I'm not here to debate this dog. Check what I said... First songs like city is mine etc its not debatable and Drake himself told budden when he first met him. The Jay Phonte shyt is in 07. I'm taking 05.
Your timeline is off as fukk too. He was singing on comeback season which is before Wayne and Kanye. Kanye influenced so far gone with 808's and Wayne came after that project but was an influence on it too... Drake has 2 mixtapes before that. He been trying out styles for a while.
05 - burden
07 - Jay Phonte
09 - Wayne
Since then he done flows from French, Migos, 2chainz, big Sean etc... He a chameleon
I'm not debating anything either.
For the record you just said exactly what I said.
Come back season (which dropped in 07) was plainly influenced by Jay/Phonte.
He even went out of his way to get a Phonte feature and a 9th Wonder beat.
Then after he met Wayne there was a marked changed in his style.
I also never mentioned any dates, so that would mean I don't have a timeline
to have off in the first place.
There was very little singing if any on Comeback Season, and this is why So Far Gone
was such a significant release in his discography. And I'd argue that Phonte and Kanye
had a pretty big influence on that release as well.
By then Phonte had already recorded and dropped records as a member of The Foreign Exchange which features his singing
and of course 808's and Heartbreak gave 40 the inspiration for So Far Gone.
He's also referred to himself several times as "Backpack Rapper".