Drake – Biography
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and businessman. Drake was an actor in the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s.
Intending to pursue a career in music, he left the series in 2007 after releasing his first mixtape, Room for Improvement. He released two more independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing with Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment in June 2009.
Drake released his debut studio album Thank Me Later in 2010, which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and was soon certified platinum. Their next two releases, 2011’s Take Care and 2013’s Nothing Was the Same, were critically and commercially successful; The former earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
In 2015, he released two mixtapes: the trap-influenced If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and a collaboration with Future titled What a Time to Be Alive, which was certified platinum in the US. Their fourth album, Views (2016). , broke several chart records.
The dancehall-influenced album topped the Billboard 200 for 13 consecutive weeks, becoming the first album by a male solo artist to do so in 10 years. The album’s second single, “One Dance”, topped the charts in several countries and became her first number one single as a lead artist. That year, Drake topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts for eight weeks simultaneously.
Drake has credited Kanye West (left) and Aaliyah (right) as his biggest musical influences. Drake is known for his egotistical lyrics, technical ability, and integration of personal backstory when dealing with relationships with women. His singing abilities have been praised for the audible contrast between typical hip-hop beats and melody, with sometimes harsh rapping combined with soft accents, providing technical lyricism.
His songs often include audible changes in lyrical diction paralleling his upbringing in Toronto and connections to Caribbean and Middle Eastern countries including “ting”, “touching road”, “talkin’ bossy” and “guanin’ wasi”. Includes phrases like. , Most of his songs contain R&B and Canadian hip-hop elements, and he combines rapping with singing.
He credits his father for introducing him to singing in his rap mixtapes, which have become a staple in his musical repertoire. His incorporation of melody into technically complex songs was supported by Lil Wayne, and later became a critically acclaimed component to Drake’s singles and albums.
The lyrical content performed by Drake is generally considered emotional or boastful. However, Drake is often honored for incorporating “derogatory” topics of money, drug use, and women into new, idealized contexts, often achieving this through the enhancement of specific meanings of the phrases in which he Combines an objective and subjective perspective into one voice. Delivery.
His songs often maintain a tension between “pause and tempo, vocal timbre, and volume and vocal fermata”. Drake is credited with innovating what has been called “hyper-reality rap”, characterized by a focus on celebrity topics separated from the “real world”.
album: “For All The Dogs” (2023)
Drake – For All The Dogs album cover
Virginia Beach
Amen
Calling For You
Fear Of Heights
Daylight
First Person Shooter
IDGAF
7969 Santa
Slime You Out
Bahamas Promises
Tried Our Best
Screw The World (Interlude)
Drew A Picasso
Members Only
What Would Pluto Do
All The Parties
8am In Charlotte
BBL Love (Interlude)
Gently
Rich Baby Daddy
Another Late Night
Away From Home
Polar Opposites