Drake Is Nothing Without Lil Wayne – Son

Lil Wayne’s son, Lil Novi, has sparked a fresh controversy online after claiming that his father wrote most of Drake’s hit songs. He recently fuelled the long-standing ghostwriting rumours that have trailed Drake’s successful career for years, and fans have been reacting.

Asked to pick the better artist between Drake and Lil Wayne, 14-year-old Lil Novi picked his father as expected.

Novi then doubled down by adding that Lil Wayne is the brain behind Drake’s most popular records, and if it wasn’t for his father, Drake wouldn’t even exist.

His words, “My dad wrote most of his s###. On God, if it wasn’t for my pops, there wouldn’t be no Drake.

“No disrespect to Drake. He hard now, but I’m saying… Come on, man. That’s not a question.”

WOW.

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and businessman. Drake initially gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the 2000s; intent on pursuing a career in music, he left the series in 2007 after releasing his debut mixtape Room for Improvement. He released two further independent projects, Comeback Season and So Far Gone, before signing to Young Money Entertainment in June 2009.

Aubrey Drake Graham was born on October 24, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Dennis Graham, is an African American and a practising Catholic from Memphis, Tennessee, and worked as a drummer, performing alongside country musician Jerry Lee Lewis. Drake’s mother, Sandra “Sandi” Graham (née Sher), is an Ashkenazi Jewish Canadian who worked as an English teacher and florist. His parents met after Dennis performed at Club Bluenote in Toronto, where he first interacted with Sandra, who was in attendance. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. In his youth, Drake attended a Jewish day school, and formally celebrated becoming a Bar Mitzvah in a religious service.

Drake has cited several hip hop artists as influencing his rapping style, including Kanye West, Jay Z, and Lil Wayne, while also attributing various R&B artists as influential to the incorporation of the genre into his own music, including Aaliyah and Usher. Drake has also credited several dancehall artists for later influencing his Caribbean-inflected style, including Vybz Kartel, whom he has called one of his “biggest inspirations”