His secret weapon has always been a keen ear for off-beat, vibe-y sounds. Elsewhere, on the bittersweet piano ballad “From Time,” he settles a score with a long-gone flame: “She started telling me how I’ll never be as big as Trey Songz/Boy, was she wrong!” But just a few bars later, he’s switched to kicking himself over an ancient breakup with a Hooters waitress named Courtney: “Girl, I felt like we had it all planned out, I guess I fucked up the vision/Learning the true consequences of my selfish decisions.” Yep, still Drake. On the catchy lead single, “Started From the Bottom,” he celebrates his success so insistently you can’t help but cheer him on – even if you know in the back of your mind that “the bottom,” in his case, was the set of the popular Canadian soap opera Degrassi: The Next Generation.
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A more accurate title for this album might have been Everything Was Pretty Much the Same: It’s a brilliant summation of all the things you already love about Drake – unless you find him totally annoying, in which case it probably won’t change your mind.Īs usual, Drake is full of doubts and regrets, though maybe a little less so than before. This approach helped sell 2 million copies of his last album, 2011’s Take Care, and he’s not about to mess with the formula. There’s never been a hip-hop star quite like him – his taste in beats runs to gloomy synths rather than dusty samples, and passive-aggressively burning his exes (or himself) is his favorite way of bragging. “Wu-Tang Forever” might be the Drake-iest track ever, but Nothing Was the Same is full of runners-up. “I just love when I’m with you,” the Toronto star sighs, in a rueful tone that’s hard to imagine coming from Raekwon or ODB, or any other mainstream MC in the past 20 years, for that matter. That’s because “Wu-Tang Forever,” despite featuring a ghostly snippet of the Wu-Tang Clan‘s 1997 single “It’s Yourz,” sounds nothing like the Clan – it’s a heartfelt requiem for a girl he used to know. Instead, a sizable contingent of rap traditionalists were outraged. The young artist made a reputation of creative and original musician, and his songs prove it very well.Earlier this fall, Drake released a moody, downtempo jam called “Wu-Tang Forever,” hoping to build anticipation for his third LP. That record included collaborations with such famous rappers as Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil Wayne, and that proves the level and the quality of that album. In 2010 Drake won a Juno Award for his work So Far Gone in the nomination Rap Recording of the Year, which is extremely important for the young singer.ĭrake’s debut studio album Thank Me Later was released in 2010. In 2009 Graham signed the contract with Young Money Entertainment and soon after that he went on a America's Most Wanted Tour with many famous rappers. The hit song Best I Ever Had was nominated for Grammy in Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance. After the release of So Far Gone Drake found himself in the higher league: he worked jointly with Jay-Z, Kanye West, Timbaland and other famous performers. Later the EP So Far Gone appeared, including several songs from the mixtape, such as Best I Ever Had and Successful. That record turned out to be successful and really called-for, so it went to the radio pretty soon. Thereby, So Far Gone received more than two thousands downloads in the first two hours of release. Graham managed to get a reputation of a very talented singer in a short period of time, since his first works were issued. In 2009 Drake released his third official mixtape titled So Far Gone. The musicians recorded several songs, including Ransom, I Want This Forever and remix for Drake’s composition Brand New. The young singer was noticed in no time, and later he collaborated with the famous rapper Lil' Wayne. In 2007 Drake was featured on BET channel with his single Replacement Girl. Everybody could check Drake’s creativity on his official myspace page, and in a year he issued the second work titled Comeback Season. When Drake was five years old, his parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother, however Aubrey spent almost every summer with his father in Memphis.ĭrake’s musical career started in 2006, when he released the first mixtape Room for Improvement. His father played drums with a famous singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, that is why Aubrey has been familiar with music since his very childhood. Canadian actor and musician Drake (full name Aubrey Drake Graham) was born in 1986 in Toronto.
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