Drake Distances Hisself From Young Money

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>Canadian MC <strong>Drake</strong>, who first rose to fame on the television show <em>Degrassi: The Next Generation</em>, recently cleared up his status with <strong>Lil Wayne</strong> and Young Money Records.</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>'I been doing this since I was about 13. <em>Degrassi</em> is bigger than what I'm doing right now, it really is. It's bigger than any <strong>Drake</strong>, <strong>Cudi</strong>, <strong>Wale</strong>, 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. <strong>Mack Maine</strong> and <strong>Jae Millz</strong>, those are like brothers to me, you know? <strong>Nicki Minaj</strong> and now that I'm in this position I'm just trying to get everything all the way straight.'</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>Although <strong>Drake</strong> is not signed to Young Money he is scheduled to go on tour with <strong>Lil Wayne</strong> in July. A bidding war for <strong>Drake</strong> has been going on for a few weeks with the rapper reportedly close to signing with Universal Motown.</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><span lang='EN-GB'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class='MsoNormal' style='margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;'><strong><span lang='EN-GB'>Drake's</span></strong><span lang='EN-GB'> popularity led to a unauthorized album entitled <em>The Girls Love Drake</em>. The album is filled with songs from <strong>Drake's</strong> mixtapes and was released May 28th by Canadian Money Entertainment and distributed online through iTunes and other digital music outlets. At the present time <strong>Drake</strong> and his camp are saying they are planning legal action against Canadian Money Entertainment.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>