Sadly all the real ones we need now have gone on.
Imagine Mac doing a standup special in today's PC landscape...
Or Patrice.
Drake : I'm Upset video
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Or Patrice.
Drake as Jimmy was BECAUSE the show had a huge cult following from back in the day till now.
The first time I saw/heard him he was introduced as that kid from Degrassi.\\that is EXACTLY how he even got recognition BEFORE that mixtape.
The onus is on you to check yourself, because you are making claims that you can't back up. & you're saying Degrassi is an institution in Canada, well....my comments were about his popularity IN AMERICAN so what are you even talking about?
You are just talking to hear yourself talk, come with the evidence or just be quiet.
The cult following came later which lead to the conventions in 2017. Didn't you read my example about Star Trek? I'm repeating myself with you.
the SHOW was popular here
he was ON it.
Its like Doctor Who, it was big on PBS had a cult following in the states.
how EXACTLY do you want to PROVE his popularity what is YOUR barometer to measure that BACK then?
wait fam...hold on
we aint REALLY going this deep on Drake are we?
this is a very light skin discussion I feel we need to drop.
agreed?
Here are some of the earliest references of Drake on BGOL
***DRAKE-SO FAR GONE*** (Wheelchair Jimmy)
WTF...Wheelchair Jimmy from Degrassi is nice on the Mic?!
Wheelchair Jimmy Aka Drake Gets Shot
***DRAKE-SO FAR GONE*** (Wheelchair Jimmy)
WTF...Wheelchair Jimmy from Degrassi is nice on the Mic?!
Wheelchair Jimmy Aka Drake Gets Shot
Homie, when was it popular here (America)? Give me the years of it's peak popularity....
Drake had already been signed by Young Money and he was co-signed by Lil Wayne, the hottest rapper in the world at the time. Of course, he got some publicity.
1987? Shit it was on back then?
I think my childhood didn't have teen Nick on it lol. I went from Nickelodeon to BET. I think where I loved it came on this channel i think was called Noggin or some shit.
Right. I never seen him associate with those guys on a mainstream form. This reminds me how he was posting tough and had the fake intimidating guys in his video....when he beefed with Meek.....all of a sudden he was dancing in his videos with timb boots and turtle neck sweaters.
You right. This can't be the first thing we see and get from him after the Pusha record. NAaa.....not at all.
Niggas talking like Degrassi was “FRIENDS”, everybody wasn’t watching that shit like that!
It had its following but it wasn’t banging like that in the states.
But he also was seemingly a good sport about the Wheelchair Jimmy jokes, which allowed the Degrassi crowd to follow him into rap and effectively allow him to distance himself from the character without the jokes lingering but the fact is, before he became Drake, he was known for playing Jimmy Brooks or Wheelchair Jimmy, him getting shot on the show was probably one of the most shocking scenes in the history of that show.
My point was his popularity while he was on Degrassi, though. Not once he was signed to Young Money.
Tru dat, peeps be on revisionist history, big time.
First episode date: October 14, 2001
Final episode date: August 2, 2015
Dam 14 years and never peeped 1 episode, never saw a commercial, never had 1 convo about
IM UPSET...
Final episode date: August 2, 2015
Dam 14 years and never peeped 1 episode, never saw a commercial, never had 1 convo about
IM UPSET...
Bruh, Patrice would've retired. Just said fuck it and checked out. His contemporaries have toned it down some (Bill, Jimmy, etc), but it wasn't in Patrice to do that.
Fam you don't think Patrice would have something to say on the #metoo
*two cents*
he too big to take out right now.... but he cant walk around with that chip on his shoulder no more..
push smacked that shit the fuck off..
but drake is still drake and as long as he cranks out bangas he will be fine....
this was a really smart move tho, hits his hard core fans right to the heart..
without being too sappy about it....
there you go.
Andrea is good peoples...knew her from high school...she can sing too and now she's working with Issa Raes team on some short films etc.
not surprised.
there are ton of these type of shows that have HUGE followings that people have NEVER seen
I know people who have NEVER scene one single moment of Friends, Seinfeld, MASH, Roseanne, Doctor Who, Homeland, This Is Us etc...
that doesn't mitigate the fact that these shows have /had HUGE followings then and now.
VERY VERY talented and her Degrassi time really helped her build that strong fanbase
she had a really good show she created on youtube too.
But I knew of those shows I just never watched I would see that shit on and skip over it. Defrassy never popped up on my guide. Is it a Canadian only show?
Never seen that shit in my life .
nah, it was big here but not your age range at all
so unless you had kids or watched pbs back in the day you would have completely missed it
trust I could name a TON of shows you never seen let alone heard of that a HUGE segment of people would die for.
Which is cool.
We gotta accept EVERYTHING aint on our radar like that.
I wouldn't have heard of degrassi if I wasn't a pbs nerd back in the day
we got a gargoyles thread where the EXACT SAME DISCUSSION is being had.
Its just like that.
best part of bgol to me is that it really put me on to many things I would have NEVER knew of
music TV movies tech investments
and it has really helped me especially work related because you can talk/relate to anyone.
Yeah I'm Canadian and I didn't even know Degrassi "the next generation" like that....or was even aware that Drake use to be on the show after I heard his first mixtape, simply because I wasn't the demographic that it catered to...I grew up in the 80's/90's and was familiar with the First Generation - Spike, Wheels , snake, Joey Jeremiah, Blt and em....
Shit was maad popular tho...and still in syndication on some channel somewhere
Shit was maad popular tho...and still in syndication on some channel somewhere
Agreed. SMART move by his team...
Go home to where you know you are loved and regroup.
But yeah "Tough Guy Drake." is DEAD dead.
To quote The Wire, Aubrey got caught out there playing to many away games...
That 'Degrassi' & Chick rap
*two cents*
There's no revisionist history here and I mentioned this in another post, Degrassi is/was a teen centric show, so if you weren't a teenager watching PBS in the late 80s or weren't a teenager in the George W. Bush era, you probably weren't watching it..
Meh...
Not impressed....
I mean, the nigga wasn't even upset in the video, and that's the name of the song
Not impressed....
I mean, the nigga wasn't even upset in the video, and that's the name of the song
Meh.....
I wasn’t aware black kids watched that show. Thought it was some white girl crap