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“Started from the bottom now we here,” was one of Drakes best catch phrase that got him nominated for “Track of the year,” and also got him to come win that category in the 2013 BET Awards. Drake has come out with a lot of big hit albums and songs some hitting the top of the build board charts in 1 week. He hit that record with no feature of any other big name artist beating rappers who been in the music industry longer then him. Drake has a plethora of talents that he has expressed to society—which has been received with great praise. According to biography.com “Drake was born October 24, 1986” Also Drake was famous almost all his life. He became famous when he started on the Canadian teen show called The Degrassi he played the role of jimmy brooks but also dubbed as “wheelchair jimmy”. Drake go on the show because he was referred to an agent threw his friend dad witch was the producer of the hit teen TV show The Degrassi. After Drake got the role in the Degrassi. …show more content…

His Uncle Larry also played the bass for prince. According to Lets Sing It, in 2006 drake drop his first mixtape that almost went platinum, After E-40 introduce him to the music industry drake blew up and started dropping hit albums. Drake first album dropped in 2007 called “Comeback Season which ranked 122 and scored 5.0/5”. He was such a good artist that at the age of 21 he was working with big name artist such as lil wayne, Nicki Minaj, bird man, and Rihanna, They all wanted Drake to feature in their songs because he was a really good

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