Ear Dope: Drake

Since 2001, Aubrey "Drake" Graham has played Jimmy Brooks, the student who was injured in a school shooting at Degrassi Community School, But i am BLOWN AWAY from him as DRAKE the musican as a rapper, Graham has two self-published mixtapes, Room for Improvement and Comeback Season, under the stage name Drake.He shot a video for his debut single "Replacement Girl" which features R&B singer Trey Songz.He also made a cameo appearance in Trey Songz's "Wonder Woman" video. Graham also has an independent record label called ATF. ATF consists of T-Slack, Olivier, Photo Will, Future the God, Boi-1da, hustleGRL, Trizzy Trane, Jazz Cartier, Ozuka, Mayhem Mohearty, JD Era, P-Reign, 40-40 and many more. They are apart of the imprint The Wise Guys and October's Very Own. The whole crew stems from Toronto and many of them have ventured off into their own realm of music but still have that affliation. During the process of recording and writing for both mixtapes, Drake worked with a fair amount of artists to get publicity. Trey Songz was featured on both mixtapes, and Lil Wayne and Robin Thicke worked on Comeback Season. Drake has been in works with Lil Wayne in 2008 releasing songs such as "Ransom", "I Want This Forever", "Stunt Hard" "Stuntin", and "Brand New (Remix)". As well as the hot new single "Get Over it". He has recently signed with Interscope Records.

Drake announced he has a new mixtape coming out early 2009 entitled So Far Gone. "So Far Gone" will feature writings from the past two to three years. A collection of thoughts from 40, Jazz, Mayhem, JD and many more. Along with the progression of "So Far Gone", Drake & friends will be featured on DJ Wristpects newest mixtape, "BTG V.3". He also is reportedly working on an album called Thank Me Later...Please Look at for this man!


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