Drake, took some time out of his busy schedule to answer 17 questions asked by Seventeen Magazine. Find out what he’d be doing if he weren’t rapping, who he’d want to be for a day, his worst habit, the last thing he bought and more. This one’s a goodie and will make you laugh, again.

1. HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU HAD YOUR FIRST KISS?
3 1/2.

2. WHO’S YOUR CELEBRITY CRUSH?
Lauren London.

3. WHAT’S THE GIRL FASHION TREND THAT CONFUSES THE HECK OUT OF YOU?
The retro movement — it’s wack!

4. WHAT’S THE GIRLIE MOVIE YOU SECRETLY LOVE?
Love and Basketball.

5. WHAT’S YOUR TV GUILTY PLEASURE?
Dexter.

6. WHO WOULD PLAY YOU IN THE MOVIE VERSION OF YOUR LIFE?
Evan Ross.

7. WHAT’S YOUR DREAM JOB?
To be a King magazine photographer.

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ELLE Magazine introduced Drake to their readers by sharing a story that most of you likely know already. Anyhow, it’s a great way to refresh some of our memories as well as a good article for the new Drake fans.

In the summer of 2008, Lil Wayne, at the height of his dreadlocked, coughsyrup- guzzling Weezy-ness, invited Aubrey Drake Graham—part-time rapper and sweet-faced regular on Canada’s teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation— to meet him in Houston.

“I waited for about three hours,” says Drake, who trimmed his name (and his ’fro) post-Degrassi. “Finally, someone was like, ‘Okay, Lil Wayne is ready.’ I walked onto his bus and he was getting these massive angel wings tattooed on his sides. It must have been painful, but he wasn’t showing it. We did some talking, but not much. And then, six or seven hours later, the bus just started moving. They were like, ‘Oh, you’re coming on tour with us.’”

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Drake is featured in the August 2010 issue of Q Magazine which is a UK based magazine. The article is short but worth the read. What a smile he has and, check out the t-shirt he’s wearing, lol. Enjoy!

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Drake is featured in the June 28 issue of PEOPLE Magazine. He’s listed as the Breakout New Artist and talks about his top 5 Hip-Hop: Lil Wayne, Andre3000, Kanye West, Nas and Jay-Z.

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That’s a nice picture. Look for this article in PAPER‘s Summer 2010 music issue on newsstands June 21.

It may sound cliché, but Drake remembers October 31, 2009, like it was yesterday.

That was the night Drake knew his transformation from Aubrey Drake Graham — star of teen soap opera Degrassi: The Next Generation — to famous rapper had begun. That was the night Jay-Z performed in his hometown.

“Jay-Z coming to Toronto meant every single person was going to be there, which meant the majority of the people in my life were there,” the 23-year-old rapper recalls. “And there was a big rumor around the city: Is Drake close enough to Jay where he would bring me out? And people were like, ‘No, it would never happen.’”

Well, it did happen. Not only did Jay-Z bring Drake out to perform on stage with him, he let a still-fringe artist perform one of his own songs, “Successful,” in its entirety. “I’ll never forget that. I must have looked in the eyes of 40 people I know in the first 20 rows,” Drake says, sounding still somewhat shocked. “There were ex-girlfriends, guys who hated me, people who loved me, my mother — and it was just like, ‘This is it.’” Like most other testaments to Drake’s success, there’s a video on the Internet to prove the moment actually happened.

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How did a kid from Toronto hit the big time? Click on the image above to find out! Learn a thing, or two ;)

Thank you to all the fans that sent in a picture of their Drake/Nicki XXL Cover. Check to see if you made the cut!

P.S. Don’t forget to catch the premiere of the “Find Your Love” video right here tonight @ midnight.

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This article is a little long, but it’s an excellent read on Drake and his upbringing in hip-hop. You can learn a thing or two about his family as well as himself: the half-black and half-Jewish, media polished, and Hollywood handsome — a vocal gymnast and jet-setter. Be prepared to get educated on hip-hop in Canada.

A word after a word after a word is money. For example: “I’m a Young Money millionaire, tougher than Nigerian hair. / My criteria compared to your career just isn’t fair.” That’s a bit of “A Milli,” one of six platinum- and multi-platinum-certified singles by Lil Wayne, the Louisiana rapper who coined the term “bling.” Last summer, Forbes magazine estimated his annual earnings at $18 million (US) — a recession-beating 38 percent rise over the year before. His 2008 album, Tha Carter III, has sold several million copies worldwide; its support tour, a nine-month bus ride bounded by shows in Miami, Montreal, Vancouver, and San Diego, grossed $42 million (US).

At least twice, Barack Obama has counselled children not to emulate Wayne, because it would be easier for them to slam-dunk an anvil than to walk his life path. Lil Wayne won three Grammy Awards last year, cementing his style — sex-and-drug ditties laced with raspy, digitally altered vocals — as one of the most important sounds in the global music industry.

But Lil Wayne, also known as Weezy, is temporarily leaving the rap game. By the time these sentences reach you, he’ll be a month or so into his year on Riker’s Island, the punishment for illegal gun possession. (During a 2007 search of his tour bus, nypd officers found a loaded semi-automatic in a Louis Vuitton bag.) He already looks the stereotypical part of an inmate: his beltline sags below his ass cheeks; heavy dreadlocks droop past his chest; his scores of tattoos include the words “Fear” and “God” on his eyelids. Nevertheless, it will be his first experience of jail.

Weezy’s brand will endure his sabbatical, in large part because he has groomed a protege to take up his mantle. Lil Wayne 2.0 seems like he was designed in a laboratory, so perfectly is he suited to be pop culture’s next superstar. He was born into music, writes and raps like his mentor, dresses up instead of down, and vaguely resembles a young Obama. He is half-black and half-Jewish, media polished, and Hollywood handsome — a vocal gymnast and jet-setter who’s never known hip hop’s “thug life”; the type of gentleman a groupie would bring home to her mother. He’s also Canadian.

Read the rest of the story written by Matthew McKinnon on The Walrus. It gets better.

Don’t say it. We already know what half of you are thinking: Hell naw, that muthafucka? Yep. Aubrey “Drake” Graham, 23. That muthafucka. As in, that new hip-hop artist from Toronto. As in, the one who owned 2009 thanks to a little mixtape known as So Far Gone, hip-hop’s first instant-classic tape from a virtually unknown artist since Young Jeezy’s Trap or Die. As in, the one who landed in the middle of a major-label bidding war so closely watched that his ultimate signing to Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown made news in a way not seen since the day 50 Cent signed to Shady/Aftermath/Interscope. As in, the one who had more than 60,000 downloads of his So Far Gone mixtape in its first day. As in, the one with Lil Wayne’s co-sign and Kanye West behind the lens of his first video, “Best I Ever Had.” As in, the one who had two songs off of So Far Gone land in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 414,000 copies of the official re-release of his monstrous mixtape, yet still hasn’t dropped his debut album, but has already appeared alongside Wayne, Kanye and Eminem (on the same record!), handled a hook for Jay-Z, recorded with Alicia Keys, Timbaland, Jamie Foxx, Young Jeezy and a rack of other top-tier stars, received two Grammy nominations, starred in a Sprite commercial that debuted during this year’s pre-Super Bowl broadcast of all things, and been romantically linked to Rihanna. Read the rest of this entry »

In XXL’s forthcoming May Issue, senior editor Benjamin Meadows-Ingram asked the up-and-coming star if he thinks about the traditional XXL audience in terms of the type of music he creates.

“Yeah,” Drake said, “but I’ve never really voluntarily made myself a member of that lifestyle. I just make good music, and that’s really what it should be all about. Because a lot of the people that the XXL audience believes in aren’t even that official anyway, as far as rugged and rough. A lot of that stuff is perceived, it’s assumed, it’s not proven. And a lot of it gets embellished throughout the course of a career. As you get more famous, you can start saying more reckless shit, and people believe you.”

As far as MC nicknamed Young Angel is concerned, it all boils down to the sounds coming out of the speakers. “It’s never been about being perceived as a rapper [for me],” he explained. “I love making music, man. I love hearing people that love my music, or witnessing my music being played, and people enjoying it. I make the music, and I love the result of what happens after that. That’s pretty much where my involvement in hip-hop stops. I just want to make the music.”

“For anybody that doesn’t believe in me, your favorite rappers do,” he added. “They call me for hooks, features and all that. Ross, Jeezy, the hardest dudes—B.G. C-Murder calls me from jail. Turk calls me from jail to tell me I’m doing great. For the people that don’t believe, the people that you do believe in got love for me. That’s all that matters.”

Stay tuned tomorrow (April 13) as XXL posts more from Drake’s interview as well as exclusive pictures from his cover shoot. XXL’s May issue, which features both Drake and fellow YM label mate Nicki Minaj, hits stands nationwide on April 20. Make sure to cop it. YMCMB!