How Drake Became Famous

How Drake's Fame All Started 

In our world today rap music has gotten very popular, then it was maybe even five years ago. One particular music artist that falls under that category of music would be Drake, but what inspired him to get into that kind of field of music? Beginning with, Drake started being an actor in the show “Degrassi.” While he was in the show, Drake really already has a passion for rap.

Throughout his time on the show he didn’t really get to show it, until he met this one girl Ally. This one Ally then became something more to Drake, because she was very into rap music as well. Drake and Ally then began to date, and soon came up with their own song.

Although they made the song, they didn’t want anyone to hear it, but that didn’t happen like they wanted to. Somehow is got to the school, and they school then played their song. At first Drake and his girlfriend were very embarrassed about the whole song, and everyone at school hearing it. But they were worried for nothing, because about more than half the school ended up loving there song, in fact they kept coming up to them and telling them how good it was. Even though Drake liked rapping, he did it for fun, not for someone big to find him and start a career.

One of the most famous rappers, would have to be Lil Wayne. Drake loved to post his videos on YouTube just for fun, he didn’t mean for anything to happen by it. Until one day, when Lil Wayne, probably one of his favorite artist happened to find his video on YouTube. Lil Wayne ended up really enjoying his song, and he kept finding a couple more songs to get to explore him a little more.

 He ended up going to the Young Money Label, which is a group of rapper, to perform a song by Drake. After the performance, all the rappers in the Young Money Label, was blown away. They all thought that Drake’s song was outstanding, and agreed that they wanted him to join their YMCMB which is short for  Young Money Cash Money Billionaire  group.