Despite recent years (and several controversies, including a beef with Kendrick Lamar), Drake remains one of music’s biggest stars. He helped launch Young Money into the stratosphere in the late 00s, making them one of hip-hop’s most powerful labels. That said, before he was the “hitmaker we depend on,” as he raps on his diss track toward Lamar, “Push Ups,” there was a time when the Toronto native was allegedly too “dorky” to even hang out on Lil Wayne’s tour bus.
Adam Bhala Lough, the director of Wayne’s The Carter documentary, recently sat down with music journalist Andre Geefor an interview, where they discussed the film and its sequel, which was recently leaked online by hackers. During the discussion, he shared an interesting story about how Drake was perceived in his early years at Young Money. According to Lough, Drake was seen as the “dorkier” one of the crew.
“He was, like, such a dork,” Lough Says
“The majority of the time when I wasn’t shooting with Wayne, but when I was on set, Wayne would disappear, and I was just hanging out with Tez [Bryant, Wayne’s then-manager], Mack Maine, and Nicki Minaj,” he said. “At one point, I spent some time with her before Wayne did The Jimmy Kimmel Show, when nobody knew who she was, and they wouldn’t even let Drake on the bus. He was, like, such a dork that they wouldn’t even let him on the bus.”
However, once the Views rapper started bringing the hits, things changed a bit. That said, Lough claims Drake was also “intimidated” because of Wayne’s ties to “real Blood gang members,” who were supposedly present “all the time.” He added, “I was [too], even though they were super cool to me. These are serious, Blood gang members with guns on them. Like, some sh*t could go down.”
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