Trivia / Drake

• Ascended Fanon: He goes with the rumors that him and Nicki Minaj 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.
• All-Star Cast: In both Thank Me Later and Take Care. He's had Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Aaliyah (posthumously!) and even Stevie Wonder. Nothing Was the Same is largely featureless and what little features there are are minimal, but still has Jay-Z, Big Sean, and 2 Chainz dropping verses.
  • He's also featured on tracks for Justin Bieber, Trey Songz, Mary J. Blige and The Game, as well as most of the above.
  • His video for "Best I Ever Had" was directed by Kanye West, who also produced "Show Me A Good Time" and "Find Your Love" on Thank Me Later.
  • The video for "Nice for What" features Olivia Wilde, Issa Rae, Rashida Jones, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tiffany Haddish, Yara Shahidi, Letitia Wright, Michelle Rodriguez, Emma Roberts, and many more.
  • Arguably, the video for "I'm Upset" could be this, if you're a fan of Degrassi. At the very least, Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith appear as Jay and Silent Bob.
• Bad Export for You: A few days after the lead singles from Views were released, the auto-generated uploads on 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.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Forever" was originally from a 2009 documentary about LeBron James. However, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who knew this.
• Colbert Bump: He's fond of hopping onto rising rappers' mixtape cuts and helping them go viral, like Migos ("Versace (Remix)") in 2013.
  • Gave a big one to Kendrick Lamar 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."
  • And again for Nothing Was the Same, by including Jhené Aiko on "From Time" and Majid Jordan on "Hold On (We're Going Home").
  • Drake also helped The Weeknd get exposure, featuring him on Take Care and providing guest verses on several of his mixtapes.
  • Possibly his biggest one yet: remixing ILoveMakonnen's "Tuesday" and getting it a Grammy nomination.
  • He rapped the first verse and chorus of "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB, making it hit the Billboard Top 40.
• Content Leak: All of the songs from Thank Me Later got leaked within 2 weeks before it was officially released.
• Creator Backlash: When he hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, 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."
• Creator Couple: With the news that he admitted to dating 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.
• Follow the Leader: Following his dancehall pop hit "One Dance", tons of other artists have added a dancehall flavor to their music especially for radio singles.
• History Repeats: 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 Taylor Swift's 1989 and 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.
• Invisible Advertising: For If You're Reading This It's Too Late. Similar to Beyoncé's release of her Self-Titled Album 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.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: 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.
  • 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.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: 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 "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 Fridge Logic 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".
• Uncredited Role: He has employed ghostwriters in the past, most imfamously Quentin Miller, something Meek Mill criticised him for in one of his diss tracks.
• What Could Have Been: 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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