Born Aubrey Drake Graham, the rapper better known as Drake caught his big break on the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation. His songs and albums have gone platinum and gold, won Grammys, and resulted in sold-out performances. Simple text, accompanied by powerful direct quotations, interesting sidebars, and detailed photographs, recounts how Drake surmounted his difficult beginnings as the son of a single hard-working mother who struggled to pay the bills to become a successful hip-hop artist. Readers will be inspired that he has never forgotten his past hardships and continues to donate to charitable causes.