We Reunited the Solid of Degrassi–And Drake’s No longer Gonna Would prefer to Miss It
“Degrassi” Solid Reacts to Drake’s Billboard Artist of the Decade Award
Sooner than Aubrey Graham went by his now-legendary heart title, Drake, he used to be first recognized to many TV viewers as Jimmy Brooks.
The Canadian rapper famously bought his originate in the leisure industry by playing the basketball wide title on Degrassi: The Subsequent Know-how from 2001 to 2009. As history goes, he went on to release five studio albums and fabricate 47 Grammy nominations, of which he won four.
By all of it, his primitive co-stars had been cheering him on from the sidelines, and now, 12 years after Drake wrapped his time on the revival, Degrassi Community College is back in session!
The solid of Degrassi: The Subsequent Know-how has near together as soon as more for a truly special motive: to have faith an excellent time Drake being named Billboard’s Artist of the 365 days.
Ahead of the Billboard Tune Awards on Sunday, Would possibly maybe well 23, E! Info hosted an uncommon reunion for the solid. Shane Kippel (who portrayed Spinner Mason), Stacey Farber (Ellie Nash), Jake Epstein (Craig Manning), Andrea Lewis (Hazel Aden), Christina Schmidt (Terri McGreggor) and Paula Brancati (Jane Vaughn) sent in congratulatory messages for “Aubs,” toasting to all of his musical success.
Starting all those years ago, his co-stars knew he used to be destined for greatness.
Shane recalled, “Looks treasure correct the day past that it’s doubtless you’ll near back to location after a weekend or the off season and show us about all of those incredible stories of the artists who you worked with, treasure Pharrell and Dr. Dre and Beyonce and Lil Wayne.”
As Shane establish it, “And we would maybe well maybe all train, ‘Amazing.’ But no one believed you, on legend of it appeared too correct to be loyal. Effectively, you’ve laughed final, my friend.”
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He recounted but one more memory from the mid-2000s, when he and Drake had been at Skybar Los Angeles after a Degrassi signing. “You had been in the relaxation room writing, ‘Have interaction Drake CDs’ on the chalkboard,” Shane shared. “And Travis Barker, who came about to be urinating next to you, said, ‘Who’s Drake?’ And you became to him and you said, ‘I’m Drake.'”
The actor wisely guessed, “I bewitch you create no longer promote CDs in the relaxation room anymore.” In a paunchy circle moment, Drake conducted with Travis five years after that incident, at the 2010 Grammys.
Stacey also remembered when Drake used to be correct making an strive to obtain his originate in the tune biz, asserting, “It feels treasure the day past when we had been standing on the red carpet together at the Teen Resolution Awards in L.A., making an strive fairly desperately at hand out your demo to whoever would consume it, on burnt CDs.” She went on, “It has been incredible to gaze your profession unfold, even from afar, and I’m so happy with you.”
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Christina has been there to seek his fame skyrocket as smartly—and has the keepsake to sign it. She revealed that the now-34-year-outdated-popular singer sent her about a of his first tune on MSN Messenger years ago.
“I know, someplace, I soundless have faith a burnt CD that you had signed ‘Drake,’ which I must hunt down,” she joked. “Subsequent thing I know, I’m riding in Toronto, and I hear your first be conscious on FLOW 93.5. And I believed to myself, ‘Aubrey is gonna fabricate it.’ Here we’re currently: You is doubtless to be Billboard’s Artist of the Decade.”
Glimpse the Degrassi solid’s tributes in the video above. And stare the “Hotline Bling” artist procure his accolade at Billboard Tune Awards on Sunday, Would possibly maybe well 23, on NBC.
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