The life of Drake

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He blends rap with singing, claims to have invented “YOLO,” and has been vocal about racism in the music industry.   This is the story of Drake, whose new album “Certified Lover Boy” just came out.

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00:00I've always tried to make music that transcends, you know, gender, nationality, to try and

00:07unify people.

00:31I'm a very honest person.

00:32I can't write fiction, you know.

00:35I can't really do these sort of themed story songs that are just a story about someone

00:45else that I either made up or don't.

00:48It all has to directly do with me or else I can't make the music.

01:00My father is a huge inspiration for me.

01:19I mean, I can never, like, even my mother will tell you, I would never be doing what

01:23I'm doing and probably in the fashion that I'm doing it without my mother's teaching

01:28of the English language and words and my dad's natural gift for, like, melody and music.

01:58Really, all I care about is the words, you know, the words in these people, that's it.

02:19In hip-hop, things have been said so many times that the only way you're going to say

02:24it new is if you say it honest and genuine, you know, because nobody can say it how you

02:29can say it if you're honest with yourself.

02:32But if you start trying to just say it to say it, you're going to say it like somebody else.

03:24Fame me later was just a point in my life where I felt like I needed to, like, prove

03:33to everybody, like, okay, yo, people accept me, look, look, I could get, I could do songs

03:38with this person.

04:29It was unexpected, I recorded it in a hotel room in London.

04:45I don't know if there's a song on this album that I can say, like, oh, well, I did that

04:49for that reason.

04:50No, it's all just, like, I did it because I would want to listen to something like that

04:53and I'm really proud of it.

05:23I've always just felt like an outsider naturally, you know, and I think that just has to do

05:45with, like, the better you do at music, the more you're going to feel like an outsider.

05:50It doesn't matter.

05:51I could be from Australia, you know, I could be from anywhere.

05:53It's just when you start doing well, people will make you feel like an outsider.

06:20Right foot up, left foot slide, left foot up, right foot slide.

06:44Right foot up, left foot slide, left foot up, right foot up.

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