Drake (rapper)

Drake (2017)

Aubrey Drake Graham (* 24. October 1986 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian rapper , R & B - singer and former actor . He publishes his songs under his intermediate name Drake , although he is also known under his pseudonym Drizzy .

Childhood and youth

Drake was born as Aubrey Drake Graham in 1986 in Toronto in the Canadian province of Ontario . He is the son of a Canadian and an American and has both Canadian and United States citizenship . His father, the African-American musician Dennis Graham, is from Memphis in the US state of Tennessee and is a supporter of the Catholic Church . He worked as a drummer for the musician Jerry Lee Lewis , among others . He is the brother of Larry Graham , who became known as the bass player for the funk band Sly & the Family Stone . Drake's mother, Sandi Graham (née Sher), is a white Jewish Canadian who worked as an educator and florist .

His parents divorced when Drake was five years old. After his father moved to Memphis in the United States, Drake grew up in simple circumstances with his mother in Toronto. He lived there in the West End migrant district before moving with his mother in 2000 to the affluent Forest Hill district of Old Toronto , which is dominated by a large Jewish population . There Graham attended the Forest Hill Collegiate Institute before moving to the Vaughan Road Academy. However, due to his acting career, he dropped out of high school .

Drake was raised Jewish by his mother and celebrated his bar mitzvah at the age of thirteen . In retrospect, he described his school days as unhappy, as he was often a victim of bullying because of his beliefs and skin color and was not accepted by his wealthy classmates because of his low social status.

Career

At the age of 15, Graham was discovered by the father of a high school friend who worked as an acting agent. Graham first became famous as an actor in the youth series Degrassi: The Next Generation , in which he played the character Jimmy Brooks from 2001 . In 2006 he also appeared as a rapper when he released a series of mixtapes . His first success as a musician was the single Replacement Girl , which he recorded together with Trey Songz and which was presented by the TV channel BET in its show 106 & Park as Joint of the Day (in German: Song of the day ). Despite appearances on numerous mixtapes and remixes and the support of Kanye West , Jay-Z and Lil Wayne  , he remained without a record deal. In 2009 he released the single Best I Ever Had , which became a hit in the United States. As a result, a bidding competition developed between several major labels , at the end of which there was finally a cooperation agreement between Cash Money Records and Young Money Entertainment . Universal Records serves as the distribution label . Drake is known for its unique mix of hip hop and R&B .

Drake at the Bluesfest (2010)

Thank Me Later (2010)

June 11, 2010 marked an important point in Drake's career with the release of his debut album Thank Me Later . The album contains 15 songs including the bonus track Best I Ever Had and provides collaborations with Lil Wayne , Nicki Minaj , Jay-Z , Alicia Keys , The-Dream and other well-known artists. On June 18, 2010, Find Your Love was released - the official single for his Thank Me Later debut album. The single release also contains the street track over . For the music video for Over and Find Your Love was each director Anthony Mandler involved. The video for Find Your Love , shot in Jamaica , received criticism from the Jamaican Minister for Tourism, Edmund Bartlett , because the moving image material portrays Jamaica in a negative and glorifies violence.

Thank Me Later landed at number 1 on the charts in the USA, and in Canada the release received a platinum award with over 100,000 units sold . In the US alone, it sold 447,000 copies in the first week and was one of the most anticipated albums of 2010, along with Eminem's recovery album. On July 23, 2010 it was announced that the album had already sold over 1 million copies in the United States had sold. It was then awarded platinum by the RIAA .

Take Care , It's Never Enough and collaboration album with Lil Wayne (2011)

In 2010 and 2011, Drake worked on several projects, including with his mentor Lil Wayne . According to reports, there should be a full album with Drake and Lil Wayne as the only artists, but this has not yet been released. The second studio album is entitled Take Care and contains productions by Noah "40" Shebib, 9th Wonder , T-Minus and Boi-1da. Originally announced for October 21 or October 24 - Drake's birthday - the publication was delayed to November 15, 2011, although the day before, on November 14, it went on sale in Germany. Take Care was distributed through Cash Money / Young Money / Universal Records . Guest artists included Rihanna , Nicki Minaj , Lil Wayne and Rick Ross . The album was named "Best Rap Album" at the 2013 Grammy Awards .

Nothing Was the Same and What a Time to Be Alive (2013-2015)

The first single Started from the Bottom from the third studio album Nothing Was the Same was released on February 6, 2013 in the USA. The director of the video is Director X . Drake presented the new single at the 2013 Grammy Awards .

The album was released on September 24, 2013 and, like its predecessors, was at the top of the Canadian and US charts. In addition to the highest album placement to date, his second single Hold On, We're Going Home was also successful in German-speaking countries. In the USA, the first two singles and the bonus track All Me, recorded with 2 Chainz and Big Sean , went platinum and gold. The mixtape What a Time to Be Alive was released on September 20, 2015 in collaboration with the rapper Future and was distributed via the iTunes Store and Apple Music ; it received mostly positive reviews.

Drake on his Summer Sixteen Tour in Toronto (2016)

Views and More Life (2016-2017)

On April 29, 2016, his fourth studio album, Views, was released worldwide. This made it to number 1 in the United States and numerous other countries. The album's lead single, One Dance , became a worldwide hit. It reached the top of the singles charts in France, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States, among others. In addition, One Dance has been the most streamed song on Spotify since October 15, 2016 and the first to be streamed over a billion times there.

The second single from the album Pop Style could not follow the success of the previous one. Too Good with Rihanna, on the other hand, achieved platinum multiple times in Canada and platinum in the UK. Controlla 's third single was also sold three million times in the US. The single version was recorded in collaboration with singer Popcaan .

On March 18, 2017, Drake released the mixtape More Life , which topped the US and Canada charts. It also achieved top 10 placements in several European countries. The tape recorded almost a third of a million sales. The songs Fake Love and Passionfruit were released. The latter reached the top 10 in the USA, among others. In the summer of 2017, the non-album single Signs was released .

Scary Hours and Scorpion (since 2018)

In early 2018, Drake released his second extended play, Scary Hours . There are two songs on the EP, both of which were released as single. Diplomatic Immunity climbed to # 7 while God's Plan topped the Billboard Hot 100. It became his fourth number one single in the US. The song stayed at the top of the charts for eleven weeks before being replaced by Nice For What , the second single from his new studio album Scorpion . Scorpion was announced on Instagram in April 2018 and was released on June 29, 2018. Six songs were released as singles, all of which reached the top 10 and three of them the top spot in the US. Also in June 2018, Drake became the artist with the highest number of RIAA certified sales for digital singles. In July 2018, he broke a 54-year-old Beatles record . All 25 tracks of his new album were in the Billboard 100 charts, seven in the top ten. In September, Billboard announced that Drake had broken Usher's 2004 record for most weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in a year. Three Drake singles were able to top the charts for 29 weeks.

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	CA
2010	Thank me later	DE34 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH69 (1 week) CH	UK15th gold (14 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (93 weeks)US	CA1 × 2 Double platinum (12 weeks)CA	Initial release: June 11, 2010 US sales: + 1,800,000
2011	take care	DE42 (1 week) DE	-	CH45 (2 weeks) CH	UK5 × 2 Double platinum (102 weeks)UK	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (… Where.)US	CA1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (78 weeks)CA	First published: November 14, 2011 Sales US: + 2,338,000
2013	Nothing Was the Same	DE14 (4 weeks) DE	AT25 (2 weeks) AT	CH11 (7 weeks) CH	UK2 platinum (33 weeks)UK	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (338 weeks)US	CA1 × 3 Triple platinum (23 weeks)CA	Initial release: September 20, 2013 US sales: + 4,783,000
2016	Views	DE11 gold (23 weeks)DE	AT20th gold (7 weeks)AT	CH4 (21 weeks) CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (111 weeks)UK	US1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (… Where.)US	CA1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (… Where.)CA	Initial release: April 29, 2016 US sales: + 1,607,000
2018	Scorpion	DE8 (20 weeks) DE	AT4 (18 weeks) AT	CH1 (28 weeks) CH	UK1 platinum (… Where.)UK	US1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (… Where.)US	CA1 × 2 Double platinum (… Where.)CA	First published: June 29, 2018 Sales: + 5,915,000

Private life

Drake has lived in Hidden Hills, California since 2012. He has also owned a plot of land in Toronto since 2017, on which he had his own villa built.

The rapper was in a relationship with singer Rihanna from 2009 to 2016. Drake first confirmed the relationship on a US radio show in 2013 in a comment against her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

When the two presented a prize together at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2016, the rapper made a declaration of love for his lover:

"She's someone ... she's someone I've been in love with since I was 22 years old [...]"

"She is ... She is someone I've been in love with since I was 22 years old [...]"

Two years later, in October 2018, Drake revealed in an interview on the US talk show The Shop that he was planning to start a family with Rihanna.

Drake has a son, Adonis, who was born on October 11, 2017. The mother of the child is the French former porn actress Sophie Brussaux.

In his song March 14 , which can be found on the 2018 album Scorpion , Drake raps about being a father. In this song he also confirmed the date of birth of his son.

Filmography

• 2001–2009: Degrassi: The Next Generation (TV series, 145 episodes)
• 2001: Blue Murder (TV series, an episode)
• 2002: Soul Food (TV series, episode)
• 2005: Best Friend's Date (TV series, episode)
• 2007: Charlie Bartlett
• 2008: The Border (TV series, episode)
• 2009: Being Erica ( Being Erica , TV series, an episode)
• 2009: Sophie (TV series, an episode)
• 2012: Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed ( Ice Age: Continental Drift , voice)
• 2013: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Web links

Commons : Drake  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Drake in the catalog of the German National Library
• Drake in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (English)
• Drake at Allmusic (English)
• Drake at Universal music group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Toyin Owoseje: Justin Bieber 'applying for US citizenship' before marrying American model Hailey Baldwin. In: independent.co.uk. September 15, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Felix Zwinzscher: Will this rapper soon become Justin Bieber? In: welt.de . May 2, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Daniela Cabrera: Who Is Drake's Mom? Sandi Graham Is Very Close To Her Superstar Son. In: bustle.com. Retrieved April 14, 2017 (English). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Amos Barshad: Drake: The Heeb Interview. In: heebmagazine.com. June 18, 2010, accessed April 14, 2017 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Damien Scott: Cover Story Uncut: Drake Talks About Romance, Rap, And What's Really Real. (No longer available online.) In: complex.com. November 15, 2011, archived from the original on November 17, 2011 ; accessed on April 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Drake celebrates second bar mitzvah in the video. In: rap.de. April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Drake. In: prosieben.de . Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
8. ^ Billboard.com on the Drake bidding contest
9. ↑ Drake's debut album Thank Me Later available from June 11th ( Memento of the original from May 12th 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de, May 9, 2010. 
10. ↑ Interview with Drake ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de, May 11, 2010. 
11. ↑ Releases ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de 
12. ↑ Jamaica's Minister of Tourism Protests Drake Video . May 17, 2010. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2015. 
13. ↑ The official sales figures for Thank Me Later ( memento of the original from July 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Lil Wayne & Drake: Collabo album on the way ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de, June 9, 2010. 
15. ↑ New album Take Care will be released on October 21st ( memento of the original from August 26th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de, June 11, 2011. 
16. ↑ Take Care is postponed to November ( memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . drizzydrake.de, October 9, 2011. 
17. ↑ And The GRAMMY Went To ... Drake. Grammy Award , March 5, 2013, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Drake Announces Title Of Third Album . February 10, 2013. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2015. 
19. ↑ Drake Releases New Single, 'Started From the Bottom' . February 2, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
20. ↑ Drake Shooting Video For 'Started From the Bottom' In Toronto, Old Video Teaser Surfaces . January 16, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
21. ↑ Drake To Release First Single From New Album On Grammy Awards Night . January 31, 2013. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2015. 
22. ↑ Spotify record: Drake achieves what no one has done before hiphop.de, accessed December 26, 2016.
23. ↑ Laura Aha: "Scary Hours" - Drake makes us happy with a new mini-EP! . In: Noizz . January 22, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
24. ↑ Drake Earns 60 New Platinum Certifications, Becoming Highest Certified Digital Singles Artist djbooth.net, accessed June 30, 2018.
25. ↑ Gold & Platinum - Top Certified Artists (Singles)
26. ↑ Seven songs in the top ten: Drake breaks 54-year-old Beatles record . In: Spiegel Online . July 10, 2018. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
27. ^ Gary Trust: Drake Breaks Record for Most Weeks at No. 1 by Any Artist in a Year on Billboard Hot 100, as "In My Feelings' Reigns for 10th Week ( English ) In: Billboard . September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
28. ↑ ^{a b} Keith Caulfield: Drake's 'If You're Reading This' Becomes First Million-Selling Album Released in 2015 . In: Billboard . August 10, 2015. Accessed July 2, 2018.
29. ↑ Hip Hop Album Sales: Week Ending 1/20/2014 .
30. ↑ Drake's 'Views' Is Nielsen Music's Top Album of 2016 in the US .
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