Aubrey 'Drake' Graham scored his 208th Billboard Hot 100 hit single in March. Lil Yachty and DaBaby's appearance on Oprah's Bank Account came after several major releases from the rapper, including his first hit single Best I Ever Had in 2009, Hotline Bling in 2015, and a guest appearance on Rihanna's 2016 blockbuster Work. Pain 1993, featuring Playboi Carti, became Drake's 38th top-10 hit in the United States in May, matching Queen of Pop Madonna. Drake is so wealthy that one mattress in his $100 million, 50,000-square-foot Toronto house, The Embassy, costs $400,000. (included in the price is someone who visits the property to turn it over).
It's one thing for a non-American rapper to have a huge impact in hip-hop, but Drake transcends it. He was Spotify's most-streamed artist of the decade, with nearly 28 billion streams. His five studio albums and three mixtapes have all charted at number one in the United States and internationally. He was the first artist to exceed 10 billion streams on Apple Music, and he had the highest streams on Spotify in 2018, at 8.2 billion. Drake is nearly certain to break more records in 2020, thanks to a new mixtape (Dark Lane Demo Tapes) and an album due out this summer.
Biography of Drake
While his parents divorced when he was a child, Graham was reared by his mother. During the summers, he would visit his father, a drummer from a musical family. Graham first appeared on Degrassi as basketball sensation Jimmy Brooks in 2001. His major passion, though, was music, and he began rapping at the age of 16, using his middle name as his "nom de hip-hop." His debut mixtape, Room for Improvement, was self-released in 2006. Drake's popularity was boosted when the single "Replacement Girl," featuring Trey Songz, from the follow-up, Comeback Season (2007), was broadcast on BET's music video show 106 & Park. He left Degrassi in 2008 to pursue a career in music.
While his parents divorced when he was a small child, Graham was reared by his mother. During the summers, he would visit his father, a drummer from a musical family. Graham first appeared on Degrassi as basketball sensation Jimmy Brooks in 2001. His major passion, though, was music, and he began rapping at the age of 16, using his middle name as his "nom de hip-hop." His debut mixtape, Room for Improvement, was self-released in 2006. Drake's popularity was boosted when the single "Replacement Girl," featuring Trey Songz, from the follow-up, Comeback Season (2007), was broadcast on BET's music video show 106 & Park. He left Degrassi in 2008 to pursue a career in music.
Drake's Notoriety in Hip Hop
While still appearing in Degrassi, Drake began attempting a transition into hip-hop.
His first mixtape, Room for Improvement, was published in 2006 and sold roughly 6,000 copies. In 2007, he released Comeback Season, a mixtape, as a follow-up. During Comeback Season, BET's legendary hip-hop TV show 106 & Park premiered Drake's initial breakout track and music video, "Replacement Girl," as the New Joint of the Day.
Drake's character was eliminated from the cast of Degrassi in 2008. Drake was on the verge of looking for a day job since he lacked a steady source of income and wasn't earning enough as a musician. "I was coming to terms with the idea that... I would have to work at a restaurant or anything to keep things going," he says. However, Drake received an unexpected call from rap artist Lil Wayne in early 2008, inviting him to join his tour in Houston that night.
Since that phone call, Drake has quickly risen to the top of the music industry. After touring and recording with Lil Wayne, Drake released his third mixtape, So Far Gone, in February 2009. It featured the popular song "Best I Ever Had," which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. Since then, Drake's blitz of melodic, R&B-infused hip-hop songs has dominated radio airwaves. His most successful songs at the time were "Every Girl," "Forever," and "Money to Blow."
In mid-2009, Drake secured a record deal with Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment.
Thank You for Your Chart-Topping Success Drake's first entire studio album, which was certified platinum, debuted at No. 1 on both the American and Canadian album charts on June 15, 2010. Drake's new image as hip-prince hop's ("Last name ever, first name greatest," he says on one track) clashes with his Jewish heritage and former career as a teen drama star. Regardless, Drake seeks to unite these seemingly separate areas of his life into an unified persona. On the December 2009 cover of Vibe magazine, Drake wears a diamond-crusted Chai, a hip-hop style homage to his Jewish roots. He also raps in "The Presentation" from his song "Who Is Drake?" "What happened to Jimmy in the Wheelchair?"
"Headlines," "Make Me Proud," "The Motto," and "Take Care" were among the tracks on Drake's second studio album, Take Care, which was released in November 2011. The album was widely praised, winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in 2013, among other accolades.
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