STRONG WORDS :: ‘I AM NOT SIGNED TO YOUNG MONEY’ - DRAKE
POST by NVus
Okay all the speculation is over…stop asking…Drake is not signed to Young Money…
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“I been doin’ this since I was about 13,” he said in an interview. ‘Degrassi’ is bigger than what I?m doing right now, it really is. It’s bigger than any Drake, Cudi, Wale, you know, up-and-coming rap sh*t. Like I was doing mall tours with 15,000 people…I was signing autographs for three, four hours…I’m not signed to Young Money but definitely Young Money is a family to me. I’m definitely YM affiliated, you know? I have the utmost love for everybody over there, the utmost respect. Mack Maine and Jae Millz, those are like brothers to me, you know? Nicki [Minaj]…And now that I’m in this position I?m just trying to get everything all the way straight.” (Vibe)
The rapper’s recent popularity led to an unauthorized retail album landing via iTunes late last month.
An illegal album called The Girls Love Drake, which features selections from the Toronto rapper’s mixtape and other tracks, was released May 28th by a label called Canadian Money Entertainment and distributed by the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) on iTunes, Rhapsody and Amazon. Drake’s camp, which is still trying to clear the samples on So Far Gone and his two other mixtapes in hopes of selling them in stores, says it didn’t authorize the release. If it hadn’t been disqualified on the grounds that it wasn’t confirmed as being an official album, The Girls Love Drake would have debuted this week at No. 101 on the Billboard 200, No. 16 on the Digital Albums chart and No. 1 on the Heatseekers tally. (Billboard)
While not signed to Young Money, Drake has reportedly been tagged to go on tour alongside Weezy next month.
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