Name: If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Brand: Drake

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2016-10-28

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Drake

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Hip Hop

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Island

Drake, born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian actor and recording artist. He gained initial fame for his role as Jimmy Brooks on the TV series Degrassi: The Next Generation. As a rapper, he goes by the name Drake. In June 2009, he officially signed with Lil Wayne's record label after establishing a close affiliation with it earlier in his career.

Drake comes from a musical background; his father Dennis Graham was a drummer who worked with Jerry Lee Lewis, and he is also related to musicians Larry Graham and Teenie Hodges. His parents divorced when he was young, and he was raised by his mother in Toronto's affluent Forest Hill neighborhood. Despite not graduating high school from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, Drake discovered acting there and spent summers with his father in Memphis.

With an impressive career spanning both acting and music, Drake has become one of the most successful artists of our time. Known for hits like "Hotline Bling" and "God's Plan," Drake continues to captivate audiences worldwide with his unique blend of rap and R&B influences.

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If You're Reading This It's Too Late is the fourth mixtape by Canadian recording artist Drake. We get a spectral late-night longing not unlike that of So Far Gone touchstones Lust for Life and Successful. The pre-fame queasiness of early Drake is now the loneliness of a distrustful despot. On 10 Bands he's holed up in a home studio for weeks pushing himself to create ("Drapes closed, I don't know what time it is / I'm still awake, I gotta shine this year"). Know Yourself celebrates the thrill of mobbing through a city that's his for the taking, but even in joy there's a note of tension and the ever-present possibility of actual danger. ("I ain't rock my jewelry, and that's on purpose/ Niggas want my spot and don't deserve it.") Success creates as many problems as it solves. Music is the real joy for Drake, and If You're Reading This It's Too Late is best enjoyed as an exercise in the casual excellence of the artist as rhymer and purveyor of hooks. The vocals are often just vampy flow experiments, but at their best these verses exhibit the weightless exhilaration of a technician at work.

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If You're Reading This It's Too Late

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