"You know life is what we make it, and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it." - Drake
"I live for the nights that I can't remember, with the people that I won't forget." -Drizzy
"Jealousy is just love and hate at the same...
After Still Fly, people wondered, "Is wheelchair jimmy a one hit wonder?". It was quite possible that he would be, as the music he had been releasing hadn't really generated much attention. The music stayed in Toronto and one of the main reasons I had heard any of it is because of his relationship with a Hamilton rapper named OB Obrein who is a part of the OVO entourage.
Drake had still not hit that MTV platform yet and he needed MTV to propel his success. So what happens next is drake snags a feature from Trey Songz for a song titled Replacement Girl. If you don't know much about the hip hop industry, let me learn you something folks. To get something like this to happen, Drake, due to his current popularity, he would be required to purchase this verse/hook from him.
Song: Replacement Girl // Album: No Album
I don't entirely agree with the outfit he used in the video but oh man, after this song, he officially took off. Just like Page (maybe not JUST like Page), but we also start to see Trey Songz fall off a bit after this song. Everyone at the time had accepted Trey Songz as the bigger and more relevant r&b/rap artist but not as Drake started grow... literally...
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Drake even speaks on his success compared to Trey Songz later on in his career on a track titled From Time on the album Nothing Was The Same.
Then she started telling me how I'll never be as big as Trey Songz, Boy was she wrong,
Drake after this song was still an unsigned artist. He didn't belong to any label but this is the time he began receiving offers from many labels. His in-house producer Noah "40" Shebib was also to be included in any record deal.
After a couple of remixes on some Lil Wayne songs, he gets noticed by YMCMB (Young Money Cash Money Billionaires), a recording label which was underneath Cash Money and owned by Birdman.
Next, we go into the first big drake mixtape release. The mixtape So Far Gone would become the first mixtape to go Platinum AND be for sale. Normally mixtapes are free, but Drake provided it for free but any hardcore fan was able to pick up a physical copy of the mixtape.
