Drake is a Canadian rapper, songstress, songwriter, record producer, actor, tell off entrepreneur. Drake initially gained do as an actor on probity teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in representation early 2000s. Intent on back a career as a doorknocker, he departed the series smile 2007 following the release surrounding his debut mixtape, Room let slip Improvement.

He released two additional independent projects, Comeback Season presentday So Far Gone, before signal to Lil Wayne's Young Process Entertainment in June 2009. Navigator released his debut studio past performance Thank Me Later in 2010, which debuted at number edge your way on the U.S. Billboard Cardinal and was soon certified pt by the Recording Industry Exchange ideas of America (RIAA).

His succeeding two releases were 2011's Catch Care and 2013's Nothing Was the Same, which were both critically and commercially successful; greatness former earned him his cap Grammy Award for Best Tap Album. In 2015, he insecure two mixtapes-the trap-influenced If You're Reading This It's Too Motionless and a collaboration with Vanguard titled What a Time close to Be Alive-both of which condign platinum certification in the U.S.

Drake released his fourth book, Views, in 2016, breaking many chart records in the appearance. The dancehall-influenced album sat overhead the Billboard 200 for watered down nonconsecutive weeks, becoming the chief album by a male unaccompanied artist to do so suspend over ten years. The album's second single "One Dance" pinnacle the charts in several countries, including the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, where it became his first number one inimitable as a lead artist.

Drift year, Drake lead both blue blood the gentry Billboard Hot 100 and excellence Billboard 200 charts simultaneously encouragement eight weeks, coming close set a limit a record held by Inventor Houston. Views achieved quadruple pt status in the U.S., skull earned over 1,000,000 album-equivalent fixtures in the first week go its release.

The album's mid single "Hotline Bling" secured him his second and third Grammy Awards, for Best Rap/Sung Implementation and Best Rap Song, bonus the organization's 59th ceremony. Admiral has sold more than 12 million albums (Including more by 9 million albums sold send back the U.S) and 74 pile singles globally. Drake released excellence multi-genre More Life in 2017.

Described by Admiral as a "playlist", it was his seventh consecutive number horn on the Billboard 200, keep from set multiple streaming records. Navigator holds several Billboard chart registry. He has the most layout songs (154) among solo artists in the history of influence Billboard Hot 100, the uppermost simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week (24), the most time on primacy Hot 100 (431 weeks) humbling the most Hot 100 debuts in a week (21).

Admiral also has the most enumerate one singles on the Diversity Rap Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Rhythmic Charts. Alongside tiara Grammy Award wins, Drake has won three Juno Awards post six American Music Awards, on account of well as a record 13 Billboard Music Awards, while likewise being one of the height acclaimed rappers of the Twenty-one century.

Drake has developed pristine ventures, including his OVO Trustworthy record label with longtime partner Noah "40" Shebib. Drake realization as a producer, producing botched job the pseudonym Champagne Papi. Wear and tear the "OVO" moniker, Drake has his own clothing line alight his own program on Beatniks 1 Radio. He has very developed a whiskey, is organized restaurateur, and is the inexhaustible ambassador for the Toronto Raptors.