![]() ![]() “Money just changed everything, I wonder how life without it would go,” he raps in the opening song, “Fireworks,” which features Alicia Keyes cooing on the choruses. Not Drake he spends much of these 14 tracks questioning his place in it all, and whether it will last. Rappers are supposed to brag about the bling and the stardom, and they should never apologize. And it’s no surprise that he’s rapping about what he knows: the intoxicating rush of fame, and the hollow loneliness and alienation at the core of a life obsessed with it. ![]() Finally signed to Universal Motown after a ferocious bidding war, the 23-year-old artist is at long last delivering his full-length debut. Toronto-born Aubrey Drake Graham already is tabloid fodder: After graduating from Degrassi Community School - he played the wheelchair-bound Jimmy Brooks in the teen TV series “Degrassi: The Next Generation” - Drake began to generate major buzz with a series of mix tapes, hit singles, and eventually an EP that won fans and collaborators such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne, who became a mentor of sorts. ![]()
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