Earlier than Drake was the wildly profitable rapper he’s now, Degrassi: The Subsequent Technology followers knew him as Jimmy Brooks, a rising basketball star that turned wheelchair-bound after a faculty capturing.
Main as much as the kickoff of his extremely anticipated It’s All a Blur Tour with 21 Savage at Chicago’s United Middle on Wednesday (July 5), Drake took to Instagram to share an insightful audio message, through which he additionally revealed that he received excessive earlier than the TV present’s audition.
“Somebody requested me the opposite evening what my greatest concern is, and I’ve by no means actually had a superb reply for it, however my reply was that every one that is for nothing. Type of the concept, like, at some point, life ends and it simply all goes black. And I assume that query, like, despatched me, you understand, clearly deep right into a spiral of thought,” he says within the clip. “And it makes me take into consideration my life and the way surreal it feels at occasions. I’m going again to at the present time once I was like 13 or 14. I had an audition for a TV present that in the end formed my life, and earlier than my audition, I went to this child’s home. And I, out of, I assume, a want to be accepted, I might succumb to look strain, and I received excessive with these youngsters proper earlier than my audition.”
He continued, “I type of marvel, like, if one thing unhealthy occurred that day or, you understand, possibly I’m nonetheless excessive, possibly I’m in some coma. And that is simply, like, me taking part in out my perfect life. And yeah, that idea has caught with me for lots of years. I imply, it seems like actuality, it feels tangible. However I positively marvel generally.”
Since Drake’s final tour, he’s launched quite a few album, together with Her Loss with 21 Savage, which dropped in November. The set debuted and peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, incomes him his twelfth chief on the chart. Actually, Nevermind arrived simply months earlier in June 2022 and Licensed Lover Boy in September 2021, each of which additionally skyrocketed to No. 1.
Take heed to Drake’s full audio clip beneath.
