After having more stops and starts than a busted hooptie, Young Money’s prized Canadian cash cow, Drake, will finally release his much-ballyhooed debut CD.
Drake’s Thank Me Later album is scheduled to be released May 25. The album boasts features from the likes of Jay-Z (“Light Up”), Lil Wayne, super-writer, singer, producer Sean Garrett, and producer Bio-1 da.
It will be the most highly-anticipated hip-hop release of the year, and one of the biggest in music overall. Aubrey “Drake” Graham knows this and has to be feeling the heat, which may have prompted the release delays. Moreover, he told rolling out in a cover story interview recently that he very much yearns to make his mentor Lil Wayne proud, and to prove Weezy made the right decision in bringing the unsigned phenom into the Young Money fold:
“Well, a lot of that has to do with my loyalty to Wayne. Wayne put his neck out there for me very early in the game. He’s done a lot for me. And I know that all Wayne wants is for me to be under his wing … he wants to be proud, like ‘I put Drake’s first album out’ and did this and ‘he’s my artist,’ ” Drake said in December in Los Angeles. “And that makes him feel like the man should feel, that he has something other than just himself. I can’t imagine what that feels like. I can’t imagine being like, ‘Man, I want to sign that girl’ and then she goes platinum or she gets signed and that would make me feel really proud. I just wanted to make sure that he gets that feeling.” –terry shropshire
