Willow Smith, Drake To Rock In The New Year


Willow Smith & Drake

Ready to ring in 2011 with a dose of star power? Two of 2010’s breakout stars, Willow Smith and Drake, will start the year off right by performing on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”

Additionally, Ne-Yo, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo, Far East Movement, Mike Posner, La Roux, Avril Lavigne, Natasha Bedingfield, and Train are set to provide the soundtrack to the New Year’s celebration.

The Black Eyed Peas’ lovely lady Fergie will return to host the West Coast party, while Times Square performers will be announced in the coming weeks. Say goodbye to 2010 by tuning into ABC beginning at 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve.


(Videos) J. Cole Brings Out Drake In NYC




J. Cole surprised fans by bringing out Drake during his tour closer at Highline Ballroom in New York City last night. The two performed “In the Morning” from Cole’s mixtape and Drizzy’s “Up All Night” (video below).

Cole recently told foreverdrake.com how their collabo from his Friday Night Lights mixtape came to be. “That was an older song of mine that I always wanted to bring back to life and Drake one day just hit me and told me how much he liked the song,” said the Roc Nation rapper. “That conversation led to him saying, ‘Yo, if you bring it back to life, just save me 16 bars.’ I ended up bringing it back to life and putting him on it.”

Despite people trying to pit them against one another, they’ve remained cool. “There was always a J. Cole vs. Drake pit and I kinda just let that go on, but we were always communicating and building the relationship.”



Drake Discusses UK Tour With J. Cole




Drake recently spoke with The Source last Friday about several topics including his upcoming European tour with Jermaine. Photo courtesy of Ernest Estime. Tour begins January 5th.

European Tour With J. Cole

“Just being with Cole and going to Europe for the first time, I wanted to do something different set wise and setlist wise. I wanted to bring an adaptive show out there. Cole is in my city tonight, man we are just having fun. Just having fun being young and rapping and living and enjoying it. Being good, responsible people, I mean we meet on a whole bunch of levels. It’s great because before I got to talk to him I didn’t know where our relationship was heading. When I finally got to meet him I realized like ‘oh man, this guy is so easy to like.’ I know what people are trying to do between us, but I’m going to like this guy and we are going to be friends and make great music together, hopefully for years to come. Cole is one of those guys that I can coexist with even though we do two completely different things. I mean, the one area where we meet on is lyricism, but that should be the case with any rapper regardless of genre. I meet on lyricism with a lot of people. There are a lot of lyrical cats out there doing great shit. I mean, it’s really easy for me and Cole to get along, and getting along with someone like that usually leads to great music so being on tour that long and me having a new album on the way and him finishing his project, you never know. It’s something I want to do so I’m all in man, it’s whatever. ”


Drake Discusses Grammy Nominations


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For the second year in a row, Drake’s nominated for a Grammy Award. On this go around, he’s a candidate in four categories including Best New Artist and Best Rap Album. Global Grind caught up with Drizzy and got his thoughts on the nods. Ceremony goes down February 13th on CBS.

How does it feel to get 4 Grammy Nods?

It’s always, to get any type of Grammy accolade or anything, it’s cliche but it’s a dream come true in the literal sense, that thing you have between sleeping and waking up. That time spent I used to think about being on the stage and being able to thank the people that have done so much for me in my life. And I remember the first time I went to the Grammy Awards and I looked at the set up of it at The Kodak Theater and it was like man, this is very similar to the dream I’ve been having since the Degrassi days. I’ve been having this dream, I never knew where it was and it never really specified what the award was, but I knew it was a night I could let the people know–the people in my life know–how much they have done with me. To have four opportunities to have that chance is incredible.”


Drake To Host The 2011 Juno Awards In Toronto


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Drake will return to his hometown of Toronto this March, as host of the 2011 Juno Awards.

Drake, 24, has been tapped to host the Award show, which is Canada’s equivalent to the annual Grammy Awards in the United States, which are held in Los Angeles each year.

Drake, who won his first two Juno‘s during the 2010 celebration in Saint Johns, for best new artist and best rap recording of the year.

“I am beyond honoured to be hosting this monumental Juno Awards in the greatest city on earth,” Drake said in a statement “I want to bring a youthful energy to the show and encourage people to be excited about what Canadian music has to offer.”

The gig makes Drake one of the youngest artists to ever host the Juno’s, which have taken place annually since the event became the Juno Awards in 1971.

The news comes on the heels of Drake being nominated for four Grammy Awards for his hit debut album Thank Me Later.

Nominations for this year’s Juno Awards will be announced February 1st.


Drake 2011 Grammy Nomanations


Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards



Drake has scored 4 Grammy nominations for the 2011 Grammys, check out his nominations below:

  • Best New Artist
  • Best Rap Album
  • Best Rap Solo Performance – Over
  • Best Rap Performance By Duo Or Group – Drake featuring T.I & Swizz Beatz – Fancy

  • Drake Provides Playlist For Rolling Stone Magazine


    Rolling Stone’s The Playlist Issue features 50 artists selecting top 10s. Also weighing in is ?uestlove with a Prince playlist, Cee-Lo with his favorite dirty south records and the likes of Mick Jagger, Bono, Rick Rubin and Tom Morello. The issue also features a story on Nicki Minaj Below you can see Drake’s 10 favorite Jimi Hendrix songs.

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    (Video) Drake – Born To Be (Much Music Documentary)




    Born To Be: Drake (MuchMusic Documentary) from Karla Moy on Vimeo.


    J. Cole & Drake Wokring On A New Track


    J. Cole & Drake

    In the new issue of RESPECT., J.Cole confirms that he and Drake have another track on the horizon. No word on when or where it’ll be found, but RESPECT. will be on newsstands December 7th.

    Mr. Graham sent me a text, said you guys were making a song together called “The Luckiest People”. Can You confirm?

    Hell yeah. That shit is dope. I’m recording my verse. Drake is one of the people I really wanted to work with as soon as I got myself to the place where I needed to be. He got himself there. He worked super hard. This is the type of person I wanna work with. I wanna feel like I earned it.


    (New Music) T.I. Ft. Drake – “Poppin’ Bottles”


    T.I. "No Mercy"

    Drake links up with the king of the south T.I. for “Poppin’ Bottles”. Some fire off of T.I.’s new album “No Mercy”. Download mp3 below. Enjoy!

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    Download: T.I. Ft. Drake – “Poppin’ Bottles”


    Drake Wins Record Of The Year (Songwriter Award) @ Soul Train Awards


    2010 Soul Train Awards

    2010 Soul Train Awards



    Record of the Year (songwriter award) – Alicia Keys, ‘Unthinkable (I’m Ready), songwriters Alicia Keys, Aubrey Graham, Brothers, Noah40Shebib.


    Drake Pulls In More Than 100,000 Per Show Making Him One Of The Highest Paid Hip-Hop Acts


    Drake "Money To Blow"

    In a recent list by thesmokinggun.com, documents reveal that Drake pulls in over $100,000 dollars per show.

    His estimated total per show is $155,000 per show, currently makes him among the highest-paid acts in all of Hip Hop that are currently touring.


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