Line #20 Trivia/Drake


1	* AscendedFanon: He goes with the rumors that him and Music/NickiMinaj are dating in one line in "Miss Me"("I love Nicki Minaj/I told her I’d admit it/I hope one day we get married just to say we fucking did it") and in her video "Moment 4 Life" they actually get married.
2	* 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 Music/TwoChainz dropping verses.
3	** He's also featured on tracks for Music/JustinBieber, Music/TreySongz, Music/MaryJBlige and [[Music/TheGameRapper The Game]], as well as most of the above.
4	** His video for "Best I Ever Had" was directed by Music/KanyeWest, who also produced "Show Me A Good Time" and "Find Your Love" on ''Thank Me Later''.
5	** The video for "Nice for What" features Creator/OliviaWilde, [[Series/{{Insecure}} Issa Rae]], Creator/RashidaJones, [[Series/{{Blackish}} Tracee Ellis Ross]], Creator/TiffanyHaddish, Yara Shahidi, Creator/LetitiaWright, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/EmmaRoberts, and many more.
6	** Arguably, the video for "I'm Upset" could be this, if you're a fan of ''Degrassi''. At the very least, Jason Mewes and Creator/KevinSmith appear as [[Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack Jay and Silent Bob]].
7	* 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.
8	* BreakawayPopHit: "Forever" was originally from a 2009 documentary about [=LeBron=] James. However, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who knew this.
9	* ColbertBump: He's fond of hopping onto rising rappers' mixtape cuts and helping them go viral, like Migos ("Versace (Remix)") in 2013.
10	** Gave a big one to Music/KendrickLamar by giving him the "Buried Alive" interlude on ''Take Care''. Most copies of the album even put the interlude on the same track as Drake's hit "Marvin's Room."
11	** And again for ''Nothing Was the Same'', by including Music/JheneAiko on "From Time" and Majid Jordan on "Hold On (We're Going Home").
12	** Drake also helped The Weeknd get exposure, featuring him on ''Take Care'' and providing guest verses on several of his mixtapes.
13	** Possibly his biggest one yet: remixing [=ILoveMakonnen=]'s "Tuesday" and getting it a Grammy nomination.
14	** He rapped the first verse and chorus of "Look Alive" by [=BlocBoy=] JB, making it hit the Billboard Top 40.
15	* ContentLeak: All of the songs from ''Thank Me Later'' got leaked within 2 weeks before it was officially released.
16	* CreatorBacklash: When he hosted an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', Drake said he apologizes for being the one who coined the term YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), a phrase that was considered annoying to a good number of people due to its sheer overuse on places like Twitter. Drake himself makes mention of this by saying "I didn't know your annoying friends and coworkers would use it so much."
17	* CreatorCouple: With the news that he admitted to dating Music/{{Rihanna}} from sometime between 2009-2013, one or both of their collaborations during this period ("What's My Name" from 2010 and "Take Care" from 2012) can fall into this trope.
18	* FollowTheLeader: Following his dancehall pop hit "One Dance", tons of other artists have added a dancehall flavor to their music especially for radio singles.
19	* HistoryRepeats: ''If You're Reading This It's Too Late'' was the first new album of 2015 to sell over 1 million copies that year. Then, ''Views'' would be the first new album of 2016 to pass the same milestone [[note]]Music/TaylorSwift's ''1989'' and Music/{{Adele}}'s ''25'' sold over a million in 2015 and 2016 respectively before those points, but that was after they had been released very late in the previous years and sold millions more[[/note]].
20	* 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.
21	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A minor example, but the original ''Scary Hours'' EP was pulled off music services after Drake released ''Scorpion'', due to the latter also featuring "God's Plan" on the tracklisting. ''Scary Hours''' other single, "Diplomatic Immunity", was then reformatted as a standalone single.
22	** The ''So Far Gone'' mixtape was once unavailable on streaming services until its 10th anniversary reissue. The EP of the same name has since taken its place.
23	* 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 than 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".
24	* UncreditedRole: He has employed ghostwriters in the past, most imfamously Quentin Miller, something Music/MeekMill criticised him for in one of his diss tracks.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before releasing ''Take Care'', he was planning to release a mixtape titled ''It's Never Enough'', which would've had him entirely singing than rapping.

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