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Drake recorded two diss tracks directly aimed at Mill, “Charged Up” and “Back to Back” in a single week in 2015. This included Drake’s first hit single and music video, “Replacement Girl,” which was featured as the New Joint of the Day on BET’s popular hip-hop TV show 106 & Park. His music often explores themes of vulnerability, relationships, and fame, which has resonated with a broad audience.

“When I was younger, she gave cool gifts and she’d make latkes.” Despite his Jewish upbringing, Drake says he felt isolated at Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, his virtually all-white people high school. His ability to blend genres and maintain commercial appeal across multiple albums has solidified his legacy as one of the most influential artists of the 21st century.

Net Worth

As of 2025, Drake’s net worth is estimated at over $250 million.

His income stems from music sales, touring, endorsements, business ventures, and investments. His father, Dennis Graham, is Black and Catholic; his mother, Sandra, is white and Ashkenazi Jewish Canadian.

"We have a very deep musical background. Drake says that his mother, Sandi Graham, also hails from a “very musical” family — his grandmother babysat Aretha Franklin.

I was slick, you know? It was well-received by critics, caught fire online, and made Drake a household name.

"The tape has made him good and famous for real," Tom Breihan wrote for Pitchfork four months after its release.

Squabbles with other artists have also peppered his career, although they haven’t derailed it. And my dad was a drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis," Drake told Hip Hop Canada in 2006. "So, he used to share his phone time with this dude and at the time I was probably 16 or 17, this dude was like 20 to 22, and he would always rap to me over the phone."

"After a while, I started to get into it, and I started to write my own shit down," he continued.

An uncle, Larry Graham, played bass for Sly and the Family Stone. Brown later referred to the event during a guest appearance on a remix of Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like” (“One on one, what you scared, bruh?” he rapped).

Around this time, Drake settled another legal matter out of court. OVO has since expanded into a lifestyle brand, including a popular clothing line.

He took home 13 awards — including top artist, top male artist, top Billboard 100 album, top Billboard 200 artist and top hot 100 artist — breaking Adele’s record for the artist with the most wins in one year.

‘Scorpion’

After opening 2018 with the two-song EP Scary Hours, Drake dropped two singles, “Nice For What” and “I’m Upset,” in advance of the June release of his fifth studio album, Scorpion.

It featured the infectious single “Best I Ever Had,” which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart, while “Successful,” a collaboration with Wayne and Trey Songz, went gold and made Rolling Stone’s “25 Best Songs of 2009” list. Drake showed early interest in music and acting, developing skills that would become central to his future success.

Acting Career

Drake began his career as an actor, playing Jimmy Brooks, a wheelchair-bound basketball player, in the Canadian teen drama series *Degrassi: The Next Generation* from 2001 to 2009.

He is rarely out of the headlines, whether it’s for dating Rihanna or Jennifer Lopez, founding his own label, OVO Sound, or fronting the NBA’s Toronto Raptors as the team’s global ambassador. She found us a half of a house we could live in," he continued. (Entertainment Weekly asked "Is he worth it?" in a now-hilarious headline.)

Drake has often been described as Lil Wayne's protégé and the two have maintained a close friendship.

However, during an interview with The Fader in September 2009, Drake indicated that "putting a [Young Money] logo on the disc is more of a nod to his mentor than a structural reality."