Drake as Jimmy on “Degrassi: The Next Generation”.Photo:ctv
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Drakeis looking back on hisDegrassibeginnings.
“Someone asked me the other night what my biggest fear is, and I’ve never really had a good answer for it, but my answer was that all this is for nothing,” he began in the video post. “The idea that one day life ends and it just all goes black.”
Drake, 36, said the question sent him into a “deep spiral of thought” about how “surreal” life is, which then prompted him to think back on his career beginnings.
The four-timeGrammy Awardwinner admitted that he occasionally wonders if his life would’ve turned out differently had “something bad” happened that day, and whether his life and all of hiscareer successwas actually just a figment of his imagination.
Drake at the 2017 NBA Awards.
“You know, maybe I’m still high, maybe I’m in some coma. And this is just, like, me playing out my ideal life,” he pondered. “That concept has stuck with me for a lot of years.”
He added that his life “feels like reality, it feels tangible” to him, but admitted, “I definitely wonder sometimes.”
Before histhriving music career, Drake starred onDegrassifrom 2001 to 2009 as Jimmy, a basketball player whose life changes forever when a classmate shoots him and leaves him paralyzed from the waist down.
The series, which ran for 14 seasons from 2001 to 2015, focused on the students of Degrassi Community School as they grapple with relationship woes, friendship fights, disorders, drug and alcohol addictions, gambling problems, pregnancy scares and more.
Drake as Jimmy on “Degrassi” alongside costars Shane Kippel, Shenae Grimes-Beech and Melissa McIntyre.Everett Collection
In themusic video, Drake and hisformer costars— including Shane Kippel (Spinner), Miriam MacDonald (Emma),Lauren Collins(Paige), Cassie Steele (Manny), andNina Dobrev(Mia), among others — walked through the school halls for their class of 2007 reunion. Ephraim Ellis, who played Rick, the student who infamously shot Jimmy, also made an appearance.
Thevideoended with the show’s catchy theme song, including new shots of the cast spliced with archive footage from the original show.
Drake also made reference toDegrassiin 2021 when hereacted toSteele’s “Buss It” challengeTikTok, in which she recreated herDegrassicharacter’s iconic blue thong look. Drake commented, “Fit is museum worthy tbh Santos.”
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Degrassi: The Next Generationcan be streamed on Max.
source: people.com
