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Drake: Degrassi Writer Says Drake Threatened Legal Action When His Character Ended Up In A Wheelchair

submitted by Nick Oct 15th 2021 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Before Drake was Drake, the biggest rap star in the world, he was Aubrey Graham, the guy who played basketball star Jimmy Brooks on the Canadian teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation. Jimmy ended up spending several seasons confined to a wheelchair after being paralyzed in a school shooting, and Drake’s performance as “Wheelchair Jimmy” became a meme that haunted Drake throughout his early rap career. In the A.V. Club‘s new oral history celebrating Degrassi‘s 20th anniversary, writer James Hurst reveals that Drake actually almost quit the show over the whole wheelchair storyline:

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Drake: Uma Thurman offers Drake her iconic ‘Kill Bill’ yellow suit for ongoing rap feuds

submitted by Nick Apr 16th 2024 07:00 pm (www.nme.com)

"Need this?" wrote the actress in an Instagram story, responding to the rapper's recent postThe post Uma Thurman offers Drake her iconic ‘Kill Bill’ yellow suit for ongoing rap feuds appeared first on NME.

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Drake: confirms Kendrick Lamar diss track is real

submitted by Nick Apr 16th 2024 08:00 am (www.nme.com)

Fans previously suspected the diss might have been the work of AIThe post Drake confirms Kendrick Lamar diss track is real appeared first on NME.

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Rick Ross: Drake & Rick Ross Leak Diss Tracks As Rap-Feud Landscape Heats Up

submitted by Nick Apr 15th 2024 03:00 pm (www.stereogum.com)

It’s been a dramatic few days in the rap-feud trenches. Right now, the whole rap world still roiling in the aftermath of Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” the song where Kendrick Lamar came in swinging at his peers Drake and J. Cole. “Like That” still sits at #1 on the Billboard Ho...

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Joe Budden: says Drake and Kendrick Lamar are about to “go nuclear” with diss tracks

submitted by Nick Apr 11th 2024 08:00 pm (www.nme.com)

“Whatever little rap-y shit you thought was going on, it’s not that and something's coming"The post Joe Budden says Drake and Kendrick Lamar are about to “go nuclear” with diss tracks appeared first on NME.

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Drake: Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor says streaming has “mortally wounded” many artists: “It’s great if you’re Drake, it’s not great if you’re Grizzly Bear”

submitted by Nick Apr 7th 2024 05:00 pm (www.nme.com)

"We’ve had enough time for the whole ‘All the boats rise’ argument to see they don’t all rise"The post Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor says streaming has “mortally wounded” many artists: “It’s great if you’re Drake, it’s not great if you’re Grizzly Bear” appeared first on NME.

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