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The Movie Drake Turned Down in Order To Finish His Iconic Album ‘Take Care’

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Long before he was the biggest star in hip-hop, Drake was putting food on the table as an actor. He was famously “Wheelchair Jimmy” on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Admittedly though, it wasn’t the glamorous job any of us might envision.

“My mother was very sick. We were very poor, like broke. The only money I had coming in was off of Canadian TV, which isn’t that much money when you break it down. A season of Canadian television is under a teacher’s salary, I’ll tell you that much. It’s definitely not something to go f**king get,” he told Complex in 2011.

Clearly, rapping worked out more for Drake in the long run, signing under Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment label. But he was still interested in pursuing both early in his career. Back in 2011, he initially........

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