Drake holds the record for the most Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits and was named Billboard's Artist of the Decade at this spring's 2021 Billboard Music Awards.
The following year, the now-superstar released his debut EP, So Far Gone. The release hit the No. You’re the coolest kid on the show, and you can say there’s nothing wrong with being in a wheelchair.'"īillboard has reached out to Drake's camp to verify Hurst's story but hadn't heard back at press time.ĭrake rapped during season 7 of Degrassi: The Next Generation and later left the show in 2008 to focus on his rap career. "I was very passionate about it, and I said, 'Aubrey, there’s some kid somewhere in a wheelchair, who’s completely ignored, who’s never on television, never gets represented. "He was so nice and apologetic about everything. How much harder can you get? You got shot, and you’re in a wheelchair.'"Īfter their conversation, Hurst and Drake came to terms with the storyline. big Xhosa has a way different sound and approach to rap than big Zulu or any of his. But how do you feel about the wheelchair?' He’s like, 'All my friends in the rap game say I’m soft because I’m in a wheelchair.' And I said, 'Well, tell your friends in the rap game that you got shot. SOS RSA also known as Big Xhosa is trending, not to be confused with the Imali Eningi rapper Big Zulu. "It was an odd letter that said, 'Aubrey Graham will not return to Degrassi season 6 as Jimmy Brooks unless his injury is healed, and he’s out of the wheelchair.' I said, 'Get him down here.' He came in and was like, 'What letter? I don’t know about that.' And I said, 'All right, I understand. "There was a letter from a law firm in Toronto, and it was from Aubrey," Hurst told AV Club. In an oral history honoring the 20th anniversary of the show's first episode, show writer James Hurst told AV Club that there was pushback from Drake's camp - back when he was still known as Aubrey Graham - about his return to the show if his character remained in a wheelchair. And though his character was part of one of the show's most high-profile episodes - when Jimmy ended up in a wheelchair after being shot during a terrifying school shooting - Drake initially saw the storyline as a hindrance to his then-budding rap career, according to a new interview with a Degrassi writer. Drake famously started his entertainment career on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, on which he starred as Jimmy Brooks for seven seasons.
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