History Trivia / Drake

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Following Drake publicly confirming the existence of his son, Adonis, a rumor spread among fans that the line from "God's Plan" -- ''"She say, 'Do you love me?', I tell her [[BrutalHonesty "Only partly / I only love my bed and my mama, I'm sorry"]]'' -- was actually a hidden reference to his son, the theory being that "my bed" was actually a misheard reading of "Mahbed", which was believed to have been Adonis' middle name. Aside from the FridgeLogic of why he would refer to his son by his middle name rather by his first, there exists no proof that this is true (or that Adonis even has a middle name), and the lyric is almost certainly meant to merely be "my bed".

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Following Drake publicly confirming the existence of his son, Adonis, a rumor spread among fans that the line from "God's Plan" -- ''"She say, 'Do you love me?', I tell her [[BrutalHonesty "Only partly / I only love my bed and my mama, I'm sorry"]]'' -- was actually a hidden reference to his son, the theory being that "my bed" was actually a misheard reading of "Mahbed", which was believed to have been Adonis' middle name. There exists no proof that this is true (or that Adonis even has a middle name), and the lyric is almost certainly meant to merely be "my bed".

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Following Drake publicly confirming the existence of his son, Adonis, a rumor spread among fans that the line from "God's Plan" -- "She say, 'Do you love me?', I tell her [[BrutalHonesty "Only partly / I only love my bed and my mama, I'm sorry"]] -- was actually a hidden reference to his son, the theory being that "my bed" was actually a misheard version of "Mahbed", which was believed to have been Adonis' middle name. There exists no genuine proof that this is true, and the line is very likely meant to merely be "my bed".

* OldShame: He treated ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' as this for a while. His appearance on MTV's ''When I Was 17'' made no mention of it whatsoever, despite the fact that that ''was'' what he was doing when he was 17. Although he's [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/finally-drake-had-a-degrassi-reunion.html still]] [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/drake-had-another-mini-degrassi-reunion-jimmy-hazel.html friendly]] with some of the cast. He did eventually mention his time on ''Degrassi'' when he hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[note]]mentioned in both the monologue and a sketch featuring clips of what rappers did before they were famous, like 2 Chainz starring in a Disney Channel sitcom, Rihanna starring in a West Indian version of ''Blossom'', Rick Ross as one of the Teletubbies, or Lil Wayne (under his real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr) being [[TheOtherDarrin the first actor]] to play Steve Urkel on ''Series/FamilyMatters''[[/note]], so he's at least now willing to admit he was on the show, though whether he did it on his own accord or if this is yet another example of ''Saturday Night Live'' using a guest host's past claim to fame for comedy.
** Ultimately defied in his video "I'm Upset," which takes place in a 10-year-reunion in Degrassi High, featuring numerous former cast members from the show, including Creator/NinaDobrev and Creator/KevinSmith.

** He's also featured on tracks for Music/JustinBieber, Music/TreySongz, Music/MaryJBlige and Music/TheGameRapper, as well as most of the above.

* BadExportForYou: A few days after the lead singles from "Views" were released, the auto-generated uploads on Website/YouTube were removed for an unexplained reason, and the album never made it onto there. This lead into it being near-impossible to find an proper non-cover version of "One Dance" (much of them were redirected to Rajiv Dhall's cover) and if even if it did, it would've been removed weeks later. This has thankfully been Averted, as an audio-only upload of the original currently has over 45 million views.

* InvisibleAdvertising: For ''If You're Reading This, It's Too Late''. Similar to Music/{{Beyonce}}'s release of her SelfTitledAlbum in 2013, there was only speculation about any music releases in 2015 before the release. Rumor has it that the album/mixtape was released in order to weasel out of a 4 album contract with Young Money, hence the lack of advertising.

* CreatorBacklash: When he hosted an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' he apologized for being the one who coined the term "YOLO" ("You Only Live Once"), saying "I didn't know your annoying friends and coworkers would use it so much."

* OldShame: He treated ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' as this for a while. His appearance on MTV's ''When I Was 17'' made no mention of it whatsoever, despite the fact that that was what he was doing when he was 17. Although he's [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/finally-drake-had-a-degrassi-reunion.html still]] [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/drake-had-another-mini-degrassi-reunion-jimmy-hazel.html friendly]] with some of the cast. He did eventually mention his time on ''Degrassi'' when he hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[note]]mentioned in both the monologue and a sketch featuring clips of what rappers did before they were famous, like 2 Chainz starring in a Disney Channel sitcom, Rihanna starring in a West Indian version of ''Blossom'', Rick Ross as one of the Teletubbies, or L'il Wayne (under his real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr) being [[TheOtherDarrin the first actor]] to play Steve Urkel on ''Series/FamilyMatters''[[/note]], so he's at least now willing to admit he was on the show, though whether he did it on his own accord or if this is yet another example of ''Saturday Night Live'' using a guest host's past claim to fame for comedy.
** Ultimately defied in his video "I'm Upset," which takes place in a 10-year-reunion in Degrassi, featuring numerous former cast members from the show.

* ContentLeak: All of the songs from his debut studio album "Thank Me Later" got leaked within 2 weeks before it was officially released.

** He's also featured on tracks for Music/JustinBieber, Music/TreySongz, Music/MaryJBlige and Music/TheGame, as well as most of the above.

* NamesTheSame: It's like 09 in your basement and I'm in love with Nebby, but the Nebby that's being referred to is too big to [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon fit in a bag]].

* CreatorCouple: With the news that he admitted to dating Music/{{Rihanna}} from sometime between 2009-2013, one or both of thier collaborations during this period ("What's My Name" from 2010 and "Take Care" from 2012) can fall into this trope.

** Sang the chorus of "Look Alive" by [=BlocBoy=] JB, making it hit the Billboard Top 40.

* AllStarCast: In both ''Thank Me Later'' and ''Take Care''. He's had Music/LilWayne, Music/{{Rihanna}}, Music/AliciaKeys, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/JayZ, Music/RickRoss, [[Music/OutKast Andre 3000]], Music/KendrickLamar, Music/{{Aaliyah}} (posthumously!) and even ''Music/StevieWonder''. ''Nothing Was the Same'' is largely featureless and what little features there are are minimal, but still has Music/JayZ, Music/BigSean, and 2 Chainz dropping verses.

** And again for ''Nothing Was the Same'', by including Jhene Aiko on "From Time" and Majid Jordan on "Hold On (We're Going Home").

* UncreditedRole: He has employed ghostwriters in the past, something Music/MeekMill criticised him for in one of his diss tracks.

* BigNameFan: Well-known as a diehard fan of the Kentucky Wildcats in NCAA basketball, despite having no personal connection to the school or the state.
** And also of the Toronto Raptors, although that makes a little more sense.

* BadExportForYou: A few days after the lead singles from "Views" were released, the auto-generated uploads on Website/YouTube were removed for an unexplained reason, and the album never made it onto there. This lead into it being near-impossible to find an proper non-cover version of "One Dance" and if even if it did, it would've been removed weeks later. This has thankfully been Averted, as an audio-only upload of the original currently has over 45 million views.

* AllStarCast: In both ''Thank Me Later'' and ''Take Care''. He's had Music/LilWayne, Music/{{Rihanna}}, Music/AliciaKeys, Music/NickiMinaj, Music/JayZ, Music/RickRoss, [[Music/OutKast Andre 3000]], Music/KendrickLamar, Music/{{Aaliyah}} (posthumously!) and even ''Music/StevieWonder''. ''Nothing Was The Same'' is largely featureless and what little features there are are minimal, but still has Music/JayZ, Music/BigSean, and 2 Chainz dropping verses.

** And again for ''Nothing Was The Same'', by including Jhene Aiko on "From Time" and Majiid Jordan on "Hold On (We're Going Home").

* OneOfUs: In 2018, Drake was seen playing Fortnite with popular Twitch streamer Ninja and fellow rapper Travi$ Scott.

* OldShame: He treated ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' as this for a while. His appearance on MTV's ''When I Was 17'' made no mention of it whatsoever, despite the fact that that was what he was doing when he was 17. Although he's [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/finally-drake-had-a-degrassi-reunion.html still]] [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/drake-had-another-mini-degrassi-reunion-jimmy-hazel.html friendly]] with some of the cast.
** He did eventually mention his time on ''Degrassi'' when he hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''[[note]]mentioned in both the monologue and a sketch featuring clips of what rappers did before they were famous, like 2 Chainz starring in a Disney Channel sitcom, Rihanna starring in a West Indian version of ''Blossom'', Rick Ross as one of the Teletubbies, or L'il Wayne (under his real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr) being [[TheOtherDarrin the first actor]] to play Steve Urkel on ''Series/FamilyMatters''[[/note]], so he's at least now willing to admit he was on the show, though whether he did it on his own accord or if this is yet another example of ''Saturday Night Live'' using a guest host's past claim to fame for comedy.