Drake came from being a complete nobody to getting to meet Wayne, Wayne gave him two verses which he recorded in his bus while he was on tour.
Drake wasn't featured on a damn tour, Wayne's managers also Jay-z's former head people made it happen he was signed to them + Waynes main man, Birdman and Slim weren't even really involved at this point as you mention Wayne wasn't making those type of moves. Dude had some of the deepest mana
I know of deals where people are signed far before it's announced, Wiz Khalifa was signed to Warner Bros flopped and then "signed" to a company Warner owns, Atlantic. It's not like a I don't believe that it doesn't happen, it's that it doesn't make any sense for some of the biggest CEOs and competitors in the whole industry to come together to commit fraud, for an untested, unsigned, young black dude with zero hits, zero anything. There's also several factors explaining his connection to Wayne, there's several factors explaining Wayne as a person, and on.
See. You're wrong.
And again. I don't know if I'm right about him being signed. I don't have cold hard facts. But let's just go through his career
I will just post everything that makes zero sense for an unsigned guy to be doing
In 2006, Drake
self-released his first mixtape
Room for Improvement. The
mixtape features artists
Trey Songz and
Lupe Fiasco.
Ok maybe he used some degrassi money and got features
In 2007, he released another mixtape,
Comeback Season, spawning a single and a music video for "Replacement Girl" featuring
Trey Songz. Also in 2007, Drake became the first unsigned Canadian rapper to have his music video featured on
BET when his first single, "Replacement Girl" was featured as the "New Joint of the Day" on April 30, 2007.
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A completely unsigned artist getting a video played on bet. Not only is he not hot in his own country. He's not even hot or known in America but has a video premiere on bet. Ok let's say he knows somebody
In 2008, Lil Wayne was given some of Drake's music from
Rap-A-Lot founder,
J. Prince's son, Jas Prince, and he immediately called Drake to invite him to fly to
Houston and tour with him. Drake and Wayne recorded a couple of songs during this time, including "Ransom", the original version of "I Want This Forever", and the remix to Drake's song, "Brand New". Though now part of Lil Wayne's crew, Young Money, Drake was not signed.
Not a show. But a tour. The hottest rapper at the time in the game. Fresh off doing a few milly. Is calling a nikka to do 3 tracks, making him official crew, and putting him on his tour. But signs NO paperwork. Ok
On February 13, 2009, Drake released his third official mixtape,
So Far Gone, for free download on his blog site, which included Drake's mentor Lil Wayne,
Bun B,
Omarion,
Lloyd and his friend, Trey Songz. It received over 2,000 downloads in the first 2 hours of release. It was extremely successful in the underground and eventually made its way to radio. Due to the success of the mixtape's two singles, "
Best I Ever Had" and "
Successful", it was released as an
EP featuring only five songs from the mix tape and one new song. MTV named it "The Hottest Mixtape of 2009 (So Far)".
Still completely unsigned with no deal, but has paper to get all these features and still paper to release the shyt for zero dollars. Then drops it as an album. But has no label to put that album out. And still makes it to mtv. Number 1 mixtape of the year. As an unsigned artist. With no deal?
On the
Billboard Hot 100 chart of July 4, 2009, both "
Best I Ever Had", and "
Every Girl" by Young Money Entertainment entered the top ten at positions 3 and 10 respectively. On June 29, 2009, it was confirmed, that Drake signed a record deal with
Young Money Entertainment.
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Now finally he signs a deal and 5 days later he's now on billboard with two tracks in the top 5
Come on breh. You are unsigned and making top 5 hits, touring with Wayne, part of young money crew, and all over bet and mtv...... What the fukk you need a label for??? You already famous. You should be super rich cause you got your publishing and writing checks and selling your music with ZERO labels getting any cuts of the profit
But he then turns and signs a damn 5-6-7 album deal with an imprint label???
Again. You could be right. But that math ain't adding up right
