So, literally overnight, on a bus heading to Chicago, the 23-year-old Toronto native, who's influenced by "intelligent, clean-cut, nonviolent, nondrug- oriented" hip-hoppers like Pharrell and André 3000, became the Comme des Garçons–clad wunderkind rolling with hip-hop's most influential heavyweights. They were like, `Oh, you're coming on tour with us.'"
And then, six or seven hours later, the bus just started moving. It must have been painful, but he wasn't showing it. "Finally, someone was like, `Okay, Lil Wayne is ready.' I walked onto his bus and he was getting these massive angel wings tattooed on his sides.
"I waited for about three hours," says Drake, who trimmed his name (and his 'fro) post- Degrassi. In the summer of 2008, Lil Wayne, at the height of his dreadlocked, coughsyrup- guzzling Weezy-ness, invited Aubrey Drake Graham-part-time rapper and sweet-faced regular on Canada's teen soap Degrassi: The Next Generation
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