( Entertainment Weekly asked "Is he worth it?" in a now-hilarious headline.)ĭrake has often been described as Lil Wayne's protege and the two have maintained a close friendship. Sources told Billboard at the time that three major labels were dueling for Drake's loyalty in " one of the biggest bidding wars ever."Įventually, Lil Wayne's label Young Money, distributed through Universal Republic, offered Drake a a $2 million advance and sealed the deal in June 2009. Lil Wayne and Drake perform at the Grammys in 2010. That's the concept for the video."ĭrake even attended a Jewish day school as a child, "where nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish," he told Heeb magazine in 2010. "I told myself that if I ever got rich, I'd throw myself a re-Bar Mitzvah. We kinda just did it in the basement of an Italian restaurant, which I guess is kinda like a faux pas," he explained, as reported by Digital Spy. "When I had a Bar Mitzvah back in the day, my mom really didn't have that much money.
"I'm proud, a proud young Jewish boy," Drake said in behind-the-scenes footage from his "HYFR" music video, which was conceived as a reenactment of his childhood Bar Mitzvah. It was what we could afford."ĭrake has also spoken proudly of his Jewish heritage.
She found us a half of a house we could live in," he continued. "I moved to Forest Hill in the sixth grade. I grew up there," he told Complex in 2011. "Drake is me in my everyday life, Drake is who I am and Aubrey is more of a separate, sort of proper individual."ĭrake often shares childhood photos on social has described his teacher mother as "godlike," but she became bedridden from various health issues: "She smoked cigarettes and took her pain meds, deteriorating every day, essentially dying," Drake recalled to GQ.ĭrake has also described growing up " very poor, like broke," despite spending some of his adolescence in the affluent neighborhood Forest Hill. I just really loved the name and I embraced it my whole life," he told Hip Hop Canada. My dad is a character so it could be anything. "I am aware that I am not the first person but I would like to become the first one to be an icon."ĭrake took his stage name from his middle name, which his father gave him. "There are a lot of accolades on that side of the family too," he added. "On my mom's side, it's a white, Jewish, very structured and conservative family." And my dad was a drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis," Drake told Hip Hop Canada in 2006.
My grandmother, who passed away in Memphis, used to babysit Louie Armstrong. His father, Dennis Graham, is a Catholic African American his mother, Sandra, is white and Ashkenazi Jewish Canadian.
Drake's father is from Memphis, Tennessee, while his mother is was raised by biracial parents who divorced when he was 5.
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