You can still like drake and his work but admit the fact that he did indeed come from a "Upper middle class" family and canadian household. Personally, I think when it comes to things like that it doesn't really matter. Once you become a man or woman over the age of 18 Yrs old you choose what you want to become and the things you want to do with your life. Tbh drake did have a push from his mother to go into the so called business since she did put him into modelling as a child then acting as he starred in degrassi which made him quite popular among teens so do give his mom some credit but afterwards with his music and talent that was all him now he has a worldwide fan base and a larger age audience. So cheers to him.
Also to correct you there has been many poor people that have made it into hollywood, upper-class, become millionaires, and even billionaires. Perks of being in a free country instead of some dictatorship.
IAmTheeShadow Nasir Jones= Nas Tauheed Epps= 2 Chainz Curtis Jackson= 50 Cent Marshall Mathers= Eminem Not many rappers can really use their name as the stage name. Most of them use a stage name.
John Sanchez I know that most rappers have stage names, but out of the four you just used, they could all still get somewhere in rap using their actual name. You're not getting anywhere with the name Aubrey, just too feminine.
@@ag2407 exactly. He was on degrassi for a LONG ass time, too. From the first episode to... I guess around the time he started taking his music more seriously, not long before he started blowing up as Drake. He did Degrassi for almost 10 years.
@@calvinshaw6366his mom rented the basement in a house but I grew up in Chocolate city in a very middle class house nicer than this so how do you get to define black culture to me or him. It’s the flicking audacity. Look at his cd collection and his dad and Larry Graham is his uncle. He is no charlatan for embracing both sides of his culture
@@calvinshaw6366He grew up upper middle class in a Jewish neighborhood of Forrest Hills in Toronto. He went to a predominantly white Jewish private school and had a Bar Mitzvah at 13
BoxingWave I don’t care what you say, a three story house with everything you wanted and a tv show on the biggest tv studio ever (Nickelodeon) is not the bottom
This is when degrassi already was a hit show. He didn’t start in this crib. Why would the tv show show his house when nobody knows who this is.. drake didn’t start from this house.
Definitely didn’t have it rough. Dude had his own little chill spot in the basement and a fridge stocked with food. You know you have it rough when there’s 5 people sharing a 2 bedroom apartment and you’ve never had your own room a day in your life. That’s having it rough.
DJLucas 610 Not even tru u shmuck i dont even listen to biggie that much, i listen to capital steez whos a great lyricist, theres videos of him writing his raps on paper.
@@universalconquest4447Actually that’s exactly what it means. Ethnicity relates to culture / how a person is raised. Just because his dad is African American does not mean that he is part of the culture(meaning having the same shared experience of African Americans living in the U.S.)…especially if his dad was absent. Drake is culturally (white) Canadian because he was primarily raised by his mother.
@@cocoa_pacific No it doesn't buddy boy. You can say Drake is culturally white but ethnically he is half Black American. Ethnicity is who you descend from Einstein...
This is what fuels me, this is success, looking at his collection and kanye west cd's he didn't even know he would be at that level, bro this is surreal, this is pure motivation.
It's crazy how people don't spread positivity instead of negative comments. If you hate drake or my comment, you shouldn't comment back and waste your time. I commented back because I care...
SimetrixOfficial Bruh, most of these people really came here just to hate. They’re sad they aren’t successful in life, so want to crap other people’s success.
I think everyone that comes from poverty before blowing up in any field are humble is normal is his ego everyone has an ego obviously if you blow up you’re Ego grows is normal for any Human Being
Bunch of haters 😂 usually the ppl that hate on others success are miserable inside because they don’t have the heart to pursue their dreams. Drake might have been middle class but “the bottom” is a state of mind. He made his dreams come true & now he’s top artist of his generation. What y’all doin?!? Lol quit hating
@@Choiboi90 why should he? He right. Y'all ain't where he at. Y'all depressed behind a screen afraid to approach and make ya dreams happen. Y'all ain't shit like the rest of us.
Everyone knows the "bottom" is not a state of mind its the low class for people with low incomes thats what its always meant and people simply pointed out drake started with a middle class income in a pretty wealthy family because he lied about "starting from the bottom" there are a lot of people that try to follow their dreams but constantly fail and a lot of people that have their dreams come true that still don't agree with lies you know damn well that's how it is stop pretending to be a dumbass just to defend your favorite rapper its pathetic and annoying
"Some that I problably never use" Amazing. Drake isnt trying to say that he started from the projects and had to steal for a living. He just sayin that he started being nobody, his music was even criticized by his girlfriend and everybody told him to quit that shit. That was the bottom for him and i totally respect and understand it. Great job
Yall cant be serious lmao the little "flow" he did in the video was weak asf 😂 .. he definitely found him some ghostwriters later on 🤷🏾♂️ .. that uncle phil bar was trash asf ahahaha
Sweat Music no but dnt act like you came from it and actually had to get it up to get money for studio time...theres no shame in being a rich kid who can rap...just be honest about it
The "bottom" is a concept, a state of mind, and a set of circumstances you are not content with. I see a kid who wasn't content with his situation and only wanted to follow his passion and didn't even fit into the typical "rapper" stereotypes. Some people should try this Started from the Bottom attitude.
He's cashing off the premise he started dirt broke and deprived, as Hip hop was originated by poor people of the inner cities as a means of bettering their life through artistic expression and economic betterment. The implication of creating a song that suggests you're started from "the bottom" exploits the struggle of people who really go through it everyday for profit, when you're a fraud who came from a financially comfortable background passing yourself as working poor, the same working poor who are vilified, discriminated, harassed and exploited everyday by society at large simply because they are poor and stuck in cycle of poverty and deprivation.
Rohan C bullshit. Starting "from the bottom" means he went from an average nobody, to a successful child actor, and then went from an unknown rapper to one of the biggest names in the world. Drake never claimed to be hood. He doesn't rap about selling drugs, banging, murder, etc.
Rohan C What you say don't make no sense because 'the bottom' is subjective since there will always be someone more poor than you. He actually never said he was poor or else so actually you decided to link 'the bottom' with poor in your head since that's what is 'the bottom' to you. And also don't forget he's canadian 😂
Who to cares where he came from? It's a problem he didn't grow up poor and didn't have to sell drugs? The kid had a crazy passion for music and that's why he's at where he is
+Charles Neal what lifestyle? dude never said anything about selling drugs, matter fact the same acura he drove in the video he said his moms lone him to shoot degrassi in his raps, dumbass
@@Hannah-pj5og not really it dumb people making dem jokes cause they dumb asses didn't understand da song da man was talking about da rap game da music industry
Steven Porras drake is far from nerdy..... Drake gets more money and pussy than youll ever get in your entire lifetime! In 2004 he had already outdone u on that tip lol
His problem isn't that he's not fresh or up to speed with hip hop...his problem is that he can never be fully authentic because he grew up with more privileges than 99% of people from the real BOTTOM..America has the same type of culture appropriation attitude...however we also have the REAL elements of hood mentality in certain areas...and the true hip hop culture will ALWAYS know the difference....sorry Drake your NOT from the bottom.
"4000 feet just isn't as spacious/ You loved me back in the basement, guess it is what we make it" he'll always be that humble, kind, thoughtful, introspective kid from toronto. this is aubrey graham
I remember watching this in 2005 when it first aired (yes I was a fan of Degrassi) and thinking "wow, I hope he makes it". I really think this is why Wayne was quick to sign him. You don't have to be a drug dealer from South Central to put out raw talent that people can relate to.
So is Eminem lol. He is bi-racial so is j.cole, and everybody knows how talented j. Cole is. Drake got successful with his own work ethic and determination to be what he wanted to be as a music artist and he did it. Stay weird watching drake’s video when u clearly hating.
He is SO extremely humble and charming! Not to mention how dedicated, sincere, modest, AND talented which are more the reasons why he's my favorite rapper 😍
that’s not what he meant dumbass, he meant he probably wasn’t going to use the actual verses or lyrics he had written in those notebooks, obviously you get better and better so there’s no need to use old lyrics
me watching this at 17 gives me hope so much inspiration to make this so called journey worth it one day I’ll come back to this video to see my development
Thats every music artist in the industry. They’re ALL actors most of them have little to no talent at all. Some of them like T-Pain or Justin Beiber can actually sing without autotune or any form of voice manipulation but 99% of the industry has no talent which is why you rarely see them performing outside of a studio. At least Justin Beiber has put on multiple appearances with no producers to show his fans he actually has talent and T-Pain did the famous interview where he sung without autotune and it was incredible.
A great part of musicianship is entertainment. It organizes how he narrates. If he was hard he may have a slower style with the boom- bap power hit, like JR Writer. If he was goofy he would emphasize his high voice and do a lot of rhymes on reminding people his nerdiness. He built his flow as pretty much a Swisha House graduate. He plays the part well and put on the map a great genre of hiphop that never got the shine it deserved. If anything he allowed the South to rise up again and a lot of artist that should be legends or have a big name in the game finally do. People like Mike Dean did so much for the music and Drakes rise and collabs spotlighted that influence. Cant really hate on that. Maybe you dont have to like him but I like how he got South on the map
y’all are weirdos lmao, y’all acting because he lived comfortably that magically made him make it to where he is now, some of y’all commenting here are middle class and still ain’t shit lol
no it because he literally has a song called "Started from the bottom" if this is the bottom then idk wtf some of us doing lmaoo, Drake sure as shit aint started from the bottom
Aaron This is after he had been on Degrassi for a while, so I’m sure he was bringing in paper at this point. Now, he’s at the top of the rap game, so you tell me.
When I watch this now i can tell he always had it but without that Wayne co-sign nobody would’ve took Drake remotely seriously as a rapper. Wayne introduced Drake when he was selling a million first week and Drake has been consistently riding that wave
The cosign definitely helped his rap career, even more so, borrowing Wayne's flow around 2008 to 2011. But I still think he would have had a decent career without the cosign but we might have ended up with more of an RnB Drake than the rapper one. Or maybe worse, he might have ironically ended up as part of a hit-making sweatshop together with 40, for someone like Ye.
@@devvv4616 Yeah, writers with smart legal aid can rack up millions, for example, people like Starrah. She is barely known but she wrote a good chunk of Top 40 hits from 2016-2020. She was writing with the big dogs too. The Weeknd, Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce, Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Big Sean, Kevin Gates, Maroon 5, Camia Cabello, Madonna, Katy Perry, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Diplo, and dozens I have left out, she is a freakin machine and 99.9% people on this earth would pass her in the street without knowing the sheer amount of creativity she has bled to the world.
"Started upper middle now we here"
O Solorio Lmao.
You can still like drake and his work but admit the fact that he did indeed come from a "Upper middle class" family and canadian household. Personally, I think when it comes to things like that it doesn't really matter. Once you become a man or woman over the age of 18 Yrs old you choose what you want to become and the things you want to do with your life. Tbh drake did have a push from his mother to go into the so called business since she did put him into modelling as a child then acting as he starred in degrassi which made him quite popular among teens so do give his mom some credit but afterwards with his music and talent that was all him now he has a worldwide fan base and a larger age audience. So cheers to him.
Also to correct you there has been many poor people that have made it into hollywood, upper-class, become millionaires, and even billionaires. Perks of being in a free country instead of some dictatorship.
Bryan I know i`m late but your family history has nothing to do with your future.
This ain't even middle this high lol
drakes grandma is the real OG
She's hood af. 😂 A legit thug. 😝✌
I feel bad but she's probably dead by now
marco castillo She is.
marco castillo still an og tho'
boss mctroll on granny's
When Drake's 1st car from 2004 is better than your current car in 2018 😫😫😫
Yup mobbing 91 integra smh
Nope 2019 Bugatti cheron
Honcho Jay Its Chiron, if you going to E-Flex at least get the name of the car right.
Vaddy ! i’m rich i have a bugatti i don’t need to spell correctly
Honcho Jay STFU GO PLAY YOUR GAYNITE
If this is Starting From The Bottom... Then I must've started from beneath the surface
And if you're from beneath the surface i started from hell.
@@thefatcoolguy Damn I'm sorry to hear that
@thefatcoolguy if you started from hell, I started from the Big Bang.
Talking about when he got shot he was on the bottom of the floor 😢…
He looked like he would’ve been okay with becoming a sales manager or something.
😂🤣
😂😂😂😂
he could’ve been the next denzel washington
He knew he couldn't make it in the rap game with a name like Aubrey, changed it to Drake real quick
Drake is his middle name
Kenya Phillips I know it is, but he knew he couldn't get anywhere with Aubrey so he went wit his middle name.
IAmTheeShadow
Nasir Jones= Nas
Tauheed Epps= 2 Chainz
Curtis Jackson= 50 Cent
Marshall Mathers= Eminem
Not many rappers can really use their name as the stage name. Most of them use a stage name.
John Sanchez I know that most rappers have stage names, but out of the four you just used, they could all still get somewhere in rap using their actual name. You're not getting anywhere with the name Aubrey, just too feminine.
Beck? Aubrey sounds a whole hell of a lot better than Beck.
"Started for the bottom..."
*brand new Acura as first car
He was on degrassi already he was making money
That he paid for himself by being an actor why are you hating he’ was a teenage kid that earned what he had
@@ag2407 exactly. He was on degrassi for a LONG ass time, too. From the first episode to... I guess around the time he started taking his music more seriously, not long before he started blowing up as Drake. He did Degrassi for almost 10 years.
@@zebravideo1 As shown in the video, he worked before that.
@@astridvvv9662 Exactly*
Drake for sure didn’t write Started from the Bottom
He didn't Future did
Quentin Miller Did.
I guess he couldn't have, because apparently something called context doesn't exist.
Tony Hemetona started from the middle...
Tony Hemetona Pusha T line feating Chris Brown
Never started from the bottom look at that house 😭😭
Degrassi money we need to see how he lived before he was on a tv show
@@calvinshaw6366his mom rented the basement in a house but I grew up in Chocolate city in a very middle class house nicer than this so how do you get to define black culture to me or him. It’s the flicking audacity. Look at his cd collection and his dad and Larry Graham is his uncle. He is no charlatan for embracing both sides of his culture
@@calvinshaw6366He grew up upper middle class in a Jewish neighborhood of Forrest Hills in Toronto. He went to a predominantly white Jewish private school and had a Bar Mitzvah at 13
He doesn't mean money wise... man all of you sooo damn slow.
@@calvinshaw6366title says before he blew up tho
“Started from the bottom” my ass
Genetic experiment
Black people are the only people that hate on each other for not being dirt poor. We need to change this
Not what he meant by starting from the bottom
@@PolyGang42 started from the bottom in the rap industry smart ass
@@J.H542 🤣🤣🤣 yeah $tfu 🤡…He finally got exposed for being a rich colonizer who wannabe hood so bad 💀
"something I'll probably never use"
he had hotline bling song in those journals
ikr
Hunter Nunnally famous last words
And he went on to become one of the biggest stars of all time.
Not authentic. Defintely machines behind him@@laikonicole1983
No disrespect,but this is 10 times nicer than I ever lived. I wouldn't call it the BOTTOM.
What Me Meant By BOTTOM Was His Music
Carmelo Rodriguez No he didn't Shut the fuck up XD
Ryan lol
John Smith Considering Drake's Top this is bottom to him. Don't hate.
Jeremy Campbell
LOL, you're a sad impotent man.
idols become your rivals..
B Sanders yea they could have bodied him with this video 😂
Daaamn the kanye 😄
I remember watching this and thinking there’s no way this dude is gonna be a successful rapper but man did he prove me all the way wrong. Props!
Bri “God’s Plan”
Allll the way
Ahhh you a hater type of person 😂
Hater
World Wide Artist
Grandmother seemed like such a sweetheart. In fact the whole family seems like such good people.
Unlike him
Is it me or is his voice deeper then than now?
+Joji-chan No, Drake isn't a normal human who grows with age. You're just hearing shit lmao
+Joji-chan He raps with a different voice. He's pretty nasally and monotone in interviews and stuff
Maybe his voice was starting to crack
I was thinking the same thing lol
Fr tho Lmfao
Everyone’s “bottom” is different...
BoxingWave I don’t care what you say, a three story house with everything you wanted and a tv show on the biggest tv studio ever (Nickelodeon) is not the bottom
Pause.
Mine is plump.
This is when degrassi already was a hit show. He didn’t start in this crib. Why would the tv show show his house when nobody knows who this is.. drake didn’t start from this house.
Didnt he have a song "we came from the bottom now we here" ?? Lol he was wealthy as fuck
Drake grandma wrote those rhymes.
Maga Yaka Lmao
Drake grandma bodied meek then
Nice to say considering his grandma's dead 👌😌 ass move 😒
TT D lmao oh well didn't have a clue
sentil it looks like drake creampied you and didnt pay child support
The grandma is a whole mood! “That’s my grandson” love her
I didn’t realize how rough drake had it. 😕
Bronx Native 😂
hahahahaha
ikem madz k drake fan
ikem madz you broke
Definitely didn’t have it rough. Dude had his own little chill spot in the basement and a fridge stocked with food. You know you have it rough when there’s 5 people sharing a 2 bedroom apartment and you’ve never had your own room a day in your life. That’s having it rough.
Poor him, had a whole floor to himself, must have been rough
Andy12332199 especially being an only child, that's *super hard*
Andy12332199 ikr...poor child my heart is breaking 😢
bruhh
PacificWest117 bruh why watch the video how u gonna hate on someone u don't even know u a lame
Andy12332199 🤣😂😂
He got a Kanye CD now he dissing him smh lol...
The Card Plug idols become your rivals 🤷🏽♂️
old kanye was better that's why😂
Times change bruh, ppl change
The Card Plug who tf doesn’t listen to old Kanye lol
He prolly miss the old Kanye too
" Aubrey from 3 years old would take the lyrics and change them" well I be damned... Drake been stealing lyrics from young
LMAO
XD W
LMAOOOOO
😭😭😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DJLucas 610
Not even tru u shmuck i dont even listen to biggie that much, i listen to capital steez whos a great lyricist, theres videos of him writing his raps on paper.
Drake white af from canada taking about hell be the greatest african american actor loool
His Dad is African-American from New Orleans, so Drake is half African-American.
Drakes Dad was bearly in his life lol
@@yom0mma214 Doesn't matter if he was or wasn't. African American is an ethnicity, you don't just stop being African American...
@@universalconquest4447Actually that’s exactly what it means. Ethnicity relates to culture / how a person is raised. Just because his dad is African American does not mean that he is part of the culture(meaning having the same shared experience of African Americans living in the U.S.)…especially if his dad was absent. Drake is culturally (white) Canadian because he was primarily raised by his mother.
@@cocoa_pacific No it doesn't buddy boy. You can say Drake is culturally white but ethnically he is half Black American. Ethnicity is who you descend from Einstein...
Just a regular white dude living his life.
💀
He's not white ctfu
@@ericmerisier5822 Stop crying
@moeswagger2329 your comment dead ass irrelevant ctfu get off his nuts
U need to stop u can see he study black artistry just by his cd collection
Used to take the Acura, 5 AM to go and shoot Degrassi up on Morningside...
that line gets me so hyped... fuck that the whole song gets me hype af
Come winter?
+Steven Clark morningside represent
+unfadeable worst behavior
"ima turn this tsx into a Benz soon"
I wanna get back to when I was that kid in the basement
+Bread Crumbs Simpler times.
+yungmatt009 heck yea.
Bench Talks I know what you mean lol
Shit clearly if that’s the vibe me too 🙋🏻♀️
Shit I just got that.
I saw the lyrics to Pusha T response in one of those notebooks
TheCorvallisBoys W
😂😂😂
yeah it was the blank pages
TheCorvallisBoys you must’ve confused this episode with Quentin millers episode
W
He looks hella whiter back then
Till this day
Whiter isn't a word
Bet Lilboy ok
@@betlilboy9472Whiter is a word... It just wasn't used correctly in the sentence.
Tell me what’s really going drizzle black up in this bitch I ready what’s happening
Drake is a nice Jewish boy from Canada
😂😂😂
This is what fuels me, this is success, looking at his collection and kanye west cd's he didn't even know he would be at that level, bro this is surreal, this is pure motivation.
Shut the fuck up
It's crazy how people don't spread positivity instead of negative comments. If you hate drake or my comment, you shouldn't comment back and waste your time. I commented back because I care...
SimetrixOfficial Bruh, most of these people really came here just to hate. They’re sad they aren’t successful in life, so want to crap other people’s success.
Realest comment I’ve seen on UA-cam. Salute to you bro
Corny as hell
Little did he know he was Gonna be one of the biggest Names of all time….
litter ly wtf
he's trash asf open your eyes, ears, mind everything
cold world still one of the biggest names of all time
cold world AND STILL one of the biggest names of all time
cold world bro i’m positive you literally wish you were drake lmfao damn crackheads on youtube again🤦♂️🤦♂️
"As opposed to a bmw or a Mercedes, I think that's pretentious."
Nick Macedo lmaooooo
IKR Since he’s got a laferrari now 😏 Funny how money changes things huh? 😂😂
Zac W. I think he meant its pretentious to get a mercedes as someones first car
Zac W. He wasn't pretentious though he said if you got the money than get it
Shows that his rap is an “act”
Back when they called him Aubrey Graham 💀💀
He's still Aubrey...which is a great name. His stage name and middle name is Drake...what's your point!
He was humble even before he blew up .. he deserves everything he has. Period.
I think everyone that comes from poverty before blowing up in any field are humble is normal is his ego everyone has an ego obviously if you blow up you’re Ego grows is normal for any Human Being
“Humble” how tf you know lizz😂😂
You’re an idiot if you think this shitty rapper from middle class Canada is “humble”
@@greendollar1 bro you don’t gotta be so goddamn rude
Too bad his Ego has gotten really inflated as of recent.
Those were quentin millers books
Sunny S 😂😂😂😂😂
Sunny S 😂😂😂
Lmao kudos
😂💀
😂😂 but Quentin Miller isn't as good as Drake
those who cant give drake props for what he has done are idiots..the dude came from that to what he is now...to me that's success.
+6Foot4Honda ??? What are you doing here?
lol, 6ft4honda actually commented on Drakes crib, wow
#Team6foot
***** yeah but I mean.. i wouldn't call that "starting from the bottom"
Never expected to run into 6foot here hahaha
This young man has a bright future ahead of him. I can feel it.
Facts
Most def I heard he wants to be like a rapper or something
u can’t hate on that. single moms❤
Bunch of haters 😂 usually the ppl that hate on others success are miserable inside because they don’t have the heart to pursue their dreams. Drake might have been middle class but “the bottom” is a state of mind. He made his dreams come true & now he’s top artist of his generation. What y’all doin?!? Lol quit hating
@@Choiboi90 why should he? He right. Y'all ain't where he at. Y'all depressed behind a screen afraid to approach and make ya dreams happen. Y'all ain't shit like the rest of us.
Just keep the bottom out yo mouth😂
Everyone knows the "bottom" is not a state of mind its the low class for people with low incomes thats what its always meant and people simply pointed out drake started with a middle class income in a pretty wealthy family because he lied about "starting from the bottom" there are a lot of people that try to follow their dreams but constantly fail and a lot of people that have their dreams come true that still don't agree with lies you know damn well that's how it is stop pretending to be a dumbass just to defend your favorite rapper its pathetic and annoying
@@FireHydrantForeheadNyquil it's both actually
Wow that hurt got me thinking about my life!!
So........
...This is the bottom? 😂
A Jew "Bottom".
Nah the bottom is before degrassi this is after degrassi
I lost it when the grandmother said KKK 7:03
I did too haha.
I was dying 😭😭
she was a member all along
That was apart of her side of the family.
Kinkedbook LMAO
Starting from the bottom but I'm lying
He was at the bottom of rap, now he's at the top.
Sweat Music There are many definitions of the word 'top' especially in hip hop/rap
H-Bomber
I'm talking about the most relevant at the moment... which he undeniably is.
Sweat Music He just makes the most and sales the most, he isn't the top in terms of flow, lyrics and meaning.
H-Bomber
What are we even arguing? Why are you trying to escalating this into more than what it is?
I’m high af and this is trippy my guys
I did the same shit when i was first high 💀💀💀
same dawg 😂
Same shit bro
Mee 4 dawg
bro tf same my guy
“I switch wifey every season like uncle Phil” bruhhhh 🔥🔥
No
@@greendollar1 Lmao
"Some that I problably never use" Amazing. Drake isnt trying to say that he started from the projects and had to steal for a living. He just sayin that he started being nobody, his music was even criticized by his girlfriend and everybody told him to quit that shit. That was the bottom for him and i totally respect and understand it. Great job
You actually have some common sense and no hater in your blood. Unlike these cockroaches mad they can’t be somebody
Ok UA-cam, I finally watched it
Wow he really did start from the bottom 🤣
His living room is bigger then my whole house
I just come back to listen for the "accent" he suddenly has
"something I'll probably never use" little did he know😂😂😂😂 he probably had Marvin's room done during that time
Nigga prolly had the entire nwts on there
This is why the ghostwriting jokes are stupid to me.
Yall cant be serious lmao the little "flow" he did in the video was weak asf 😂 .. he definitely found him some ghostwriters later on 🤷🏾♂️ .. that uncle phil bar was trash asf ahahaha
@@richieave55 it was kinda trash, but he looks like a teen there. What do you really expect?
@@wabdih man me and Drake is the same age .. and I know a lot of niggas that was really spitting at 17 yrs old ..
He had a nicer first car than me
It's called saving up money
+noname it's called degrassi money
+Sandro Moran lol right...lets not act like he had it rough
+Charles Neal is it a requirement to be financially poor?
Sweat Music no but dnt act like you came from it and actually had to get it up to get money for studio time...theres no shame in being a rich kid who can rap...just be honest about it
The "bottom" is a concept, a state of mind, and a set of circumstances you are not content with. I see a kid who wasn't content with his situation and only wanted to follow his passion and didn't even fit into the typical "rapper" stereotypes. Some people should try this Started from the Bottom attitude.
No man.
+Nate G KNOW YOURSELF
He's cashing off the premise he started dirt broke and deprived, as Hip hop was originated by poor people of the inner cities as a means of bettering their life through artistic expression and economic betterment. The implication of creating a song that suggests you're started from "the bottom" exploits the struggle of people who really go through it everyday for profit, when you're a fraud who came from a financially comfortable background passing yourself as working poor, the same working poor who are vilified, discriminated, harassed and exploited everyday by society at large simply because they are poor and stuck in cycle of poverty and deprivation.
Rohan C bullshit. Starting "from the bottom" means he went from an average nobody, to a successful child actor, and then went from an unknown rapper to one of the biggest names in the world. Drake never claimed to be hood. He doesn't rap about selling drugs, banging, murder, etc.
Rohan C What you say don't make no sense because 'the bottom' is subjective since there will always be someone more poor than you. He actually never said he was poor or else so actually you decided to link 'the bottom' with poor in your head since that's what is 'the bottom' to you. And also don't forget he's canadian 😂
Who to cares where he came from? It's a problem he didn't grow up poor and didn't have to sell drugs? The kid had a crazy passion for music and that's why he's at where he is
nah people are just saying that bcuz he tlks about a lifestyle he didnt live when there are people living it
+Charles Neal what lifestyle? dude never said anything about selling drugs, matter fact the same acura he drove in the video he said his moms lone him to shoot degrassi in his raps, dumbass
+Charles Neal Or maybe you just hang onto every word, and refuse to understand the concept of figurative language.
***** he he does...no one listens
+Charles Neal Far from it... I just use my brain is all.
He’s super appreciative and you can tell he was happy with the little things he has 🥰
What little things ...lol
On god and people are hating 🙄🙄🙄
Kendrick should take snippets from this video
Yessss
2:20 "something that i'll never use" fast forward to 2018... ahahahahahahah
LMAO😂😆😁
This comment section is FILLED with “started from the bottom” Jokes 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
BR33CH HD this video makes it easy though.
@@Hannah-pj5og not really it dumb people making dem jokes cause they dumb asses didn't understand da song da man was talking about da rap game da music industry
Days cause they dumb ass fuck da man was talking about da bottom of the rap game da music industry not life
And Stans like you.
He's a nerdy lame but grandma is the real deal.
Steven Porras She’d get it. RIP tho
Kaizer.Beatz She passed? Damn man. RIP cool ass grandma.
7:03
OHHHH KKK😋⚪️🔛🔝
Steven Porras drake is far from nerdy..... Drake gets more money and pussy than youll ever get in your entire lifetime! In 2004 he had already outdone u on that tip lol
@@dandaniel28 damn is he your boyfriend or something?💀💀
Everything was handed to him
He was a genetic experiment. created in a lab. Our controllers knew his success before he was born.
" as you can see my mom just did my laundry"
He was a kid come on now lol
@miahmooooo ? Bro we were doing laundry at 6 and 7
Probably going through the old notebook rn to try to show meek mill up lmao
im Gamrs Pusha T now
It's Kendrick now
@@brandoncamacho7738 💀
if youre reading this its too late
It is pretty late rn. Its like midnight for me
3 am
César Cárdenas you legit predicted the future😮
2018...LATE AF,
Gah dammit.
Started from the bottom my ass man that's the top for me
If you let Elizabeth fucking PICKLE tell you what to do then you truly are at the bottom
+elisabeth pickle you do realize I was joking right? I know your real last name isn't actually fucking pickle
+elisabeth pickle I was literally making a joke I know this shit username that I created in like 2011 is corny lol
both of you are corny
you realize i was joking right
Aubrey Graham is the greatest actor of all time. His greatest role was playing a rapper named Drake
What a stupid sentence
His problem isn't that he's not fresh or up to speed with hip hop...his problem is that he can never be fully authentic because he grew up with more privileges than 99% of people from the real BOTTOM..America has the same type of culture appropriation attitude...however we also have the REAL elements of hood mentality in certain areas...and the true hip hop culture will ALWAYS know the difference....sorry Drake your NOT from the bottom.
"ima turn this TSX into a Benz soon" OH MY GOD 😭😭 he lived out his raps
started from the upper middlish, now I'm here...
Nick Gatsby lol you must not have money if you think that’s upper middle
He was living pretty good to me
Berkmnn eat at food Banks and then talk
Berkmnn lol ur super poor
"4000 feet just isn't as spacious/ You loved me back in the basement, guess it is what we make it"
he'll always be that humble, kind, thoughtful, introspective kid from toronto. this is aubrey graham
I came from the housing projects Drake definitely had it better than me
Ok. So. That's your life not his.
He had no idea where he would be today , it’s inspiring man , trust your struggle, know your strength. I’ll see y’all up there 👆
I remember watching this in 2005 when it first aired (yes I was a fan of Degrassi) and thinking "wow, I hope he makes it". I really think this is why Wayne was quick to sign him. You don't have to be a drug dealer from South Central to put out raw talent that people can relate to.
from this straight to BBL Drizzy
😂
Who here after Kendrick beef
This is clearly NOT before Degrassi.
White boy.
- Rick Ross
So is Eminem lol. He is bi-racial so is j.cole, and everybody knows how talented j. Cole is. Drake got successful with his own work ethic and determination to be what he wanted to be as a music artist and he did it. Stay weird watching drake’s video when u clearly hating.
@@FATEEMSBut he's acting to be someone else unlike Eminem and J Cole. He's Aubrey and his stage name is drake
@@Edman9like Tupac?
See what I mean? He is such a phoney! He always acted like a wannabe
Did you watch the video?
Hes a Corn Ball in real life 😂😂😂
He is SO extremely humble and charming! Not to mention how dedicated, sincere, modest, AND talented which are more the reasons why he's my favorite rapper 😍
Lexi Allen He's not a rapper
Humble 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
You spelled “baby daddy” wrong
@@phnixlivin8408he is a rapper ok
This aged terribly
Voice was Deeper back then
And. He never thought he'd use those lyrics huh lol
Airyn F
What song is it in ?
Please reply
that’s not what he meant dumbass, he meant he probably wasn’t going to use the actual verses or lyrics he had written in those notebooks, obviously you get better and better so there’s no need to use old lyrics
he probably didn’t bruh
Carlos M he means it like drake never thought he was gonna blow up
the struggle looks real for drake -_-
Crazy he actually got to work with those artists he mentioned 👌🏼
started in the middle now I’m here.
Started in the Middle Class now we Here!
Upper Middle Class *
@@martincastro7406 looks like basic middle class to me
Ghost writer ma ass he had bars even back then LOL
Danny Fransico facts that’s what i’m sayin
He wrote fire back when he made comeback season
He steals lyrics now.the guys a goofy. He fell off but made a lot.of money falling
He doesn't steal lyrics Fuckboy.. he's the best Rapper on Earth. Stop Hating.
me watching this at 17 gives me hope so much inspiration to make this so called journey worth it
one day I’ll come back to this video to see my development
That was back in the day, Acura days
Those books he has with his lyrics probably has some fire shit in it worth millions each one
But people will still say he doesn't write his own shit...
When he opened up the refrigerator and it wasn't cleaned like he'd asked mom dukes...he was like well damn...mom
The Story of Adidon brought me here...
Korey Paul why tho? You miss the old drake? 😆😆😆
If you’re reading this...he’s dead.
Nah
I think he so good at being an actor, he’s acting like a rapper and getting away with it
Young Kee lmao shut yo stupid ass up
Lol. He is bigger than Big Shaq
Thats every music artist in the industry. They’re ALL actors most of them have little to no talent at all. Some of them like T-Pain or Justin Beiber can actually sing without autotune or any form of voice manipulation but 99% of the industry has no talent which is why you rarely see them performing outside of a studio. At least Justin Beiber has put on multiple appearances with no producers to show his fans he actually has talent and T-Pain did the famous interview where he sung without autotune and it was incredible.
A great part of musicianship is entertainment. It organizes how he narrates.
If he was hard he may have a slower style with the boom- bap power hit, like JR Writer.
If he was goofy he would emphasize his high voice and do a lot of rhymes on reminding people his nerdiness.
He built his flow as pretty much a Swisha House graduate. He plays the part well and put on the map a great genre of hiphop that never got the shine it deserved.
If anything he allowed the South to rise up again and a lot of artist that should be legends or have a big name in the game finally do.
People like Mike Dean did so much for the music and Drakes rise and collabs spotlighted that influence. Cant really hate on that.
Maybe you dont have to like him but I like how he got South on the map
Bingo.
y’all are weirdos lmao, y’all acting because he lived comfortably that magically made him make it to where he is now, some of y’all commenting here are middle class and still ain’t shit lol
Marvelous David alie
Marvelous David u lame asf but look where we are
no it because he literally has a song called "Started from the bottom" if this is the bottom then idk wtf some of us doing lmaoo, Drake sure as shit aint started from the bottom
Aaron This is after he had been on Degrassi for a while, so I’m sure he was bringing in paper at this point. Now, he’s at the top of the rap game, so you tell me.
When I watch this now i can tell he always had it but without that Wayne co-sign nobody would’ve took Drake remotely seriously as a rapper. Wayne introduced Drake when he was selling a million first week and Drake has been consistently riding that wave
The cosign definitely helped his rap career, even more so, borrowing Wayne's flow around 2008 to 2011. But I still think he would have had a decent career without the cosign but we might have ended up with more of an RnB Drake than the rapper one. Or maybe worse, he might have ironically ended up as part of a hit-making sweatshop together with 40, for someone like Ye.
@@princebondthose writers probably got paid tho. Being rich while not having the problems fame bring is pretty good
@@devvv4616 Yeah, writers with smart legal aid can rack up millions, for example, people like Starrah. She is barely known but she wrote a good chunk of Top 40 hits from 2016-2020. She was writing with the big dogs too. The Weeknd, Drake, Rihanna, Beyonce, Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Big Sean, Kevin Gates, Maroon 5, Camia Cabello, Madonna, Katy Perry, Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Diplo, and dozens I have left out, she is a freakin machine and 99.9% people on this earth would pass her in the street without knowing the sheer amount of creativity she has bled to the world.
He's on here saying Pharrell is his idol, now he's beefing with him 😂
Listento how he talks. Does this sound like someone who would use the N word. Nah. Kendrick is on to something😂😂
Facts 💯💯
This video is a gem 💎. So many foreshadowed moments and bits of greatness
thesens8 shut the fuck up
wtf bro
@@silloweet :P
0:38 "WOAAAAAH Very important and very pretentious!!!"
+Hajji X Looked it up. 1.5 million dollar Bugatti lol
This is his bottom, tsx, whole basement, loving family. Yea ok
Respects and love to his grandma. Team Kendrick tho