Photo Credit: Freshness And Above
WHO: Drake (aka. Aubrey Graham)
ORIGIN: Toronto, Ontario
STARTED: 2001
GENRE: Hip Hop/R&B
LATEST RELEASE: So Far Gone (2009)
WHO CARES?: Popular musicians like K-OS, Lil’ Wayne, Santigold, Lykke Li and others seem to care as most of them have appeared in songs with the Toronto rapper. Most people know him as Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, but others know him as a premier up-and-coming Canadian musician that sings and spits rhymes.
SOUNDS LIKE: Bits and pieces of famous rappers compiled into one Canadian entity.
LISTEN TO: “Unstoppable”, “Say What’s Real”, “Ransom”
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/thisisdrake
Here’s a video playing the remix of the song “Unstoppable”
haha degrassi is great!