Evidently, Drake didn’t start from dabottom, he started on “Degrassi.”
Drakewas cast as fast-talking Jimmy Brooks at the age of 14, tellingGQin 2012 about how he was discovered.
“I was in class, and I used to always crack jokes in class,” he recalled.
“I was a good liar and a good talker.
And this kid in my class was like, ‘Yo, my dad is an agent.
You should go talk to him because you’re good and you make people laugh.'”
He added, “I was just good.
I was my father’s son.
I was slick, you know?
When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.”
At one point, Drake was earning $400,000 on the show (viaGQ).
According toPage Six, Drake was concerned about blurring the lines between his rapping and acting careers.
But Drake always resisted, he said.
Thefamous rappereventually acquiesced, but, “it did take some convincing,” Stohn recalled.
Drake hasn’treallyforgotten where he came from, however.
Stohn described the Toronto shoot as a “totally joyous occasion.”
