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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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Travis: Watch Drake mimic shooting Travis Scott during fiery ‘Meltdown’ performance

submitted by Nick Apr 2nd 2024 03:00 pm (www.nme.com)

It comes after Travis recently encouraged Future and Metro Boomin to debut their Drake diss track, 'Like That' The post Watch Drake mimic shooting Travis Scott during fiery ‘Meltdown’ performance appeared first on NME.

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Travis: Drake Shoots Giant Travis Scott Head During “Meltdown” Performance

submitted by Nick Apr 1st 2024 11:00 pm (www.stereogum.com)

Although Drake has feuded with many a rapper, he’s usually maintained alliances with most of the biggest names in hip-hop at any given time — perhaps because people realized it was profitable to stay on good terms with such an unstoppable commercial force. That dynamic seems to be changing. Kendrick Lamar laid into Drake and his curr...

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Drake: seems to hit back at diss from Kendrick Lamar

submitted by Nick Mar 25th 2024 02:00 pm (www.nme.com)

Lamar took aim at Drake and J Cole during an appearance on Future and Metro Boomin’s new collaborative albumThe post Drake seems to hit back at diss from Kendrick Lamar appeared first on NME.

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Drake: Bell says Nickelodeon’s response to ‘Quiet On Set’ is “pretty empty”

submitted by Nick Mar 24th 2024 10:00 am (www.nme.com)

"They still put our shows on and I have to pay for my own therapy"The post Drake Bell says Nickelodeon’s response to ‘Quiet On Set’ is “pretty empty” appeared first on NME.

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Drake: Kendrick Lamar takes aim at Drake and J. Cole on Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That’: “Fuck sneak dissin’, ‘First Person Shooter'”

submitted by Nick Mar 22nd 2024 08:00 pm (www.nme.com)

"Motherfuck the big three, it's just big me"The post Kendrick Lamar takes aim at Drake and J. Cole on Metro Boomin’s ‘Like That’: “Fuck sneak dissin’, ‘First Person Shooter'” appeared first on NME.

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