten to that part of the story yet, was that Club Blue Note with Dennis Graham, an African American musician, had finished the show with his band when he first saw Sandy, a girl of Canadian Jewish descent, now The two hit it off and eventually married and gave birth to their son Aubrey Drake Graham in st.

Michael's Hospital on October 24, 1986 and from a young age Aubrey had difficulty adjusting to school due to his mixed ethnic background. He is the only student of black and Jewish descent outside the school. Well, you'd have to make fun of yourself with racial slurs to others. children, in fact, said that I went to a Jewish school where no one understood what it was like to be black and Jewish when the children are young, it is difficult for them to understand the makeup of religion and race despite the adversity they faced outside the home, well, Drake. He was shown unconditional love for his parents now when Aubrey was little his father would take him on stage to play the tambourine he also sat in on the recording sessions between Dennis and T V Hodges, so you could hear Tennessee's guitars and those of the deceased Drake.

Uncle Drake also reportedly gave his father five dollars and bet Dennis that he would make more movies and music than ever before. I guess he wasn't so bad now, according to a source. Drake, too, may have taken tap dancing lessons as a child. although this has never been confirmed now im not trying to help the man so i will give up one as a child. I was a professional Irish dancer. Things at home began to fall apart because of Dennis and Sandy's turbulence. between that resulted in their eventual divorce in 1991 returning to Memphis Ville Dennis shortly after finding himself in jail for some drug charges there Drake has stated that during his youth his father was imprisoned on a few occasions another divorce I left five-year-old Aubree in the Caribbean is now single sandi, an english teacher by trade, well, sandy did everything she could to support her only child.

Now, during this time, they lived in a low-income neighborhood near Weston Road in Toronto's West End. Sandy did everything she could to raise her. Young guys are interested in it, trying a little bit of everything and since you know Canada well, it's mandatory for all of us to do a little bit of ice hockey. You know, I actually went to hockey camp at UCC Upper Canada College, I mean you. You have to be good, you have to be decent to go there, yes, or that will just embarrass you, but there are some really talented kids who at 10 years old played on a local team known as the Western Lions, there is reason to believe that this team can They changed their name to Western Red Wings at some point, but it was still rumored that he was quite skilled.

Now you can see 11-year-old Aubrey showing off her skills in a table hockey commercial. This certainly wasn't Drake's only experience on the small screen. baby mama, she signed him up for modeling and acting auditions when he was just five years old, but we'll have more on that in just a second. Yeah, I won't do that again. I'll do what I'm not waiting for you while you crush Him, is this really what's happening? This is a straight face, yeah, you're just messing around with the drinks. I bet his childhood on Weston Road got him used to life in Toronto, nothing like Montreal or Niagara Falls.

Toronto was not the number. an option for out-of-towners to visit, aside from a few bars, restaurants and local music performances, it wasn't really a place where music was flaunted, it certainly wasn't for rap now, the last international rapper to come out of town was Snow, yes, remember. It was not until the mid-90s when the young man from the West End, well, would begin his first love affair with Toronto, ladies and gentlemen, the Raptors were born, the Toronto Raptors came to the city in 1995, the first official team of the NBA of the city and the people. from the greater Toronto area flocked to the Sky Dome to watch Toronto's newest stars hit the core.

No Drake developed a love for the team, as well as a lifelong passion for the basketball board. basement of a house in Forest Hill, an upper-class Jewish community near the center of the city, well, the surroundings were a little better than the West End, well, he still had a hard time adjusting to school while attending college in Forest Hill, so who did you get, Pete, yeah? He now claims that as he grew up he used to go to social events and house parties and other kids made fun of him now, despite this trash of people, his friends knew there was something special about good old Drizzy drag that we.

Back then, Aubrey, this funny little boy in a red jumpsuit sat next to me, he had this strange personality ratio of different characteristics, he showed a hilarious sense of humor that people certainly haven't forgotten, now a friend calls him and he comes as a child and putting aluminum foil around his parents' wine bottle and then he took a magic marker and labeled the bottle as Christophe now this kind of charisma would mask his increasing stress over problems at home I'll make you look damaged I bought that damn thing Because aligning with Drake's amazing mother would develop rheumatoid arthritis, forcing her to become disabled, Aubrey's outlook on life was now not limited to Toronto each summer.

Drake was traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with his father and he was here. that its environment would change drastically, it was often among the most dangerous cities in America, not to mention it had a tense history of racism, while Memphis was like a completely different world to the boy from Canada staying on Apple Ville Street near Shelby Drive and Neely Drake gained exposure. to the braver side of urban life and at the same time he would discover more about the true importance of his family heritage, which was tied to his father playing the drums. The Grahams have a rich musical history.

Well, it's well documented that Denis played in a band. Along with Jerry Lee Lewis, his uncles are also well-known Memphis musicians, Larry Graham was the bassist for soul funk van Sly and the Family Stone and Teenie Hodges was the guitarist and songwriter for Al Green. Now, if you think that's enough of a legacy, he doesn't. He doesn't stop there, his grandmother, she used to babysit Aretha Franklin, right now my mind is blown too. Drake, you often visited the legendary Royal Studios on Willie Mitchell Boulevard, where music icons like Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy and Keith Richards have recorded in the past.

He started dabbling in writing his own music in a notebook, he was a fan of popular rappers including Jay-z, and believe it or not, he pushed that expression, it came in the form of hip hop and his uncle even took him to his first concert of PDD in Toronto when he was a teenager, although this was a hobby, Drake still kept to himself on the acting front. Drake appeared in several short films, commercials and advertisements in 2001. Drake landed the role of wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks in the Canadian television series Degrassi. the next generation looked into some medical options, yeah that's why I did a medical supply, in fact I was once a background actor in that, enough about me to Drake.

Jake would remain in the program for six years, even dropping out of school at fifteen. to focus on acting and support him and his mother, so we attended the vonroenn Academy at the time and his class schedule turned out to be too hectic to keep you informed along with his acting career, seriously, you needed to get some sleep because it's Aubree's character, Jimmy, was undoubtedly one of the most popular of that mistake, but his true passion was ignited elsewhere and he began to tire of life as an actor and gave up. Realize that your true potential lay in more music now, how?

This is going to be good, remember how we talked about Dennis Graham's legal problems. Well, he had quite a few of them, in fact, Drake even remembered seeing his father get arrested after returning home from Memphis. Well, during one of his father's imprisonments. Sabri, he had an unusual problem. In the correspondence he said that my father was in jail for about a year. I don't even know why he was in jail for an assault charge or a drug charge or something like that. When he was there, he had a cellmate who used to rap, but he didn't have anyone. to talk to I was probably 14 the guy was probably 21 my dad was like my son likes to rap I'm gonna let you rap for him I'm gonna share my phone with you I'm gonna hand you the phone and here's my cellmate Say, What happens?

The man on the other end of the phone was a rapper named poverty and he was spitting rhymes at the teen over the phone. Now this great dre feels comfortable enough to share material he had written over the course of Dennis' incarceration. In poverty they exchanged bribes over the phone several times and this experience had helped the artist come out of his shell regarding the fate of poverty, well Drake doesn't know exactly what happened to him. No hip-hop at this time was changing with the culture. and there were several artists gaining prominence in the new era, one of them was Little Lane, who was enjoying solo success with his Carter franchise, as well as withthe album in collaboration with Birdman.

I've been a mess since every girl I dumped went and got a new one. Man, but I'm the new version of Fresh Prince, February 14, 2006, 20-year-old Aubrey Graham left room for improvement now that the 22-track mixtape was produced in part by Toronto beatmaker boi- 1st, first stage name the MC decided to keep it authentic and disappear his middle name, Drake, room for improvement was not exactly a hit on the charts at the end of the year, it only sold more than six thousand copies. I know Drake would also put his music online and create a Myspace page for people to visit. and listen to his hits, however, this just let you know, on a whim, I will serve through the grapevine that Drake would fly to New York City, you need to hang around local clubs, comedy clubs, he would be networking, he was looking Getting ahead, but people weren't betting on the guy who was in Degrassi.

The failure of his first mixtape was only apparent. The fuel is the hunger for success. In 2007, he left Grassi to concentrate on music full time. However, the effects can still be felt. WheelchairJimmy long after leaving none of Toronto's rap figures, they were skeptical about Chris's talent paying out of his own pocket. Well,

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filmed the music video for a replacement girl, the lead single from his second mixtape, appropriately titled comeback season, so many ways to look cheesy in it. The music video, so approaching Cameron like she's trying to look cool is like a whole different story voiced by Trey Songz, the replacement girl turned out to be a winner not only in Toronto but also south of the border, although The song was named BET's joint of the month during their comeback.

The season didn't make it to any replacement roster, girl and shows that the industry with Drake was off, he now looked like a viable contender for Toronto's hip-hop throne, but he still hadn't signed to a label with The Replacement Girl made the rounds and finally caught the attention of Houston bassist Jazz Prince, now Jazz, whose father is an accomplished CEO of rap-a-lot Records, Jay Prince, well, he wanted his son to find a new artist with the who could possibly sign the seal by searching the Internet. He stumbled upon Drake's MySpace page and was impressed by what he heard, well Josh, he came up to me I like your music, he said okay, he was going to make you famous, he said, "I heard that, would you reach out?" in line with jazz".

Prince sent over a beat to rap on and while Drizzy held his end and handed Jazz's dad, not a fan of Jay Printz's step, it seemed like there wasn't much hope for Drake's career now that the Toronto boy had struggled for accept his whole life he had moved from one place to another finally broke down leaving his cozy job as an actor and also his girlfriend had just ended the relationship now that he had blown several opportunities for success he is starting to feel like this was the end for Drake in In November 2008, Drink decided to head to his local barbershop one day to get a new cut, and while we're not sure, we had a good feeling that Prince cut Kings, which is on Toronto's Danforth Avenue, we know for a fact that Drake was Once upon a time there was a customer who was now getting a new cut and his phone started ringing and the phone rang.

I picked it up and it's that yellow is that I was like that, it doesn't sound like my friend and he's that yellow SAP is the Z road in At the time Lil Wayne was at the top of his game, he had recently released the three Carter , as it turns out that after J Prince rejected Drake, well, jazz went to Weezy, who at first hated what he heard and then, after a car ride, listened to Drake's a million. remixes well, changed his mind and instantly wanted to contact him and ask him to fly to Houston to meet him.

Drake took his passport and flew the next day landing in h-town. Drizzy described the feeling that he had finally gotten his swagger back. I know they leave you, it takes a little time to recover, but then when we, Z, came, there's no turning back, now we're down to 21st. I met Wayne, well, he was getting the most painful tattoo ever. time. I guess if that was in his face in In February 2009, Drake released his third mixtape so far with appearances from not only Weezy but also Trey Songz Lloyd and Bun Be Different, including the best single I've ever had, which that summer he made explode the radio.

I just heard an old Canada that was everywhere. Also, the girl in the intro to that Wow drink came out to make her parents proud and put Toronto on the map, not just for hip hop, you literally put your honor on the map globally, the six that everyone knows that him now. holds ovo fest every summer in the cities of Theriault place and has paved the way for several other Toronto artists who have emerged after it, this includes tory lanez and kilee, now all these incredible achievements, the cherry on top of this success is Perhaps becoming a global ambassador for his beloved Tronto Raptors, the team annually celebrates Drake Night at Scotiabank Stadium.

I think I was there once when I saw Drake at a game. Anyway, I don't think it was Drake's night as far as the rest goes. of the story, well I'm sure you know the story because we've all seen it happen and that's all I have for you here because this was before they were famous and it was

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and it took a lot of work. I hope you know it. You guys enjoyed it now, do us a favor and send this video to Drake via Instagram or Twitter. If we get a retweet, if we get a like, I might back out.

I feel like I've done everything I needed to do, but of course there will be. There is more to do, but I will die happy or retire happy. You know, at this again. Thanks to candy pens, they are our sponsor. I'll see you in another video.