The Phone Call That Changed Everything For Drake

Publish date: 2024-05-04

In 2006, Jas Prince — son of J. Prince, founder of Rap-A-Lot Records — stumbled upon Drake's MySpace profile and decided to slide into his DMs to work together. And since Jas Prince was friends with Lil Wayne, he introduced him to Drake's music. "I was like, 'Yo, I have an artist I'm working with and I believe he's dope,'" Jas Prince said in an interview with FADER in 2015. But Wayne wasn't a fan of Drake at first. "His response was just: 'Jas, don't ever play this for me again. He sucks!'"

Later, however, he heard a different song while riding around with Prince and, after finding out it was Drake's, Wayne decided to give him a surprise phone call. "I gave Wayne the phone and Wayne was like, 'Yo, what's up?' Drake was like, 'Who is this?' And Wayne said, 'It's Weezy,'" Jas Prince recalled.

The two agreed to meet in Houston the next day, which eventually led to Drake signing with Wayne's label Young Money Entertainment. "He was being courted by other people at that time, too," Jas recalled. "But I told him, "I'm gonna make you famous, I believe in you and I'm going to give it my all. I'm gonna do it, I have a plan.'" And the rest, as they say, is history.

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