Drake is Bringing the Beats Local

Drake will announce a tour one of these days. Until then you better start understanding how to get the best seats to see Drake. If you are prepared you’ll be able to get some of the best tickets and not have to worry about ticket shenanigans. We’ll help you along the way. Venues will be listed right below here if he is performing at a show, festival, or tour. The load more button will be activated if there are more selections worth looking at.

Called “Aubrey and the Three Amigos Tour”, the live show’s series starts on the 26^th of July in Salt Lake City and covers more than 40 venues, including Seattle, Dallas, Nashville, and Philadelphia, and multiple performances in locations like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Washington, Boston, New York or Toronto. Drake and Migos wrap their tour with a show in Atlanta in November.

The concert tour will start one month after the release of Drake’s new album, scheduled for the 28^th of June.  Drake teased his fans by posting on Instagram photos of a black jacket having printed on the front the word “Scorpion” and “June Twenty Eighteen by Drake” on the back. The third picture uploaded was of a golden medallion with a scorpion symbol on it. This led to the supposition that “Scorpion” will be the name of Drake’s fifth album, an album possibly produced by Noah “40” Shebib and Oliver El-Khatib, his collaborators in several projects.

The musician made a surprise appearance during a concert that Majid Jordan sustained on the 5^th of April in Toronto and announced that his new album is almost ready.

Drake recently released “Scary hours”, featuring two tracks: “God’s plan” and “Nice for what”. “God’s plan” spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and has a video clip directed by Karena Evans. In the clip, Drake is doing several good deeds: he donates money to a women’s shelter, he pays for people’s groceries or he helps people by taking them shopping.

“Nice for What” is supported by a sample from “Ex-factor”, a single from Lauryn Hill, and has a Youtube video that features several female stars, such as Tiffany Haddish, Issa Rae, and Tracee Ellis Ross. The single debuted at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, making Drake the 13^th artist in history to have a Number One single on Billboard “overthrown” by another of his own songs.

The last project released by Drake was “More life”, in March 2017, the rapper maintained a constant one-project-per-year release starting 2015, either it was a playlist, a mixtape, or an album.

Drake was born Aubrey Drake Graham on the 24^th of October 1986 in Toronto, Canada to an African-American Catholic father and a white Canadian Jew mother. His family had musical connections – his father was a drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis, one of his uncles played bass for Sly and the Family Stone and his grandmother sometimes served as a babysitter for Aretha Franklin. Regarding his identity, Drake sees himself as a black man, with a uniqueness given by his Jew roots. His artistic career began in school, thanks to a colleague whose father was an agent. This agent helped Drake obtain a role in a Canadian teen soap opera called “Degrassi: The Next Generation”. The drama series told the story of a group of teenagers from Degrassi High School, with Drake holding the part of Jimmy Brooks, a basketball star who was wheel-chaired after getting shot by a colleague. The part, he played between 2001 and 2009, brought him a “Young Artist Award” in 2002. He became a celebrity in Canada, without being known at all in the US.

Drake released his first mixtape called “Room for Improvement” in 2006. At that time he still appeared in “Degrassi” and this was his first attempt to enter the world of hip-hop. “Room for Improvement” sold about 6,000 copies and was followed by “Comeback Season”, another mixtape released in 2007 under his own imprint, called “October’s Very Own” (OVO). The first single and video from this mixtape, called “Replacement Girl”, contained a version of the “Man of the Year” single by Brisco and Flo Rida and was made in cooperation with Lil Wayne.

In 2008, after his character was removed from Degrassi, Drake thought about getting a day job, since he was left without a stable income when he received a call from Lil Wayne. The rapper asked him to join him in the tour “Carter III” which he was sustaining at that moment.

Drake’s third mixtape called “So Far Gone” was released in February 2009, after recording a few songs with Lil Wayne and being part of his tour. “So Far Gone” was his first major hit: the single “Best I Ever Had” reached #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart and the single “Successful” earned gold and entered the “25 Best Songs of 2009” list issued by “Rolling Stone” magazine.

Note – Drake currently has over 28 million YouTube subscribers and this will definitely continue to rise as more videos come out. Drake certainly has the following on Spotify as well. With over 70 million listeners each month, he is definitely in the top 10 on their charts. Songs such as Jummy Cooks and One Dance take the cake on this one.

In 2009, after signing a record deal with “Young Money Entertainment”, the company of Lil Wayne, he had to have surgery after falling on stage during “America’s Most Wanted Tour” and breaking his anterior cruciate ligament.  One year later, in 2010, he released his first full studio album called “Thank me later”. It was a success, debuting as #1 on American and Canadian album charts and receiving platinum certification. 2011 was the year of the second full studio album, called “Take care” and brought Drake, in 2013, the “Grammy” award for best rap album. The single “Started from the bottom” included in the 2013 “Nothing was the same” album revealed Drake’s struggle for success, a struggle the rapper seemed to continue over the coming years.

After a couple of mixtapes released in 2015, it was time for “Views”, the fourth album, released in 2016. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts and spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at the top of these charts. “Hotline Bling” single brought Drake “Grammy” awards for best rap/sung performance and best rap song in 2017.

As for his personal life, Drake has experienced over the years several issues with fellow musicians. He became a rival of Chris Brown when they both sought affection of Rihanna. Their quarrel reached its peak in 2012 when the two musicians fought each other in a nightclub in New York. In the brawl, Tony Parker – a professional basketball player, alongside two women and a male model, was hurt and filed suits against the two rappers. Around that same time, Drake reached outside court an agreement with his former girlfriend Ericka Lee, who wanted credit recognition for co-writing the single “Marvin’s Room”. Drake had feuds also with Rappin 4-Tay, Tyga, rapper Meek Mill, Joe Budden, Kanye West, and Jay Z, either verbal or near-court suits.

Yet, all these obstacles didn’t seem to derail Drake from his artistic path: in May 2017, he was the big winner at the Billboard Music Awards, taking home 13 awards. He thus broke the record Adele held for the artist with the most won awards in one year.